Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
Why Palestinian Hatred Destroyed Tzipi Livni
JNS.org - This week, former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni announced that she was dropping out of politics. Livni came as close to being prime...
Who Are the Real Racists in the Middle East?
JNS.org - It’s a familiar refrain. Critics of Israel aren’t content to merely bash the policies of the government of the Jewish state. As part...
Assimilation and the American Jewish Immigrant Experience
JNS.org - It was one of those moments that make so much of the culture of 21st-century America cringe-worthy. Last week on NBC’s Meet the...
Can a New Group Save the Democratic Party for Israel?
JNS.org - There are already too many Jewish organizations. But if there was ever a need for at least one more, then the Democratic Majority...
Hebron: The City With Extremists on Both Sides
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision not to extend the mandate of an international observer group in Hebron is likely to be denounced...
Israel’s Foes Finally Admit That Rocks Can Kill
JNS.org - As far as the mainstream media is usually concerned, when rocks are thrown in the Middle East, it’s nothing to get too worked...
How Progressives Are Destroying the Jewish ‘Big Tent’
What the Jewish world needs most these days is inclusion. Yet the only sensible course of action open to Jewish community relations councils and other...
Why Intersectional Ideology Undermines the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
JNS.org - The alliance between African-Americans and Jews during the struggle for civil rights has often been invoked when tensions between the two communities have...
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...
