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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As 2020 reached its end, so did two of the most important courtroom trials involving violent anti-Semitism to have occurred since the Second World War.
In France, 14 suspects in the January …
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By Ben Cohen
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12/30/20
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While American democracy may be immersed in crisis, claims of its death are, as Mark Twain might have quipped, greatly exaggerated. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said on the other side of the …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/25/20
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One of the more reprehensible aspects of the global campaign to strip Israel of its legitimacy is the fact that so many leading human-rights organizations have been co-opted by it.
Under the …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/19/20
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Some of you will probably be familiar with a charming German movie called “Goodbye, Lenin,” the story of which concerns a woman in Communist-ruled East Germany who falls into a coma …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/12/20
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