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Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS. He can be followed on Twitter, @jonathans_tobin.
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The elected congresswoman’s Jewish possible ancestors shouldn’t be a problem for anyone. But the idea that her leftist stands are somehow authentically Jewish is troubling.
Jewish foes of Israel want to redefine Jew-hatred in order to give anti-Zionists a pass. Decent people on the left and the right shouldn’t let them get away with it.
A “New York Times” column misunderstands the nature of the conflict the Festival of Lights commemorates.
The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting shocked the Jewish world, but it’s not clear that it clarified anyone’s thinking about the threat of anti-Semitism
Why a country that never enforces the death penalty is considering a law to make it easier to execute terrorists.
The prime minister’s refusal to seek a final reckoning with Hamas generated criticism. But his decision to avoid war was sound policy.
Radical freshmen in the House will make noise while veterans preserve the alliance.
Ben & Jerry’s decision to fund a group whose leaders endorse Louis Farrakhan throws zero tolerance for hate out the window.
How an out-of-context comment from Israel’s chief rabbi about a Pittsburgh synagogue doesn’t need to widen the Israel-Diaspora divide.
Scholar Ruth Wisse wrote, that anti-Semitism is the most successful ideology of the 20th century—a virus that morphed from fascism to Nazism to communism and then Islamism. The continuation of this trend in the 21st century has nothing to do with Trump, and everything to do with the fact that Jews remain a convenient scapegoat for extremists of all political and religious stripes.
Criticizing George Soros doesn’t necessarily make you a Jew-hater.
American Jews don’t know much about Benny Gantz, but they should acknowledge the collapse of the Israeli left.
The resignation of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley took the political world by surprise, but it’s likely that no one is more disappointed than supporters of Israel.
The president championed “patriotism” over “globalism” at the United Nations. Is that good for the Jews or freedom?
A trend towards High Holiday sermons about Trump or Netanyahu could set the tone for more political strife, even as a sense of Jewish peoplehood declines.
Even in this era of cynicism, honoring heroism and national service remains essential. Without it, the ideas that bolster America and Israel suffer.
The late Kofi Annan was personally respected, but his failures as U.N. Secretary-General explain why the institution remains a sad farce.
If support for the Jewish state is declining, it may have more to do with American Jews than the Israelis they claim to deplore.
The Kotel rock was a case of a stone meeting gravity. But it was also used as an excuse for Jewish score-settling while allowing the Palestinians to explain again why peace is not in sight.
If the Trump administration is waving the white flag on its hopes for a fix to Gaza and an Israel-Palestinian peace plan, it’s a sign of realism, not amateurism.
Anger about the new nation-state law is misplaced. Concern over the rabbinate flexing its muscles and contempt for the Diaspora is not.
Why the Knesset’s efforts to define the Jewish state should be influenced by Diaspora objections.
Partisans will disagree about Brett Kavanaugh, but those panicking about the end of democracy need to step back from the brink.
While the media makes a fuss over Prince William’s visit to Israel, the comings and goings of the controversial presidential son-in-law are far more important.
The passing of an erudite commentator is particularly painful not just because of his brilliance, but because his rational approach to politics and thought has gone out of fashion.
Trump’s critics prefer to attack him, rather than acknowledge that he was right to withdraw from a Human Rights Council that engages in anti-Semitic bias against Israel.
An anti-Zionist group’s effort to use Jewish camps to undermine support for Israel poses a difficult challenge for a key American Jewish institution.
Presidential contender’s videos boost Hamas terror organization and the Palestinian “right of return.”
Opposition from Jewish groups to a Supreme Court decision defending the rights of a believer is a discouraging retreat from principle.
A new survey of Israeli Jews shows strong feelings of solidarity with the Diaspora, but little interest in listening to the views of American Jews. It should cause soul-searching in both communities.
Exploiting the death of a Palestinian infant shows the depths to which anti-Israel propaganda has sunk and how effective such immoral arguments can be.in defending human rights.
Withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal raised tensions, but it’s Iran that’s more isolated and weaker now, not Israel.
Pres. Donald Trump’s Iran-deal decision was a first, necessary step to reverse his predecessor’s dangerous appeasement policy that empowered a rogue nation.
A partisan tilt doesn’t grant the group a pass from left-wingers—and their corporate stooges—out to marginalize mainstream Jews.
Three years after Netanyahu was panned for telling Congress the truth about the Iran nuclear deal, the media cheered French Pres. Emmanuel Macron for doing the opposite.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s comparison of a hypothetical travel ban on Israel to one on real terrorist hotbeds explains what’s wrong with the critique of Trump.
The actress’s snub isn’t a victory for BDS or the Israeli prime minister’s political foes, but it does show how Netanyahu’s image problem has undermined one of his strengths.
