The tide slowly turns against Iranian terror

A glimmer of hope in the fight against Iranian-backed terrorism shone forth from Argentina during the final days of 2016…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

You can’t make peace with bad leaders

On one of my first assignments abroad as a rookie journalist back in the early 1990s, I found myself in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, just as the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia was getting underway in earnest…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

The illiberal world of Stephen Bannon

In considering the furore around President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Stephen Bannon, the CEO of the hard-right news website Breitbart, as his chief strategist, let’s start with the perspective of those who have defended him…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org.
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The decisions facing Donald Trump…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

Donald Trump is now America’s master. Read more

Unsporting behavior, a call to end Israeli athletic discrimination

One of the most enduring images of last summer’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro captured Islam El Shehaby, an Egyptian judo competitor, or judoka, turning his back on the outstretched hand of his opponent, Or Sasson, after the Israeli athlete’s victory in a bout that earned him the bronze medal…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Europe’s “Most Notorious Jew-Baiter:” It’s a Tie!

Jew-baiting these days is a globally competitive field. The Middle East, Latin America and Asia could all put up credible candidates for the title of most notorious Jew-baiter…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Mahmoud Abbas’s desperate gesture

It’s been a long time since I saw a gesture this desperate…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Turkey: after the failed coup, fascism…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

We live in an era of resurgent, strongman leaders. Read more

Higher stakes in Lebanon…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

A decade after fighting the Second Lebanon War against the Islamist terror militia Hezbollah, Israel is once again facing a build-up on its northern border, with the prospect of fresh hostilities looming. Read more

Iran’s Holocaust cartoon contest is no caricature of regime’s identity

A haredi Jew looks into a mirror and sees the face of Adolf Hitler gazing back at him…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Anti-Semitism, George Orwell, and the U.K.’s Labour Party…writes Ben Cohen

“It is generally admitted that antisemitism is on the increase, that it has been greatly exacerbated by the war, and that humane and enlightened people are not immune to it. It does not take violent forms (English people are almost invariably gentle and law-abiding), but it is ill-natured enough, and in favourable circumstances it could have political results.” Read more

From Bosnia to Brussels, Europe fumbles…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic finally received a modicum of justice this week, when a United Nations court in The Hague sentenced him to 40 years in prison for his monstrous war crimes. Read more

How to get serious with U.N. bias…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, this week sounded an unusually strong—and therefore welcome—warning about the continuing bias against Israel in the corridors of the world body. Read more

Who cares if Bernie Sanders is Jewish?

It would be churlish to deny the remarkable achievement of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in decisively winning the recent New Hampshire primary…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

BDS after the boycott

2016 may well be remembered as the year that Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel finally died its death—in a clinical sense, at least…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

The humiliation of America

So numerous were the omissions, distortions, and flights of extraordinary fancy in President Barack Obama’s Jan. 12 State of the Union address that you’d be hard-pressed to pick the most egregious passage. For what it’s worth, then, I offer my personal selection…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Israel and the four powers…writes Ben Cohen

The rulers of the Arab Gulf states are, it seems, increasingly attentive to what Israel has to say about the balance of power in the region. As a rising Shi’a Iran faces off against a Sunni coalition led by Saudi Arabia, the core shared interest between Israel’s democracy and these conservative theocracies—countering Iran’s bid to become the dominant power and influence in the Islamic world—has rarely been as apparent. Read more

The Cost of Collaborating with Iran…writes Ben Cohen

Next month marks the first anniversary of the death of Alberto Nisman, the Argentine federal prosecutor who spent a decade investigating the 1994 Iranian-backed bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires. In that massacre, 85 people were murdered and hundreds more injured. Read more

The war is getting closer

The most recent Republican presidential debate was a breath of fresh air on the terrorism challenge that is front and centre in American politics right now…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org Read more

Responding to hatred with IsrAction

I was telling a friend this week that of all the topics I write about, the global campaign against Israel’s very existence is the one that just won’t go away, no matter how much I might wish otherwise…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

How terrorism’s victims are responding

Belgium’s justice minister came in for a fair bit of stick this week over some injudicious observations regarding the Nov. 13 Islamist terrorist massacre in Paris…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org Read more

Dancing in the Moonlight: song of the Paris attacks…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

One of the most memorable scenes in the 2010 film “Four Lions,” a dark British comedy about a group of the most incompetent jihadis imaginable, takes place as the aspiring martyrs climb into a van for the long nighttime drive down to London, where their plan is to bomb the annual marathon. Read more

Anti-Zionism is Racism…writes Ben Cohen

This week marks the 40th anniversary of one of the worst instances of antisemitism since the end of the Second World War. Read more

It’s official: BDS is hate speech

A few years ago, the British antisemitism scholar David Hirsh remarked that while Israel was the ostensible target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, first in the firing line were diaspora Jews…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

The Mufti and the Holocaust, revisited

“If a man was a Jew, it was good enough for him to be killed or stamped out,” wrote a senior British official serving abroad to his superiors in London in 1929….writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Intifada or not, Palestinians have anger without leadership

In the days that have passed since Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared before the U.N. General Assembly that he was abrogating previous agreements with Israel, Palestinians in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem have carried out dozens of terror attacks, some of them deadly, against Israelis. Read more

Mahmoud Abbas has a nightmare vision

In November 1974, the late Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat addressed the entire world from the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Syria caught between barbarism and civilisation

Remember how the terrorists fighting American forces during the occupation of Iraq gave us a chilling new acronym, IED, which stands for Improvised Explosive Device? The four-year war in neighbouring Syria has now done the same…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org. Read more

Why the Arafat murder myth will stay alive

Like a mini-series staggering to the end of its 10th season, the latest probe into the alleged murder of Yasser Arafat, the former Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader who died in Paris in 2004, recently passed an entirely predictable milestone when French investigators announced that they were closing the case without bringing any charges. Read more

The return of Bibi Derangement Syndrome

My favorite acronym, at least for this year, was coined by historian Ronald Radosh in his PJ Media column back in March. The initials are BDS – not “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions,” but “Bibi Derangement Syndrome.” Read more

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