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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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Ep. 291: Liberal Judaism is doomed if it won’t fight anti-Zionism
Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch is challenging his movement to stop ordaining anti-Zionist clergy. Yet his colleagues don’t want to make hard choices about leftist…
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Ep. 290: Republicans are fighting a battle for their souls Democrats already lost
While the future of the GOP as a pro-Israel party may be in doubt, right now, the Democrats are mainstreaming anti-Zionism and Jew-hatred.
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Ep. 289: Israel’s ambassador spoke a hard truth that needed to be said
Groups like J Street and Jews who support New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani aren’t just criticizing Jerusalem. They are assisting a globalized intifada against…
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Ep. 288: The four reasons why we can’t move on from a blood libel
“The New York Times” and its enablers are counting on the public’s short attention span and “suicidal empathy” of liberal Jews to bury Nicholas Kristof’s lie…
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Ep. 287: Antisemitism transformed Thomas Massie from libertarian extremist to liberal hero
The anti-Trump congressman from Kentucky is blaming his primary woes on Israel and Zionist billionaires. And the liberal press and Jew-haters everywhere are…
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Ep. 286: Shabbat and 250 years of a nation of faith and liberty
The resistance to President Donald Trump’s celebration of the Sabbath in the semiquincentennial is partisan folly and denial of the importance of religion in…
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Ep. 285: ‘Rapist dogs?’ Woke journalism’s antisemitic war on Israel crosses a line
"The New York Times” publication of absurd blood libels and conspiracies requires more than polite protests. Those who defend it or won’t shame and shun it are…
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Ep. 284: Abe Foxman and the quest for Jewish security
While leading the ADL for three decades, he epitomized many of the best things about the community he defended. But Jewish liberalism’s failures cloud his…
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Ep. 283: Antisemitism, Islam and the future of the GOP
The red-green alliance of Marxists and Islamists is fueling hatred for Jews and Israel among young people, while giving Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly a new…
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Ep. 282: Why are liberals and Democrats embracing anti-Israel extremists?
Mainstream support for Senate candidates like Graham Platner and Abdul El-Sayed reflects both panic about Trump and the acceptance of antisemitism.
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Ep. 281: Anti-Zionists who condemn antisemitic crimes are gaslighting us
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.
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Ep. 280: Defeating Iran’s regime requires patience, but shouldn’t take ‘forever’
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.
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Ep. 279: Who’s to blame for declining American support for Israel?
The growing distaste for the Jewish state isn’t the fault of Netanyahu or Israeli behavior. It’s driven by forces seeking the destruction of the West and…
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Ep. 278: Political violence is a consequence of the politics of anathema
The latest attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump demonstrates anew that, like the toleration of antisemitism, the demonization of opponents leads to…
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Ep. 277: It’s Zohran Mamdani’s New York now, not Eliot Engel’s
The late congressman demonstrated how to be a passionate Zionist and an ardent liberal Democrat—something that is no longer possible.
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Ep. 276: Unraveling the lies we were told about hate in America
The indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for funding extremism like the 2017 Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally discredits liberal hysteria about race…
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Ep. 275: Asking the wrong questions about antisemitism
As the arts world legitimizes bias against Israel in the post-Oct. 7 world, a hit play about author Roald Dahl’s Jew-hatred explores the intersection of…
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Ep. 274: What do the Democrats want from Israel?
Senate Democrats haven’t turned on the Jewish state because the Netanyahu government is reckless. It’s because they fear a party base of deluded antisemites.
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Ep. 273: Hasan Piker is the Democrats’ Tucker Carlson, only worse
The rise of the popular podcaster illustrates the left’s normalization of antisemitism. Rather than shunning him, liberal opinion leaders are tolerating his…
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Ep. 272: Neutrality in the fight against genocidal terror isn’t moral
President Trump should have ignored Pope Leo’s comments, and non-Catholics should respect the papacy’s symbolism. But treating Iran as morally equivalent to…
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Ep. 271: Why they blame Netanyahu for antisemitism and the Iran war
The attempts to portray the prime minister as the reason why people hate Jews or for having “bullied” President Trump into the conflict are rooted in…
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Ep. 270: Iran hasn’t won, and America hasn’t lost … yet
The assumption that the ceasefire means the Islamist regime has triumphed is premature at best. What follows will determine whether President Trump…
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Ep. 269: Unlike Israel, many of America’s NATO allies aren’t really allies
Europe’s moral abdication in the fight against the Islamist terror regime is proving a surprising truth. Right now, Washington and Jerusalem both have only one…
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Ep. 268: Why is the media obsessed with violent Israelis?
