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Jonathan Tobin Daily
The Internet is inundated with misinformation. Join JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin for his daily analysis of the most important stories affecting Israel and the Jewish world. If you want to understand what’s really going on, this show is for you.
Episodes
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Who gets a veto over Israeli action against Hamas and Iran? | Ep. 351
Contrary to Netanyahu’s detractors, opposition to forming a government that includes Arab anti-Zionist parties isn’t a question of racism but of rational…
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Liberal Jewish insecurity doesn’t come from Israeli policies | Ep. 350
Talk of “shared responsibility” with the Jewish state distracts from the real threat to U.S. Jews from leftists who are motivated by Jew-hatred, not Netanyahu…
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Do Americans support Israeli democracy? Then let their voters decide. Ep. 349
While Trump backed Netanyahu, Democrats and the foreign-policy establishment still want to dictate to the Jewish state. They should accept the Israelis’…
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Amanpour leaves ‘CNN,’ but a legacy of anti-Israel media bias remains | Ep. 348
The journalism icon’s coverage of the Jewish state demonstrated prejudice, not truth. She exemplified the arrogance and dishonesty that destroyed legacy media.
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El-Sayed’s viral video was a diversionary tactic, not his JFK moment | Ep. 347
The candidate for U.S. Senate thinks it’s wrong to ask him to repudiate the Muslim Brotherhood, despite his family ties. Riots in France show where America…
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Israel’s foes have more influence on its elections than its friends | Ep. 346
Trump’s endorsement of Netanyahu, like Clinton, Obama and Biden’s efforts to defeat him, is less important than the role of the Palestinians and Iran in…
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Ep. 345: Is it Islamophobic to connect the dots between Islamists and El-Sayed?
Despite family connections and political stands that point to links between the Michigan Democrat and the Muslim Brotherhood, his supporters are crying foul.
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The Democrats have abandoned Israel, not just Netanyahu | Ep. 344
The prime minister is blamed for “losing” America. But even his defeat won’t reclaim support from a party that from Obama to El-Sayed has broken with the…
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The foreign-policy establishment’s war on Israel finds a target | Ep. 343
An aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee is under attack from liberal media for being an obstacle to the effort to sabotage Trump and to reimpose Obama and Biden’s…
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Democrats’ bargain with the left will replicate Europe’s catastrophic decline | Ep. 342
Riots in France and Britain’s lurch left illustrate what follows when liberals appease and then surrender to the red-green alliance of Marxists and Islamists…
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In Michigan, the issue is erasing Jewish interests, not the Jewish vote | Ep. 341
Electing “progressives” like El-Sayed requires more than just normalizing antisemitism and antisemitic candidates. It also means telling Jews to shut up.
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Ep. 340: The real lesson of Oct. 7? Stop appealing for sympathy
After three years of rejection and antisemitism, Jews must cease asking for pity and second-guessing failed efforts at explaining themselves, and instead…
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Ep. 339: The vacation from Jewish history is over for Americans
The erasure of Jews and treating them as villains cannot be ignored. The post-Oct. 7 surge of antisemitism is not a misunderstanding that will fade if…
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Ep. 338: How Democrats will exploit the ‘settler-violence’ narrative
Misleading claims that Jews—and not Palestinian terrorists—are the aggressors in the territories might be the wedge that the next Congress uses to start…
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Ep. 337: Can September surprises topple Benjamin Netanyahu?
Israeli and American media have reacted to the prime minister’s strong polling with stories claiming that he was forewarned about Oct. 7. But do the voters…
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Ep. 336: A fraudulent ‘Free Palestine’ activist embodies a lying hateful cause
An American Jew impersonated an Arab and engaged in antisemitism. But others who advocate for anti-Israel genocidal goals are part of the same ideological…
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Ep. 335: The El-Sayed litmus test cuts both ways
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed speaks during a press conference in Detroit on Sept. 22, 2026. Photo by Sarah Rice/Getty Images.
