Ben Cohen / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
Nicaragua’s Charade at the ICJ
JNS.org - The solemnly named International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has become an arena for the world’s despots and authoritarians to strut...
A Bad Taste in the Mouth
JNS.org - For several years now, my media consumption habits have been guided in part by what I call my “escape routes.” As someone who spends...
Too Little, Too Late? Antisemitism and Germany’s New Naturalization Test
JNS.org - What do you call a Jewish house of prayer? When was the State of Israel founded? Which cities in our country have the...
War Is Hell. Everywhere.
JNS.org - “War,” the Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have told a group of army cadets some years after the...
The Bitter Truth About Anti-Zionism
JNS.org - Collisions are often unintentional. Bumping into someone as you walk down a busy thoroughfare with one eye on your cell phone or scraping...
October 7: Rape As an Instrument of Genocide
JNS.org - As the world marked International Women’s Day on March 8, the various social-media platforms lit up with posts from pro-Israel celebrities and influencers...
An Ideology of Violence
JNS.org - When all is said and done, antisemitism is fundamentally an ideology of violence. Behind every missive and every barb—whether delivered online, at pro-Hamas...
Politicians Who Abuse the Holocaust Should Be Sanctioned
JNS.org - The Israeli government was absolutely right in its decision last week to announce that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—known to the...
The Myth of British Exceptionalism
JNS.org - That old image of the Jewish family with a packed suitcase at the ready in case they are compelled to suddenly leave their...
When Fighting Antisemitism, You Can’t Pick and Choose
JNS.org - It was one of those incidents that you never expect will happen to you, but when it does, it changes your life irrevocably. On...
War, Antisemitism and Free Speech: A Critical Dilemma
JNS.org - Should governments and public institutions take punitive measures against groups or individuals who promote antisemitism through such measures as cutting funding, criminalizing aspects...
Time to Huddle: Antisemitism on the Field
JNS.org - As unsettling and painful as the current wave of global antisemitism that followed the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel is, it’s still...
When Our Allies Are Hamas Allies
JNS.org - During the middle of December, New Yorkers were treated to the sight of brash maroon and white beams splashed across the Manhattan skyline...
Daniel Jadue on Supremacism, Nazi Ideology and a ‘Chosen People’
JNS.org - If you thought the sordid row in 2017 over the contention that women who support Israel have no place in the feminist movement...
