In the Middle East, antisemitism emanates from the corridors of power, walking hand in hand with corruption, political repression, torture, racism and other reprehensible features of authoritarian …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/27/23
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In the wake of the devastating floods earlier last week in Libya, the Palestinian Civil Defense Service, which operates under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority, announced that it was sending …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/20/23
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For the best part of a week, Germany has been gripped by an antisemitism scandal centered on Hubert Aiwanger, deputy premier of the southern state of Bavaria. Now 52, Aiwanger has been accused of …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/6/23
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It’s hardly a revelation that Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shi’a terrorist group in Lebanon, is once again engaging in provocations along Israel’s northern border.
The timing …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/23/23
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A sentence, taken from a lengthy article published by the Korean Central News Agency, perfectly encapsulates the Py-ongyang regime’s raison d’état:
“We should …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/2/23
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A brazen claim was posted to a Telegram channel linked with the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as an amazed world watched a mutiny unfold in Russia that was …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/19/23
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The great German writer Heinrich Heine famously observed in his 1821 stage play “Almansor,” set in Spain during the Inquisition, that “wherever books are burned, they will …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/12/23
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Twenty-two years after a Palestinian suicide bomber devastated the Sbarro pizza restaurant in downtown Jerusalem, the 16th victim of that massacre succumbed to her injuries.
Chana Nachenberg, an …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/7/23
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Since its foundation in 1953 by an act of the Knesset, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem has served admirably as Israel’s national memorial to the Holocaust. Millions of visitors have passed through its …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/18/23
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Antisemitism expresses itself in many forms, but few are as lethal or as persistent as the caricature of the hook-nosed Jew sitting on a pile of cash looking pleased with himself.
This kind …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/10/23
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