Poland’s government won an important victory on the battleground of history last week. It succeeded in persuading Netflix to amend a newly released World War II-based documentary that …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/27/19
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It is a story that strikes a chord with anyone familiar with the struggle for civil rights in the American South. Jwnaid Murad, a businessman in Iraqi Kurdistan, has decided that he will no longer …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/14/19
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On the night of June 2, a German politician by the name of Walter Lübcke was found lying dead in the garden of his home in Wolfhagen — a village on the outskirts of the city of Kassel …
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By Ben Cohen
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10/24/19
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As visitors to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem wind their way through the main exhibition, they are confronted by a series of unsettling photographs from the first decade of Nazi …
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By Ben Cohen
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10/10/19
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Boris is opening the door for Jeremy
Jeremy Corbyn’s prospects of becoming Britain’s next leader received an important boost last Friday, when the head of the Scottish National …
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By Ben Cohen
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10/3/19
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The world awoke to the sad news on Sept. 6 that Robert Mugabe, the former president of Zimbabwe, had died at the age of 95. The sad aspect of that news was not Mugabe’s actual death. …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/18/19
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It’s more than 30 years since pro-democracy student demonstrators were brutally crushed by Chinese security forces in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square—a graphic sign that while …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/23/19
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In an interview with my colleague Benjamin Kerstein last week, Rabbi Eli Cohen, executive director of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, said something about the state of anti-Semitism …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/8/19
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The exposé on anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party, broadcast in the United Kingdom by the BBC’s flagship “Panorama” program, gave viewers an opportunity to see the …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/7/19
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Amid the profusion of commentary about hostile attitudes towards the Jewish community found in certain parts of the American left and British Labour, there was a useful bit of research on the …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/31/19
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