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Ben Cohen writes a weekly column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His writings have been published in Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, The Wall Street Journal and many other publications.
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By Ben Cohen
Rather than the “Lobby” running the administration, it is the administration that runs the “Lobby.”
By Ben Cohen
Sarcasm aside, this is anti-Semitism of the ugliest, most primitive kind.
By Ben Cohen
Unfortunately, Israel, a stable democracy and Western ally, can be relied upon to be cooperative.
By Ben Cohen
Mandela once wrote that Jews, in his experience, were far more sensitive about race because of their own history.
By Ben Cohen
Before Chavez came to power there were 30,000 Jews in Venezuela. The community has now dwindled to fewer than 9,000.
By Ben Cohen
What this year’s AIPAC confab proves is that there is considerable mileage in the values Israel shares not just with the U.S. but with other western states like Canada.
By Ben Cohen
It’s a story that began with an eagle-eyed Jewish blogger who writes under the pseudonym “Challah Hu Akbar” and progressed all the way to the White House. In the process, it has reignited the debate as to whether Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohamed Morsi, is really the pragmatic moderate many believe him to be.
By Ben Cohen
Like one of those telenovelas that are so popular on Latin American television stations, the slow yet inexorable deterioration of Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, has been soaked in drama and cloying sentimentality.
By Ben Cohen
The Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin was fond of the phrase “one step forward, two steps back.” In the current Middle East, we have taken many more than two steps backward – and we are repeating patterns that are more than five decades old.
July 10, 2026 
