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.
In most of Western society, it is today inconceivable to provide any kind of platform to the likes of Adolf Hitler.
The Palestinian leadership’s refusal to empathize with the Jewish people hasn’t stood in the way of Israel providing sometimes life-saving medical treatment to those same leaders and their families.
Israel and the worldwide Jewish community recently marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
It remains one of the great modern political mysteries that Western liberals who so intensely champion the LGBT agenda will at the same time advocate for the influx of Middle Eastern (read: Muslim) immigrants into Western society.
Think slavery is a problem of the past? Think again.
The murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul allegedly by agents of his own country failed to make any genuine waves in the Arab world.
In late September, four men opened fire in the city of Ahvaz during an Iranian military parade marking the 38th anniversary of the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war.