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Ep. 334: Netanyahu isn’t the reason pop singers spout blood libels
Attacks on musician Ed Sheeran after his craven apology for rapper Macklemore’s firing demonstrate that the mainstreaming of antisemitism fuels Israel’s…
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Ep. 333: Confronting Jew-haters is more important than worrying about cancel culture
Those who spout blood libels about Israel, like rapper Macklemore, have the right to free speech, but not to a platform. Zero tolerance for the surge of…
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Ep. 332: The AI apocalypse and the ‘NAZA’ blood libels against Israel
A film that makes dubious claims about the IDF slaughtering Palestinian civilians may help bolster an antisemitic trope blaming the Jews for a new global…
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Ep. 331: The false narrative about post-9/11 Islamophobia legitimizes antisemitism
The obsession with a mythical backlash against Muslims promoted by the political left and liberal media didn’t just distort anniversary coverage. It builds…
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Ep. 330: Britain’s attempt to isolate Israel illustrates its irrelevance
The United Kingdom is mollifying the Corbynite antisemites that are Labor’s base, as well as showing that NATO and the “special relationship” with the United…
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Ep. 329: Thanks to Mamdani and Piker, the 9/11 anniversary remains especially relevant
Rather than a distant historical event, the rise of Islamists and woke leftists who hate America and the West is a reminder of what’s at stake in the clash of…
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Ep. 328: Can they talk themselves into being comfortable with JD Vance?
GOP Jews want to support their party’s possible 2028 candidate, and he wants their backing. But if he won’t disavow Tucker Carlson and his followers, then they…
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Ep. 327: 'Jewish values’ are not a suicide pact that empowers antisemites
Under pressure to support El-Sayed, Michigan’s Jewish Attorney General betrayed her people by urging Jews to sacrifice their survival in favor of “the needs of…
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Ep. 326: Qatar’s stooges want to delegitimize pro-Israel voices critical of Vance
“The Daily Caller,” founded by Doha homeowner Tucker Carlson, is trying to smear JNS for highlighting the troubling connection between his Islamist allies and…
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Ep. 325: El-Sayed’s antisemitism is the issue; not Hasan Piker
Democrats want their Michigan Senate candidate to disavow his podcaster pal. The problem is that most on the political left have already embraced his…
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Ep. 324: The clock is ticking on the chances to stop JD Vance
The veep informally began his 2028 campaign with a fundraiser hosted by Tucker Carlson’s financier. It’s not too early to start thinking about how to defeat…
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Ep. 323: Jewish Democrats must fight the DSA, not tolerate it
The hard-left faction is organizing and winning elections, even if many in the party don’t agree with them or share their antisemitism. They will take it over…
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Ep. 322: Why is Rep. Jamie Raskin enabling campus antisemitism?
Notable victories have been achieved against campus Jew-hatred. But the Maryland congressman wants to stop the DOJ from turning the tide against woke…
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Ep. 321: Primary lessons: GOP Groypers flop while Dem extremists flourish
Far-right followers of Tucker Carlson are failing across the board with Republican voters. In most Democratic contests, antisemitic DSA candidates continue to…
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Ep. 320: A man of courage was needed. Instead, American Jews have Schumer
The Democrats’ Senate leader may have had no choice but to endorse El-Sayed following his primary victory. Business as usual has normalized Jew-hatred.
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Ep. 319: El-Sayed, the Democrats, AIPAC and the war on American Jews
The Michigan primary was a referendum on the Jewish presence in the public square. The consequences of normalizing his antisemitism will impact much more than…
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Ep. 318: To antisemites, Israel and the Jews are the reason for everything
Blaming the Jews for a crisis in a Spanish enclave in Morocco shows how “genocide” blood libels spread. Meanwhile, Europeans face a real problem: Muslim…
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Ep. 317: After 25 years, the Sbarro bombing and its aftermath still matter
The Second Intifada massacre, like the slaughter on Oct. 7, stands as a grim reminder of the folly and hubris of the makers of peace plans and deals with…
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Ep. 316: Decoding the settler violence narrative for Americans
When Israelis ask Washington to take action against Jews in Judea and Samaria, they are ignoring the context of Arab terrorism and attempting an end run around…
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Ep. 315: Netanyahu didn’t lose the Democrats for Israel
Jewish liberals blame the prime minister for the collapse of support for the Jewish state because it absolves them of not stopping the antisemitic left from…
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Ep. 314: Mamdani bears responsibility for anti-Jewish violence in New York
Ordinary political speech isn’t incitement to violence. But anti-Zionism—the core purpose of the mayor’s career and that of his followers—delegitimizes Jewish…
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Ep. 313: Trump is a puzzle, but he’s standing firm on Iran and the Saudis
The president’s refusal to appease Tehran, along with his insistence that Riyadh recognize Israel if it wants a nuclear program, are potential political…
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Ep. 312: Denial inside the modern siege lines on Tisha B’Av
The challenge is not so much mindless hatred of fellow Jews as a willingness to acknowledge the existential threat posed by contemporary Jew-haters.
