In no other democratic country in the world has anti-Zionism enjoyed the kind of mainstream success that it has in South Africa.
Consider that Israel’s recent military strikes against …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/18/22
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Monitoring and analyzing contemporary anti-Semitism, which I do rather frequently, is most of the time a frustrating experience, but no more so than now.
For all the ink that has been spilled …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/10/22
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Despite spending five months baiting Ukraine’s leaders as “neo-Nazis,” among them the country’s Jewish President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/28/22
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Iran thrust its way back into the news cycle last week as President Joe Biden embarked on a four-day tour of the Middle East beginning in Israel, but arguably, the most significant event to …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/21/22
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One of the main differences between the American and European systems of democratic government is the absence, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, of a First Amendment-style guarantee of …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/13/22
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A disparate group of Islamist clerics has been busily predicting that the State of Israel will disappear in 2022, citing the Koran for support. The prediction has been circulating in earnest …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/6/22
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As a kid in the 1970s and 1980s, I remember that the adults around me had a standard explanation for why so many countries around the world kept Israel at arms’ length. It was, they …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/28/22
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There was another significant announcement from an Arab capital last week about relations with Israel when Qatar, the wealthy Gulf nation that provides Hamas with financial and political support, …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/16/22
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The ugly truth about France is that Jewish people are not safe from anti-Semitic attacks even in their own homes. This has been proved time and again in the last few years, most recently in the …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/8/22
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Nearly 20 years after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime in a US-led invasion, Iraq remains at war with Israel, as has been the case since the foundation of the Jewish state in 1948. …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/1/22
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