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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. 171: Everybody wants a Palestinian state, except the Palestinians
They’ve consistently rejected one if it meant living in peace with a Jewish state. Do the idea’s advocates understand that their goal is Israel’s extinction…
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Ep. 170: The Jewish establishment is still failing on campus antisemitism
Unlike the Trump administration’s efforts, those who purport to represent the community are ignoring the issue of DEI-based Jew-hatred, the root cause of the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 169: On Israel, Mamdani is no longer a Democratic outlier
The anti-Zionist mayoral candidate is getting advice from former President Barack Obama, while a growing number of party leaders are echoing the genocide blood…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 168: Why the Dreyfus case matters now more than ever
Canceled because of its director’s crime, the best film made about the “Affair” belatedly arrives in the United States, posing difficult ethical, artistic and…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 167: Defending Hamas ‘journalism’ means spreading antisemitic lies, not press freedom
The death of a terror operative masquerading as a reporter shows how a genocidal movement and its allies camouflage their propaganda machine.
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 166: The futility of compassion for those who want to kill you
Palestinians cheered the atrocities of Oct. 7, have been complicit in the fate of the hostages and support Israel’s destruction. Do Jews owe them aid?
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 165: The generational price of the false Gaza ‘genocide’ narrative
Those who validate blood libels about Israel’s deliberately starving Palestinians are complicit in the antisemitic attacks on Jews that will happen long after…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 164: As Jew-hatred surges, the Islamist threat must be taken seriously
It’s time to pull CAIR’s tax exemption and designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
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Ep. 163: Bibi-bashing and the quest for a mythical middle way in Gaza
Israel lacks good options in the war against Hamas, but the condemnations of Netanyahu’s choice says more about his critics than about him.
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 162: Republican schism on Israel is a mainstream media myth
Extremists and antisemites on the far right have united with the left to spread blood libels about the Jewish state. But Trump and most of the GOP are sticking…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 161: Is combating media bias Netanyahu’s mission impossible?
Frustration is mounting over a lost information war. Still, Israelis are right to think that persuading the world to stop believing blood libels circulated by…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 160: The lamentations of Tisha B’Av are not a pro-Hamas script
Invoking past disasters to promote Jewish guilt about Gaza disgracefully manipulates history and the truth about the war, as well as bolsters those who wish to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 159: Anti-Israel virtue-signaling on Gaza is immoral
Hamas terrorists are counting on Jewish empathy to let them survive to continue pursuing the genocidal war they began on Oct. 7. Anyone who does their bidding…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 158: As antisemitism surges in Europe, Trump’s pushback proves American exceptionalism
As outrages against Jews multiply, the administration’s settlement with Columbia, though far from perfect, demonstrates that Jews are not alone in the United…
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Ep. 157: Hamas’s strategy pressures Israel, fuels antisemitism and starves Palestinians
The breakdown of the ceasefire-hostage release talks is a direct result of the growing signs of a Gaza famine manufactured by the terrorists, not the Jewish…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 156: Don’t be misled by AOC and Mamdani’s fake moderation
The Democrats’ “big tent” includes antisemites, some of whom plan to be its leaders. Unlike the GOP’s Israel-haters, they have a realistic chance of achieving…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 155: Yitzhak Rabin’s Syrian catastrophe that never happened
A 1993 attempt to give away the Golan Heights was a close escape for Israel. The unrepentant architect of that fiasco is now supporting Trump’s fantasies…
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Ep. 154: Politics from the pulpit may be tiresome, but it should be legal
The IRS gutted the Johnson Amendment, which prohibited religious institutions from endorsing candidates without losing their tax-exempt status. They were doing…
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Ep. 153: Biden and Hamas prolonged the war, not Netanyahu
“The New York Times” promotes the smear that the prime minister let more blood be shed to cling to power. It was his opponents, however, who played politics…
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Ep. 152: Tucker Carlson’s Jeffrey Epstein obsession is an antisemitic conspiracy theory
The bizarre case and suicide of a sex trafficker seemed designed to foment over-the-top speculation. And that has inevitably led to it becoming a focus of…
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Ep: 151: Why are America’s teachers’ unions at war with Israel?
