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'Top Story' is a weekly podcast featuring analysis of the most important Jewish news story of the week by JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin. Tobin separates myths from facts as he deconstructs mainstream media's distortions of the truth on critical issues including Israel. He also addresses critical aspects of politics, foreign policy and culture, giving listeners key insights toward understanding what’s really going on. Hear from the man who has been getting it right for decades while the mainstream media has been getting it wrong!

JNS Jerusalem bureau chief and CEO Alex Traiman had the privilege of accompanying Prime Minister Netanyahu last week for a historic meeting with President #Trump. Today, he joins JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin for a behind-the-scenes discussion of everything that was covered between the two leaders. They’ll go beyond the headlines for a deep dive look at vital issues that will affect the Jewish State for years to come, including: Trump’s Gaza plan; potential landmines between Bibi and Trump; military action in Iran; internal pressure on Netanyahu; the influence of the “woke Right” on President Trump; the future of JNS, and so much more.

JNS will host its inaugural International Policy Summit on Monday, April 28, 2025. This daylong event will convene government officials, policymakers, diplomats, security experts, leaders of pro-Israel organizations, and influencers for vital discussions aimed at addressing Israel's critical challenges and opportunities in a post-October 7 world.Registration at this point is for invitees only. However, you can submit a request for registration through the following link.

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After nearly 16 months of war, a critical and comprehensive look at what went wrong on October 7th is yet to be done. What really were the crucial mistakes made on October 7th? Is Israel poised to repeat the same mistakes in the future? Is the hostage deal pushing Israel in the wrong direction strategically and morally? To discuss all this, Jonathan Tobin is joined by Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Seth Frantzman, author of the new book, The October 7th War, Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza. Stay informed about Israel and the Jewish World!Latest news: Get in-depth analysis at https://bit.ly/jewish_news_serviceSubscribe for more: Never miss a story - sign up for our newsletter https://bit.ly/subscribe_to_JNSSupport our work: Your donation helps JNS fight for accurate headlines: https://bit.ly/Support-JNS

JNS senior contributing editor and “Israel Undiplomatic” co-host Ruthie Blum—a former adviser at the Prime Minister’s Office—joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss the first days of Donald Trump’s presidency and the complicated and not-so-perfect hostage deal between Hamas and Israel.Will the Palestinian terror group remain in power and has Jerusalem lost the war as a result of the deal? Did Trump follow through on his word? Is he a true friend to Israel or will his isolationist policies be detrimental to the Jewish state? All this and more on this special post-inauguration episode of “Think Twice!”

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What does the current antisemitism raging in the West say about Western civilization? JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin sits down with columnist and author Melanie Phillips to discuss her newest book, The Founder’s Stone, which takes a deep dive into this issue.

Phillips and Tobin unpack the political and spiritual crisis occurring and the ten steps that the civilized world must implement in order to survive.

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What is the legacy of U.S. President Joe Biden? As President-elect Donald Trump is set to assume power on Jan. 20, inflation is rampant, wildfires destroy Los Angeles, the Middle East is on fire and the Russia-Ukraine war rages on.

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin sits down with John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary Magazine, to discuss the legacy of the Biden administration, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategic decision and the future of the American political landscape.

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With President-elect Donald Trump taking office in just a month, the question arises of how victory can be achieved in the Middle East. Is it time to abandon the "peace process" with the Palestinians? What message needs to be sent to the Arab world? Will America allow Israel to win?

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin talks with Victoria Coates, a Heritage Foundation scholar, former Trump administration deputy national security advisor and the author of the new book, The Battle For the Jewish State: How Israel—and America—Can Win.

Tobin and Coates unpack the failed policies of Biden and Obama administrations and what really leads to peace and stability in the Middle East.

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What can President-elect Donald Trump do to effectively combat the bureaucracy and deep state that runs policy in the United States?

In this conversation with JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin, author Adam Lovinger discusses his new book, The Insider Threat, which explores the deep state's development within the U.S. national security and domestic policy apparatus and his personal experiences within it.

