Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
Academic Freedom Isn’t an Excuse for Antisemitism
JNS.org - We’re living in a time when American academic institutions claim to be dedicated to eradicating prejudice. That’s supposedly the point of the pledges...
A ‘Resistance’ Coup Just Defeated Israeli Democracy
JNS.org - After months of increasingly strident mass protests against his government’s plans to reform Israel’s out-of-control and highly partisan judicial system, Prime Minister Benjamin...
Don’t Believe the Jimmy Carter Revisionists
JNS.org - The stock of historical figures rises and falls with the changing times that follow them. That is especially true for presidents. Examples of...
Blame Biden for Iran’s Diplomatic Triumph
JNS.org - For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s domestic opponents, it was just more fodder to label his new government a failure. The Israeli left...
Iraq Anniversary Reminds Us That Avoiding War Isn’t Always Wrong
JNS.org - As a general rule of thumb, it’s always best to avoid analogies to Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain. The trio of...
The ADL’s Woke War on the Right Won’t Stop Antisemitism
JNS.org - Sometimes, the most important questions are the ones that aren’t asked about the issues that generate the most concern. That’s certainly true with...
What’s Worse: Threats by Smotrich or Amnesty International?
JNS.org - Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich does not appear to be ready for prime time. Last week, he “clarified” public remarks saying that the...
Should American Jews Intervene to Stop Netanyahu?
JNS.org - Rabbi Rick Jacobs had a point when he was asked recently to defend his efforts to intervene in Israel’s debate about judicial reform....
Biden Isn’t Serious about Opposing Palestinian Terrorism
JNS.org - The victim of the most recent Palestinian terrorist attack was a young American. Elan Ganeles, a 27-year-old native of West Hartford, Conn., was...
How Worrying is the Far-Right’s ‘Day of Hate’ Stunt?
JNS.org - Far-right hate groups have got the Jewish community scared and with good reason. After the murderous synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh in 2018 and...
How Americans Can Save Israeli Democracy
JNS.org - President Joe Biden isn’t the first American president to intervene in Israeli politics. US administrations have been doing so for decades with generally...
Netanyahu’s Western Wall Decision Gives the Lie to Democracy Hysteria
JNS.org – It was a story that was over almost before it began. The hysteria over a proposal by the Shas Party to essentially criminalize...
Israel’s Critics Continue to Hold the Jewish State Responsible for Palestinian Terror
JNS.org - Throughout the course of the Palestinians’ century-long war on Zionism, the narrative about their terrorist campaigns against the Jews with whom they had...
Harvard Didn’t Cancel Kenneth Roth; it Decided Not to Honor an Antisemite
JNS.org – Cancel culture in academia is a serious problem. There is no sector of American society in which dissent is so routinely crushed, or...