The focus on Israel’s problems often obscures the astonishing nature of a historic turnabout for the Jewish people.
The president’s support for Israel on Gaza could turn into an issue for the “resistance,” even if most Americans approve of his stance.
Even though the Palestinian “March of Return” was far from peaceful, Israel’s critics still absolve Hamas.
If the goal is two states, then why do the Palestinians keep talking about “return?”
Choosing John Bolton as his national security advisor gives the president the foreign-policy team members he needs. But will he listen to them?
If Democrats aren’t as comfortable supporting the pro-Israel lobby, it’s not because it has shifted to the right. It’s because some on the left have either have forgotten its purpose or are no longer interested.
The anti-Trump resistance is in bed with Jew-haters and anti-Zionists. Why liberals need to draw a line in the sand.
Instead of waiting, the U.S. embassy is moving to Jerusalem in May. This offers a crucial lesson about the Middle East that needs to be learned.
The Trump administration’s new Middle East peace plan will be dead on arrival. Should they try anyway?
Netanyahu’s Munich speech in which he gives Iran a warning was denounced as a provocation. But the real alert is to a Trump administration still asleep at the wheel on Syria.
What exactly are American celebrities endorsing with the embrace of Palestinian teen terror supporter Ahed Tamimi?
When Lori Alhadeff screamed at a camera from CNN and demanded that President Trump, “Please do something, do something, action, we need it now,” Americans instinctively sympathized with the grieving parent.
Palestinians, African migrants and even Dreamers have everyone’s sympathy. Meanwhile, one of the great humanitarian crises of the century is unfolding in Syria, and the world just yawns.
Israel’s plan to deport illegal infiltrators hit a nerve in America where Jews sacralized the immigrant experience. The analogies to Jewish refugees and the Holocaust are resonating with American Jews.
The notion that Arab states can be relied upon to safeguard Israel’s security in a theoretical peace deal is a a pipe dream. Far from the Arabs protecting Israel, the reality is that Israel protects them.
The Z Street case must be viewed in the context of what came to be known as the IRS scandal. During the first term of the Obama administration, the IRS began subjecting conservative groups that applied for nonprofit status as education organizations to the sort of special scrutiny not applied to liberal groups.
The Pew Research Center’s latest poll about American attitudes toward Israel set off alarms, and not without reason. The survey showed the partisan gap with respect to Israel to be widening.
That vast numbers of Americans are inspired by the Bible to support Jewish rights in their ancient homeland isn’t so much a function of the left-right conflict as it is an integral part of America’s political culture
Using the term “occupied territories” or “West Bank" (favored by US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman) is part of a high-stakes battle to determine the outcome of the debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
If Abbas were sincere about pursuing a two-state solution, he would have treated Trump’s carefully worded statement as a jumping-off point for an effort to persuade the US to endorse a Palestinian capital in part of Jerusalem, strengthening his position in negotiations that Trump hoped to restart.
It’s entirely possible that Trump is either being guided to or is stumbling along a path that could be saner than the supposedly safer course steered by his predecessors on Jerusalem.
The only two things that seem certain about Pres. Trump's Middle East soon-to-be revealed peace plan are it is likely to be acceptable to Saudi Arabia--and that it will have zero chance of success.
On campuses, those who speak up for the Jewish state are often the ones being shut up. The atmosphere at many, if not most institutions of higher learning is one of intense hostility to pro-Israel advocates
While liberal consensus deems Netanyahu a problem, do they ask WHY he was elected prime minister 4 times. The answer is simple: There exists a broad consensus within Israeli society contradicting the assumptions held by most American Jews
Rather than aiding bigotry, Trump is standing up for a principle that Jews ought to be defending: Religious liberty
Those who want to besmirch Israel’s supporters as undermining U.S. interests without being rightly labeled as anti-Semites are fooling no one.
It is worth wondering if the battles over the anthem are more the natural outcome of a popular culture that no longer teaches Western values or requires either a draft or any kind of national service.
Today, many synagogues are increasingly blurring the line between their activities and politics, rabbis must ponder just how far they want to go in either venting their own opinions or pandering to the prejudices of their audiences.
the idea that a growing demographic in which Jewish traditions, law and faith is absent can sustain support for Israel is laughable.
While Charlottesville has refocused us on neo-Nazis, the growing forces of the anti-Semitic left may be a far more potent contemporary threat
According to Gorka, “The liberal elements of the American Jewish population, has basically become anti-Israeli. It’s the greatest, saddest paradox.” It was this same group that was his undoing
For rabbinic groups to place Trump in what amounts to the Orthodox custom of cherem (shunning) is to assert that their synagogues are part of a political movement. It is nothing less than a declaration of war on a sitting president
If you think Dennis Prager must be boycotted or believe Morton Klein is as much of a threat to American Jewry as Islamist terrorists, then don’t blame Trump for how bad things have gotten.
