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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
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Biden’s double game on Hamas should fool no one
A presidential speech condemned past and present antisemitism. However, it contradicted policies aimed at letting the terrorists win and appeasing pro-Hamas…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Yom Hashoah after Oct. 7: How Holocaust education failed
A generation of young Americans was taught to universalize the Nazi war on the Jews, leaving them vulnerable to being seduced by antisemitism and woke lies…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The House Bill Will Hinder Campus Antisemitism, Not Free Speech
A bizarre coalition of left- and right-wingers opposes a measure to mandate the enforcement of Title VI protections for Jewish students on campus. They’re both…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Don’t compromise with pro-Hamas students; expel or suspend them
Giving in to the mob’s demands for antisemitic divestment from Israel is further confirmation that some schools have become hostile environments for Jews…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Pro-Hamas Jews are Jews for antisemitism
The presence of Jews among those demonstrating for Hamas and supporting the surge in antisemitism doesn’t vindicate the “pro-Palestine” cause. Listen to the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Another Passover with the Jewish people under siege
A passage in the Haggadah teaches that “in every generation, there are those who rise against us.” It has never been more relevant. Listen to the full story…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Pro-Palestine’ campus mobs think Jew-hatred is progressive
Student protesters don’t really care about Palestinians or human rights. They are indoctrinated sheep who have been taught to think that Israel and Zionism are…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The illiberal crusade to defend antisemitic mobs
The strength of America’s commitment not to tolerate hate is being tested by liberals who are supporting pro-Hamas protesters spewing Jew-hatred. Listen to the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Colleges can’t be safe spaces for antisemitism
There is a free-speech right to speak hatred against Jews. But that doesn’t entitle those who do so to jobs, commencement-speaker slots or anonymity. Listen to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Congress should cut Israel aid loose from Ukraine
The standoff on military assistance to the two countries must be broken. Members of both political parties in the United States need to stop pretending that…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: American calls for Israeli restraint won’t make either nation safer
Biden’s efforts to prevent a strike on Iran are—like his demands intended to save Hamas from defeat—rooted in U.S. politics, not U.S. interests. Listen to full…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Why the left united around hatred of Israel
Since Oct. 7, woke ideology brought together a diverse coalition of advocacy groups eager to stop the war on Hamas. The Democratic Party will never be the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Who can stop the Democrats’ pivot away from Israel?
The turn against the Jewish state has spread from “The Squad” to Joe Biden, with exceptions like Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman standing against the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Biden shouldn’t get away with granting a victory to Hamas
U.S. threats have given genocidal terrorists a respite as the media continues to demonize Israel and enable antisemitism. But the war isn’t over yet. Listen to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Pro-Israel Americans need to stop cowering and start protesting
After months of biased news coverage and open antisemitism, friends of the Jewish state need to take back the streets and tell Biden that he should worry about…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Outrage over aid-worker deaths is about saving Hamas, not civilians
All armies at war make tragic mistakes. But President Biden and Israel’s critics are cynically exploiting the incident as an excuse to shatter the alliance…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Is Trump really abandoning Israel?
His remarks about the war on Hamas are spun in a way that recalls every previous controversy about things he’s said—and with just as much accuracy. Listen to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Photographers who joined the Oct. 7 pogrom deserve censure, not awards
The prestigious honor given to the photo of Hamas terrorists showing off the half-naked body of their young Jewish victim is evidence of the corruption of…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Israel's global isolation is caused by antisemitism, not by bad policies
The answer to the Jewish state’s diplomatic dilemma is victory. Heeding the world’s demands to stop the war and let Hamas win will only make it worse. Listen…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: A politician who was also a role model
Joe Lieberman was almost U.S. vice president. But his real distinction was as a politician who stuck to his principles and showed how to be a faithful Jew in…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Biden is conciliating, rather than confronting, pro-Hamas Democrats
Netanyahu is blamed for worsening U.S.-Israel relations, but the problem is that the president thinks anti-Israel hecklers “have a point” and that their cause…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Biden’s UN betrayal of Israel is a victory for Hamas
The terrorists were certain that the West would save them from defeat in Gaza. The administration has now confirmed that they were right. Listen to the full…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Biden and Schumer’s pivot away from Israel is already backfiring
Democrats are reminded that most Americans still support Israel, and that their stand is helping the GOP, which plans on inviting Netanyahu to address…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Laughing at our foes is good therapy during Purim
With the Jewish people threatened by enemies bent on their destruction, as well as faithless friends, the lessons of a happy holiday are needed right now…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Don’t blame Israel for the surge in antisemitism
The idea that letting Hamas off the hook will ease the plight of American Jews being targeted by left-wing Jew-haters is as illogical as it is shameful. Listen…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Israel has become a partisan issue. Do American Jews care?