Lovinger highlights the lack of strategic clarity in U.S. military operations and the impact of the Obama administration's foreign policy.

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In this episode of "Think Twice," JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin and journalist David Harsanyi delve into the factors contributing to the rise of conspiracy theories in modern America, particularly focusing on the political left's susceptibility to such beliefs—including the claims of "genocide" in Gaza and the Russian collusion allegations against President-elect Donald Trump.

Tobin and Harsanyi unpack the role of mainstream media, social media and politics in making these theories believable.

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There is a heated argument over how many Jews voted for President-elect Donald Trump in the Nov. 5 election. But how many Jews were actually moved by the left’s antisemitism and Trump’s support for Israel?

Why do Jews vote the way they do and what does it say about American Jewish identity?

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by veteran diplomat and chair of the Tikvah Fund Elliot Abrams to discuss all of this and what it means for the future of American Jewry.

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Was President-elect Donald Trump’s win a final repudiation of the mainstream media’s power over the electorate? Was it a rejection of the wokeism, or did the Democrats not go far enough?

On the latest episode of "Think Twice," JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by author Matthew Continetti to talk about the election results, what is says about the Republican and Democratic parties and what it says about the everyday traditional American.

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JNS senior contributing editor Ruthie Blum joins editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin for a post-U.S. election analysis.

Tobin and Blum discuss all the ramifications for America, Israel, American Jews and more—join them on this episode of Think Twice!

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In this episode of "Think Twice," JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Fox News and New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz to discuss the closing arguments of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris before the 2024 U.S. presidential elections coming up next week.

They also discuss Harris’ claim that “Trump is a fascist;” what a Harris presidency will mean for U.S. Jews and Israel; why Markowicz is mad at American Jews; and the complete implosion of the mainstream media.

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In this exclusive interview, Bernard-Henri Lévy lays it all on the table and discusses some hard truths about Israel’s current war and the Western world’s reaction.

Join JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin and French philosopher, filmmaker and author Bernard-Henri Lévy, the author of a new book about Oct. 7, Israel Alone. They discuss Lévy’s moving trip to the site of the Oct. 7 massacre and what he experienced there.

Lévy revisits any delusions some might have about peace with the Palestinians and has some choice words to share about the woke mob in the West.

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In this week’s episode of "Think Twice," JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Adam Kirsch, author of the new book On Settler Colonialism, Ideology, Violence, and Justice.

Kirsch discusses the concept of "settler colonialism," its implications for Israel, and how it has fueled antisemitism on campus.

What is the historical context of the “colonialism” claim vis-à-vis the Jewish state? Why have so many people in academia and media fallen for this narrative? And what is the impact on campus and in broader society?

Listen to the fascinating discussion that explores one of the most popular myths fueling the Arab-Israeli conflict!

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Virtually everyone these days seems to believe that we are currently living through "unprecedented" times.

However, in his latest book, "Domestic Enemies," Israeli-born journalist Daniel Greenfield contends that the United States has already experienced much of the imbalance and unrest we are witnessing today.

So what can conservatives learn and apply to the coming elections?

In this episode of "Think Twice," Greenfield and JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin touch on some important lessons that cannot be ignored if one wishes to stem the tide of regressive leftism.

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In this episode of “Think Twice,” JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin tries to make sense of the Biden/Harris strategy with Middle East expert Michael Doran.

They discuss everything from America’s policy towards Iran and its proxies to Biden’s tenuous relationship with Israel; the Gaza war and attempts to reach an agreement; the influence of domestic politics on foreign policy; and what U.S. foreign policy might look like under a Harris or Trump administration.

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In this episode of Think Twice, our guest Batya Ungar-Sargon, author of the groundbreaking book, “Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women”, reveals what she learned about the cultural and economic situation of the American working class.

Ungar-Sargon and JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin examine what makes them tick, the real lives they are living, and why Trump allows them to finally feel seen.

