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Ben Cohen writes a weekly column for JNS on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His writings have been published in Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, The Wall Street Journal and many other publications.

Sagiv Jehezkel played for the Turkish soccer team Antalyaspor. Credit: Antalyaspor.

Time to huddle: Antisemitism on the field

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As unsettling and painful as the current wave of global antisemitism that followed the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel is, it’s still important to remember that those bestial atrocities were an episode in,...
Flooding in Libya, Derna, caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel. Two dams in the mountains above the city collapsed, sending floodwaters roaring down the Wadi Derna River and through the city center, sweeping away entire city blocks, Sept. 11, 2023. Credit: Adansijav Official/Shutterstock.

‘Israelis Without Borders’

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In the wake of the devastating floods earlier this week in Libya, the Palestinian Civil Defense Service, which operates under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority, announced that it was sending a 37-member team...
Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2013 in Toulouse. Credit: Pierre-Selim via Wikimedia Commons.

Antisemitism still haunts the European left

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France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin last week ordered the dissolution of a Catholic traditionalist association named “Civitas” following claims of antisemitism against one of its leaders. The individual in question was the essayist Pierre...
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Credit: Pixabay.

Germany’s far-right comes to Yad Vashem

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Ever 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 doors,...
Propaganda recruiting poster of 27th SS volunteer division Langemarck with the title: “Flemish All in the SS Langemarck.” Photographed by LordLiberty via Wikimedia Commons.

The antisemitism that never went away

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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 of image...
French Israelis light memorial candles as they gather at Paris Square in Jerusalem in a demonstration against antisemitism in France following the murder of Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Jewish woman in Paris, March 28, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

‘The system has failed:’ Antisemitism flourishes in France

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Five years ago, an 85-year-old survivor of the Holocaust, Mireille Knoll, was brutally murdered in her apartment in Paris by two intruders, one of whom was a neighbor she had known since his childhood. Knoll’s murder...
A protest against China's "Zero Covid" policy. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

China’s cry for freedom

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There is no getting around the fact that we live in dangerous times, defined by the worst military conflict in Europe since the end of World War II and a global economic downturn. Equally, there...
Russian President Vladimir Putin negotiates with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Ukrainian wheat, July 18, 2022. Credit: 42nd Street in Manhattan/Shutterstock.

Mr. Putin goes to Tehran

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Despite spending five months baiting Ukraine’s leaders as “neo-Nazis,” among them the country’s Jewish President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin didn’t bat an eyelid as he embraced a genuine Nazi sympathizer and Holocaust...
Hamid Nouri on trial in Sweden on May 2, 2022 Credit: Voice of America via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran’s ‘death corridor’ is open for business

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Iran thrust its way back into the news cycle last week as U.S. President Joe Biden embarked on a four-day tour of the Middle East beginning in Israel, but arguably, the most significant event...
One of the larger banners and posters seen at the March Against Racism national demonstration in London, in protest of the dramatic rise in race-related attacks, March 17, 2018. Credit: John Gomez/Shutterstock.

Banning anti-Zionism: Feasible? Desirable?

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One of the main differences between the American and European systems of democratic government is the absence, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, of a First Amendment-style guarantee of free speech. In...