You don’t hear that much these days about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president whose penchant for denying the Holocaust at every opportunity became legendary.
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By Ben Cohen
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3/9/16
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In his preface to a recent publication from Fathom, a British magazine covering the Middle East, British lawyer and anti-Semitism expert Anthony Julius—always the author of a memorable …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/2/16
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Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, this week sounded an unusually strong—and therefore welcome—warning about the continuing bias against Israel in the …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/22/16
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It would be churlish to deny the remarkable achievement of Senator Bernie Sanders in decisively winning the New Hampshire primary.
For months, Sanders was depicted as an eccentric whose …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/17/16
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BDS, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel, may clinically die in 2016.
State legislatures are passing bills that outlaw state authorities from investing public funds in, …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/10/16
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“When in Rome, do as the Iranians do.”
That was the core message from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to Europe last week, in a bid to boost trade relations now that the …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/3/16
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Another week, another litany of ugly incidents targeting Jews, along with expressions of concern about rising anti-Semitism around the globe, and even the odd solution offered up. But as …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/27/16
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So numerous were the omissions, distortions, and flights of extraordinary fancy in President Obama’s Jan. 12 State of the Union address that you’d be hard-pressed to pick the most …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/20/16
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The rulers of the Arab Gulf states are, it seems, increasingly attentive to what Israel has to say about the balance of power in the region. As a rising Shi’a Iran faces off against a Sunni …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/13/16
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Jan. 18 marks the first anniversary of the death of Alberto Nisman, the Argentine federal prosecutor who spent a decade investigating the 1994 Iranian-backed bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in …
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By Ben Cohen
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12/30/15
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