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Will Dems give Biden the boot? In today’s episode featuring presidential historian Tevi Troy, we dive into the history of American presidential campaigns to explore Trump’s uniqueness and how he has shifted the trajectory of the GOP.

We’ll also discuss previous presidential assassination attempts; the history of health worries and the 25th Amendment; Vice Presidential choices; the Jewish vote; and the changing relationship between business and politics.

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While it looks like the bad guys are winning elections across the West, there’s still room for hope! Tune in for this in-depth interview with Melanie Phillips as she lays out everything you need to know about last week’s UK elections and more.

Also, the UK Conservative party’s failures; how the relationship with Israel will change; the future of the UK Right & the West; and the importance of standing up to Iran.

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Leftist ideology has permeated everything from mainstream culture to news, literature, entertainment and even children's education. It has also led to a huge upsurge in antisemitism and anti-Israel violence in LA and other major cities throughout the US. However, it seems a large portion of Americans are not buying it.

To discuss all this and more, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with the CEO of Prager U Marissa Streit. She discusses the importance of alternative sources of information in the face of the dominant left-wing ideology, big tech censorship, the ADL and the need for the Jewish community to stand up to an agenda that ultimately leads to attacks on Jews.

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Anyone honestly looking at the rise of antisemitism on campus and in major cities in the US is worried about the future of American Jewry. Are we witnessing the end of the golden era of Jews in America? Is there a path forward where Jews can once again feel safe?

In this premiere episode for Think Twice, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by TIkvah Fund Executive Director Eric Cohen who posits for American Jewry to thrive there needs to be a "second exodus" from so-called higher institutions and a paradigm shift in who we consider our allies. For anyone concerned about the future of American Jewry, this is a conversation you don't want to miss!

The revival of anti-masking laws is necessary to curb the post-Oct. 7 surge in antisemitism. But will Democratic-controlled legislatures pass them?

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The liberal Jewish establishment applauded her condemnation of extreme haters. But the roots of the current surge run deep in leftist ideology.

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Hungary’s government is despised by liberals. But Budapest is Israel’s only real ally in the European Union and, as long as Viktor Orbán remains in power, the Jews there are safe.

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“The New York Times” claims that Israel used fake social-media accounts to influence Congress. But it’s the corporate media that continues to spread lies about the war.

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On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by military historian Shalom Lamm to discuss why U.S. college students have been rallying for the Palestinian terrorists that their Israeli peers are fighting in Gaza. Will this frightening development lead the U.S. down a path that will allow the next Adolf Hitler to flourish?

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Jews uniquely thrived in America because of its exceptionalism and rule of law. The prosecution of former President Donald Trump could mark the end of the era of safety.

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In this episode of “Top Story,” JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Senior Advisor to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Richard Goldberg, who proposes a complete reset of our relationship with the United Nations.

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It strengthened the prime minister at home and forced Biden to denounce the move. But the lawfare campaign to make Israel a pariah state is doing damage.

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In this episode of “Top Story,” JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Commentary magazine senior editor Seth Mandel to discuss the dangers inherent in woke ideologies like the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) mantra that seems to have taken institutions of higher learning, journalism and so much else by storm.

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By prioritizing false concerns about civilian casualties in Gaza, a chance to change Palestinian thinking and end the conflict in a more decisive way was lost.

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What happened at Haverford College is a case study in how respected liberal institutions are harming Jewish students. They need to be held accountable.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson, who is also the head of the Legal Insurrection Foundation, which advocates for free speech and Western values. Jacobson says that American universities are facing a complete lack of ideological diversity while colleges with conservative and pro-Israel professors are rapidly becoming extinct.

There’s no alternative to the alliance with the United States. But support from ordinary Americans and the GOP means it doesn’t have to sacrifice its security to please Biden.

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The post-Oct. 7 pro-Hamas protests and the resulting surge of antisemitism have shown, it is the idea of a Jewish state that’s under attack, not Israel’s policies or actions.

