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1 month ago | 
crescentcityjewishnews.com | Ben Cohen |Philissa Cramer
By BEN COHEN(JNS.org) – Jews have long been accustomed to being history’s double victims. We are victims of its most murderous currents and the victims of subsequent attempts to revise, play down or even outright deny these episodes of bloodshed, usually emanating from the perpetrators themselves or their fellow travelers. The most glaring example of this trend is Holocaust denial. And the one thing we have learned from dealing with the deniers is that they are impervious to fact and reason.
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2 months ago | 
thejewishstar.com | Ben Cohen
Hamas doesn’t care whether it has Jewish cheerleaders since its goal is to eradicate Jews from the face of the earth.” Ever since political Zionism emerged at the end of the 19th century as a movement to create and sustain a Jewish state in the historic Land of Israel, it has encountered Jewish opposition to its goals. Some of these opponents were decently motivated but proven tragically wrong by history; some were driven by broader political beliefs and loyalties that they regarded as...
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
jstribune.com | Jacob Heilbrunn |Robert Silverman |Ben Cohen |Toby Dershowitz
Israeli tourist Yuval Vagdani had to escape for the second time. On October 7, 2023, he survived the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival near Gaza. Then in the first week of January 2025, he escaped Brazil ahead of a court-ordered investigation into his service as a military reservist in Gaza. He was vacationing in Brazil. Vagdani’s near miss is part of an international trend targeting Israeli soldiers with politically motivated arrests.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
thejewishstar.com | Ben Cohen
Dublin’s goal: Undermine Israel’s ability to defend itself by launching lawfare to chip away at its sovereign rights.” The other day, during a discussion with a colleague about the wave of pro-Hamas, antisemitic hysteria sweeping the Republic of Ireland, I unthinkingly quipped that the people of Eire should rename themselves “Paddystinians.” I immediately regretted doing so because the term “Paddy” is an aging pejorative, conjuring up images of Irish drunkenness, the supposed Irish proclivity...
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
thejewishstar.com | Ben Cohen
For Turkey and Qatar, net gains. For Iran and its Palestinian and Lebanese proxies, net losses.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thejewishstar.com | Ben Cohen
The mayor’s 180-degree turn about the violence that happened in her city speaks volumes about how the left in Europe enables antisemitism.” In the arsenal of the antisemite, denial is a key weapon. •Six million Jews were exterminated during the Holocaust? Didn’t happen. •The Soviet Union persecuted its Jewish population in the name of anti-Zionism? Zionist propaganda. •Rape and mutilation were rampant during the massacre in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023? What a smear upon the noble resistance of...
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
persuasion.community | Ben Cohen
On Wednesday night last week in Amsterdam, a group of Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans set fire to a Palestinian flag, vandalized a taxi driver’s car, and sang revoltingchants about dead children in Gaza. The next day, a “Jew hunt” organized on WhatsApp and Telegram took place that saw gangs scour the city for not only Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters, but anyone they suspected of being a Jew. Many of the beatings were “hit and run” attacks by men on scooters.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
thejewishstar.com | Ben Cohen
By choosing Pyongyang as his partner, Putin signaled that no state is off-limits when it comes to seeking allies.” Last week was clearly a week for making history. That observation isn’t primarily sparked by Donald Trump’s presidential election victory — he’s now the only US president besides Grover Cleveland to win two non-consecutive terms — but to a much less reported event half a world away, whose consequences Trump will have to deal with when he takes office in January. As the Pentagon...
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
thejewishstar.com | Ben Cohen
If people can’t stand up for Jews in a democracy where free speech is part of our national ethos, how should we expect them to behave if the stakes and the costs are much graver?” Like many Jews of my generation, born during a period when antisemitism was largely depicted as a historical phenomenon and any manifestations were seen as an unfortunate aberration, I would occasionally wonder how the non-Jews in my midst would have behaved during the Holocaust. Would they have stood up to the...
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Enia Krivine |Ben Cohen
Israel revealed earlier this month that its troops had uncovered Hezbollah preparations for an October 7-style invasion and massacre in Israel’s northern communities. The Iran-backed terror organization has spent years building the infrastructure necessary to carry out such an attack under the nose of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.
