Ben Cohen

When fighting antisemitism, you can’t pick and choose

It was one of those incidents that you never expect will happen to you, but when it does, it...

A Bavarian scandal shines a light on Germany’s ‘Holocaust guilt’

For the best part of a week, Germany has been gripped by an antisemitism scandal centred on Hubert Aiwanger,...

To weaken Hezbollah, you have to weaken Iran

It’s hardly a revelation that Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shi’a terrorist group in Lebanon, is once again engaging in provocations...

Antisemitism still haunts the European left

France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin last week ordered the dissolution of a Catholic traditionalist association named “Civitas” following claims...

It’s time for Russia’s remaining Jews to leave

“If necessary, just as we prevented the fall of Assad, we will prevent the fall of Putin.” This brazen claim...

Ahlam Tamimi’s 16th victim

Twenty-two years after a Palestinian suicide bomber devastated the Sbarro pizza restaurant in downtown Jerusalem, the 16th victim of...
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Germany’s far-right comes to Yad Vashem

Ever since its foundation in 1953 by an act of the Knesset, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem has served admirably...

The antisemitism that never went away

Antisemitism expresses itself in many forms, but few are as lethal or as persistent as the caricature of the...

‘Righteous justice’: Credit Suisse’s Nazi bank accounts

There are times when the oldest jokes sound quite fresh. I am thinking of the one about the neophyte...

‘The system has failed:’ Antisemitism flourishes in France

Five years ago, an 85-year-old survivor of the Holocaust, Mireille Knoll, was brutally murdered in her apartment in Paris...

‘Auf Wiedersehen,’ Roger Waters?

Once upon a time, Roger Waters was a hero in Germany. In July 1990, a few months after the...

‘Gobblefunk:’ Author Roald Dahl’s antisemitic legacy

In common with many people who spent their childhood in the 1970s, I loved Roald Dahl’s novels for children,...