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Rather than acknowledge the link between woke ideology and hate, “The New York Times” tries to blame the problem on their conservative political foes.

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The arms cutoff shows that Washington wants to let Hamas win the war it started on Oct. 7. This will do incalculable harm to U.S. interests abroad and at home.

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Chaya Raichik, also known as Libs of TikTok, discusses her journey from being a regular person to becoming a prominent conservative influencer on social media. Despite receiving threats, being called slurs and being banned on social media. Raichik vows to continue to expose the radicalism - and the antisemitism of the left.

A presidential speech condemned past and present antisemitism. However, it contradicted policies aimed at letting the terrorists win and appeasing pro-Hamas voters.

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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 about Israel.

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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 dead wrong.

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Giving in to the mob’s demands for antisemitic divestment from Israel is further confirmation that some schools have become hostile environments for Jews.

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The presence of Jews among those demonstrating for Hamas and supporting the surge in antisemitism doesn’t vindicate the “pro-Palestine” cause.

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A passage in the Haggadah teaches that “in every generation, there are those who rise against us.” It has never been more relevant.

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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 evil.

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The strength of America’s commitment not to tolerate hate is being tested by liberals who are supporting pro-Hamas protesters spewing Jew-hatred.

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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.
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The Biden administration’s foreign policy has sown confusion among both friends and foes of America. What should the US policy be after Iran has attacked Israel in the biggest drone strike in history? Can Israel count on the US or must it face its enemies alone?

To discuss all this, JNS editor-in- chief Jonathan Tobin is joined with syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt. He explains that Biden's principle of non-escalation has led to disastrous consequences in Iran and Gaza.

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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 the conflicts are linked.

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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.

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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 same.

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The turn against the Jewish state has spread from “The Squad” to Joe Biden, with exceptions like Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman standing against the pro-Hamas tide.

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America is divided on many issues but none more so than on support for Israel with Democrats led by the Biden administration increasingly turning on the Jewish state since Oct. 7 while Republicans are backing it. Where and why is the democratic party turning away from Israel? Is the support among evangelical and conservative Christians rock solid or is it also wavering in the face of an unprecedented assault against the Jewish State?

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee to talk about current US/Israel relations and why he will always remain an unapologetic Zionist.

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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.

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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 them.

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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 with the Jewish state.

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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.

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According to the latest reports, 30,000 Gazans have been killed in Israel's war with Gaza, a majority being women and children. But are the numbers coming from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry correct? Are there obvious indications that these numbers are false? Moreover, do the numbers even matter or is this an emotional appeal to those already convinced that Israel is committing genocide?

To discuss all this, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Statistics Professor Abraham Wyner. They delve into why he thinks the numbers are obviously false and eaten up all to often by media eager to blame Israel.

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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 contemporary journalism.

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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.

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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 the public square.

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Oct. 7th has led to an upsurge in antisemitism and tensions in the decades-old alliance between Blacks and Jews in America. Moreover, leading African American voices like Candace Owens and Kanye West have pushed anti-Jewish tropes. Is the relationship irreparable? What can be done to combat antisemitism and the forces that are driving a wedge between the two communities.

To discuss all this, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Pastor Dumisani Washington, founder of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI). He unpacks how some in the black community have chosen to care more about the Palestinians than their own communities.

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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 is “really important.”

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The terrorists were certain that the West would save them from defeat in Gaza. The administration has now confirmed that they were right.

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Democrats are reminded that most Americans still support Israel, and that their stand is helping the GOP, which plans on inviting Netanyahu to address Congress.

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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.

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As the Biden administration becomes less and less supportive of Israel's war against Hamas does support for the Jewish state remain a bi-partisan issue? Is Sen. Chuck Schumer's speech a symptom much larger? Has the voter base of the Democratic party moved so far left that its politicians need to throw Israel under the bus to win votes?

To discuss all this, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Ari Fleischer who says that, contrary to the myth of the bipartisan consensus on Israel, there’s been a stark divide on support for the Jewish state between the parties for decades.

