Jonathan S. Tobin
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
Anti-Semitic UN Human Rights Council ‘investigator’ says the quiet part out loud
That a U.N. official would go on the record with anti-Semitic comments ought to be enough to engender outrage and involve consequences for the person involved. But sometimes, a controversy over something terrible that someone said...
Will Trump have the last word over Middle East ‘experts?’
This is not the script that the foreign-policy establishment wanted President Joe Biden to follow in the Middle East. Nor does it reflect his own inclinations or those of fellow Obama administration alumni who...
Judaism deserves as much respect as Islam
It turns out that there are some stunts in the era of clickbait journalism that really do go too far. When news reporter Gil Tamari of Israeli TV Channel 13 snuck into the city of Mecca earlier...
Drawing the wrong conclusions from a Western Wall outrage
If anyone was looking to create an incident whose principal aim was to help alienate more American Jews from Israel, the attack on bar mitzvah ceremonies being held at the egalitarian prayer area at...
The fatal contradictions of Biden’s Middle East trip
The decision of an American president to visit the Middle East has always been seen primarily through the lens of its impact on efforts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That is not the case...
Cancel culture isn’t just for academics anymore
For a lot of people, the phrase “cancel culture” is still a theoretical concept. They know it refers to people being punished in various ways for saying things others don’t want to hear, but...
Iran gave Biden a reason to abandon appeasement. He still won’t do it
What were the leaders of Iran’s Islamist regime thinking when they removed 27 cameras that were supposed to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to monitor its nuclear program? Perhaps they meant it to test...
Jews have bigger problems than a fake nose on an actor’s face
In contemporary popular culture dominated by social media, it doesn’t take much to start a controversy that can trend on Twitter. In this case, all it took was the release of production photos from “Maestro,” a...
Who’s winning Bernie Sanders’s war on AIPAC?
Last week, 57 Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter calling on the U.S. State Department and the FBI to launch an investigation into the death of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian...
Let’s talk about the ‘nakba’ and who’s really responsible for Palestinian suffering
Resolutions proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives mean nothing. They give members an opportunity to pay lip service to various causes favored by their constituents but don’t commit the government to action. They...