Is Doug Emhoff a Jewish role model or a partisan prop?
September 10, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
In a presidential election year unlike any other, the late-summer mainstream corporate media push to remake the image of Vice President Kamala Harris must rank as one of the most extraordinary stories in American political history. Read more
Josh Shapiro and the unmaking of a vice president
August 7, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
There was probably more than one reason why Vice President Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz rather than Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to be her running mate. Read more
Sifting through the bias about Netanyahu, Hamas and Harris
August 6, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
The search for objective truth is both difficult and by nature a subjective exercise. Read more
Kamala Harris wants it both ways on Israel
July 28, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Since she became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for the presidency in the last week, backers of Vice President Kamala Harris have been doing their best to redefine her image. Read more
Were Americans listening to Netanyahu’s message?
July 25, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
What Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address to a joint meeting of Congress was important. Read more
Understanding the importance of J.D. Vance
July 18, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
If there’s one political story that never gets as much attention as it deserves, it’s the choice of a vice-presidential nominee. Read more
The problem is what Biden remembers, not what he forgets
July 14, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Reviews of President Joe Biden’s much-anticipated July 11 NATO press conference were mixed. Read more
Kamala Harris thinks campus antisemites are very fine people
July 11, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
One of the inevitable results of President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last month and subsequent refusal to drop out of the 2024 presidential race in November is the increasing attention being paid to his running mate. Read more
In 21st-century Europe, Jews need new allies
July 3, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
The shock and dismay about the results of the first round of the French parliamentary elections held last weekend on the part of most liberal observers of European politics is palpable. Read more
Time to unmask the pro-Hamas thugs
June 18, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Americans have seen this movie before. Politically motivated masked thugs who gather to intimidate, silence and sometimes inflict violence on the objects of their hate are nothing new in this country. Read more
Biden’s double game on Hamas should fool no one
May 8, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
When President Joe Biden wants to say the right things about Israel and antisemitism, he knows how to do it. Read more
Don’t compromise with pro-Hamas students; expel or suspend them
May 2, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Negotiating with mobs is always a fool’s errand. Read more
‘Pro-Palestine’ campus mobs think Jew-hatred is progressive
April 26, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Ideas that reduce complex problems into simple mantras are always popular. Read more
Is Trump really abandoning Israel?
April 4, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Has Donald Trump turned on Israel? That’s the question some people have been asking in the wake of an interview he gave to Israel Hayom. Read more
Photographers who joined the Oct. 7 pogrom deserve censure, not awards
April 2, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
What is the obligation of a reporter or news photographer covering an act of terrorism or warfare? Read more
Israel’s global isolation is caused by antisemitism, not bad policies
March 31, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Israel’s critics and outright foes are right about one thing: Nearly six months after the Oct. 7 massacres, its isolation is growing. Read more
Laughing at our foes is good therapy during Purim
March 24, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Perhaps the best news I’ve heard out of Israel in recent months concerned the renaming of a holiday pastry. Read more
The problem in Gaza is Hamas, not how to provide aid
March 14, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
After months of pressure from left-wing critics and liberal media outlets that seem to only highlight the suffering of Palestinians since Hamas started a war on Oct. 7, President Joe Biden felt he had to respond with something big. Read more
‘As a Jew’ Oscar moment shows how woke antisemitism works
March 12, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Unless you’re a film buff, you may not have heard of Jonathan Glazer before his viral moment at this year’s annual Academy Awards ceremony. Read more
Biden’s and Blinken’s words do real harm
February 11, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Words matter. That’s the thing to remember about the libellous descriptions of Israel’s efforts to eradicate Hamas terrorists that came forth from both U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in recent days. Read more
It’s Biden who’s playing politics with the Gaza war, not Bibi
February 4, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reputation as a master political schemer and a cynical seeker of power is so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that there is literally nothing he can do without being accused of acting only to seek some sort of advantage over his opponents. Read more
UNRWA exists to help fight the war to eradicate Israel
January 30, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
Let’s not get caught up in the details of the controversy that made headlines this past weekend about the fact that 12 employees of UNRWA—the U.N. refugee agency dedicated to assisting the Palestinians—took part in the Hamas pogroms in southern Israel on Oct. 7. Read more
A hollow Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 28, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
It’s an important date on the international community’s calendar. Every year, the United Nations and many other institutions and organisations hold ceremonies on Jan. 27 commemorating the Holocaust. Read more
The post-Oct 7 era of official antisemitism begins
January 12, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
It’s easy to think of the opening of the International Court of Justice’s trial of Israel that began this week in The Hague as just more of the same from the international community. Read more
Harvard resignation is a diversity, equity, and inclusion debacle
January 3, 2024 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
In the end, not even the support of former President Barack Obama and one of his former cabinet members was enough to save Claudine Gay from being forced out as president of Harvard University. Read more
There was more to Leonard Bernstein than his sex life or his nose
December 31, 2023 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
It turns out the least of the sins of Bradley Cooper’s new film “Maestro” is the size of the prosthetic nose the actor wore to portray Leonard Bernstein. Read more
Biden needs to sober up about the Palestinians
December 22, 2023 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
It’s a debate the Israeli government neither wants nor thinks it needs to engage in right now. Read more
Why the images of Hamas prisoners sparked outrage
December 13, 2023 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
I was poised to go on a live broadcast of WION, an English-language Indian television network, last week to discuss the war against Hamas. Read more
Ceasefire advocates are Hamas’s useful idiots
October 24, 2023 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
It’s been more than two weeks since the atrocities of Oct. 7 shocked the world with the deliberate cruelty and barbarism exhibited by Hamas terrorists as they conducted what has been aptly described as pogroms inside Israel. Read more
Hamas weaponizes sympathy for civilians they help kill
October 17, 2023 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
It’s a difficult balancing act, but most of the talking heads and pundits are managing to pull it off. Read more








