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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The most recent Republican presidential debate was a breath of fresh air on the terrorism challenge that is front and center in American politics right now.
To begin with, it was heartening to see …
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By Ben Cohen
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12/23/15
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The massacre in San Bernardino by an Islamist husband-and-wife terror team forces us to recognize, once again, that the United States has to choose between isolationism and internationalism in its …
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By Ben Cohen
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12/16/15
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I was telling a friend this week that of all the topics I write about, the global campaign against Israel’s very existence is the one that just won’t go away, no matter how much I might …
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By Ben Cohen
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12/9/15
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One of the most memorable scenes in the 2010 film “Four Lions,” a dark British comedy about a group of the most incompetent jihadis imaginable, takes place as the aspiring martyrs climb …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/25/15
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A few years ago, the British anti-Semitism scholar David Hirsh remarked that while Israel was the ostensible target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, first in the firing line …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/6/15
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This week marks the 40th anniversary of one of the worst instances of anti-Semitism since the end of the Second World War. On Nov. 10, 1975, the United Nations — a body created out of the ashes …
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By Ben Cohen, JNS.org
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11/12/15
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If a man was a Jew, it was good enough for him to be killed or stamped out,” wrote a senior British official serving abroad to his superiors in London in 1929.
From where was this …
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By Ben Cohen
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10/29/15
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