Jonathan S. Tobin
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
How dangerous are the anti-Israel conservatives?
On the main stage of American politics, the lines of debate about Israel and the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7 have been clear. Almost all Republicans and most Democratic officeholders support the Jewish state...
Has Biden tipped the Democrats back towards a bipartisan consensus?
It’s all a matter of perspective. For Israel’s government, the obvious benefits of President Joe Biden’s brief visit to Israel, his fulsome rhetoric of support for the Jewish state and scathing denunciations of Hamas...
Who lost the battle to stop Iran’s nuclear quest?
Iran has been in the news lately for a number of reasons. One is the Biden administration’s latest instance of appeasement of the Islamist regime in which it paid $6 billion in frozen funds to it...
Canada’s Ukrainian Nazi embarrassment was no accident
It was all a big mistake. And no one important was to blame. So, the only thing to do is to just move along, pretend it never happened and, of course, denounce anyone who...
Academic freedom isn’t an excuse for antisemitism
We’re living in a time when American academic institutions claim to be dedicated to eradicating prejudice. That’s supposedly the point of the pledges to support the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) mantra that has...
Antisemitism won’t be stopped by censoring Musk’s X
Elon Musk may have thought that he was being shaken down by the Anti-Defamation League. But even though he believes that he’s turned the tables on the group, it turns out that he’s given them a...
Must Jews ‘repent’ for voting for Trump?
In the weeks before the observance of Rosh Hashanah, religious Jews give a lot of lip service to the idea of repentance. That is the main point of our observance in the Hebrew month...
Nothing is inevitable: The lessons of Israel’s Libya fiasco
There may be plenty of blame to go around for what happened this past week between Israel and Libya. Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen’s decision to announce the news of a meeting with Libyan...
A monolithic media, essential to the left, imperils democracy
As different as the United States and Israel are, the events of the last several months have shown that the political and media cultures of the two nations are growing more and more alike....
Is a US-Saudi-Israel deal really in the works?
According to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, President Joe Biden is trying to do Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a big favor. That would involve the administration finally moving to follow up on former President Donald...