Edy Cohen (, ; born 18 February 1972) is an Israeli of Lebanese Jewish origin, researcher, journalist and specialist in the

Arab–Israeli conflict The Arab–Israeli conflict is a geopolitical phenomenon involving military conflicts and a variety of disputes between Israel and many Arab world, Arab countries. It is largely rooted in the historically supportive stance of the Arab League ...

. He is a commentator on Arab social media.

Biography

In 1972, Edward Haïm Cohen Halala was born in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, to a wealthy Jewish family named Cohen Halala. He was educated at the Christian school in the city until the kidnapping and murdering of his father in 1985. Cohen and his family immigrated to Israel. Cohen has a bachelor's degree in political science, a master's degree, and a doctorate in Middle Eastern History, all from

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 ...

. He also engaged in post-doctoral research at the Menachem Begin Center for Underground Movement Research, Bar-Ilan University. Cohen speaks Hebrew, Arabic, and French at a native level, and English at a professional competence level.

The Holocaust in the eyes of Mahmoud Abbas 1

Books

* 2017 "The Holocaust in the Eyes of Mahmoud Abbas," - A book about

Mahmoud Abbas Mahmoud Abbas (; born 15 November 1935), also known by the Kunya (Arabic), kunya Abu Mazen (, ), is a Palestinian politician who has been serving as the second president of Palestine and the President of the Palestinian National Authority, P ...

's doctoral thesis on the relations between Zionism and Nazism, 2017. * "The Mufti and the Jews," a book about the

anti-Jewish Antisemitism or Jew-hatred is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who harbours it is called an antisemite. Whether antisemitism is considered a form of racism depends on the school of thought. Antisemi ...

activities of

Haj Amin al-Husseini Mohammed Amin al-Husseini (; 4 July 1974) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine. was the scion of the family of Jerusalemite Arab nobles, who trace their origins to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Hussein ...

in Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, and Germany and his cooperation with the

Nazi government The government of Nazi Germany was a totalitarian dictatorship governed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party according to the . Nazi Germany was established in January 1933 with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, followed ...

in the extermination of European Jews, 2021.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cohen, Edy 1972 births Living people Israeli journalists Israeli writers People from Beirut Bar-Ilan University alumni Israeli people of Lebanese-Jewish descent Israeli Arabists