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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.
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Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: A film about saving children isn’t an antisemitic conspiracy
Those trashing the indie hit “Sound of Freedom” as “QAnon adjacent” are hypocrites who show how politics twists discourse about both the arts and crimes…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Jew vs. Jews and the politics of contempt
The subtext of the battle over judicial reform in Israel is a culture war between different groups. A “New York Times” columnist is leading the charge to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: American Jewry’s dangerous intervention in an Israeli culture war
U.S. organizations throwing in with the opposition to judicial reform aren’t defending democracy. Rather, they are treating the majority of Israeli Jews with…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Politicized Tisha B’Av sermons won’t save Israel
The battle over Israeli judicial reform can’t be settled by faux piety about unity that doesn’t answer the question of who are the real modern-day Zealots…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The ‘Funny Girl’ Jewface controversy is nothing to laugh about
Complaining about casting non-Jews as Jews in movies and plays is a way for members of a group designated as privileged “whites” to get in on the woke…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: What does ‘pro-Israel’ Democrat mean in 2023?
While progressives flirt with “racist state” smears, Biden blackmails Netanyahu with talk of ending the alliance. Both show the impending crack-up of the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Did RFK Jr. cross the line between unwise and antisemitic?
Though he may not have intended it, the Democratic candidate’s outrageous claim that the coronavirus was engineered to spare Jews invokes classic tropes of…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Even kosher bakers have a right to free speech
A New Jersey bakery is being boycotted by Jewish groups for refusing to make products honoring gay pride. Is there room in the community for those who dissent…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Herzog’s duty is to stand with Israel’s elected government
A Biden “reassessment” of the alliance with Israel timed to next week’s visit won’t happen. But if the Israeli president publicly distances himself from…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Netanyahu’s still in charge. Can Biden say the same?
The president’s latest shot at the Israeli government as “extreme” is hypocritical and inaccurate. The Palestinians remain the obstacle to peace. Listen to the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Moms for Liberty and the battle for American children
Smearing the parental-rights organization as a pro-Hitler hate group demonstrates the stupidity of current public discourse and the partisan manipulation of…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Surge in Palestinian terror is a preview of a two-state solution
Allowing Jenin to remain a base for attacks would be a replay of Israel’s Gaza disaster. So why are Biden and liberal Jews still fixated on turning that…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Giving ‘progressive’ antisemites the benefit of the doubt
Both mainstream Jewish groups and their allies in the Biden administration are determined to avoid taking on left-wing Jew-haters and the ideas that drive…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: America is still worth fighting for
The civilizational struggle in which the left has cast the United States as an irredeemably racist nation holds important stakes for the Jewish people. Listen…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Israel shouldn’t make concessions to Biden for Saudi normalization
Expanding the Abraham Accords is vital. But given the administration’s desire to appease Iran, coupled with the Saudis’ unpopularity, Washington won’t pay the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Pat Robertson: The problematic but essential friend of the Jews
The televangelist spread absurd antisemitic libels. But he also loved the Jewish people and did more than anyone to secure U.S. support for Israel than many…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Why can’t we talk about Ukrainian antisemitism?
Nazi imagery prevalent among Kyiv’s soldiers points to a horrific past and problematic present. Noting this doesn’t justify Putin. But silence about it won’t…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Telling the truth about Soros and antisemitism is essential
Depicting harsh criticism of the billionaire as akin to traditional conspiracy theories remains a partisan talking point. Defending him endangers Jewish and…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Why RFK Jr. flunked the Roger Waters test
COVID controversies helped realign U.S. politics as foes of government power on both left and right found common ground. But tolerance for antisemitism can’t…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The answer to campus radicalism and antisemitism? Defunding
A CUNY Law School graduation speech drew attention to the brazen Jew-hatred that has gone mainstream in academia on the public’s dime. There must be…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Asking the wrong question about Biden’s flawed antisemitism plan
Cheers from failing Jewish leaders enabled the administration to pose as a defender of the Jews even as its policies enable a toxic ideology that spreads…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The diversity bureaucracy weaponizes hate
The fall of an Uber executive exposes the fallacy of trying to use DEI indoctrination to oppose all intolerance. Jews who think it will stop antisemitism…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Don’t call promoting anti-Zionism to Jewish youth ‘dialogue’
Organizing Zoom programs for Jewish students and those seeking Israel’s destruction is anti-Israel activism, not giving youth the information they’re being…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: ‘Bloodsuckers’ slur is at the heart of the Israel’s political turmoil
A TV host’s attack on haredim and the anti-Netanyahu demonstrators’ switch to a focus on the budget shows that the political civil war is about tribal…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Christiane Amanpour and the institutionalization of media bias
The CNN host called the targeted terrorist murder of the Dee family a “shootout” and the death of a journalist in a real shootout a “targeted” Israeli killing…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Trashing nationalism isn’t a defense of the Jews
Demonizing those who march with Israeli flags on “Jerusalem Day” and conservatives who push back against the Marxist war on the West is equally disingenuous…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Joe Biden’s empty words about antisemitism
The president’s tribute to Jewish heritage featured a pledge against hate that is undermined by his DEI orders and refusal to mention the IHRA definition…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The Gaza Strip and learning to live with insoluble problems
It’s not easy to accept that alternatives to the dilemma created by letting it become an independent terrorist state may be worse than the status quo. Listen…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The JCPA will fight for the hard left, not Jewish interests
The community relations umbrella group has broken from the Federations, and has now chosen a veteran of J Street and progressive Democratic politics. Listen to…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Palestinians are addicted to an endless cycle of ‘nakbas’
Israel’s pushback against rocket fire generated the usual condemnations. But the fighting with a rogue terror group based in Gaza is just the latest chapter of…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Liberal Jewish groups need to own the disaster at the border
With rules they called “cruel” about to expire, arguing that the surge of illegal immigrants posing as asylum seekers is analogous to Jews fleeing the Nazis…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Islamist antisemitism is flying under the Jewish communal radar
New report details how Muslim hate groups have rebranded themselves as intersectional allies to Jewish left-wingers. Listen to the full story now!
