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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: Why aren’t Jewish groups fighting DEI-based antisemitism?
The stand of the former ADL and AJC heads against woke ideology is encouraging. But major Jewish organizations still back ideas that breed hate. Listen now to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Biden needs to sober up about the Palestinians
The administration, and many who claim to back Israel, still favor a two-state solution the Palestinians don’t want. Unlike the Israelis, they’ve learned…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Going Woke has endangered American Jews
Troubling poll numbers among young voters point to a future where American exceptionalism ends and Jew-hatred is mainstreamed. Listen to the full story!
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Can Biden’s cognitive dissonance let Israel win the war?
The president’s rhetoric continues to turn against the Jewish state, but as long as the military aid keeps flowing, his appeasement of anti-Israel Democrats…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Why the images of Hamas prisoners sparked outrage
The murder and rape of Israelis on Oct. 7 led to a spike in antisemitism, not anger against Hamas. And yet, the world can’t tolerate photos of defeated…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The problem is bigger than three college presidents
The woke ideologies that govern academia enable the antisemitism that the heads of Harvard, Penn and MIT refuse to say breaks their rules. Listen to the full…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Henry Kissinger and the limits of realism
Reviled by some and overpraised by others, he was a brilliant man who carefully curated his image. Still, most of his policies in the 1970s were wrong. Listen…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Who’s winning the Biden administration’s civil war over Israel?
A controversial presidential post on X highlighted the White House's attempts to simultaneously support Israel and signal its opposition to continue the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Antisemitism in the schools spreads beyond the Ivy League
A riot at a high school in Queens, N.Y., targeting a pro-Israel teacher is the latest incident that shows how Islamism and toxic woke ideology is fueling…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: America shouldn’t let Hamas bargain its way to victory
Israel had no choice but to accept a deal to release some hostages. But Washington shouldn’t pressure Jerusalem to let the terrorists run out the clock on a…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Boycotting Elon Musk and ‘X’ won’t solve our antisemitism problem
The tech mogul endorsed a hateful meme, yet a restored liberal censorship regime won’t stem the tide of online Jew-hatred. In fact, it might make it worse…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Biden's Dangerous Palestinian State Idea
Under pressure from his party’s left wing, the president is justifying support for Israel’s war on Hamas by reviving the two-state myth. It’s a prescription…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Stopping Antisemitism needs more than just a successful rally
The “March for Israel” in Washington, D.C., was a great response to pro-Hamas mobs. But ending the source of a rising tide of Jew-hatred requires opposing the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The Future of the Democrats Lobbies for Hamas
Revolts among Biden’s State Department and congressional staffers against support for the Jewish state are a harbinger of the collapse of a bipartisan…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Journalists who aid terrorists help mainstream Jew-hatred
Documentation that freelance photographers working for mainstream outlets helped facilitate the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre shows why coverage of Israel has always…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Sanctioning Jew-Hatred doesn't conflict with the First Amendment
Rep. Rashida Tlaib and those cheering for Hamas have the right to say what they want. But institutions should treat them the same way they would neo-Nazis or…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Obama’s moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel encourages hate
The former president’s belief that both sides are wrong isn’t “complexity.” It’s amoral and a reminder that his appeasement of Iran means that there is Jewish…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Should aid to Israel be linked to Ukraine?
Biden says he’ll veto a stand-alone bill for assistance to the Jewish state. Russia may be an aggressor, but the war there is not the same as the fight against…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Don't fall for the Islamophobia scam
A false narrative about Muslims being under attack after the Oct. 7 atrocities has it backwards. It is Muslim groups and their leftist allies who are fueling…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Yad Vashem is wrong about Hamas and Holocaust
The museum’s bizarre opposition to comparing the crimes of today’s Islamist killers to the Nazis is a betrayal of its mandate to preserve Jewish history…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: They back ‘Palestine’ because they hate Jews.
It’s time to stop pretending that those who march to defend Hamas or advocate for Israel’s destruction are defending human rights. Listen to the full story!
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Five years after Pittsburgh, mass murder has a new meaning
Fueled by support for Hamas terror and hatred for Israel, a surge of antisemitism presents challenges that are not so easily understood as the Tree of Life…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Palestinians demand sympathy while spreading hate
Whether in Gaza, on American streets campuses, or on the pages of “The New York Times,” they can’t understand why their war on Israel isn’t a universal…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The UN is rationalizing the slaughter of Jews
Comments by Secretary-General António Guterres are the latest instance of how the world body sanctions antisemitism and lends legitimacy to a Palestinian…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Not all Palestinians are Hamas, but Hamas does represent the Palestinians
Biden’s wrong that the group is an outlier. That’s why any revival of two-state solution diplomacy will only lead to more bloodshed. Listen to the full story…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Ceasefire advocates are Hamas' useful idiots
Those opposing a Gaza ground invasion aimed at the terrorist group’s destruction cite humanitarian concerns. Such appeals will only preserve a criminal regime…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: What happens when terrorists are rewarded for taking hostages
The terrorist Gaza regime hopes that it can survive by ransoming its captives like the two dual American women they just freed. Israel and America should know…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Has Biden tipped the Democrats back towards a bipartisan consensus?
