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Gary Cohen

Gary Cohen

Gary Cohen is a writer and filmmaker. His substack can be found here.
Palestinians walk past destroyed buildings as displaced residents return to their homes in the in al-Zahra area, north of the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip. Via Times of Israel
June 26, 2026, 1:46 pm
Once again, a supposedly damning UN Commission report on Israel lacks basic evidence
The report's actual function is far simpler - to confirm and justify the verdict and the demonisation of Israel.
By Gary Cohen
A young Jewish boy sits on his fathers shoulders waving a British Union flag.
June 5, 2026, 5:02 pm
Will Britain miss its Jews once they have gone?
For generations, Britain seemed to offer Jews something rare in European history. Not perfection, certainly not acceptance without conditions, but stability. That is now fading.
By Gary Cohen
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Knesset.
May 26, 2026, 4:49 pm
Ben Gvir is the symptom of Israel’s woes. Netanyahu is the cause
Ben Gvir's presence and position in Israel is entirely down to Netanyahu refusing to draw a line and prioritising power over principle
By Gary Cohen
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich arrive to a cabinet meeting on the state budget, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem.
April 7, 2026, 11:34 am
The Israeli government is raiding state coffers to stay in power
Those carrying the weight of the war are now expected to bear the additional financial burden, imposed upon them by a government that treats them with nothing but contempt
By Gary Cohen
Jerusalem on VE Day, 1945 (United States Library of Congress)
March 17, 2026, 3:25 pm
The falsehood at the heart of the claim that ‘Britain gave away Palestine’
The claim now circulating in Westminster is not merely wrong, but a deliberate distortion, part of a decades-long campaign to rewrite history
By Gary Cohen
Reim, site of Nova music festival massacre on 7 October 2023.
February 17, 2026, 2:19 pm
The Netanyahu government’s avoidance, reframing and betrayal of 7 October
By changing the official description of what took place on 7 October 2023 from a 'massacre' to an 'event', Netanyahu and his government are insulting those murdered
By Gary Cohen
U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaking about a House resolution declaring that former President Donald Trump (R) did not engage in an insurrection against the United States at the U.S. Capitol. Credit: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News
January 22, 2026, 12:54 pm
Why extremists are pushing a ‘America is paying for Israel’s free healthcare’ lie
These charlatans are not simply being provocative or dishonest. They are driving a cultural shift that once again, makes Jews the default explanation for societal ills.
By Gary Cohen
Anti-Israel protesters waving a Hamas flag at a demonstration in Times Square on July 31, 2024. William C Lopez/New York Post
January 14, 2026, 12:59 pm
The West’s activists love tyrants – as long as they hate America and Israel
From Venezuela to Iran and Gaza, Western activism excuses repression, glorifies power and abandons ordinary people
By Gary Cohen
A mural of the Iranian regime's supreme leaders: Ayatollah Khomeini (1979-89) and Ayatollah Khamenei (1989-present). Credit: Flickr/David Stanley
January 2, 2026, 3:04 pm
Iranians are bravely fighting tyranny as the West wallows in performative outrage
Real courage in Iran exposes the moral fraud of Western protest culture
By Gary Cohen
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. JINI via Xinhua ISRAEL-TEL AVIV-NETANYAHU-PRE
December 3, 2025, 3:45 pm
The genius and moral rot of Benjamin Netanyahu
The Israeli Prime Minister's request for a pardon for a sake of unity reveals the full extent of his cynicism, political mastery and moral bankruptcy
By Gary Cohen
Lt. Hadar Goldin
November 11, 2025, 3:52 pm
Eleven years on, Lt. Hadar Goldin finally laid to rest in Israel
After 4,118 days in Hamas captivity, IDF recovers and buries fallen soldier whose case defined a nation’s pain
By Gary Cohen
Reim, site of Nova music festival massacre on 7 October 2023.
November 10, 2025, 12:48 pm
The victims of 7 October the world chose to ignore
Those who shout about 'the global south' ignore that Hamas murdered people from Thailand, Nepal, Tanzania, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Cambodia, as well as Israeli Arabs and Bedouin
By Gary Cohen
Tommy Robinson pictured at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. (Photo: X / Screenshot)
October 21, 2025, 12:03 pm
OPINION: Embrace of Tommy Robinson exposes painful rift
That Tommy Robinson, of all people, can walk into Israel and be cheered as a hero perhaps says less about him and more about the state of the world
By Gary Cohen
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