The purpose of a false narrative about rampaging “settlers” and a new death-penalty law is not just to smear Israelis. It’s to distract attention from…
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Ep. 267: How many Jews will attend a Mamdani-style seder?
Most American Jews attend Passover seders. But if, like the antisemitic New York City mayor, they omit mentions of Israel, then they are missing a key element…
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Ep. 266: Is the anti-Trump resistance also anti-Israel?
The “No Kings” rallies focused on the Iran war and immigration. But the presence of Palestinian flags and the example of the Women’s March are an ominous…
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Ep. 265: Gavin Newsom and the Democrats’ Israel problem
The California governor’s waffling on the “apartheid” slur reflects the dilemma faced by “moderates,” as well as their apologists as the party’s base embraces…
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Ep. 264: The ‘failed war’ narrative on Iran is political spin
Though not without cost, the U.S.-Israeli offensive has already made the world safer. Claims of a “quagmire” are an attempt to politicize an issue that should…
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Ep. 263: The Islamophobia narrative is about erasing Jews and antisemitism
As was the case after the 9/11 attacks, the liberal media is trying to convince us that Muslims are under siege, instead of focusing on Islamist Jew-hatred and…
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Ep. 262: The crack-up of the antisemitic right
Support for the Iran war among the GOP base and President Trump’s intervention in the podcast wars signal that the Tucker Carlson wing of the GOP has hit a…
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Ep. 261: Stopping Tehran’s apocalyptic goals is more important than thwarting Trump
Critics assert that the price America is paying to force the Islamic Republic to give up its nuclear ambitions and zeal for terrorism is too high. But the…
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Ep. 260: Drawing some conclusions about antisemitic incitement
Podcasters like Tucker Carlson—and other apologists for neo-Nazis and Islamists who incite hatred against Jews and scapegoat Israel—have blood on their hands.
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Ep. 259: The Mamdani victimhood narrative and the American future
The embrace of terror supporters by the mayor and his wife, coupled with the media’s efforts to confuse the public about an Islamist terror attack, is a…
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Ep. 258: The issue for war opponents is Trump, not Israel or Iran’s regime of terror
As supposed moderates like Gavin Newsom demonize AIPAC and smear the Jewish state to appeal to their party’s mainstream, voters will have to draw their own…
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Ep. 257: Don’t blame Israel for America defending itself against Iran
The Islamist terror regime, now allied to China and Russia, has been waging war against the United States for 47 years. But to Israel-bashers, it’s simply…
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Ep. 256: Trump’s critics have a lot riding on the Iran conflict
United by their hostility to Israel, the liberal establishment, leftists and right-wing antisemites are hoping to capitalize on a disaster. But it could also…
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Ep. 255: Trump’s courageous decision to face Tehran head-on
More kicking the can down the road, appeasing Tehran’s nuclear program, missiles and its relentless quest for terror, is not an option. The reality is that the…
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Ep. 254: Do we still need Jewish sports heroes?
In a time of surging antisemitism, celebrating the Olympic achievement and patriotism of Jack Hughes shouldn’t be sacrificed to partisan contempt for Trump or…
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Ep. 253: What’s the real point of Tucker Carlson’s obsession with Israel?
The antisemitic podcaster’s joust with Mike Huckabee showed that his goal is to sabotage the administration. Will Trump and Vance finally denounce him?
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Ep. 252: When it comes to civil discourse, there’s no choice between dogs and humans
Those who were appalled by Rep. Randy Fine saying he preferred canines to Muslims were right, even if what he was responding to was also appalling.
