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Ben Cohen is a New York-based writer on international affairs and the author of Some Of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism (Edition Critic, 2014). In 2014 he joined the advisory editorial board of Fathom.

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Anshel Pfeffer and Antisemitism: A Reply by Ben Cohen

By Ben Cohen
 Ben Cohen is the author of Some Of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism. He... Read more > July 2021

How Obama Sold the Iran Delusion

By Ben Cohen
 Ben Cohen explores the Obama administration’s masterful success in persuading so many American influencers to buy into a... Read more > Autumn 2016

The Resistible Rise of Iran: an Interview with Michael Ledeen

By Ben Cohen
 Fathom advisory editor Ben Cohen spoke with the historian and analyst Michael Ledeen about US foreign policy towards... Read more > Winter 2015

Palestinian politics after the Gaza conflict: Ben Cohen interviews David Pollock

By Ben Cohen
 Where is Palestinian politics going? Fathom advisory editor Ben Cohen talked to David Pollock. Hamas ‘It's not unreasonable... Read more > Autumn 2014

America’s Global Dilemma

By Ben Cohen
 ‘Reset,’ ‘Pivot,’ ‘Leading from Behind,’ ‘Red Lines,’ – the catchphrases of President Obama’s foreign policy are now often... Read more > Spring 2014

The Geneva deal and Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions

By Ben Cohen
 Amid the fanfare about the interim agreement reached in Geneva in November 2013 over Iran’s nuclear programme –... Read more > Winter 2014

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