When histories of the war in the Gaza Strip are written — a war triggered by the Hamas pogrom in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 — the name of Alice Nderitu probably won’t garner …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/12/25
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Liberal and left-wing adversaries of Israel indulge in an abiding fantasy that one day the Jewish state, which they falsely regard as an ethnostate built upon an ideology of Jewish supremacy, will …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/5/25
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Ever since political Zionism emerged at the end of the 19th century as a movement to create and sustain a Jewish state in the historic Land of Israel, it has encountered Jewish opposition to its …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/29/25
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For more than a year, Jews inside and outside the State of Israel have been besieged by false claims of the “genocide” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The rhetoric of the …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/15/25
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The other day, during a discussion with a colleague about the wave of pro-Hamas, antisemitic hysteria sweeping the Republic of Ireland, I unthinkingly quipped that the people of Eire should rename …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/9/25
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Two recent developments suggest that a concerted effort is underway to reframe the international human-rights architecture that emerged from World War II, by shifting the focus …
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By Ben Cohen
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12/18/24
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After more than a year of bloody conflict in the Middle East sparked by the Hamas pogrom in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, it’s becoming clearer as to which of the multiple parties involved have …
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By Ben Cohen
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12/11/24
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In the arsenal of the antisemite, denial is a key weapon.
•Six million Jews were exterminated during the Holocaust? Didn’t happen.
•The Soviet Union persecuted its Jewish …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/27/24
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Last week was clearly a week for making history. That observation isn’t primarily sparked by Donald Trump’s presidential election victory — he’s now the only US president …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/13/24
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Like many Jews of my generation, born during a period when antisemitism was largely depicted as a historical phenomenon and any manifestations were seen as an unfortunate aberration, I would …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/6/24
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