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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.

A magazine conference not only failed to address examples of the media spreading lies, it gave a platform to those who spread it, including former President Barack Obama.
Prior to 1948, debates about a Jewish state were common. Today, as a Chicago synagogue proclaims its hostility to Zionism, it means siding with those slaughtering Israelis.
“Top Story” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Ruthie Blum, Ep. 43
New York State’s attorney general is backing CAIR’s efforts to silence a group that monitors Islamic extremism. Labeling a watchdog as a hate group threatens all who oppose Jew-hatred.
Efforts to reform a body that traffics in anti-Semitism won’t work as long as tyrannies like China and Cuba remain members. The United States should leave and defund it, not try to fix it.
Those who decry Hungary’s Orbán for his party’s past while cheering on Ukrainian nationalism are being inconsistent. It illustrates fallacies about defending both Jews and democracy.
If the terror surge spreads elsewhere, the reason will be the normalization of anti-Israel hate and complacency about Islamist radicalism, not Jews bearing the burden of “white privilege.”
“Top Story” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Ben Weingarten, Ep. 42
The Biden administration tried to sabotage an Israeli-Arab summit by raising the Palestinian issue. It shouldn’t use terrorism as an excuse to resurrect the failed policies of the past.
AIPAC shouldn’t be taking heat for a former leader’s opposition to a Jewish House member who is a bitter opponent of Israeli policies and boasts of his friendship with anti-Semites.
The meeting in the Negev with officials from the Arab world is historic. But while helpful, these new allies don’t solve the problem created by Biden’s appeasement of Iran.
A U.N. Human Rights Council report was just the latest example of how the world body weaponizes tropes of Jew-hatred against Israel. Yet the Biden administration won’t dump it.