Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
Amid Trump’s Withdrawal, Israel Is Still Doing America’s Dirty Work in Syria
JNS.org - For some observers, this past weekend’s revelations about Israeli strikes against Iranian targets in Syria was just politics as usual in the Jewish...
Trump’s Decisions Undermine Pompeo’s Pledges
JNS.org - There were a great many differences between President Barack Obama’s June 2009 Cairo speech and the address delivered on January 10 in the same...
Amid Antisemitism Campaign, Jews Must Be More Than Victims
JNS.org - The hashtag #myfirstantisemiticexperience is helping to publicize the everyday reality of Jew-hatred. But it’s not clear if this is helping Jews think clearly...
BDS Bill Debate Is About Antisemitism, Not Speech
JNS.org - Is the effort to combat the BDS movement much ado about nothing? Given the campaign to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel's abject...
Five Questions About Israel’s Political Musical Chairs
JNS.org - The old expression is that for every two Jews, there are three political opinions. In Israel, that cliché can be extended to also...
Amos Oz and the Centrality of Hebrew in Jewish Life
JNS.org - For those who only know Israel as a field of political combat, Amos Oz was just a writer with a point of view...
Agenda for 2019: Defend Jewish Interests, Not Partisanship
JNS.org - 2018 will go down as a year in which hyper-partisanship reached new heights in the United States. Those on one side of the...
On Syria, Trump Is Wrong — and Contradicts Himself
JNS.org - Sometimes, wisdom means understanding that not all promises ought to be kept. The problem is that when you make multiple promises, you’re going...
Some Things Are More Important Than International Good Will
JNS.org - The recent spate of terrorist attacks against Israelis for which Hamas claimed credit launched a debate about what the Israeli government, led by...
Stinting on Compassion for Jewish Victims of Terror
JNS.org - In a moment that had to tug at the heartstrings of their listeners, a young Israeli couple whose baby was killed as the...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Jewish Connection
JNS.org - At a time when DNA tests are a national craze, as well as source of political controversy, we shouldn’t be surprised about claims...
Hezbollah’s War on Israel Takes Precedence Over Bibi
JNS.org - Maybe you thought that the discovery of tunnels built by Hezbollah under the border between Lebanon and Israel would generate a full-scale debate...
A Dangerous Future for J Street
JNS.org - 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...
American Jewry’s Hanukkah Hypocrisy?
JNS.org - The New York Times’s coverage of Jewish topics has long been fodder for those who study both media bias and the complicated relationship between the...
Women's March Co-Leader Tamika Mallory: Israel Has No Right to Exist 'at the Disposal' of the Palestinians
Donald Trump, the Syrian Kurds -- and 'Never Again'
Malaysia 'Disgusted' by Israel's Condemnation of PM Mohamed's 'Rabid Antisemitism,' Amid Ongoing Row Over Exclusion of Athletes
Father of Israeli Student Murdered in Australia: I Wanted to Be With Her More Time, but Someone Decided I Could Not
Trump Can't Devastate the Turkish Economy Because Bogus US Ally Qatar Will Save Erdogan Yet Again