It’s impossible not be astonished and humbled by the bravery of the Iranian people. From bus drivers to university teachers, once again a cross-section of Iranian society has taken to the …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/29/22
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In the long list of the most hellish places, Russia’s penal colonies are close to the top. In an interview last year with the Associated Press, Olga Romanova, head of a prisoner-rights …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/22/22
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That Queen Elizabeth II was both Britain’s longest-serving and oldest monarch is a testament to the period of history in which she lived, and upon which she left an indelible …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/14/22
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In no other democratic country in the world has anti-Zionism enjoyed the kind of mainstream success that it has in South Africa.
Consider that Israel’s recent military strikes against …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/18/22
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Monitoring and analyzing contemporary anti-Semitism, which I do rather frequently, is most of the time a frustrating experience, but no more so than now.
For all the ink that has been spilled …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/10/22
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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 …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/28/22
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Iran thrust its way back into the news cycle last week as President Joe Biden embarked on a four-day tour of the Middle East beginning in Israel, but arguably, the most significant event to …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/21/22
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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 …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/13/22
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A disparate group of Islamist clerics has been busily predicting that the State of Israel will disappear in 2022, citing the Koran for support. The prediction has been circulating in earnest …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/6/22
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As a kid in the 1970s and 1980s, I remember that the adults around me had a standard explanation for why so many countries around the world kept Israel at arms’ length. It was, they …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/28/22
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