Cohanim has criticized the government in Iran[7] and what she has termed their "obsessive anti-Semitism".[8] Cohanim criticized the social media company Twitter over what she deemed their hypocrisy in refusing to censor the Twitter account of the Iranian Supreme LeaderAyatollah Khamenei, who has published countless anti-Semitic tweets calling for the "genocidal" elimination of the State of Israel, while simultaneously censoring the Tweets of President Trump. Cohanim went on to call upon Twitter to completely ban Khamenei from their platform.[9][10] Cohanim has condemned the terrorist-designated group Hezbollah, citing their ties to Iran, and has publicly stated that the US praises countries which follow the US in designating Hezbollah a terrorist group and freezing their assets.[11][12]
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cohanim proclaimed that the emerging conspiracy theories blaming Jews for the global outbreak and spread of the Coronavirus are a "modern-day blood libel", and admonished government figures in Iran, Turkey, and the Palestinian Authority for spreading these conspiracy theories.[13]
Personal life
Cohanim was born in Tehran, Iran, to a Jewish family that fled the country at the start of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and found refuge in the United States.[14][15]
References
^"Ellie Cohanim". state.gov. U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 24 June 2022.