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.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israel-Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr arriving in Israel on May 14, 2021. Source: U.S. Embassy Jerusalem/Twitter.

US State Department officials visit Middle East hoping to reduce tensions

April 21, 2022
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Education Minister Yifat Shasha Biton visit students at a school in Kfar Saba, Feb. 9, 2022.

Israel to lift indoor mask mandate

April 21, 2022
Israeli police officers during clashes outside the Al Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalems Old City on April 17, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Right-wing politicians slam coalition over Jerusalem violence

April 18, 2022
Mint Chocolate matzo and other cool new ideas for Passover

Mint Chocolate matzo and other cool new ideas for Passover

April 11, 2022
Ben Ferencz, 103, prosecutor of Nuremberg trials with awarded with Medal of Freedom

Ben Ferencz, 103, prosecutor of Nuremberg trials with awarded with Medal of Freedom

April 9, 2022
Teens face probation for vandalizing Florida rabbi’s home in hate crime

Teens face probation for vandalizing Florida rabbi’s home in hate crime

March 31, 2022
Still shots from video footage of the assailant in an anti-Semitic attack in New York City. Source: NYPDs Hate Crimes Task Force.

Attackers call Jewish men ‘dirty Jews,’ punch victim for wearing IDF sweatshirt in Brooklyn

December 29, 2021
An example of anti-Semitic fliers found in at least eight states blaming Jews for COVID-19. Source: Secure Community Network.

Fliers found in Illinois blaming Jews for COVID-19

December 22, 2021
Illinois prisoners face murder, hate-crime charges for killing Jewish inmate

Illinois prisoners face murder, hate-crime charges for killing Jewish inmate

December 9, 2021
Gil Ofarim, a German-Israeli singer, said in a video posted to social media that he had been denied a hotel room in Leipzig, Germany, after being told to hide his Jewish star necklace.

German Israeli singer at crux of anti-Semitic hotel incident accused of fabricating story

October 18, 2021
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

March 7, 2019
Ben Cohen

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

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

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

June 8, 2016

Professor is latest victim of anti-Israel thought police

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

June 18, 2014
Ben Cohen

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

August 14, 2013
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