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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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Greenblatt re-positioning the ADL from a centrist position for pro-Israel activism to one openly opposing the democratically-elected government of Israel is a sea change of enormous importance.
With so much power residing in one individual, a president’s health, let alone illness, is no small matter.
Since 1967, Arab reconciliation with Israel has been frustrated by Palestinian rejectionism, a luxury Cairo and Riyadh can no longer afford because of the nuclear deal and rise of Islamist terrorism
Lawfare at its most litigious: Abbas and the Palestinian Authority have determined the best way to aid their people is to sue Britain over the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
What exactly does the bill that finally passed the Knesset do? The short answer to that is--not much
Obama made concessions allowing Iran to keep its nuclear infrastructure because he believed the regime wanted to “get right with the world.” The president’s trust was misplaced.
If Abbas were serious about peace, he'd accept Bibi's invitation to address the Knesset thereby completely changing the dynamic of the stalled peace process and Israeli public opinion
The pool of hypocrisy is deep at The New York Times when it comes to double standards against Jews, especially Observant Jews.
Bill Clinton’s experience with the Palestinians should be a cautionary tale to the next President.
Whenever one thinks the Palestinian-Israeli conflict can’t get worse, it generally does when negotiations are forced upon the principals.
Those who seek to deny to the Jewish people what they would not think of refusing any other people on earth is bias and the anti-Semitism.
On the surface, the legal case brought against the BDS movement sounds like a nuisance suit but a closer look at the effort shows that this legal attack on the BDS movement is on solid ground.
Sanders is the ONLY presidential candidate to decline an invitation to address the AIPAC conference.
"That Trump was lying isn't in question. The question is why he would lie about something like this"
Will Trump’s latest outrageous statement undo his bid for the Republican presidential nomination?
Hillary should THANK Trump; By dominating the news he's overshadowed the implosion of her campaign
Obama thought he could replace the Saudis with Iran as the new ME lynchpin without paying a price
The abuse following publication proved a cautionary tale: no one followed in Peters’s footsteps
Anti-Semitism has returned to the mainstream of European society and Israel has become its focus.
One of the key talking points by apologists for Hamas in the current conflict is that it isn’t fair that Israelis under fire have bomb shelters while Palestinians in Gaza don’t have any. Among other factors, the lack of shelters accounts in part for the differences in casualty figures between the two peoples. But somehow […]
How will all this end? Hamas seems to think it will be Netanyahu who will blink first.
Nothing short of a stroke that will decapitate the leadership of this group will convince the Arabs that Hamas has made a mistake.
Z STREET will have the ability to compel IRS officials to testify as to their practices and produce all records.
"Death of Klinghoffer" opera frames the issue as Israel’s existence being the real crime.
Palestinian leaders claim the kidnapping is an Israeli hoax or the act of Jewish criminals rather than terrorists.
If Peres has outlasted some of his critics and is still considered popular, he cannot outrun history.
Nothing short of a turn to open fascism can evict Muslim immigrants from Europe.
A federal judge just issued the first substantive ruling in a challenge to the IRS’s pose of political neutrality.
Arab anger over the Pope's visit to Mt. Herzl reveals their problem is the existence of a Jewish State.
it’s clear that Israel is just the latest, albeit a vicious, excuse for Jew hatred.
Palestinian Arab Government corruption makes normal economic development virtually impossible.
The Clinton administration whitewashed Yasir Arafat and the PA then; Team Obama now whitewashes Abbas.
Iran seems closer to its nuclear goal today than it did before Obama’s interim capitulation.
J Street has no interest in working with rivals or allies, its purpose is the defeat of consensus.
Rather than pushing the parties toward an agreement, Kerry has sabotaged the process.
To admit Israel is a Jewish State would undo Arabs' claimed victimhood and plans to eliminate Israel.
When it became known in May 2008 that Malley had met with Hamas terrorists, the Obama campaign severed ties with him.
Friedman has been writing the same column for decades in which he asks Israelis whether they will leave the "West Bank."
Issuing a statement dredging up Wildstein’s life, Christie’s office raised as many questions as it answered.
No matter how wrong Israel’s leaders may think their American counterparts are, little good comes from public spats.
Lieberman has repeatedly dismissed the Palestinian Authority as not being a peace partner.
This is a political version of replacement theology.
Like Chamberlain, Obama sued the ayatollahs for peace, insisting the only alternative to appeasement is war.
In Blumenthal’s world, anyone who believes in the Jews’ right to a state even in a tiny slice of their ancient homeland is a fascist or a Nazi.
As frustrating as it may be for Israel’s critics, support for Zionism is baked into the DNA of American politics.
Netanyahu’s speech was far from the denunciation of the peace process that some of his detractors are depicting.
Iran’s real boss, Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was wise to back Rouhani’s play.
The professor claims Israel’s collapse will lead to an alliance between secular Palestinians and post-Zionist Jews and others to build a secular democracy.
J Street is at odds with the man they once served as his main Jewish cheerleaders.
Though Ryan may prefer to stay in the House rather than put himself through the agony of a presidential candidacy,his numbers make his fans salivate about the possibility of his running.
Since a majority of Palestinians cannot envision mutual recognition even after all issues are resolved and they get a state, they see it as merely a pause before the conflict would begin anew.