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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.

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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 Jewish state.

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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.

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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 Palestinians.

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The American Jewish community has been slow to realize that the real attacks against Jews and Israel are happening on campus and social media. What can be done to combat conspiracy theories and antisemitism online? How can we fight against hatred and attacks on campus?

JNS editor-in-chief speaks with influencer, star of Netflix's "Skin Decision" and activist Sheila Nazarian about the most effective way to stand for Israel on campus and online and what can be done to make a safer world for the next generation.

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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 appease the left.

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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.

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American liberalism isn’t defending Western civilization or effectively fighting antisemitism. The woke left and its apologists, not the political right, is the root of the problem.

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The president’s hyper-partisan address had more harsh words for Israel than Hamas, for whom he offered a floating pier. He said not a word about the surge in antisemitism.

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Why are the American foreign policy establishment and the Biden administration still peddling old, discredited ideas like the “two-state solution” that purport to be the formula to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by veteran diplomat and Tikvah Fund chairman Elliott Abrams to discuss where the push for Palestinian statehood is coming from and why Biden's Middle East policy is "so completely off base it's bizarre".

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Journalists and those who post on social media deny the atrocities of Oct. 7 because of the false narrative about Israel being a “settler-colonial” state that enables antisemitism.

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Instead of promoting a ceasefire and a Palestinian state to undermine Netanyahu, the message from Washington and Israeli politicians should be for Hamas to surrender.

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Harvard University’s shambolic attempt to investigate its own Jew-hatred is symptomatic of the grip that toxic leftist ideas have on higher education that must be challenged.

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What is behind the Biden administration's call for a ceasefire in the war against Hamas? Is US policy towards Israel shifting? Should aid to Israel be tied with aid to Ukraine?

To answer these crucial questions, JNS editor-in-chief speaks with The Federalist senior editor and author David Harsanyi.

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Pressure on Israel to agree to pay an exorbitant ransom for the hostages that will grant victory to Hamas isn’t just politically motivated. It’s a betrayal of American interests

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The expectation that the impact of the Oct. 7 attacks and a surge in antisemitism would prompt a shift in the way Jewish groups operate was probably misplaced.

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A poll shows New York Jews preferring Trump to Biden. Perhaps Democrats should be more concerned about the impact of left-wing antisemitism.

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The veto of a U.N. Security Council ceasefire revolution prevented the world body from dictating a Hamas victory. Still, the administration’s alternative is almost as dangerous.

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Why is the Biden administration verbally supporting Israel while hamstringing Israel's Rafah operation? Why is it vetoing a UN resolution for an immediate ceasefire while proposing a resolution that calls for one? Why has the Biden administration prioritized fighting against "settler violence" right after Israel has suffered the worst massacre since the Holocaust?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Jewish Policy Center Senior Director Shoshana Bryen to discuss Biden's two-faced policy in the Middle East.

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. 7 at Kfar Aza and 21 other Israeli communities when Palestinians associated with Hamas violated a ceasefire, crossed the border and murdered, raped, tortured and kidnapped people – are just details that act to incite the combatants.
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Abdullah Hammoud is able to make the White House shake while critics of his city’s cheerleading for mass murder are called Islamophobes.

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After Oct. 7th, antisemitism has skyrocketed around the world - in the streets, media and in public discourse. After decades of multi-million dollar campaigns and efforts by Jewish groups to educate people about the Holocaust and antisemitism, nothing seems to have helped. Why have they not succeeded and is there anything that can be done? Where is this antisemitism coming from?

To answer these questions and more, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with Indiana University’s Alvin Rosenfeld, one of the nation’s most eminent scholars of the study of antisemitism and the Holocaust.

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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 Washington’s feckless incompetence.

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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 president.

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Black pastors are pressuring President Joe Biden to save Hamas because they identify with “oppressed” Palestinians who launched a genocidal war, not a drive for civil rights.