The NEA’s decision to cut ties with the ADL illustrates how progressives who think Jews and the Jewish state are “white” oppressors have captured the education…
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Ep. 150: Worldwide Diplomatic isolation is better than more dead Jews
Israel’s foes seem surprised that the Jewish state’s people prefer the defeat of existential threats over applause from antisemites and an indifferent world.
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Ep. 149: Mamdani and the consequences of woke racial classifications
The Democratic mayoral candidate claimed to be an African-American when applying to college. The danger of the Marxist racialization of society goes beyond…
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Ep. 148: Despite the surge of antisemitism, America is worth fighting for
There are reasons for pessimism about the future of Jewish life in the United States. But American exceptionalism is real, and can and must be preserved. Catch…
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Ep. 147: Israel owes Trump, but that can’t mean Hamas’s survival
The president wants an end to the war in Gaza so he can make more deals in the region. As much as Jerusalem must defer to him, there must be limits to that…
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Ep. 146: Mamdani apologists play the fake Islamophobia card
The liberal media and others spin attempts to call out the Democratic mayoral nominee’s hatred for Israel as hatred for Muslims.
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Ep. 145: Mamdani and AOC are the Democrats of the future
The radical candidate’s primary victory means more about what lies ahead for the party than it does about prospects for the survival of American Jews.
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Ep. 145: Would anyone but Trump have done it?
By acting to avert an existential threat to the West and Israel that his predecessors had allowed to grow, the president has secured his place in American and…
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Ep. 144: Isolationists relitigate the Iraq War to let Iran go nuclear
The arguments against the 2003 invasion are irrelevant to today’s threat. They serve instead to let the “woke right” invoke antisemitic tropes about Jews…
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Ep. 143: Iran needs regime change, but that can’t be the goal
Limiting Tehran’s ability to harm other nations should be the priority. A post-Islamist government could also be bad, and reviving the monarchy is likely a…
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Ep. 142: The anti-Israel, pro-Iran faction on the right lost Trump
Whether or not America takes part in the fighting, the administration is complicit in the battle against a rogue, terrorist state. And the isolationist “woke…
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Ep. 141: Two decades of American folly made Israel’s Iran strike necessary
Bush punted, Obama and Biden appeased, while Trump 2.0 played into Tehran’s hands by delaying a decision with futile diplomacy, leaving Netanyahu no choice but…
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Ep. 140: The intifada got globalized again in Los Angeles
Far from deserving Jewish support, the protests against enforcing the law regarding illegal immigration are another aspect of the same anti-Western campaign…
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Ep. 139: Trump’s travel ban and the defense of the West
Jewish foes of the president’s measure are blind to the threat facing not just Jews from antisemitic and terror-supporting nations, but to the democratic…
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Ep. 138: Why does Tucker Carlson want to appease Tehran?
The “woke right” rages against a tougher policy on Iran as well as support for Israel. It’s clear that their motives for wanting to repeat Obama’s folly, which…
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Ep.137: Can Jews admit that Trump is right about woke antisemitism?
The Boulder attack is more proof that a cause chanting for the genocide of Israelis is inextricably linked to violence against American Jews.
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Ep. 136: In Trump v. Harvard, the stakes involve more than antisemitism
The credentialed elites are defending a bastion of woke indoctrination and Jew-hatred. The president’s foes are backing the side that is waging war on Western…
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Ep. 135: Trump dislikes ‘forever wars,’ but Israel is stuck with one
Rather than false narratives about Gaza genocide, the president’s impatience to end a conflict that the Palestinian Arabs won’t stop is creating “daylight”…
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Ep. 134: Who’s safeguarding the legacy of the ‘Greatest Generation’ on Memorial Day?