The PA has created a set of financial incentives that not only gives Palestinians a reason to commit terror, but convinces them that only by committing a truly serious offense involving bloodshed will they ensure their families are provided with enough to live comfortably.
The Temple Mount wasn’t about metal detectors, nor a variation on the usual theme sounded from Israel’s critics about the infringement of Palestinian rights. It’s about something much bigger: the right of Jews to be in Jerusalem.
To Jew-haters, any inconsistency is permissible. What makes this hard for many Jews to understand is that it doesn’t conform to their worldview, in which enemies are on the right and allies are on the left.
Netanyahu did it. It’s not because he doesn’t care about the diaspora. Rather, it’s a result of a cynical political struggle in which one side has power and the other does not
Whether one regards Ivanka as a role model or a false front for a president you consider unfit for office, Jewish groups using her religion or her role as the most influential woman in the WH against her on this issue is unfortunate.
This past Sunday night, the play "Oslo" won the Tony Award for Best Play. Does a Broadway that gets this history so terribly wrong matter?
The “Trump bump” has produced a surge in attendance and membership at liberal synagogues, where a social justice agenda rules and rabbis are outspoken critics of the president.
If Trump really believes the missing ingredient for peace has been a master real estate dealmaker, he’s wrong. But his willingness to pound the table at Abbas is nevertheless significant.
Of late, Trump has been listening to his more mainstream advisers, moderating his views on NATO, Russia, the Syrian conflict and, likely, moving the embassy to Jerusalem
Getting rid of an FBI director who had lost his credibility was going to generate conspiracy theories no matter what.
Barghouti is currently leading a hunger strike by Palestinian security prisoners in Israel jails. But the real motive for this gesture is promoting Barghouti’s desire to replace the 81-year-old Abbas.
Lapid said negotiations with the Palestinians would need to be conducted “in very slow stages.” How slow does he envision the process? “15-20 years, the main element of which is security arrangements”
Splitting of the Red Sea aside, THIS was the big news over Pesach
JVP's goal is not to change Israel’s policies or its borders, but to undermine support for its right to exist as the one Jewish state on the planet, and to demonize its supporters.
There’s little doubt that Americans are more deeply divided than they’ve been in living memory as traditional left-right debates have stopped being exchanges of ideas and become screaming matches
{Originally posted to the JNS website} One of the cornerstones of Jewish community relations work is building bridges to other religious and ethnic communities. The principle behind these efforts is sound. We know that our safety as a minority group is dependent on respect for the rights of others. Dialogue with different peoples and faiths […]
It is a little ironic, considering the president's initial reluctance to address the issue, Trump has significantly raised awareness about anti-Semitism.
No matter how much more sensitive to Israel's security needs Trump's White House may be in comparison to his predecessor, there is no excuse for writing Jews out of the Holocaust
This is a moment when those who have been in denial about the harm the president has done to the U.S.-Israel alliance should admit their mistake.
What many liberals haven’t considered is that the real fluke wasn't Trump winning in 2016 but may turn out to have been Obama’s 2008 and 2012 victories.
Can Trump actually alter longstanding US policy by recognizing at least the partial sovereignty of Israel over Jerusalem, a change the foreign policy establishment has told us would be cataclysmic?
Kerry let loose with a harangue putting the blame for the lack of Mid East peace on Israel and gave the PA and its undemocratic ruler, Mahmoud Abbas, a pass for their refusal to negotiate seriously
If Obama chooses to use his post-presidency to pursue his vendetta against Netanyahu and to push for pressure on Israel, he could be almost as much a problem for Israel out of office as he was in it
No matter your presidential preference Comey’s “never mind” letter to Congress about the discovery of more emails on Weiner’s computer casts doubt on his judgment and the probity of the investigation
A gov't allowed to play fast and loose with the basic rules of fairness to disadvantage conservatives or friends of Israel could easily be employed by different people to discriminate against others.
The Palestinians view the conflict over the land to be a zero-sum game in which any trace of Jewish ties must be erased in order to justify their continued struggle to eliminate modern Israel.
When it comes to Israel, we know the majority of American Jews are not one-issue voters. But the assumption is that Israelis view American elections solely through the prism of their own security
The debate will be remembered for discussing both Trump and Bill Clinton’s sexual history as well as for the GOP candidate’s unprecedented threat to jail his opponent if he wins.
That many who condemned the impact of the death of outrage regarding Clinton are now willing to rationalize Trump’s egregious behavior makes their hypocrisy even worse than their liberal counterparts.
Not every moment was bad for Trump. But while Trump has prided himself on being a strong counter-puncher in debates this time the familiar routine fell flat.
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