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Slavery and sex trafficking have never ended in Africa. But while the human rights community seems obsessed with "genocide" in Palestine, no one really pays attention to the massive human rights violations happening to black people in Africa. Why are human rights groups so selective? Why does the media gravitate towards and champion the rights of some while others are ignored?

This week on Top Story, JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with the co-founder of Americans for Peace and Tolerance Charles Jacobs and executive director of the American Anti-Slavery Group Ben Poser, both of whom are involved in raising awareness of African slaves and freeing them in some cases.

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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 been to perpetuate the conflict.

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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 Million.

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Just like the international aid that built their tunnels, funds for Gaza civilians promoted by celebrities like Doug Emhoff’s daughter are helping terrorists.

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Why has there been so much silence and outright denial of Hamas crimes by purported women's rights groups? Why has the "MeToo" movement that pushed to "believe all women" not done the same for the women who were raped and abused by Palestinian attackers?

To discuss all this and more, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by groundbreaking psychologist and feminist author Phyllis Chesler who said the willingness to excuse crimes committed by those seeking to slaughter Jews is unsurprising.

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“The New York Times” presents IfNotNow activists as liberal idealists. But beneath the surface of their rhetoric is contempt for Jews and indifference to Jewish genocide.

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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 antisemitism.

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“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 cause.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by One America News channel anchor Stella Inger Escobedo to discuss how a biased media that has been indoctrinated by woke DEI ideology is destroying journalism and distorting the coverage of the post-Oct. 7 war against the Hamas terrorists.

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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 antisemitism.

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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 about the new rules.

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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 legitimization of Jew-hatred.

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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 politics.

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Since Oct. 7th, antisemitism has exploded on US college campuses with Jews and Israel being accused of being white oppressors and committing genocide. But is the problem worse than we think? Have the roots of antisemitic thinking and anti-Israel bias seeped into other parts of the American educational system?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Deborah Project Legal Director Lori Lowenthal Marcus to discuss all of this.

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As shocking incidents pile up and surveys show prejudice growing, the way woke ideology grants a permission slip for Jew-hatred cannot be ignored.

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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 continue to be ignored.

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Allegations that the battle against campus antisemitism at Harvard was “hijacked” by right-wingers or racists are false. Advocates of woke ideology are the real racists.

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Claudine Gay’s brief reign at the Ivy League institution illustrates everything that is wrong about the woke ideology dominating our culture, especially its enabling of antisemitism.

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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 20th century.

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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 war.

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Today’s antisemites are modeling their campaign on 1960s protesters, even though the two conflicts are very different. Still, the same toxic ideology influenced radicals of both eras.

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Since Oct. 7th, antisemitism has exploded in the United States with calls on the streets and on college campuses for attacks against Jews and the end of Israel. Has the place of the American Jew forever changed?

To answer this question, we take a look at another time when Jews faced antisemitism and discrimination in America's history. Jonathan Tobin is joined by historian Jeffrey Gurock of Yeshiva University whose new book, Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend, discusses the obstacles faced by Jews in that era.

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The stand of the former ADL and AJC heads against woke ideology is encouraging. But major Jewish organizations still back ideas that breed hate.

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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 nothing from Oct. 7.

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This week on Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin sat down with IDF Spokesperson Doron Spielman who has been at the front lines of the Israeli battle against Hamas.

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* the morale of the army and the Israeli people * the unwillingness of the international aid organizations to help the Gazan people on the ground * the immense efforts that the Israeli army makes to protect Gazan civilians * the cowardice of Hamas in refusing to fight Israel face-to-face.

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Troubling poll numbers among young voters point to a future where American exceptionalism ends and Jew-hatred is mainstreamed.

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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 won’t save Hamas.

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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 Palestinian terrorists.

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The woke ideologies that govern academia enable the antisemitism that the heads of Harvard, Penn and MIT refuse to say breaks their rules.

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Since October 7th when Israel was brutally attacked by terrorists, the script has been flipped and the media now portrays Israel as the aggressor, a killer of innocents, and conflates Israeli captives to Palestinian prisoners. How did we get here?

