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Points of view from across the Jewish world

Jonathan S. Tobin
Jonathan S. Tobin
Editor-in-Chief
Ruthie Blum
Senior Contributing Editor
Fiamma Nirenstein
Fiamma Nirenstein
Senior Contributing Editor
Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips
Senior Contributor
From left: Right-wing political commentator Tucker Carlson, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.); Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump; Republican vice presidential candidate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio); and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, July 15, 2024. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
Editor-in-Chief
Qatar’s stooges want to delegitimize pro-Israel voices critical of Vance
“The Daily Caller,” founded by Doha homeowner Tucker Carlson, is trying to smear JNS for highlighting the troubling connection between his Islamist allies and the veep.
August 31, 2026 09:45 PM
Jonathan S. Tobin
Labor Party leader Yair Golan following the approval of the merger agreement with the far-left Meretz Party, at a party conference in Tel Aviv, July 12, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Jingle hell
The score of Yair Golan’s latest campaign clip is music that freed hostage Rom Braslavski’s terrorist captors in Gaza listened to as regularly as they tortured him.
August 21, 2026 10:30 AM
Ruthie Blum
Marco Carrai. Credit: Courtesy.
Senior Contributing Editor
When Palestinianism becomes a political weapon
The persecution of Israel’s honorary consul in my Florence shows how the Palestinian cause can be used to mobilize voters and punish those who stand with Israel.
August 29, 2026 01:16 PM
Fiamma Nirenstein
Andy Burnham
Senior Contributor
Britain’s moral depravity
The campaign against the Israeli “settlers” amounts to racist ethnic cleansing.
August 27, 2026 03:30 PM
Melanie Phillips
Ben Cohen. Credit: Courtesy.
Ben Cohen
Featured Columnist
Israeli journalist Amit Segal in Tel Aviv, Sept. 15, 2024. Photo by Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90.
Amit Segal
Guest Columnist
Benjamin Kerstein. Credit: Courtesy.
Benjamin Kerstein
Featured Columnist
Harvard Medical School
Antisemitism
Don’t reward your abuser
Can you imagine any other minority group being told that their outrage is “pretext”?
Sept. 1, 2026
William Choslovsky
Alienation, Depression, Loneliness
American Jews
The shrinking Jewish middle
Conservative Judaism is declining precisely when it ought to be growing.
Sept. 1, 2026
Steve Rosenberg
Dov Maimon
Opinion
Finland and the Israel paradox
Dov Maimon
Shimon Refaeli. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Sometimes, the path to peace runs through victory
Shimon Refaeli
Steve Rosenberg. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The shrinking Jewish middle
Steve Rosenberg
Jonathan S. Greenwald
Opinion
The McCarran-Walter Act and the questions it raised
Jonathan S. Greenwald
William Choslovsky. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Don’t reward your abuser
William Choslovsky
Chaskel Bennett
Opinion
The far-left and far-right agree on the Jews
Chaskel Bennett
Elham Sataki. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Beyond 1979: Tehran, Jerusalem and the battle for a New Middle East
Elham Sataki
Moshe R. Manheim. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Humiliation as a tool of war
Moshe R. Manheim
Efrat Last. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Back to school: From national blindness to national purpose
Efrat Last
Israeli journalist Amit Segal in Tel Aviv, Sept. 15, 2024. Photo by Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90.
Opinion
The White House prepares a pre-election victory image for Netanyahu
Amit Segal