While Trump is impatient for a complete victory over Hamas, Biden and Schumer wave the white flag in their party’s civil war against Democrats who loathe the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Schumer provides cover for Biden’s smears of Israel
The self-proclaimed “shomer” of the Senate is at odds with Israel’s people, not Netanyahu, in order to convince Israel-hating Democrats not to defect. Listen…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The problem in Gaza is Hamas, not how to provide aid
Biden’s floating port scheme is a potential trap for both the United States and Israel, as well as an opportunity for terrorists to exploit sympathy for…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Biden’s problem is with Democrats who hate Israel, not Netanyahu
The administration’s efforts to spin attacks on Jerusalem that validate Hamas propaganda as a critique of the prime minister and his policies are an effort to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: ‘As a Jew’ Oscar moment shows how woke antisemitism works
A winner of the film award for a Holocaust movie used his moment on the stage to virtue-signal his opposition to Israel and tacit support for modern-day Nazis…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Why liberals failed in the fight against antisemitism
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/top-story-with-jonathan-tobin--5496747/support. American liberalism isn’t defending…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The moral failure of Biden’s State of the Union address
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/top-story-with-jonathan-tobin--5496747/support. The president’s hyper-partisan address had…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Why the left must lie about Hamas and rape
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/top-story-with-jonathan-tobin--5496747/support. Journalists and those who post on social…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Harris and Gantz are playing politics with Israel’s future
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/top-story-with-jonathan-tobin--5496747/support. Instead of promoting a ceasefire and a…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Why is Biden pushing for an immoral hostage deal?
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/top-story-with-jonathan-tobin--5496747/support. Pressure on Israel to agree to pay an…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Are American Jews still trying to save Israel from itself?
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/top-story-with-jonathan-tobin--5496747/support. The expectation that the impact of the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Is Biden worrying about losing the wrong voters?
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/top-story-with-jonathan-tobin--5496747/support. A poll shows New York Jews preferring…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Biden’s ‘help’ at the UN will put Israeli lives at risk
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/top-story-with-jonathan-tobin--5496747/support. The veto of a U.N. Security Council…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: What Americans don’t get about Israelis fighting for their lives
To those who look on from afar, the history of the conflict or the rights and wrongs of how the war started – even the unspeakable atrocities committed on Oct…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Biden Kowtows To Dearborn’s Terror-Justifying Mayor To Retain Antisemitic Voters
Abdullah Hammoud is able to make the White House shake while critics of his city’s cheerleading for mass murder are called Islamophobes. Listen to the full…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Three years of Biden's Iran appeasement are not so easily undone
Strikes on Iranian allies after three U.S. soldiers were killed are unlikely to deter future terrorist attacks. The post-Oct. 7 world was in part created by…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: It’s Biden who’s playing politics with the Gaza war, not Bibi
Netanyahu is trying to defeat Hamas. The administration’s efforts—and its fictional “doctrine”—seek to depose the Israeli prime minister and re-elect the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: How intersectional myths killed the black-Jewish alliance
Black pastors are pressuring President Joe Biden to save Hamas because they identify with “oppressed” Palestinians who launched a genocidal war, not a drive…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: UNRWA Exists to help fight the war to eradicate Israel
The revelation of ties between the UN aid agency and Hamas is a small part of the problem. The real issue is the purpose of the institution, which has always…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: A hollow Holocaust Remembrance Day
Those who support a ceasefire to allow a genocidal antisemitic movement like Hamas to commit more slaughters of Jews shouldn’t pretend to mourn the Six…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Gullible Americans are funding Hamas, not starving children
Just like the international aid that built their tunnels, funds for Gaza civilians promoted by celebrities like Doug Emhoff’s daughter are helping terrorists…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: How ‘anti-racism’ made antisemitism fashionable
“The New York Times” presents IfNotNow activists as liberal idealists. But beneath the surface of their rhetoric is contempt for Jews and indifference to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: What they really mean when they cry ‘Islamophobia’
The debate over a Biden nominee affiliated with a center that promotes hate for Israel shows that allegations of anti-Muslim prejudice are attempts to cover up…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Progressive Judaism ‘without Israel’ is a tool for antisemites
“Diasporism” was once based in Yiddish, socialism, naiveté about the fate of Jewish Europe or American assimilation. Now it’s a weapon that aids a genocidal…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: It’s time to fight for Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideas and defeat DEI
The tragedy of the holiday is that it, like the civil-rights leader’s legacy, has been hijacked by woke ideologues who threaten American liberty and spread…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The real problem with the Oscars’ woke DEI standards
A letter protesting that Jews should be part of a minority representation requirement for an Oscar is right about antisemitism and Jewish erasure, but not…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The post-Oct. 7 era of official antisemitism begins
The International Court of Justice trying Israel for genocide for defending itself against a genocidal foe is an unjust farce. It’s also evidence of the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Biden's Middle East Policy is All About Michigan
Secretary of State Blinken’s push to revive Israel-Saudi normalization by promoting a Palestinian state that will never happen is motivated by election- year…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Don't look away from the primary cause of epidemic of antisemtism
As shocking incidents pile up and surveys show prejudice growing, the way woke ideology grants a permission slip for Jew-hatred cannot be ignored. Listen to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: US aid to Israel is vital, but so is addressing the border crisis
A wartime aid package for the Jewish state should be a congressional priority. That said, it’s no good pretending that the collapse of American security can…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: There’s no middle ground in the fight against DEI antisemitism
Allegations that the battle against campus antisemitism at Harvard was “hijacked” by right-wingers or racists are false. Advocates of woke ideology are the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Harvard resignation is a DEI debacle
Claudine Gay’s brief reign at the Ivy League institution illustrates everything that is wrong about the woke ideology dominating our culture, especially its…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: There was more to Leonard Bernstein than his sex life or his nose
A much-anticipated biopic is a reflection of contemporary obsessions, adding little value about a great musician and one of the most interesting Jews of the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Israel’s skeptics just don’t want it to win
Those peace-process advocates who say it’s impossible to eliminate Hamas both overestimate the terrorists and fail to understand the existential nature of this…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Israel-haters aren’t refighting the Vietnam War
Today’s antisemites are modeling their campaign on 1960s protesters, even though the two conflicts are very different. Still, the same toxic ideology…