Copyright 2013 Ben Cohen Thu, 23 May 2013 08:40:03 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Ben Cohen :: Writings http://bencohen.pundicity.com bencohenonline@gmail.com (Ben Cohen) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13336/us-should-reject-venezuela-overtures Mon, 20 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Ever since the death of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez back in March, his successors have been flinging insult after insult at the United States. The volley began at the very moment of Chavez's death, when his anointed heir Nicolas Maduro,... http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13274/the-church-of-scotland-war-on-judaism Mon, 13 May 2013 09:00:00 EST In a recent, exhaustive study of anti-Semitism, the German scholar Clemens Heni explains the significance for Christian theology of the story of Ahasver, a Jewish shoemaker in Jerusalem who, legend has it, refused Jesus a resting place as he made his way... http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13261/stephen-hawking-signs-up-to-the-academic-boycott Wed, 8 May 2013 09:00:00 EST There was much relief when, earlier today, a spokesman for Cambridge University in England released a statement denying that Stephen Hawking, the renowned British physicist, had invoked the academic boycott of Israel as the reason for his decision to... http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13260/orban-whitewashes-hungarian-anti-semitism Sun, 5 May 2013 09:00:00 EST As I read Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's speech to the delegates of the World Jewish Congress, who assembled in Budapest this past weekend, I found myself visualizing the furrowed eyebrows and anxious seat shuffling going on in the audience. For... http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13227/what-is-the-motivation-behind-erdogan-visiting Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST Of all the half-truths and misconceptions that mar the American debate over the level of influence exercised by Israel on U.S. Middle East policy, the most irritating has to be the manner in which Israel's foes ignore the behavior of our Arab and Middle... http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13207/korea-iran-and-the-dual-loyalty-myth Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST Here's a term that rarely crops up in discussions of American policy toward northeast Asia: the Korea Lobby. And as for the pejorative term "Korea Firsters," that isn't one I've come across. It's not as if a cluster of organizations working to enhance... http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13206/venezuela-answers-fraud-charges-with-threats Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST One of the Hugo Chavez-era ministers retained in the new cabinet of Nicolas Maduro is Iris Varela, who holds the portfolio for Venezuela's rotting prison system. This morning, she repaid Maduro's vote of confidence in her by threatening to incarcerate... http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13179/nicolas-maduro-hand-of-god-victory-in-venezuela Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST One of the celebrities given star billing at a Nicolas Maduro election rally last week in Caracas was Diego Maradona, the former Argentine soccer star. Maradona scored perhaps the most notorious goal in the history of the game during the 1986 World Cup... http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13137/sixty-years-after-first-yom-hashoah-never-again Fri, 5 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST As we mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) on April 8 for the 60th consecutive year — this somber day was first placed on the Jewish calendar in 1953, at the instigation of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion — we ask ourselves a... http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13115/how-british-justice-failed-ronnie-fraser Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST On Monday night, as Jews around the world sat down for the first seder of the Passover holiday, anti-Zionists in the United Kingdom and elsewhere held a very different celebration to mark the comprehensive dismissal of a discrimination case brought by... http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13069/chavez-absence-emboldens-opposition Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST With a little under a month to go before Venezuela's presidential election on April 14, the opposition candidate, Henrique Capriles, is starting to exhibit the boldness that many wished he'd displayed when he challenged the now deceased Hugo Chavez last... http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13058/how-the-obama-and-israel-debate-misses-the-point Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST WASHINGTON, DC - A persistent theme at this month's policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the weightiest and most influential of all the groups making Israel's case in Washington, centered on President Barack Obama's record... http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13029/why-is-the-us-honoring-hugo-chavez Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST If the Chavistas currently running Venezuela have their way, the cult of Hugo Chavez will be even more overwhelming after his death than during his life. This morning, as the country prepared for the grand state funeral of Chavez, Vice President Nicolas... http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13022/will-venezuelan-anti-semitism-die-with-hugo-chavez Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST Over the several months that preceded yesterday's announcement by the Venezuelan government of the death of Hugo Chavez, there was one overarching theme in the discussion of the country's political future: to what extent will Chavismo – a term that... http://bencohen.pundicity.com/13019/the-death-of-another-tyrant Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST Finally, after weeks of speculation, the news is official: Hugo Chavez is dead. Venezuela's Comandante, who kept an iron grip on power for 14 years, left this world, appropriately enough, on the 60th anniversary of Joseph Stalin's death. The similarities...