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Ep. 311: The lies behind Mamdani’s Netanyahu stunt are the real threat
New York’s mayor isn’t going to arrest Israel’s prime minister. But the widespread belief in the “genocide” blood libel illustrates how toxic ideologies, AI…
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Ep. 310: Vance is the variable in the partisan divide on Israel
In a week when the majority of House Democrats abandoned the Jewish state, the vice president served as a reminder that the GOP’s lockstep pro-Israel stand is…
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Ep. 309: Ro Khanna and the weaponization of anti-Zionism in American politics
The California congressman’s Judean misadventure was an attempt to boost his long-shot presidential hopes and move on from his sponsorship of the disastrous…
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Ep. 308: El-Sayed’s anti-AIPAC antisemitic conspiracy mongering is winning votes
The Michigan Senate race tells us more about the future of the Democrats and the centrality of antisemitism in our public discourse than the demise of the…
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Ep. 307: Rahm Emanuel and the persistent delusion of failed policies
The veteran politician foolishly thinks that he can carve out a middle ground for 2028 between antisemitism and “blind” support for Israel by recycling the…
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Ep. 306: Are the Democrats to become America’s anti-Israel party?
The prospects for two Pennsylvania Democrats paint a dismal picture. And right now, it’s difficult to envision the party nominating a presidential candidate…
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Ep. 305: On its 250th birthday, Jews mustn’t abandon the fight for America
If the United States is lost to the woke left or the woke right, the consequences for Jews and the world are unimaginable. Now isn’t the time to write it off.
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Ep. 304: The Israel they hate is imaginary
The younger generation’s opposition to a “genocidal” Jewish state has become one of the organizing principles of U.S. politics. But these toxic beliefs have…
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Ep. 303: Who will win the Trump foreign-policy “Apprentice” contest?
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio are pursuing competing approaches to Iran and Lebanon. Is this a genius grand strategy or…
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Ep. 302: Dan Goldman, and the decline and fall of liberal Jewish Democrats
In Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Party, only those who bend the knee to antisemitic ideology have a place. Is this the end of an era for American Jewish life?
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Ep. 301: The JD Vance foreign-policy test ride is a disaster
Whether he succeeds in getting a “peace” agreement with Iran or not, the vice president’s attempt at appeasement isn’t going to help him or President Trump.
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Ep. 300: Who will stand with Israel against a new Iran deal?
Back in 2015, the GOP and most Americans opposed Obama’s appeasement of Tehran. Now, Democrats are against Israel on any issue, and Republicans will not defy…
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Ep. 299: Trump’s chaos and incoherence have led to failure on Iran
The damage that Israel and the United States did to the Islamist terror regime was undone by an agreement that rewards Tehran and vindicates former President…
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Ep. 298: ‘The New York Times’ blood libel against Israel should be mocked
Cultural elites backing the newspaper’s ludicrous claim about Israelis training dogs to rape Palestinian Arabs should be condemned. Not those with the guts to…
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Ep. 297: Is Donald Trump still the tough-minded leader he claims to be?
If he concludes a nuclear deal with Iran that is, at best, only marginally better than Obama’s, then the implications for the Middle East and his presidency…
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Ep. 296: What’s behind the campaign to demonize Israel inside Trumpworld?
Dubious leaks about the Jewish state spying on America signify an effort to break up a valued alliance by those whose motives are rooted in antisemitic…
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Ep. 295: Even when he disappoints Israel, Trump is better than the alternative
The president’s mercurial approach to the conflict with Iran is frustrating and potentially disastrous. But compared to Kamala Harris, Jerusalem and American…
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Ep. 294: Why are they really boycotting AIPAC? Bigotry
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the AIPAC conference in Washington D.C, March 6, 2018. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.
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Ep. 293: The parade was no place for an anti-Zionist Jew-hater
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s absence from New York City’s annual Israel Day shindig was appropriate. But efforts to deny his antisemitism by citing a skewed poll…
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Ep. 292: Who should speak for Israel? The case for Caroline Glick
Pearl-clutching about the veteran journalist possibly being sent to the New York consulate misses the point. The Jewish state needs bold advocates more than…