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USAID Has Been Funneling Money to Terrorists
How a noble agency became corrupted.
Ben Cohen
Ben Cohen, a New York-based writer, has contributed essays on anti-Semitism and related issues to Mosaic and other publications.
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A Decade Later, Progress in the Case of the Buenos Aires Bombing
Yes, Alberto Nisman was murdered.
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Why Is the Turkish President Threatening Israel?
And what the U.S. can do about it.
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In Europe, It’s Not the 1930s, but It’s Starting to Feel That Way
Down and out in London and Paris.
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Why Ireland Hates Israel
Anti-Semitism and pro-terrorist sentiment on the Emerald Isle.
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Argentina’s Philo-Semite-in-Chief, and Would-Be Convert
Javier Milei.
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The French Left’s Anti-Semitism Hypocrisy
The pot calls the right-wing kettle black.
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In Russia, Anti-Semitism Makes a Comeback
Quasi-official propaganda states that Jews control American elections and the Ukrainian government.
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Pius XII Prioritized Ties with Hitler over Helping the Jews
A pope, but no saint.
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The Tunisian President Can Condemn an Attack on a Synagogue, but He Won’t Say the Word “Jew”
A disturbing response after the murder of five at an annual festival.
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A Look at the World’s Largest Collection of Anti-Semitic Artifacts
Lurid caricatures of demonic Jews served as casual entertainment.
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Attacked by Anti-Semites for Her Jewish Roots, an Italian Politician Gives Credence to Anti-Semitism
The “Etruscan nose.”
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Updating the Definition of Anti-Semitism Favored by Jewish Activists
IHRA is not beyond criticism, even if its opponents tend to argue in bad faith.
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It’s Time to Take the Iran Deal Off Life Support
Even President Biden has said it’s “dead.” So why is Washington pretending otherwise?
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Anti-Semitism Is Rising in Germany
And 2023 may well be worse.
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The World Cup Puts Qatari and Iranian Cruelty on Display
Tehran fears the games will be an opportunity for protestors.
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American Diplomats Know the Truth about the Palestinian Authority, but Won’t Act on It
Mahmoud Abbas’s rhetoric about a two-state solution is only lip service.
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Russia Is Returning to Its Old Anti-Semitic Ways
Basmanny justice.
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Mahmoud Abbas’s Outburst in Berlin Highlights a German Problem
Germany preaches about the importance of memorializing the Holocaust while turning a blind eye to Palestinian anti-Semitism.
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How Anti-Zionism Became South Africa’s Official Ideology
Sympathy for the victims of apartheid is no reason to turn a blind eye.
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Europe Won’t Solve Its Anti-Semitism Problem by Expanding Bans on “Hate Speech”
Doing so would signal that Israel’s allies have lost the argument.
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According to the Latest Polls, Most Palestinians Wish Israel Would Disappear
And some cite a “prophecy” that 2022 is the year it will happen.
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The Wartime Revival of a Yiddish Poet
David Hofshteyn was executed by Stalin. His poetry now serves as a rallying cry for Ukrainians.
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Jewish Organizations Must Start Saying “No” to Oligarchs’ Money
They exist to serve their communities, not the individuals who fund them.
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Why Jews Should Stand with the West and against Vladimir Putin
The Russian regime isn’t anti-Semitic . . . yet.
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President Biden’s State Department Nominee Warns against Efforts to Delegitimize Israel
At her Senate confirmation hearing, Deborah Lipstadt protested attempts to cast Israel as an “apartheid state.”
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What the Arafat Cartoon Controversy Says about the Prospects of Palestinian Democracy
Depictions of the terrorist leader have been stripped from a museum in Ramallah.
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Chile’s New President Has Already Made Clear That His Hostility toward Zionism Extends to Jews
Gabriel Boric responded to a gift from the Jewish community by talking about “illegally occupied” territory.
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He May Be Jewish, but Eric Zemmour Is No Friend of the Jews
The French presidential candidate has sympathy for neither the victims of anti-Semitic violence nor the Muslim perpetrators.
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When Jews Turn Anti-Semitism against Their Orthodox Brethren
Visible and invisible Jews.