The COVID vaccine blood libel against Israel
January 6, 2021 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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The headline in The Guardian showed why so many people think Israel is the sum of all evil and deserving of international opprobrium. Read more
Is it wrong to let Israel make decisions for itself?
April 24, 2020 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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In principle, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s answer to a question about Israel’s new coalition government seems unexceptionable. Read more
Ehud Barak’s cautionary tale about wealthy connections
July 18, 2019 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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Ehud Barak’s legacy just got a lot more complicated. The former prime minister is attempting political combat at the age of 77, in which he hopes to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the next Knesset elections in September. But his already shaky hopes of making a comeback after sitting out the last several years of political combat on the sidelines have been further diminished by reports of his connections to American financier/convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Read more
Palestinians need to rethink the ‘nakba,’ not refight it
May 19, 2019 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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The debates about Holocaust references made by US politician Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) are starting to die down. Read more
What if there’s no way to stop another synagogue shooting?
April 30, 2019 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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Who caused a madman to enter a synagogue in Poway, Calif., and begin shooting? And what can we do to stop another such extremist from committing the next atrocity? Read more
Despite UN vote, Palestinian terror is still a losing strategy
December 11, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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The U.N. General Assembly narrowly defeated a resolution last Thursday that would have condemned Hamas for its terror campaign against Israel…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
Jewish labels are meaningless to anti-Semites
October 31, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau didn’t intend to say anything that would wound American Jews in the wake of the mass slaughter at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue…Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
The problem with B’Tselem
October 19, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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The U.N. Security Council heard testimony on Thursday about Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians from B’Tselem…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
Why we still need heroes like John McCain
August 28, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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Even in this era of cynicism, honoring heroism and national service remains essential. Without it, the ideas that bolster America and Israel suffer…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
Leonard Bernstein’s century
August 26, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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Throughout the last year, American cultural institutions have been celebrating the life of Leonard Bernstein. The celebrated composer, conductor and educator who died at the age of 72 in 1990 would have turned 100 on Aug. 25, and his centennial has produced a torrent of retrospective praise and appreciation for one of the musical giants of the 20th century. Read more
Is Trump being tricked into war with Iran?
August 1, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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According to Fox News prime-time star Tucker Carlson, the mainstream media is characteristically missing the big story…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
When a rock falls in a plaza . . .
July 29, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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In ancient times, people looked to portents involving the heavens and earthbound events in order to try to understand the baffling world in which we live, as well as to discern the will of their Creator…writes Jonathan S. Tobin. Read more
A Gaza problem without a solution
July 26, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s belief in his negotiating skills was so great that at one point, he claimed that achieving peace in the Middle East wouldn’t “be as difficult as people have thought”…writes Jonathan S. Tobin. Read more
What do we expect from a Jewish state?
July 22, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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When the sun rose over Israel the day after a new basic law officially designating it as the “nation-state of the Jewish people,” the country was no different than it was the day before…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
What’s the matter with a Jewish state?
July 13, 2018 by J-Wire
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The primary reaction from most people to the news that the Knesset may soon pass a bill defining Israel as a “Jewish state” is likely to be incredulity…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
‘Pay to slay’ and why the ‘occupation’ continues
July 10, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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To Israel’s critics, there really is only one issue to discuss with respect to the conflict with the Palestinians: the “occupation”…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
Must Jews and Poles keep fighting about the Holocaust?
July 8, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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It’s never wise to get into an argument about the Holocaust with Yad Vashem…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
Learning the lessons of Gaza
June 22, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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In the view of many Israeli security experts, the results of the 2014 Gaza war were decisive…writes Jonathan S. Tobin, Read more
Anti-Semitism at the United Nations can’t go ignored
June 17, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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It was just another day at the office for U.N. officials. As it has done innumerable times in the last 50 years, on June 12, the General Assembly devoted an entire day of debate, procedural wrangling and voting to an effort to condemn Israel. As was the case with almost every previous effort of this kind, it succeeded…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
The significance of the embassy move
May 15, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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For decades, it was a consensus issue. Israel’s supporters of all political stripes agreed that the refusal of the United States to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was an anachronistic outrage…writes Jonathan S. Tobin. Read more
More than just bad optics on immigration?
April 11, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had a lot of bad days recently…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
Gaza and the worthlessness of international opinion
April 3, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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Was the Palestinian “March of Return” a propaganda success for Hamas? If you think Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is a reliable barometer of international opinion, then maybe the answer is “yes.”…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
How to separate chaos from policy
March 15, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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Another day, another Trump outrage…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
Must Israel do America’s dirty work?
February 20, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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Whenever Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu uses props for his speeches, his critics pounce…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
Let’s talk truthfully about the issues behind mass shootings
February 18, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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Jewish groups don’t hesitate to weigh in after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., but the futile nature of the discussion about guns points toward more culture-war bitterness rather than solutions…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
Spare us your Holocaust hypocrisy
January 30, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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Last Saturday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date, which commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, is the one most of the world uses to remember the Shoah, even if Israel and most Jewish communities primarily employ another date a week after Passover in the Hebrew calendar for Yom HaShoah. Read more
What did you hear when Mike Pence spoke to the Knesset?
January 24, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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In Monday’s New York Times, columnist Max Fisher treated Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to Israel as just another expression of what he considers the divisive policies of the Trump administration…Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more
Why Trump’s Palestinian aid cut threat makes sense
January 5, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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We didn’t need the publication of a new book filled with behind-the-scenes gossip to know that Donald Trump is an unconventional and, at times, inappropriate president…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more
Defining ‘occupied’ and the semantic battle for peace
December 29, 2017 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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In a demonstration of how completely at odds his views are from those of the foreign policy establishment, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman reportedly asked the State Department to stop using the term “occupied territories” and instead refer to the “West Bank.”…writes Jonathan S.Tobin/JNS.org. Read more
How Balfour explains why the peace process failed
October 29, 2017 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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It was a minor news story when it broke in the summer of 2016. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas announced he was suing Great Britain over the Balfour Declaration, issued on Nov. 2, 1917…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more