Dermer is seen by the left as the worst of all possible creatures: a “right-wing neocon with close ties to the Bush family.”
John Kerry’s effort to revive the Middle East peace process has posed an interesting challenge to the Palestinians.
Nearly 13 years ago, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak journeyed to Camp David to end the conflict with the Palestinians. With the approval of President Clinton, he offered Yasir Arafat an independent Palestinian state in almost all of the West Bank, Gaza and in part of Jerusalem. Arafat said no.
Freedom House recently released its annual report on press freedom throughout the world at an event sponsored by the Newseum in Washington. But along with the usual and appropriate condemnations of dictatorships and totalitarian states, the group decided to slam the one democracy in the Middle East as well as one of the few states in the region where press freedom actually exists: Israel.
We don’t normally pay much attention to what is published in Tikkun magazine, let alone what its editor Michael Lerner disseminates through his e-mail list. But occasionally Lerner’s tirades shine a light on the positions of the far left that illustrate exactly where some of Israel’s critics stand in a way that makes clear how they have made common cause with those who seek the Jewish state’s destruction.
The Al Jazeera television network has become a dominant force in Middle East communications as well as an expanding influence elsewhere, but up until now it has had trouble breaking through in the United States with a little watched English channel that is not widely available.
Israelis know that neither Fatah in the West Bank nor Hamas in Gaza will ever recognize Israel’s legitimacy no matter where its borders are drawn
The conventional wisdom about the Israeli government’s decision to allow new building projects in Jerusalem in the E1 area between the city and the Ma’ale Adumim suburb is that it was a blunder.
For most of the past two years, if not the past four, many conservatives and Republicans assumed that Barack Obama could not be reelected. A poor economy, an unpopular liberal agenda shoved down the throat of the country, and a largely uninspiring presidential leadership style combined to create a widespread belief on the right that the 2012 election would be a lay-up for them.
The morning after last week’s vice presidential debate, Democrats were delighted. Vice President Joe Biden’s obnoxious display was exactly what was needed to cheer them up after a week of morose speculation about why President Obama was so passive and uninspired during the first presidential debate with Mitt Romney.
Media spin helped turn his convention into a hit and the Libya disaster, combined with Romney’s “47 percent” gaffe, has seemed to produce a genuine surge for the president in the past few weeks. Conservatives may dispute the accuracy of polls that may be based on samples skewed to the Democrats or based on expectations of a repeat of the “hope and change” turnout figures of 2008. But after months of the race being seen as a dead heat, there’s little doubt Obama is ahead right now. However, the glee on the left contains within it the possibility of a reversal.
So while some of us were celebrating the Jewish New Year and taking the last couple of days off from politics, it appears a video has more or less decided the election. That’s the assumption of much of the mainstream media about the impact of the release of the video of Mitt Romney speaking back in May at a private fundraiser about the 47 percent of the country that doesn’t pay taxes. They think this means it’s time to put a fork in the Republican candidate.
President Obama may be enjoying a slight, if likely temporary, bounce in the polls this week. But one of the surveys showing him with a lead in a tight race over Mitt Romney also provides a breakdown of the data that confirms predictions that he is losing up to a quarter of the Jewish votes he got in 2008.
White House spokesman Jay Carney recently reiterated the administration’s mantra about Iran, saying there was still “time and space” for a diplomatic solution to be found to resolve the impasse over its nuclear threat.
Sunday's attack on Jewish worshippers at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus needs to be understood as something more significant than just another unfortunate instance of violence between Jews and Arabs. It is nothing less than a warning of what will happen once Palestinians achieve full sovereignty, as the Obama administration appears to be demanding, over all of the West Bank.
The Washington Post trod over some familiar territory this past weekend with a 7,000-word retrospective on the Obama administration’s Middle East peace process misadventures.
The victory of the Zionist movement was won despite long odds, desperate hardships and grievous costs in blood. The men and women who battled those odds did so in the face of the conventional wisdom of their day that told them they had no chance of forcing the British Empire to make good on its promise to create a National Home for the Jews or to defeat an Arab and Muslim world determined to crush the newborn state of Israel. They needed not only courage but also an iron will and the patience to bear great suffering while never losing sight of their goal.
A poll conducted by the liberal Workmen’s Circle and published last week should reassure liberals that their views still predominate in the Jewish community, but it provided little comfort to those hoping President Obama can come anywhere near his 2008 share of the Jewish vote.
We’ve been hearing a lot from Jewish Democrats and the administration itself that Barack Obama is the best friend Israel has ever had or, as in Joe Biden’s fractured fairy tale version of history, “has done more for Israel’s security than any president since Harry Truman” – a president who actually did nothing for Israel’s security.
There is no one definition of the term “pro-Israel.” It does not require anyone to be a cheerleader for Netanyahu or any other Israeli leader or party. But there are some things one cannot do and still claim to be within the pro-Israel camp. One of them is to adopt rhetoric that apes the efforts of Israel-haters to delegitimize supporters of Israel and which adopts the classic themes of anti-Semitism.
Incoming New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren has been exhibiting not only questionable judgment but also an overt bias against Israel even before she’s landed in the country.
In recent months a new theme has replaced the media’s past obsession with Israel’s alleged mistreatment of the Palestinians.
