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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.

The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting shocked the Jewish world, but it’s not clear that it clarified anyone’s thinking about the threat of anti-Semitism.
The campaign to isolate Israel and its international endeavors has been an epic failure, but efforts to isolate pro-Israel U.S. Jews and to mainstream anti-Semitism continue.
The lack of a credible alternative leader or strategy for dealing with security threats means that the prime minister is still favored for re-election.
The effort to treat the presidential daughter and son-in-law as unwelcome in the American Jewish community deepens the partisan divide in a way that undermines Jewish values.
A Minnesota congresswoman-elect’s embrace of anti-Jewish hate creates a dilemma for her party’s supporters and for the organized Jewish community.
Why a country that never enforces the death penalty is considering a law to make it easier to execute terrorists.
There’s only one serious argument to be had about gun control, but broaching it demonstrates a cultural divide that can’t seem to be bridged.
The prime minister’s refusal to seek a final reckoning with Hamas generated criticism. But his decision to avoid war was sound policy.
The latest clash with Hamas shows just how irrelevant the ongoing effort to force more Israeli territorial withdrawals is to the reality the Jewish state faces.
If Western Europe understands the value of the Western alliance and Trump doesn’t, why are they prioritizing their profits over the need to confront Iran?
Netanyahu’s visit to Oman was symbolic of Israel’s normalization in the Arab world, even as anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are becoming normalized in the West.
It’s possible to be a nationalist and oppose globalists without being an anti-Semite, but it’s unsurprising that confusion about this leads to accusations of racism.