The president is right to say that the United States must reject neo-Marxist wokeism if it is to defeat China, Islamism and antisemitism, as it did fascism…
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Ep. 133: From the BLM riots to the DC shooting in five short years
The path to the surge in antisemitism can be traced to when the left embraced ideologies that made Israel and the Jews part of a toxic worldview about race…
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Ep. 132: Domestic terror is the inevitable next step for Hamas sympathizers
The murders at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., are a warning that “pro-Palestine” activism is leading to antisemitic violence. Latest news…
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Ep. 131: The Biden cover-up and a credibility crisis that threatens democracy
Understanding how both the White House and much of the corporate media were complicit in concealing the president’s condition involves more than saving…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 130: The ugly truth is that ‘pro-Palestinian’ now means antisemitic
“The New York Times” and leftist Jews have become outraged about the Heritage Foundation’s project for a national effort to fight an organized Jew-hatred…
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Ep. 129: How much trust has Trump earned in the Middle East?
Eschewing both nation-building and appeasement is wise. But an embrace of Qatar’s agenda—and gifts—undermines confidence that his decisions advance U.S…
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Ep. 128: The pope’s ‘divisions’ and the war against the Jews
Non-Catholics need to respect the powerful symbolism of the papacy. But neutrality about a genocidal struggle against Israel’s existence is neither moral nor…
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Ep. 127: John Fetterman’s health and how to read the mainstream media
The Pennsylvania senator’s post-stroke support of Israel infuriated left-wing staffers and the press, which went from covering up his disability to claiming…
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Ep. 126: Choosing sides in the battle over fighting antisemitism
Rather than get behind Trump, the American Jewish Committee, left-wing rabbis and Democrats oppose reforms that would punish schools that discriminate against…
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Ep. 125: Media lies about fake martyrs and famines fuel antisemitism
The elevation of Israel-hater Mohsen Mahdawi to a hero of free speech, coupled with the spread of lies about conditions in Gaza, is endangering American Jews…
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Ep. 124: Send Barstool Jew haters to Israel, not Auschwitz
An incident at a bar owned by celebrity influencer Dave Portnoy says everything you need to know about contemporary antisemitism and the clueless responses to…
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Ep. 123: Trump’s revolution at the Justice Department is long overdue
Government lawyers don’t want to protect Jewish students or enforce immigration laws, and “The New York Times” and leftist Jews agree. It’s time to clean house…
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Ep. 122: Antisemites are still proving why we need Israel
After 77 years and a global surge in hate in which the Jewish state is itself the focus, the justice of the Zionist cause remains a historical imperative…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 120: The left’s vile Hitler-Trump analogies dishonor the Shoah
The spurt of comments and articles comparing the president and his administration to the Nazis illustrates toxic partisanship and the failure of Holocaust…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 119: Trump isn’t exploiting antisemitism; he’s attacking its root cause
The administration’s demands to elite universities go beyond the narrow question of antisemitism. If DEI and woke ideology are spared, then Jew-hatred will…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 117: Will Trump and Witkoff repeat Obama and Kerry’s Iran blunders?
Negotiations led by a compromised envoy for an administration that remains divided over stopping Tehran’s nuclear ambitions aren’t likely to succeed.The school…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 118: What the Shapiro attack tells us about America in 2025
The Pennsylvania governor might have been vice president and may yet try for the presidency. That said, the Harrisburg arson still illustrates the way Jews are…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 116: Harvard’s ‘resistance’ to Trump isn’t about science or academic freedom
The school would rather lose $9 billion in federal funding than offend the left and give up woke indoctrination policies that enable and encourage…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 115: A Passover lesson for Jews who oppose Trump more than antisemitism
As Jew-hatred has surged, some still cling to the liberal allies and institutions that have betrayed them, preferring instead to oppose a president who is…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 113: What creates a Palestinian terrorist and his foreign supporters?
It’s the war on Israel’s existence, not efforts to prevent that genocidal goal, that perpetuates the conflict. Yet the corporate media still tells a different…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 112: AOC and the diminishing prospects for Jewish Democrats
Centrists may be wrong to think that they can steer their party in a moderate direction. Looking to 2028 and beyond, the implications for supporters of Israel…
Jonathan Tobin DailyEp. 111: Lawfare around the globe is a threat to democracy
Doubts about Qatargate are a reminder that liberal establishments are using courts to delegitimize opponents in France and Israel, just as they did in the…