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Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS “Think Twice” podcast, both the weekly video program and the “Jonathan Tobin Daily” program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.

With the United States refusing to punish China for genocide of the Uyghurs, it’s time for religious groups and others who purport to care to take a meaningful stand against tyranny.
The administration is already floating new concessions while the Iranians are flouting international nuclear monitors. Washington has lost the game before it started, and Israel is clearly on its own.
The U.S. Constitution isn’t a blueprint for a purely secular country. But it guarantees that all creeds are welcome and that the nation has no state religion. Those who would change that endanger everyone’s rights.
Activist Elana Fishbein of No Left Turn in Education tells it like it is on learning in the second decade of the 21st century.
A U.S. abstention on a resolution supporting the UNRWA refugee agency that fuels Palestinian demands for a “right of return” demonstrates the administration’s misunderstanding of why the conflict continues.
Bari Weiss and other independent thinkers are right in thinking that it’s time for a new approach to college. But the war on wokeism will require more than just advocacy for open discourse.
The government’s gift to the left-wing lobby was a futile attempt to buy goodwill from Joe Biden; boosting a group that exists to bash the Jewish state may come back to bite the prime minister.
The ADL has acknowledged that Jew-hatred is on the rise on the left. But as long as it attacks CRT critics and supports media gaslighting about it, that stand is meaningless.
Have diversity and inclusion programs backfired for Jewish students at North American universities?
Nikki Haley’s demand that AIPAC snub Democrats who aren’t fully supportive of Israel won GOP applause. Still, efforts to preserve or revive what’s left of a shattered consensus must continue.
In the battle for political survival, anything goes. As the threat to Jerusalem goes unchallenged, the government OKs funding for Hamas while Netanyahu encourages thuggery at the Western Wall.
The latest spate of slanted articles in “The New York Times” is important because the writers and editors demonstrate how the shift in the culture has turned against Jews and Israel.