His ill-advised help for the Palestinians notwithstanding, the political left is unhappy with the administration’s strong pro-Israel stand. Can it force him to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Public neutrality about Hamas and Israel is complicity
Yes, we do have a right to be judgmental about those who share their views on social media on all sorts of issues, yet suddenly don’t have an opinion about the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Hamas weaponizes sympathy for civilians they help kill
Suffering in Gaza is real, though the false victimhood narrative gives Hamas benefits and deflects attention from saving the hostages and defeating the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Decent liberals may do more harm than pro-Hamas demonstrators
Those who decry the crimes of Hamas while opposing efforts to destroy the terrorists are a greater threat to Israel than those openly cheering for Nazi-like…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Hamas atrocities explode the two-state myth
The United States may finally be prepared to let Israel defeat the Islamist terror group. But that shouldn’t lead to a push for a Palestinian state after that…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: As Israel bleeds, American Jewry stands at a crossroads
The community that rallied behind the Jewish state in 1967 and 1973 no longer exists. Can once formidable Jewish groups provide wartime leadership? Listen to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Will Biden stand by Israel in the war's next phase?
Appeasement of Iran helped make the Oct. 7 atrocities possible. Yet the president said the right thing in his first statement. What will he do when the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Israel at war - An end to politics and diplomacy as usual
The responses to Hamas barbarism must include Jewish unity, an end to biased media coverage of Palestinian terrorism and a refusal to let these murderers…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Israel/Saudi Normalization has nothing to do with Biden
The administration’s motives for pushing a new deal have more to do with the president’s 2024 re-election campaign and his failed Iran policies than peace…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Who lost the battle to stop Iran’s nuclear quest?
If Iran can make a bomb in two weeks, then the game is over. It took 20 years of bad decisions to make this a reality. Listen to the full story now!
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Canada’s Ukrainian Nazi embarrassment was no accident
The cheers for a collaborator highlighted something the media and foreign-policy establishment are ignoring: Ukrainian nationalism’s ongoing antisemitism…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Yom Kippur 50 years later: Rethinking Golda’s reputation
The anniversary of the traumatic war has led to a surge of interest in Meir’s life. However, the lessons of the conflict go deeper than a boost in her…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTel Aviv Violence: The Dark Side of Israel’s “Democracy” Debate
Yom Kippur violence Illustrates the hypocrisy of Israel’s Supreme Court. JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks about events in Tel Aviv over Yom Kippur in…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Academic freedom isn’t an excuse for antisemitism
A Palestinian event featuring Jew-haters at the University of Pennsylvania shows that in the age of DEI loyalty pledges, some forms of prejudice are tolerated…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: An anti-democratic ‘democracy defense’ movement
The claim that opposition to Netanyahu and Trump are linked to a struggle against Putin isn’t just false. It’s an illiberal campaign to silence opposition to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Will you help JNS tell the truth about Israel and antisemitism in 5784?
A High Holiday message from editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin.
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Get out your crystal ball! Take the 5784 Jewish pundit quiz
Join the editor of JNS in guessing what will happen in the New Year.
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The cruel lessons of the Oslo debacle remain unlearned
Three decades ago, belief in “land for peace” was rooted more in wishful thinking than nobility. From Arafat to Abbas and Hamas, the Palestinians still have…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Antisemitism won’t be stopped by censoring Musk’s X
The billionaire is wrong to single out the ADL for attacks on his platform and enabling far-right Jew-haters. Yet Jewish security can’t be assured by…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Must Jews ‘repent’ for voting for Trump?
Though a respected historian claims that backing the former president and Israel’s religious parties is “immoral,” politics is not a binary choice between good…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: California’s ethnic-studies mandate cannot be fixed
The Jewish groups that welcomed a letter from Gov. Gavin Newsom about avoiding bigotry are betraying the community. The courses are an invitation to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Nothing is inevitable: The lessons of Israel’s Libya fiasco
Publicizing a meeting with Libya’s foreign minister was a blunder. But the incident speaks to both the momentum for normalization and hatred towards the Jewish…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The trouble with films that romanticize American Communists
The epic hit “Oppenheimer” and the new documentary “A Compassionate Spy” illustrate the moral blindness of treating Stalinism as a reasonable choice Listen to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Is it racist to prioritize freedom from terror?
The U.S. State Department condemned recent comments by Itamar Ben-Gvir. But the real problem is not what the controversial cabinet member said; it’s support…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Israel’s supporters shouldn’t fear a GOP foreign-policy debate
Republican voters want to end funding for an endless and unwinnable war against Russia in Ukraine. Linking the alliance with the Jewish state to that cause is…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Want to support Israeli democracy? Then respect democratic elections
The authors of a disingenuous appeal to Diaspora Jews to intervene in the Jewish state’s divisive culture war are oblivious to the damage they are doing…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The problem isn’t Bradley Cooper’s nose
Even normally serious people are looking for antisemitism in the wrong places. Misplaced anger about a movie undermines the fight against genuine Jew hatred…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Can it happen here? The lessons of Europe’s red-green antisemitic surge
ADL’s report about anti-Israel activism fueling European Jew hatred is welcome but fails to point out that U.S. liberals need to rethink their fealty to woke…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Do Obama’s obsessions explain Biden’s Iran appeasement?
Ransom payments of $6 billion will fund more Iranian terror. But the real question is why America is still pursuing Iran. The former president may be part of…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: A monolithic media, essential to the left, imperils democracy
As in the United States, Israel’s mainstream media outlets favor the political left. That’s why they’re trying to crush “Channel 14,” which favors Netanyahu…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: This is not the moment to end US aid to Israel
The Jewish state can live without it, but cutting military assistance to show disdain for Netanyahu and his voters now would be a dangerous step towards ending…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Did Israel sacrifice security for visa waivers?
U.S. pressure led Jerusalem to give up singling out Arabs with U.S. citizenship for special scrutiny. Does the debate about “ethnic profiling” ignore threats?…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Is a US-Saudi-Israel deal really in the works?
Biden is trying to make it appear that a normalization deal will happen if the Jewish state pays for it in concessions to the Palestinians. Netanyahu should…