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‘Top Story,’ Ep. 17: Anne Bayefsky: ‘Apartheid Label Could Succeed in Destroying Israel’

Law professor and human-rights activist Anne Bayefsky joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan S. Tobin to discuss the “apartheid” Israel lie, as well as the way the United Nations has helped promote anti-Semitism and delegitimization of Israel.

The two discuss how the 2001 U.N. Durban Conference on Racism became a vehicle for anti-Semitic activism and resurrecting the canard that Zionism is racism. They also talk about the United Nations has become a home base for efforts to demonize Israel, in addition to the way the Biden administration’s devotion to multilateralism is giving a pass to anti-Semitism within the world body.

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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.
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