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All content by By Ben Cohen
Ben Cohen is a New York City-based journalist and author who writes a weekly column on Jewish and international affairs for JNS. 

25 years after the AMIA bombing, justice is again denied

By Ben Cohen
Published March 7, 2019
Ben Cohen

Abbas, Netanyahu UN speeches signal that 30-year peace process is now dead

By Ben Cohen
Published October 4, 2018
Ben Cohen writes a weekly column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics.  The senior editor of  The Tower Magazine and TheTower.org, Cohen is the author of “Some of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism.”

Netanyahu’s Russian realism

By Ben Cohen
Published June 29, 2016
A monument in Ramat Gan, Israel, serves as a memorial for the Iraqi Jews killed during the Farhud (Arabic for ‘violent dispossession’) in June 1941.  Photo: PikiWiki Israel

Remembering pogrom against Iraqi Jews, 75 years later

By Ben Cohen
Published June 8, 2016

Professor is latest victim of anti-Israel thought police

By Ben Cohen
Published April 22, 2015
Ben Cohen is the Shillman Analyst for JNS.org. His writings on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics have been published in Commentary, the New York Post and Ha’aretz. His book, “Some Of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism” (Edition Critic, 2014), is now available through Amazon. Op-Ed distributed by JNS.org.

Why the Kurds are a beacon of hope in the Middle East

By Ben Cohen
Published June 18, 2014
Ben Cohen

Should Jews support a boycott of Vladimir Putin-led Russia?

By Ben Cohen
Published August 14, 2013
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