Jonathan S. Tobin
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
Searching for meaning behind an empty metaphor
For those who worry about the future of American Jewry, Passover brings some comfort. According to a survey published in 2014 by the Pew Research Center, 70 percent of Americans who identify as Jewish attend...
Has Trump finally figured it out?
Donald Trump was elected president with no government experience or in-depth knowledge of foreign policy. That ignorance was reflected in some of his first choices to fill key administration positions. Yet after another shakeup...
What Syria doesn’t teach us about Iran
The explanation many pundits are offering for the Israeli government’s belated admission that it was responsible for the 2007 bombing of a Syrian nuclear reactor is to send a message to Iran.
Other more mundane...
How much do the Palestinians pay for terror?
The foreign-policy establishment is scared—and with good reason. The Taylor Force Act—a bill that will force the end of all U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority if it does not cease paying salaries and...
Don’t repeat nuclear history
It’s not clear what U.S. President Donald Trump thinks he can accomplish when he meets with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in May. The decision to hold a summit with the leader of...
Why is Trump betraying terror victims?
It turns out that in some cases, the Trump administration can behave just like its predecessors.
President Donald Trump has been rightly accused of smashing precedents as the commander-in-chief, and many of his subordinates have...
From the embassy to an undivided Jerusalem
It turns out that moving the U.S. embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is even more controversial than some of the Trump administration’s critics thought.
Of course, their predictions that U.S. recognition of...
The empty talk of two states
Time was, the endorsement of a two-state solution by the executive director of AIPAC wouldn’t have been news. But when Howard Kohr told those who gathered for the group’s annual conference on Monday that...
The AIPAC comfort zone
Pro-Israel activists gather this week in Washington, D.C., for the annual AIPAC policy conference. As usual, there is much speculation about the future of U.S. policy and complaints about the pro-Israel lobby.
If the Trump...
The embassy will move . . . and the world won’t end
Maybe it wasn’t such a big deal after all.
Instead of waiting until 2019 or 2020, the U.S. embassy to Israel will move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May. On Friday, the Trump administration...