The anti-Zionist activist Roger Waters, who also doubles up as the bassist of veteran rockers Pink Floyd, gave a ringing endorsement last week to one of the candidates in the Chilean presidential …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/23/21
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Poland is awash in anti-Semitism, and it is the government in Warsaw that is setting the hateful tone amid the worst breakdown in Polish-Jewish relations since the fall of communism more than 30 …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/9/21
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Only a generously funded, celebrity-endorsed NGO utterly convinced of its own rectitude would have the chutzpah to proffer advice on combating anti-Semitism, just weeks after it labeled the …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/1/21
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The people of Iran were again subjected last Friday to the farce that befalls them every four years …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/25/21
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In the first round of the French presidential election in 2017, nearly one in five voters marked their ballots for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the candidate of the newly formed far-left “La …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/18/21
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There was a particularly nasty incident that was reported in the crime sections of the French press this week. It caught my eye because certain details were disturbingly reminiscent of the case …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/3/21
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There’s an old adage of disputed authorship that has traveled down the centuries: In times of war, truth is the first casualty. As the English writer Samuel Johnson explained it in the 18th …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/28/21
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In the series “Letters to a German Friend,” written clandestinely during the Nazi occupation of France, the celebrated French writer and resistance figure Albert Camus conducted a …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/22/21
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The Biden administration’s regressive decision to include $150 million for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) as part of its restoration of more than $200 million of financial aid to …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/15/21
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What follows here is a story about a politician from the extreme left, a politician from the far-right, and a painting replete with anti-Semitic tropes that’s been traveling around the …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/29/21
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