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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.

Trump’s critics prefer to attack him, rather than acknowledge that he was right to withdraw from a Human Rights Council that engages in anti-Semitic bias against Israel.
Emotional responses to separating parents and children at the border provide a textbook case of how partisans distort issues while evading moral responsibility.
The world body’s routine hypocrisy and prejudice—this time about attacks from Gaza—normalizes hate.
The only argument worth having now is between Zionists of all stripes—liberals as well as conservatives—and those who oppose the Jewish state’s existence.
An anti-Zionist group’s effort to use Jewish camps to undermine support for Israel poses a difficult challenge for a key American Jewish institution.
If a growing number of American Jews don’t see Israelis as part of their family, don’t blame Trump or Netanyahu.
Presidential contender’s videos boost Hamas terror organization and the Palestinian “right of return.”
Yossi Klein Halevi’s “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor” is more important reading for American Jews than its intended audience.
Despite soccer headlines, the Philadelphia Orchestra’s tour of Israel gave a textbook example of how to defeat those who seek to intimidate friends of the Jewish state.
How Obama’s lies about breaking sanctions helped Iran prepare for a bomb . . . and why Trump must not make the same mistake
Opposition from Jewish groups to a Supreme Court decision defending the rights of a believer is a discouraging retreat from principle.
A push by an anti-Zionist group to undermine support for Israel isn’t about being even-handed.