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Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.

Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, speaks to reporters in the spin room after debating Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Sept. 10, 2024 in Philadelphia. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images.

Democracy suffers when the media can’t be trusted

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Believe it or not, journalists are not at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to being trusted the least by the American public. According to the most recent annual Gallup poll of attitudes towards...
An Iranian flag over a missile, April 2022. Credit: Mohasseyn/Shutterstock,

Three years of Biden’s Iran appeasement are not so easily undone

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It is to be hoped that three days of U.S. strikes on targets associated with Iranian-backed terror groups in Syria, Iraq and Yemen will be sufficient. After months of gradually escalating chaos unleashed by...
From left: U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. President Joe Biden, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi gather in Tel Aviv to discuss the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Oct. 18, 2023. Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO.

It’s Biden who’s playing politics with the Gaza war, not Bibi

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reputation as a master political schemer and a cynical seeker of power is so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that there is literally nothing he can do without...
Pro-Palestinian protesters in New York City, following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, as part of the Black Lives Matter marches at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States, May 13, 2020. Credit: Luis Yanez/Shutterstock.

How intersectional myths killed the black-Jewish alliance

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For the 1,000 black pastors who have joined a movement to pressure President Joe Biden to force a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, the issue is solidarity with the “oppressed.” This...
A Palestinian man outside the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Gaza City protests cuts to aid on June 20, 2023. Credit: Anas-Mohammed/Shutterstock.

UNRWA exists to help fight the war to eradicate Israel

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The revelation of ties between the U.N. aid agency and Hamas is a small part of the problem. The real issue is the purpose of the institution, which has always been to perpetuate the conflict.
Israeli flag. Credit: Anna Aybetova/Shutterstock.

A hollow Holocaust Remembrance Day

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It’s an important date on the international community’s calendar. Every year, the United Nations and many other institutions and organizations hold ceremonies on Jan. 27 commemorating the Holocaust. It’s long been clear that much...
Adeel Mangi. Source: Senate Judiciary Committee/X.

What they really mean when they cry ‘Islamophobia’

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Islamophobia struck again in the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee this week. Or so we’re supposed to believe. During the confirmation hearings for Adeel Mangi, a nominee to the Third Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals—one...
Migrants, mainly from Venezuela, gather at the Mexico-U.S. border, seeking asylum before Title 42 ends, May 13, 2023. Credit: David Peinado Romero/Shutterstock.

US aid to Israel is vital, but so is addressing the border crisis

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One of the standard tropes of American politics since World War II is the complaint that domestic concerns are being slighted while Washington funds either foreign aid or military commitments abroad. Since the United...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Nov. 5, 2023. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

Biden’s Middle East diplomacy is about Michigan

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is back in the Middle East for yet another round of meetings. The point of it is, as with his previous trips since Hamas launched a war against Israel on...
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators block the Holland Tunnel to New York City on Jan. 8, 2023. Source: YouTube Screenshot/NBC New York 4.

Don’t look away from the primary cause of an epidemic of antisemitism

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We could look at it as just another day in New York, where protests on behalf of one cause or another have been part of the culture of the place for more than a...