Jonathan S. Tobin
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
If hostages are being abused, their captors shouldn’t be rewarded
It’s been more than 16 months since Israel was invaded and its citizens, including men, women and children, were subjected to mass murder, torture, rape and kidnapping. But while anyone who visits the Jewish...
Trump plan puts an end to the Palestinian state fantasy
Everyone who claims to be an “expert” on the Middle East is sure about one thing: President Donald Trump’s proposal to move Palestinian Arabs out of Gaza either cannot or should not happen. Of course, the...
Trump is right about letting Palestinians leave Gaza
President Donald Trump is often at his best when he discards conventional wisdom and what the experts say is the only solution to any given problem. That was clearly the case when, during a...
The pathetic finish to Joe Biden’s failed presidency
Every president strives to create a legacy that will be part of the headline in their obituary. They crave policy achievements or a foreign triumph with which their name will always be associated while...
Trump and Israelis may regret the hostage deal he wanted … and got
For most supporters of Israel, Jan. 20 and the beginning of President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration couldn’t come soon enough.
President Joe Biden’s weakness and appeasement of Iran, as well as ambivalent policies and public...
‘Scholasticide’ slur is another reason why Trump should defund antisemitic institutions
The vocabulary of contemporary antisemitism is somewhat limited. It lacks not only the facts that might justify their steady stream of invective and false accusations against the State of Israel and the Jewish people....
Ending Facebook censorship is a victory for freedom, not antisemitism
Has Facebook just given a major boost to antisemites? That’s the take of the Anti-Defamation League and other ideological liberal and left-wing Jewish groups about the decision of Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Meta, the company that...
Islamophobia concerns are attempts to silence critics of Muslim antisemitism
It’s possible to argue that anything the Biden-Harris administration does in its final weeks in office is irrelevant and may soon be overturned by President-elect Donald Trump once he is sworn in next month....
Trump’s pick for civil rights can doom DEI racism
Compared to some of the choices for posts in President-elect Donald Trump’s new administration, this one isn’t likely to garner nearly the attention that some of the others have generated. Trump’s decision to name...
Trump voices the moral clarity on hostages the world needed
We don’t know yet what impact President-elect Donald Trump’s bombshell statement about the fate of the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas will be. But in one post on his Truth Social site, he neatly summarized...