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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 attempt to foist Liberated Ethnic Studies on California public schools illustrates the connection between woke political indoctrination and anti-Semitism.
Despite the impulse to blame Netanyahu and the usual targets of left-wing scorn, the real answer is the growing popularity of theories like intersectionality that sanction anti-Semitism.
Jewish groups continue to support “sensible” restrictions after every mass shooting. But, like liberal politicians, they avoid debating the real issue and why Americans aren’t giving up their guns.
Two years after the moral panic set off by the death of George Floyd, American Jews need to confront the way the BLM movement and the ideologies that underpin it enable hatred of Jews.
The Vermont Socialist and allies like AOC are the main obstacles to the pro-Israel organization’s efforts to stop the left’s anti-Israel campaign to transform the Democratic Party.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s proposed resolution reminds us that anti-Zionist extremism and the denial of Jewish rights is what has left descendants of 1948 refugees in limbo and made peace impossible.
So far, the Biden administration has resisted the temptation to take it off the list of terror groups. But left-wing Jews think they can persuade the president to relent.
The suspect in the latest mass shooting horror was a racist and anti-Semite. When partisans use this as fodder for political gamesmanship, it hurts everyone and doesn’t stop the violence.
Refusing to bow down to the idols of the popular culture of the day is an essential part of standing up against Israel’s foes.
A petition opposing BDS at Harvard told us as much about the strength of intersectional ideology and how woke politics silences its critics, as it did about the stand of the signers.
With the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry set to smear Israel as an “apartheid state,” the Jewish state’s supporters need to realize that this threat is more than mere talk.
The ADL’s work with PayPal may have led to the demonetizing of certain anti-Israel publications—something that is anti-democratic.