Posts Tagged: Jonathan Tobin
Despite His Flaws, Defending Trump on Jerusalem
JNS.org - In the end, perhaps only a president so completely divorced from diplomatic reality and utterly indifferent to international opinion could do it. Despite the...
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...
The False Claims About Bannon and Antisemitism
JNS.org - Breitbart.com CEO and former White House senior counselor Steve Bannon has called himself a “Leninist.” It’s an apt description because, though a conservative, he...
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...
Are Rabbis Right to Skip Trump Phone Call?
JNS.org - There probably has never been an easier path to consensus for the three major non-Orthodox rabbinic associations. The decision of the Central Conference of American...
Is Trump Being Played by the Palestinians?
JNS.org - US President Donald Trump’s optimism about Middle East peace might be justified. Perhaps Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’ pledge that he will be a...
The Palestinians Don’t Want a Mandela, They Want Another Arafat
JNS.org - Palestinian internal politics and liberal hostility to Israel came together at the New York Times this month. The newspaper provoked a firestorm of criticism...
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...
Presbyterianism Unsettled
The bureaucrats in Louisville who run the day-to-day operations of the Presbyterian Church (USA) are looking more and more dishonest and stupid with each passing...
Netanyahu Calls Re-Election ‘Vote of Confidence’ in Obama’s Leadership
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. President Barack Obama in a phone conversation that his re-election was "a vote of confidence" in his leadership,...
The Crisis of the Obama-Israeli Alliance
When President Obama took office in January 2009, no secret was made of the fact that his guiding philosophy in foreign affairs was to shift...
‘Forward’ Cartoon Mocks Zionism Through Anne Frank DNA Experiment
The Forward newspaper on Oct. 29 published a Halloween cartoon by Eli Valley that the newspaper said "takes aim at a Zionist science experiment gone hideously...
Back to the Future on Iran
The latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should have raised alarms throughout the West about the progress being made by Iran toward...
German Circumcision Ban Shows Jew-Hatred Back in Fashion
When a court in Cologne, Germany ruled in June that circumcision should henceforth be considered illegal, those who are tasked with raising the alarm about...









