Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org
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...
Trump Puts the Ball Back in the Palestinians’ Court
JNS.org - Is the two-state solution back in play? That’s the upshot of the latest comments from Donald Trump. At the United Nations on Wednesday, Trump...
When Experts Ignore the Truth About Israel and the Palestinians
JNS.org - When New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman offers up a Middle East peace plan, the world stops and listens. Or at least it...
A New Low for BDS? Impeding Student Travel to Israel
JNS.org - A teacher writing a letter of recommendation for a student is a commonplace event. Teachers refusing such requests may also be common, but...
