Dr. Edy Cohen is a historian, media commentator and journalist holding an official Israeli press pass specializing in inter-Arab relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Islamist terrorism, and the history of Jewish communities in the Arab world. He earned his doctorate at Bar-Ilan University and currently serves as a researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.
Dr. Cohen grew up as a Jew in Lebanon (!), completing his early years of education in Christian schools. In 1991, like so many other 20th-century Jews struggling to preserve their rich heritage within hostile Arab societies, Edy Cohen and his family were forced to flee lethal Arab anti-Semitism. Once resettled in Israel, he was able to manifest his love for Israel and commitment to Zionism openly and freely, and today Dr. Cohen is well known for his willingness to both call out anti-Semitism wherever it lurks and challenge any and all signs of retreat from Zionism’s fundamental tenets.
As a native speaker and writer of Arabic, Dr. Cohen regularly crosses media divides, communicating directly with Arab audiences and providing them with perspectives on Israel that they would otherwise never receive.
Israel Today’s Edy Cohen speaks with Arif Bawecani, head of the Party Serbesti Kurdish (PSK).
Middle East expert and Israel Today correspondent Edy Cohen analyzes how the term “Islamophobia” is increasingly used in Europe as a political instrument to delegitimize and silence criticism of Islamism, migration, and cultural transformation.
Middle East expert and Israel Today correspondent Edy Cohen reports on a historic and highly sensitive event in France: the proclamation of the independent Republic of Kabylia—after decades of resistance against the Algerian state.
There is no other people on earth that has been blamed, for thousands of years, so consistently, so comprehensively, and so slanderously for every conceivable conflict, division, and catastrophe as the Jews.
The headline might bring to mind the Islamic State or the Taliban regime in Afghanistan; this Koranic form of justice can also be found in parts of Syria. But there are more regions on Earth where this applies.
Christians murdered, churches desecrated: The dimensions of the assault on Syrian Christians come to light.
Israel Today Correspondent and Middle East expert Edy Cohen explains why tens of thousands of foreign fighters in Syria have become a danger to the region and Israel.
Middle East expert Edy Cohen on the new suffering of the Druze, the silence of the Arab world, and Israel’s role as guardian.
Middle East expert and Israel Today commentator Edy Cohen on Holocaust denial as a political tool – and the conspiracy theories that still fuel it in the Arab world.
Middle East expert and Israel Today commentator Edy Cohen on the advancing Islamization of Syria, Europe’s silence on the massacres of minorities – and why Christians, Alawites, and LGBTQ+ individuals now fear for their lives.
