Abraham Cooper
ARTICLES BY: Abraham Cooper
A Legal Inquisition: The UN’s Latest Attempt to Demonize the Jewish State Is Exposed
Despots and tyrants always insist on following the "rule of law." In the 20th century, leaders of the Soviet Union dispatched tens of millions of...
Remembering Our Friend and Scholar, Harold Brackman
The below article is an adaptation of a eulogy delivered last week on behalf of historian and frequent Algemeiner contributor Harold Brackman. In the Jewish...
No Justice for Jews in France
For better or for worse, Jews are instinctively guided by memory. The Torah embedded Zachor in our national DNA 3,000 years ago in Egypt, and...
The World’s Newest Virus Intersects With the World’s Oldest
The coronavirus pandemic may be new, but Jews have a long and tragic history when it comes to viruses -- wrought by nature or conceived...
Tlaib and Omar Can Make History If They Choose
Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) plan to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories during the August recess. Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, has said that she...
No Palestinian-Israel Peace in 2019 — but Here Are Some Developments We Can Expect
For Israel, 2019 will likely bring great achievements but also great disappointments. The achievements will include: continued growth of Israel’s innovation economy; increased tourism; and development...
We Must Fight Divisive Figures on the Right and the Left
There is no end in sight to worries over alleged Russian hacking -- past, present, and future -- into our elections. But there are others...
Facebook Must Get Rid of Holocaust Denial
Along with millions of other Facebook users, I am deeply disturbed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s misguided and hurtful refusal to remove blatantly antisemitic lies...
America Lost Charles Krauthammer Just When We Needed Him Most
Fox News political commentator, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, and New York Times best-selling author just scrape the surface in describing the life and career of Charles...
Don’t Separate Families at the Border — but Don’t Expropriate the Holocaust Either
As an Orthodox rabbi, it is not for me to comment on US Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ invocation of the New Testament to justify separating children from...
Jewish Survival: The True Story of the Holocaust
Maybe Simon Wiesenthal was wrong. Maybe the majority of survivors who stumbled out of the liberated death camps, and the few who were hidden by...
UNESCO Vote Rewards Palestinian Lies and Terrorists — and Endangers Peace
Even by UN standards, the actions taken at UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee meeting in Krakow, Poland, was diplomatic theater at its most absurd. With Muslim and Christian...
We Must Call Out Activists’ Antisemitic Bigotry
A good litmus test for the strength of a society is how it perceives and treats its minorities. In the United States, there was no...
Silicon Valley Must Boot Terrorists From Social Media
It looks as though ISIS’ shrinking Caliphate may actually come to an end in Iraq and Syria in the not too distant future. This is a welcome development,...