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Jews don’t need a heritage month, and neither does anyone else
Pride in our history is appropriate. But wanting official recognition has more to do with the impulse to get in on the intersectional victim racket than…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Miep Hies and the quest for a lasting Holocaust lesson
A new TV series "A Small Light" about the woman who hid Anne Frank should teach us that opposing antisemitism is about more than kindness and ordinary…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Tucker Carlson’s fall isn’t as good for the Jews as the ADL thinks
The former “Fox News” star took many questionable stands. But those who rightly see woke DEI ideology as a threat to Jewish life aren’t cheering his ouster…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: What type of representative does Israel need?
Netanyahu’s consideration of unabashed and outspoken advocates, including a JNS columnist, for a top job is recognition that tepid diplomacy won’t cut it…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Which Israel are you celebrating on its 75th birthday?
The judicial reform fight has exacerbated the deep divisions among its people that must be transcended as their enemies still dream of destroying the Jewish…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The perils of politicizing Jewish philanthropy
As the debate about Netanyahu and judicial reform heats up, the umbrella group of Jewish Federations is showing less restraint about intervening in Israeli…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Does pro-Israel outweigh #MeToo for Cuomo?
The disgraced former governor of New York is hoping anti-woke stands and Jewish support can fuel a comeback. Does he deserve it? Listen to the full story now!
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Antisemites are those who hate Israel, not those who love it
The IfNotNow group’s attack on Ron DeSantis is part of a left-wing effort to smear conservative Zionists while defending those who aid Jew-haters like George…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Where Holocaust commemoration succeeded and where it failed
Museums, archives of testimonies and educational efforts preserved the survivors’ legacy. Still, that won’t counter contemporary antisemitic hatred and…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The ‘occupation’ myth is the engine of antisemitic terror
The biased reactions of U.N. officials and corporate media to attacks on Israelis as well as to disputes over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount are rooted in leftist…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Why boycotts of Israel are never kosher
A call to reconsider investing in Israel because of judicial reform isn’t the same as BDS. Yet that distinction is meaningless since it still validates…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Intelligence leaks and the consequences of Israel’s resistance coup
Pentagon documents spoke of the Mossad backing anti-government protests. Even if only partially true, this sends a signal to the Jewish state’s enemies about…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: In divisive times, can we still celebrate Passover together?
Politics now serves the role that religion used to play in most people’s lives. That necessitates both a temporary ceasefire and a return to the traditional…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Prosecuting political foes is incompatible with democracy
Comparisons between the legal problems of Trump and Netanyahu illustrate the way the left in both countries is wrongly trying to use lawfare tactics to take…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: An obsession with diversity leaves plenty of room for hate
An incident at a Michigan school exposes how the DEI catechism is a permission slip for antisemitism, and how the ADL’s education programs are failing. Listen…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: From now on, ‘resistance’ to election results will be the norm
Those who stopped judicial reform are hailing their efforts as democracy in action. But these mass protests follow a pattern that began in the United States…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Why did the Biden administration oppose Israeli judicial reform?
Ignore Washington’s hypocritical talk about protecting democracy. They want a weak government that won’t make trouble when it comes to Iran, and they won’t…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: A ‘resistance’ coup just defeated Israeli democracy
A false narrative about Netanyahu’s “judicial coup” may achieve its goal of toppling him. But more than that, the consequences for future governments and…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Don’t believe the Jimmy Carter revisionists
Despite the natural sympathy for a dying man, the revisionist attempt to erase his failures and their consequences should not prevail. Listen to the full story…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Democrats’ attitudes towards Israel reach a tipping point final
The rise of the intersectional left is the primary reason why, for the first time, Gallup says Democrats sympathize more with the Palestinians than with the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Doug Emhoff’s role in the woke war on free speech
A slanderous Holocaust analogy from Kamala Harris’s husband is part of the way the left uses its DEI catechism to silence dissent against the new political…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Blame Biden for Iran’s diplomatic triumph
It’s not the fault of the Saudis or even Chinese interference. America’s contempt for its Middle East allies is the main obstacle to expanding the Abraham…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Iraq anniversary reminds us that avoiding war isn’t always wrong
The debate over an open-ended commitment to Ukraine isn’t the place for Neville Chamberlain analogies. Listen to the full story now!
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Demonizing Kohelet won’t silence calls for judicial reform
A think tank is being attacked by Netanyahu opponents who are solely focused on political power while they ignore the ideas that have put the issue on the…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: The ADL’s woke war on the right won’t stop antisemitism
The group’s hyping of statistics about hate downplays the threat from the left while attacking conservatives on issues that have nothing to do with its…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: School choice provides a path to halt woke indoctrination
As leftist ideology dominates classrooms, red states are giving parents the chance to escape government-run education. That could change the map of Jewish…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: What’s worse: Threats by Smotrich or Amnesty International?
The Israeli finance minister’s call for wiping out Huwara was abhorrent, but so is the so-called “human rights” group’s demand for the mass expulsion of Jews…
Jonathan Tobin DailyTop Story Daily: Should American Jews intervene to stop Netanyahu?
Groups claim that they are trying to “save” Israeli democracy. But their support for extreme rhetoric aims at toppling a democratically elected government and…