Jonathan S. Tobin
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
The mission to ‘Palestine’ will hurt J Street, not AIPAC
At first glance, it’s a one-sided struggle.
On the one hand, you have incoming House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland. On the other, there is freshman Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Both Hoyer and...
What have we learned one month after the Pittsburgh heartbreak?
When an armed man entered the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood during Shabbat-morning services on Oct. 27, the carnage that followed sent shock waves through the Jewish world. The...
What made Netanyahu Israel’s indispensable man?
He did it again. Despite being placed in an impossible position by the resignation of Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman over accepting another ceasefire with Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to keep his...
Did Israelis err in backing Trump after Pittsburgh?
For those who have spent recent years lamenting the growing disconnect between Israel and the Diaspora, the days after the Pittsburgh shooting provided more proof of what they have been claiming. Some Americans believe...
Did Trump just blink on Iran sanctions?
When U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal in May of this year, he vowed that America would re-impose all the sanctions on Tehran that had been...
Mike Pence’s Messianic problem
It was the sort of unforced error that was the last thing the Trump administration needed in a week during which its liberal critics have been trying to place blame for the massacre at...
The futile search for meaning in anti-Semitic crimes
When something terrible happens, we demand explanations. Awful and irrational events spawn conspiracy theories because it’s part of the human condition to need to make sense of the world, even when the world makes...
What a political general teaches us about the Israel-Diaspora disconnect
It appears as if another Israeli general is about to enter politics. According to multiple reports, Benny Gantz, who served as chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces from 2011 to 2015, will...
The price of Saudi friendship
In one sense, the disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Kashoggi after he entered Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, last week is pretty much business as usual for the Riyadh regime. Saudi Arabia is a...
Who speaks for the Jews, and why do we let them?
The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as the newest associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was greeted by the organized Jewish world in the same manner as his nomination by U.S. President Donald Trump....