Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org, Author at J-Wire

‘The New York Times’ blood libel against Israel should be mocked

Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:14:20 +0000

Those appalling Jews are at it again. In what at first glance might sound like a shocking story, first reported in Variety and The New York Times, and then spread around the world by Al Jazeera, two well-known Jewish people said something awful that supposedly warranted condemnation. Those appalling Jews are at it again. In […]

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Is Donald Trump still the tough-minded leader he claims to be?

Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:04:40 +0000

In the two months since U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to a ceasefire with Iran after initiating a joint offensive with Israel against the Islamist regime on Feb. 28, the whole world has been wondering what he is going to do next. He’s faced with a difficult choice. The president is under enormous pressure […]

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The four reasons why we can’t move on from a blood libel

Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:40:31 +0000

“The New York Times” and its enablers are counting on the public’s short attention span and the “suicidal empathy” of liberal Jews to bury Nicholas Kristof’s lie about rapist dogs in Israel. On May 11, “The New York Times” published Nicholas Kristof’s astonishing compendium of charges that the State of Israel is deliberately raping Palestinian […]

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Antizionists who condemn antisemitic crimes are gaslighting us

Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:57:55 +0000

Attempts to separate the movement to accomplish the genocide of half the world’s Jews in Israel from attacks on them elsewhere have zero credibility. Last week’s stabbing attack against two Jews in London’s Golders Green neighbourhood was just the latest instance of what even local police agreed was an “epidemic” of antisemitic crimes. It was just one […]

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Defeating Iran’s regime requires patience, but shouldn’t take ‘forever’

Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:50:17 +0000

Given enough time, a combination of economic and military pressure may be enough for Trump to topple the Islamist terrorists. The question is whether he has it. Americans don’t like war in general. But if it has to be done, it had better be quick. The joint U.S.-Israeli effort against Iran may only be two […]

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Political violence is a consequence of the politics of anathema

Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:12:54 +0000

The latest attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump demonstrates anew that, like the toleration of antisemitism, the demonization of opponents leads to the unthinkable. We’ve been through this so many times that perhaps it’s futile even to raise the possibility that the temperature of political discourse should be lowered. But after the third attempt to […]

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Iran hasn’t won, and America hasn’t lost … yet

Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:22:06 +0000

It’s not clear who is crowing the loudest about the meaning of the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran that President Donald Trump announced on April 8. Both Tehran and the president’s domestic opponents seem equally determined to declare that it means the Islamist regime has won. Their reasons for doing so […]

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The issue for war opponents is Trump, not Israel or Iran’s regime of terror

Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:40:54 +0000

The effort to delegitimise the decision to strike Tehran is primarily about partisan politics. The president’s critics are focusing more on him than on America’s Islamist foes. Ten days after the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli air offensive against Iran’s terrorist regime, the ultimate outcome of the joint campaign remains uncertain. Iran’s government and military have […]

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Jesse Jackson and the betrayal of the civil-rights movement

Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:57:14 +0000

Being an aide to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as one of his companions in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968—the day the leader of the civil-rights movement was shot and killed—conferred a certain status on Rev. Jesse Jackson that amounted to secular sainthood. Parlaying that clout into being the first serious African-American […]

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Trump shouldn’t fall into the Iran negotiations trap

Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:46:07 +0000

President Donald Trump was re-elected to the presidency to drain the swamp in Washington, push back the tide of illegal immigration and roll back the dead hand of toxic woke leftism in American government and society. He wasn’t returned to the White House to enact regime change in Iran or anywhere else. Those two basic […]

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