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  • The Tower
  • Tablet Magazine

Past articles by Ben:

The American Pastor at Erdogan’s Mercy

As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan assumed near-dictatorial powers following his dubious victory in a constitutional referendum April 16, Andrew Brunson, a Christian pastor from North Carolina, was marking his sixth month of incarceration inside a Turkish prison. Brunson, who has lived in Turkey with his family for the last 23 years, was the head of the Resurrection Church in the coastal… → Read More

The Promise of Zionism, From the Passover Seder to the Real World

At my family’s Passover seder this year, we read, as we always do, from the traditional Sephardic haggadah, in keeping with the customs of the Jewish communities from Spain and Portugal. But doing so means our guests need to listen to lots of Hebrew, and the occasional prayer or song in Ladino, before we can start eating dinner. And as it’s 2017, I have to be far more attentive to the problem of… → Read More

Ken Livingstone: Enabler of Evil

I’ve written many times about the anti-Semitism that continues to plague the British Labour Party—once a noble party of both opposition and government that has now, under its current far-left leader Jeremy Corbyn, become a laughably ineffective opposition with little hope of attaining government leadership. One key reason for that involves the scandals around open expressions of anti-Semitism… → Read More

From London to Jerusalem, a Trail of Islamist Terror

As reports of the savage terrorist attack in central London March 22 emerged, it was clear pretty quickly that British authorities were dealing with an incident straight from the Islamist terror manual. The weapons of choice in London were ordinary consumer goods that are easily refashioned for the purposes of murder. The car in which the kids are driven to school is also a makeshift tank that… → Read More

Turkey’s Erdogan Looks Abroad With Menace

I recently heard one of Israel’s leading national security experts opine that when it comes to the sectarian conflicts of the Middle East, Jerusalem’s strategic interest lies in maintaining Turkey as an effective counterweight to Iran, despite the torrid experience of dealing with the country’s dictatorial leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, during the last decade. That expert’s view seems correct to… → Read More

North Korea: The Concentration Camp With a Seat at the UN

The prospect of all-out conflict between the U.S. and the North Korean regime has loomed large over the last fortnight, as a consequence of the latest round of provocations from Pyongyang. It’s always a competition between the world’s rogue states as to which one of them can pose the greatest threat to global peace and order at any given moment. Since 2011, the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria,… → Read More

After Decades of Bias, It’s Time to Hold the UN to Account

For those of us who spent much of 2016, based upon then-candidate Donald Trump’s own bombastic declarations, worrying about the thrust of the foreign policy of a future Trump administration, President Trump’s address to Congress Feb. 28 provided welcome relief. As ever, precise details were scarce and important shifts of direction went unacknowledged, but the underlying message was clear—and… → Read More

In Today’s British Football, No Room For ‘Yid Army’ –

Tottenham—pronounced Tot-num—is a rather bleak neighborhood on the northeastern edge of London. The area was never historically Jewish, though it abuts the heavily ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods of Stamford Hill and Lower Clapton. Yet, somehow, the local soccer team, Tottenham Hotspur—or, more f... → Read More