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Jonathan S. Tobin

Jonathan S. Tobin

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.

John Kerry Iran Deal
From the Editor-in-Chief
Don’t blame Biden’s appeasement policy on Trump
With the Iran nuclear deal about to be restored, administration apologists claim that the problem is the former president’s fault. But the “experts” that blast him are wrong.
Feb. 9, 2022
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The Westchester Reform Temple. Source: Facebook/Westchester Reform Temple.
From the Editor-in-Chief
Jewish institutions shouldn’t be hiring anti-Semites
The depiction of a teacher who was fired by a synagogue for flaunting her anti-Zionism as a martyr to free speech illustrates the mainstreaming of hatred for Israel.
Feb. 8, 2022
Jonathan S. Tobin
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics emblem at Tiananmen Square in China's capital on Jan. 29,2022. Credit: Calvin86/Shutterstock.
From the Editor-in-Chief
The ‘genocide Olympics’ gives the lie to human-rights rhetoric
The world is still tuning into NBC’s television show glorifying the Communist regime. Meanwhile, the United Nations and most human-rights groups concentrate their fire on democratic Israel.
Feb. 7, 2022
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ADL Whoopi Goldberg
From the Editor-in-Chief
The ADL’s disturbing obsession with race
The problem isn’t that the person they hired to do outreach was a left-wing Twitter troll. It’s that ADL accepted intersectional ideology about racism and is dividing Jews along racial lines.
Feb. 4, 2022
Jonathan S. Tobin
JNS TV
Barry Shrage: ‘Anti-Racism, CRT Don’t Represent Jewish Vision of a Better World’ | ‘Top Story’
Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the banning of the Holocaust graphic novel “Maus” and the importance of not confusing censoring books with the need to fight critical race theory indoctrination.
Feb. 3, 2022
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan meets with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat during the U.N. Racism World Conference in Durban in 2001. Credit: U.N. Photo.
From the Editor-in-Chief
Why the Amnesty ‘apartheid’ smear of Israel can’t be ignored
The anti-Semitic lies spewed by leftist “human-rights” groups are absurd. But this attack is part of a dangerous U.N. campaign against Zionism whose goal is to isolate the Jewish state.
Feb. 2, 2022
Jonathan S. Tobin
JNS TV
Doron Spielman: ‘No One as Indigenous on Planet as Jews to Jerusalem’ | ‘Top Story,’ Ep. 34
Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin offers an analysis of the idea that Jews are on stolen land, talking with City of David’s Doron Spielman.
Feb. 1, 2022
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A display of the book “Maus” by Art Spiegelman. Source: Flickr/ActuaLitté.
From the Editor-in-Chief
Don’t confuse book-banning with opposition to woke indoctrination
A Tennessee school board’s taking “Maus” from classrooms made it the target of national scorn. But attempts to link their foolish decision to opposition to critical race theory are misleading.
Jan. 31, 2022
Jonathan S. Tobin
U.S. President Joe Biden announcing the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Source: Screenshot.
From the Editor-in-Chief
The problem with affirmative-action justice
As the idea of a “Jewish seat” once made clear, seeking diversity on the Supreme Court is defensible. But a process that is only about race and gender creates more problems than solutions.
Jan. 28, 2022
Jonathan S. Tobin
A detailed view of the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony “75 Years After Auschwitz-Holocaust Education and Remembrance for Global Justice” on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. Credit: U.N. Photo/Manuel Elías.
From the Editor-in-Chief
The Holocaust Remembrance Day rule that proves everyone loves dead Jews
The growing volume of lip service paid by the world to the memory of the Six Million is neatly matched by the complacence about or support for contemporary Jew-hatred.
Jan. 26, 2022
Jonathan S. Tobin
JNS TV
Alan Dershowitz: ‘Jewish Leadership Beneath Contempt in Regards to Fairness’ | ‘Top Story,’ Ep. 33
JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin gives his take on the aftermath of the hostage situation at Congregation Beth Israel in Texas, and talks with legal expert and professor Alan Dershowitz.
Jan. 25, 2022
Jonathan S. Tobin
Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II, the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA). Source: Facebook.
From the Editor-in-Chief
A timely reminder of what groups enable anti-Semitism
Many liberal Jews consider evangelicals a threat while giving a pass to liberal Protestants, despite the Presbyterian Church USA’s latest smear of Israel as practicing the “enslavement” of Palestinians.
Jan. 24, 2022
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