Jonathan S. Tobin
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
Golda Meir would agree with Netanyahu on this one
There are many issues worth having an argument over; then again, some are better left alone. For example, a debate about whether or not the actress who is hired to play Golda Meir in...
Biden’s ‘equity’ policy is racializing America
You may not have noticed it, but last week the federal government announced further plans to racialize America and to further enshrine toxic woke ideology as the guiding principle for its funding and hiring....
How Americans can save Israeli democracy
President Joe Biden isn’t the first American president to intervene in Israeli politics. U.S. administrations have been doing so for decades with generally dismal results. Yet there was something different about the comments Biden recently made...
The anti-Bibi resistance wants Americans to thwart Israeli democracy
From the first day of Israel’s existence as an independent state, its political life has been a vicious, zero-sum game, with its major players consistently seeking to delegitimize one another. When you consider that...
Israel’s critics continue to hold the Jewish state responsible for Palestinian terror
Throughout the course of the Palestinians’ century-long war on Zionism, the narrative about their terrorist campaigns against the Jews with whom they had no intention of sharing the land has always been framed as...
The Ukraine war starts to undermine Israeli security
For the last 11 months, Israel has sought to signal its opposition to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine while avoiding being dragged into a war that compromises its own security and interests. Threading that...
Ilhan Omar is the Democrats’ problem, not Kevin McCarthy’s
After all the deals he made to get the votes of recalcitrant conservative Republicans, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy has a lot of promises to keep. But one vow...
The ‘Jew-Free Zones’ at Berkeley story wasn’t ‘misinformation’
When the news spread in the fall that nine student groups at the University of California’s Berkeley School of Law amended their bylaws to ensure that no Zionist or pro-Israel speakers would ever speak...
Is talk of globalism an antisemitic dog whistle?
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt loves the spotlight. He got the attention he craves with an appearance last week on “The Breakfast Show,” a syndicated radio program hosted by Lenard Larry McKelvey, who goes professionally by...
The Palestinians’ World Cup propaganda victory
While only a minority of Americans is closely following the World Cup soccer championships, the rest of the world, as it does every four years, is going crazy over it. And, as always in...