Only a generously funded, celebrity-endorsed NGO utterly convinced of its own rectitude would have the chutzpah to proffer advice on combating anti-Semitism, just weeks after it labeled the …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/1/21
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The people of Iran were again subjected last Friday to the farce that befalls them every four years …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/25/21
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In the first round of the French presidential election in 2017, nearly one in five voters marked their ballots for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the candidate of the newly formed far-left “La …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/18/21
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There was a particularly nasty incident that was reported in the crime sections of the French press this week. It caught my eye because certain details were disturbingly reminiscent of the case …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/3/21
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There’s an old adage of disputed authorship that has traveled down the centuries: In times of war, truth is the first casualty. As the English writer Samuel Johnson explained it in the 18th …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/28/21
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In the series “Letters to a German Friend,” written clandestinely during the Nazi occupation of France, the celebrated French writer and resistance figure Albert Camus conducted a …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/22/21
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The Biden administration’s regressive decision to include $150 million for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) as part of its restoration of more than $200 million of financial aid to …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/15/21
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What follows here is a story about a politician from the extreme left, a politician from the far-right, and a painting replete with anti-Semitic tropes that’s been traveling around the …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/29/21
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Amid the whirlwind of anger, violence and recrimination that followed the November 2020 presidential election was the singular concern over where …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/3/21
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When the former Conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, there were some on the left who regarded her passing as a moment for celebration. Social-media channels filled …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/21/21
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