Jonathan S. Tobin
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
Israel needs an end to lawfare, not a presidential pardon
There are some sound reasons for Israeli President Isaac Herzog to choose not to grant a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But none of them have anything to do with justice, defending the...
Can the ADL go back to defending the Jews?
The Anti-Defamation League is being accused by The New York Times, MSNBC, left-wing Jewish organizations and the antisemitic Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) of Islamophobia and unfairness to New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. But, as...
After the joyous liberation, Trump’s deal will be tested
Around the world, Jews and decent people of all faiths and backgrounds greeted the liberation of the remaining living hostages held by the Hamas terrorists with joyous thanks, relief and tears. After two years...
A new surge of college antisemitism this fall?
Jewish students should expect to be confronted by more pro-Hamas mobs and antisemitism when returning to college this fall, says JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin. With legacy media mainstreaming Hamas propaganda and blood libels against Israel, it’s...
On Israel, Mamdani is no longer a Democratic outlier
In the wake of New York state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary in June, there was some doubt as to whether a party that still aspired to...
The generational price of the false Gaza ‘genocide’ narrative
Israel’s enemies and those mainstreaming antisemitism have good reason to celebrate. It’s been only 22 months since the horrific Hamas-led Palestinian-Arab terror attacks on Israel that took place on Oct. 7, 2023.
But, as far...
Anti-Israel virtue-signaling on Gaza is immoral
The avalanche of anti-Israel propaganda as a result of a flurry of reports of alleged starvation in the Gaza Strip is starting to overwhelm even the most stalwart supporters of the Jewish state. The...
Yitzhak Rabin’s Syrian catastrophe that never happened
Some scholars of history disdain counter-factual scenarios or, as they are popularly known, “what if” questions about the past, as a fanciful waste of time. They are wrong. As some of our most distinguished...
Would anyone but Trump have done it?
Donald Trump appears to have fooled both his friends and foes. And he has done something none of his predecessors dared to do. With a single stroke, his orders to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities...
Who’s safeguarding the legacy of the ‘Greatest Generation’ on Memorial Day?
Eighty years after the end of World War II, the number of Allied veterans of that conflict is dwindling quickly. Dubbed in America as the “Greatest Generation” for having survived the Great Depression—and then...