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Ep. 251: Jesse Jackson and the betrayal of the civil-rights movement
His attacks on Jews went beyond his “Hymietown” slur. More than that, his illiberal opposition to the Western canon and grifting racial hucksterism did great…
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Ep. 250: The greatest threat to the West is immigration, not Moscow
Europeans were relieved by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Munich speech, as it reaffirmed the Atlantic alliance. But were they really listening to what…
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Ep. 249: It doesn’t matter whether Americans call themselves ‘Zionists’
A deluge of anti-Zionist propaganda has impacted support for Israel since Oct. 7; still, the majority of Jews stand with it against its antisemitic and…
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Ep. 248: The virus of Jew-hatred on the right is spreading
It won’t be contained by trying to sweet-talk those who are failing to speak out or who are being seduced by political commentators Tucker Carlson and Candace…
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Ep. 247: Mamdani and the collapse of ‘liberal Zionism’
Members of his administration can’t protect New York Jewry while working for a mayor who opposes Israel’s existence and defends antisemites.
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Ep. 246: The Epstein files’ toxic mix of true crime and conspiracy theories
The mistaken belief that the sex offender’s vast network of connections explains all that is wrong or evil in the world fits easily into the way antisemitism…
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Ep. 245: The resistance rabbit hole and the end of democracy
Legitimizing Nazi comparisons to ICE agents and treating the debate about illegal immigration as akin to a fight against fascism cannot be separated from the…
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Ep. 240: Trump’s end run around the old world order
The president’s Board of Peace won’t solve the Gaza problem, though it does have the potential to help Washington shatter a destructive international…
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Ep. 239: The University of Pennsylvania is gaslighting the courts on antisemitism
The Ivy League school is falsely claiming that it is standing up for Jews by stonewalling the Trump administration’s efforts to punish blatant hatred on campus…
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Ep. 244: Trump shouldn’t fall into the Iran negotiations trap
Tehran’s Islamist despots can’t be trusted to abide by agreements. Throwing them a lifeline, which they will use to go on spreading death and terror, would be…
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Ep. 243: Stop chasing after the Saudis to join the Abraham Accords
Now that they’ve stopped worrying about an Iranian bomb, Riyadh is making clear that it will never recognize the State of Israel. It was never going to be…
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Ep. 242: Can Bari Weiss save the mainstream media from woke journalists?
The “Free Press” founder is under fire for attempting to steer “CBS News” back toward the center. Those who think their job is to indoctrinate audiences will…
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Ep. 241: Don’t mourn the Holocaust while supporting the genocide of living Jews
Has education failed? Reject programs and ceremonies that enable false analogies and allow fashionable opinion to demonize Israel and legitimize antisemitism.
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Ep. 238: From Greenland to Israel: What America should expect from allies
President Trump’s demand that Denmark sell the Arctic land mass is dismissed as megalomania. That said, Europe’s dependence on America raises questions about…
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Ep. 237: Can Josh Shapiro rescue the Democratic Party from left-wing antisemitism?
The Pennsylvania governor’s shocking story about Kamala Harris’s aides asking him if he was an Israeli double agent is the first shot fired in a battle to save…
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Ep. 236: Trump deserves ‘trust’ on Gaza and Iran, not blind faith
The president’s tough talk won’t suffice if the administration passes on an opportunity to topple the mullahs and chooses to let Hamas survive.
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Ep. 235: Why do they march for Gaza, but not Iran?
The movement that turned out en masse to demonize the State of Israel for defending itself is uninterested in the slaughter of Iranians. Maybe it’s because…
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Ep. 234: Can Trump avoid Obama’s Tehran blunders?
Vice President JD Vance is leading efforts to persuade the president to appease Tehran rather than confront it. America has been down that disastrous road…
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Ep. 233: Don’t invoke the Holocaust in debate about ICE
Liberal Jews are rallying behind the partisan effort to use the death of Renee Good to end the enforcement of immigration laws. That isn’t defending Jewish…
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Ep. 232: Concern about antisemitism on the right isn’t a plot against Vance
The vice president won’t distance himself from a dogmatic faction of Jew-haters led by Tucker Carlson. That’s why some Republicans are drawing conclusions…