Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
Israel and the Death Penalty
JNS.org - It’s not every day that Israel decides not to vote with the United States at the United Nations. It happened, however, on November 13,...
Praising Netanyahu’s Caution
JNS.org - People demonstrated in the streets of Sderot on Tuesday, and who could blame them? They had spent days running back and forth to...
Hamas Rockets and the Idea of Two States
JNS.org - Does it really matter what started the shooting at the border between Israel and Hamas-run Gaza? To outward appearances, it looks like it was...
Trump Doesn’t Know History, but He Knows Iran
JNS.org - Donald Trump got just about the welcome he should have expected when he showed up to take part in the commemorations of the centennial...
The New Normal for Israel and Jews
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a state visit last month to the Sultanate of Oman. Color me skeptical about scenarios discussed in the media...
Did Trump Blink on Iran Sanctions?
JNS.org - When Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal in May of this year, he vowed that America would re-impose...
Jewish Labels Are Meaningless to Antisemites
JNS.org - Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau didn’t intend to say anything that would wound American Jews in the wake of the mass slaughter...
The Futile Search for Meaning in Antisemitic Crimes
When something terrible happens, we demand explanations. Awful and irrational events spawn conspiracy theories because it’s part of the human condition to need to make...
Drawing the Line Between Speech and Violence
JNS.org - In Israel, it’s a yearly debate. Every year on the anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s tragic assassination, some on the left and the right...
The Right to Criticize Israel Is Beside the Point
JNS.org - In an election season in which we are awash in polls, we’ve now been given one more telling us something that everybody already...
The Problem With B’Tselem
JNS.org - The UN Security Council heard testimony on Thursday about the Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians from B’Tselem. The group, which dubs itself “The...
The Price of Saudi Friendship
JNS.org - In one sense, the disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Kashoggi after he entered Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, last week is...
BDS Threatens the Diaspora, Not Israel
JNS.org - This past week, we learned of yet another educator at the University of Michigan who has refused to give a Jewish student a...
The Woman Who Showed How Americans Can Succeed at the UN
JNS.org - The resignation of US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley took the political world by surprise, but it’s likely that no one...
Jordanian MP Who Praised Murder of Seven Israeli Schoolgirls Feted in UK Parliament
New York Times Jared-Ivanka-Jews Story Broke Paper's Own Rabbi Rule
Palestinian President Abbas's Fatah Party Mocks 'Fearful' Israelis Running From Hamas Rocket Attacks
Spanish VIPs Get the Message: BDS Is Bad for Everyone
German Neo-Nazis Use New WhatsApp Stickers Option to Spread Antisemitic Images