Roger Cohen

Roger Cohen, New York Times columnist who covered the Iranian public's response to their presidential election. (photo: uscpublicdiplomacy/CC BY-ND 2.0)

Roger Cohen thinks Israelis and Palestinians just need to get along

How a popular columnist fools readers into a false understanding of the situation in Israel/Palestine. Oh man, is he smooth. There is a reason Roger Cohen is a columnist in The Grey Lady: he is a fabulous writer. He is also extremely convincing, and his op-ed from yesterday, “Two Ideas of Israel-Palestine,” is no exception.…

By Ami Kaufman November 21, 2014

France Decapitated (again)

[Completely off topic] The New York Times’ Roger Cohen recently traveled to Paris and didn’t like what he saw. His latest op-ed is titled “France Decapitated,” and it predicts a dark future for The Republic. My favorite Francophile, former Haaretz Editor in Chief Dov Alfon, who now publishes a great Hebrew-language magazine called Alaxon, adds some…

By Noam Sheizaf July 10, 2014

Israeli and American flags (photo: flickr / hoyasmeg CC BY 2.0)

With (pro-Israel) friends like these, who needs enemies?

While the mainstream debate over Israel in the U.S. is changing as more people challenge the traditional ‘pro-Israel’ paradigm, it must also be accompanied by a shift in rhetoric. Roger Cohen, one of the New York Times writers I like most, wrote an op-ed this week called “Israel’s True Friends.” In the piece, which is centered around the Chuck Hagel nomination,…

By Mairav Zonszein January 12, 2013

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Graffiti "Wall=Landgrab," Abu Dis, September 2005 (Photo: Bright Tal (Political)/Flickr)

At J-Street, new terms describe Israeli reality

It's time to start calling things by their real name, and finding the language to describe Israel as it is today - and how we'd like it to be in the future.

By Dahlia Scheindlin March 2, 2011