When it comes to the Palestinian “original sin” theory of Israel’s creation, there are two key milestones: the flight of approximately 750,000 Arab refugees during the 1948 War of …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/7/18
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is in the midst of one of his periodic bouts of Israel-hatred, lashing out at the Jewish state and its leaders with all the insults (“Nazi,” …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/30/18
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A few hours after President Donald Trump announced on May 8 that the United States had exited the Iran nuclear deal, the doyenne of progressive political-action committees, MoveOn.org, sent out …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/16/18
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As welcome as the remarkably diverse condemnations of Mahmoud Abbas’s latest anti-Semitic speech have been over the last few days—with UNESCO’s new director-general, the New York …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/10/18
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In “Anti-Semite and Jew,” Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, “I refuse to characterize as opinion a doctrine that is aimed directly at particular persons and that seeks to suppress their …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/2/18
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It’s hard to say for sure whether the following fable was really told in the Warsaw Ghetto, but it’s grimly funny enough to warrant repeating.
The story goes that at the height of the …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/25/18
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Amid all the diplomatic maneuverings in the months that led up to the creation of the State of Israel 70 years ago, none are more curious than those undertaken by the Soviet Union.
It’s fair …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/25/18
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There is a tragic account of the last moments of Grigori Zinoviev, the Russian Bolshevik leader of Jewish descent who was executed by Stalin in 1936. According to the historian Donald Rayfield, on …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/18/18
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Among Sephardic Jews of my grandmother’s generation, there was a popular, if unproven, belief that Gen. Francisco Franco, the military dictator who ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/28/18
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What makes us happy — or unhappy?
The 2018 edition of the World Happiness Report, published annually by a group of United Nations-linked development experts, asserts that a …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/21/18
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