Like many Jews of my generation, born during a period when antisemitism was largely depicted as a historical phenomenon and any manifestations were seen as an unfortunate aberration, I would …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/6/24
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Two years have passed since the murder of Jina (“Mahsa”) Amini, a young Kurdish-Iranian woman, at the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s morality police.
Amini was …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/30/24
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In his buoyant 1983 album track “Neighborhood Bully,” Bob Dylan sang: He’s not supposed to fight back, he’s supposed to …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/25/24
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Keen-eyed readers of this column will know that I am fond of occasionally quoting Karl Marx’s observation that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/18/24
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States that commit genocide do not make distinctions between military personnel and civilian populations. They don’t agree to pauses in their military campaigns to allow the delivery …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/11/24
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In an interview with the Jerusalem Post on Aug. 28, Yonathan Arfi, head of the French Jewish umbrella body Crif, complained that most of his fellow citizens have an understanding of antisemitism that …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/4/24
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Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, has clung to power for so long that an entire generation of Palestinians and Israelis have grown up not knowing any other leader in that role.
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By Ben Cohen
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8/28/24
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A little less than a year after Nazi Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940, the Jews in the city of Antwerp — where slightly more than 50% of the country’s Jews lived at that time — …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/21/24
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I don’t know the word for chutzpah in Turkish, but whatever it is, it applies in spades to recent comments from Fatih Ceylan, Turkey’s former Ambassador to NATO.
Speaking to …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/7/24
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I t’s been only three weeks since Sir Keir Starmer was elected as Britain’s new prime minister in the Labour Party’s first general election triumph since 2005, but so much has …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/31/24
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