Jonathan S. Tobin
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
Jews aren’t indigenous to Israel? According to whom?
There are a lot of things wrong with woke culture. While the impulse to demonstrate solidarity with the oppressed and opposition to bad things like racism is, in principle, praiseworthy, the virtue signaling is...
How much anti-Semitism does it take to cancel an NFL star?
Imagine if a professional football player used his Instagram account to support the Ku Klux Klan and to promote hateful myths attributing horrible crimes to African-Americans. What would happen?
It doesn’t require any imagination at...
A tale of two revolutions and why America must be celebrated
In the view of those cheering on the efforts of the Black Lives Matter movement, this July 4 will be one less of celebration than of soul-searching and reassessment. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic,...
Can Jews shed their prejudice against religious schools?
In the last several weeks, Americans have been debating how best to address the question of lingering racial prejudice in society. As the country struggles to shed any remnants of the sordid legacy of...
Can the ADL ‘stop the hate’ by embracing Al Sharpton?
Is there any red line that the Anti-Defamation League won’t cross in order to pursue its current agenda that prioritizes partisan politics over combating anti-Semitism? In the five years since Jonathan Greenblatt succeeded longtime...
It’s a little late for Jews to get even with St. Louis
Who says Jews and Muslims can’t work together? In St. Louis, an Israeli-American restaurant owner and a pair of Muslim activists have joined forces in order to exact retroactive justice against a historical figure...
Anti-Semitism gets you fired at Labour, but hired by the ‘Times’
It turns out The New York Times has lower standards when it comes to those who spread anti-Semitic canards than even Britain’s controversial Labour Party. Tweeting an anti-Semitic blood libel about Israel being responsible for teaching...
The price of checking your ‘white privilege’ may be high
It’s the sort of story that makes Jewish hearts swell with pride. As the Jewish News of Northern California reported, a group of Jewish teenagers from Temple Beth Abraham, a Conservative synagogue in Oakland, Calif., set out to...
What’s more important in a president? Policy or character?
For Republicans and many supporters of Israel, former National Security Advisor John Bolton went from hero to zero in the last year. For opponents of President Donald Trump, it’s different. They always intensely disliked...
Should Jewish groups make their peace with Black Lives Matter?Should Jewish groups make their...
Is the phrase “black lives matter” a universal sentiment that all decent people should support? Or is it a particular political program put forward by specific groups with radical positions that deserves to be...