Posts Tagged: jonathan tobin israel
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...
25 Years of Oslo Illusions
JNS.org - When the Trump administration announced that it was ending its funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) last week, the protests...
Take the 5779 Jewish Pundit Quiz
JNS.org - Was 5778 a good year? For Jews around the world, it was the usual mixed bag. The US embassy in Israel was finally moved...
Why the Palestinians Can’t Say ‘Yes’ to Trump
JNS.org - Can the Palestinians finally not miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity? That paraphrase of Abba Eban’s famous quote provides the key question to...
BDS: It’s Not Economics, Stupid!
Recently, the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)’s editor-in-chief, Jonathan S. Tobin, wrote that the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel is simply an “annoyance to Israel." Tobin claimed...
Bibi Isn’t Going Anywhere
JNS.org - Lack of faith in institutions, electoral math, and the absence of viable alternatives mean that Benjamin Netanyahu is going to remain prime minister for...
The Case for Netanyahu
JNS.org - Israel’s police are recommending the indictment of the prime minister. But there’s less to the charges of corruption than his critics would have you...
Time for a Peace Process Paradigm Change
JNS.org - What are the details of the Middle East peace plan that President Donald Trump will use to craft what he hopes is the...
Balfour, the Palestinians — and No Peace
JNS.org - It was a minor news story in the summer of 2016. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas announced that he was suing Great Britain over...
How the Israeli Left Views the Palestinians
JNS.org - Some Jewish institutions in America are under siege these days, and their principal critics aren’t neo-Nazis. Despite the clear leftward tilt of a large...
There Must Be Limits to American Jewish Community’s ‘Big Tent’
JNS.org - What is the one value that the Jewish community should care most about? To listen to many who run Jewish organizations and communal philanthropies, the answer...
Stop Denying the Israeli Consensus on the Palestinians
JNS.org - Yair Lapid is the current favorite to become prime minister when the Israeli people go to the polls to elect a new Knesset. But whether...
Free Speech and Antisemitism: Max Blumenthal’s Goliath
When the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) released its 2013 list of the "Top 10 Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Slurs" at the end of December, Max Blumenthal reacted with...