Newsweek opinion editor and author of one of the best books on how the media works "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy" Batya Ungar-Sargon joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss.

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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.

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A controversial presidential post on X highlighted the White House's attempts to simultaneously support Israel and signal its opposition to continue the fighting.

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Where is the explosion of antisemitism coming from and how can we defeat it? What will be the effect on terrorism worldwide if Israel doesn't defeat Hamas?

To answer this question, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by legal expert and author Alan Dershowitz, who has written a new book about the current conflict, War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism.

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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 Jew-hatred.

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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 just war.

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How strong is the progressive anti-Israel wing of the Democrats? What unites the two seemingly opposing Islamist and Leftist ideologies? What can be done to fight back against the antisemitism and the worldview that feeds into it?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin talks with journalist and author Ben Weingarten who predicted the rise of the progressive wing and the unholy alliance between Leftist and Islamist ideologies in his book "American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party"

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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.

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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 for another Oct. 7.

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Unlike most Republicans and their voters, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and friends are defending antisemites in the wake of Oct. 7. Do they have Trump’s ear?

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Facing immense national tragedy and a world that is more outraged by Israel's response to Oct. 7 than the slaughter itself, how can Israel survive? Does Israel have the national DNA that will allow it to unify and persevere?

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Dan Senor, co-author of the best-selling book Start-Up Nation and the just released "The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World."

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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 woke ideology that created it.

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Revolts among Biden’s State Department and congressional staffers against support for the Jewish state are a harbinger of the collapse of a bipartisan pro-Israel consensus.

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Documentation that freelance photographers working for mainstream outlets helped facilitate the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre shows why coverage of Israel has always been skewed.

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What is Israel up against in the war against Hamas? Even if Israel is winning on the battlefield, are we losing the information war? In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Tal Heinrich, spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They discuss
* the war goals of Iron Swords * the information battle happening on the airwaves and on the streets of America * Israel's hope and unity in destroying Hamas and winning the war.

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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 Klan members.

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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 blood on his hands.

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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 Hamas.

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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 the surge in antisemitism.

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Is Israel violating international law in Gaza? Is Israel responsible for the Gazan people? Does Israel have an obligation to rescue the hostages?

On this week's Top Story, Jonathan Tobin is joined by Eugene Kontorovich, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Middle East and International Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University,

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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.

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It’s time to stop pretending that those who march to defend Hamas or advocate for Israel’s destruction are defending human rights.

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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 shooting.

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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 guarantee of support.

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Comments by Secretary-General António Guterres are the latest instance of how the world body sanctions antisemitism and lends legitimacy to a Palestinian victimhood narrative that has no basis in truth.

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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.

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Is Western 'peacemaking' in the Middle East perpetuating the Arab-Israeli conflict? Has the refusal by the West to see the evil of Hamas backfired? This week, Jonathan is joined by author and journalist Melanie Phillips.

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Those opposing a Gaza ground invasion aimed at the terrorist group’s destruction cite humanitarian concerns. Such appeals will only preserve a criminal regime.

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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 this only leads to disaster.

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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 change in the coming weeks?

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Hamas attacked Israel last week almost 50 years to the day of the Yom Kippur War. Are there parallels between the two attacks? Has Israel made the same mistakes? Should Israel's response be similar?

On this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin talks with Uri Kaufman, author of the new book "Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East".

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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 mass slaughter of Jews.

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Suffering in Gaza is real, though the false victimhood narrative gives Hamas benefits and deflects attention from saving the hostages and defeating the terrorists.

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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 atrocities.

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Will Hezbollah join the war against Israel? Has US foreign policy led to the emboldening of terrorists in the region? Is the most brutal attack on Jews since the Holocaust a simple outgrowth of Palestinian culture and education?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Hezbollah expert Tony Badran.

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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 is accomplished.

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The community that rallied behind the Jewish state in 1967 and 1973 no longer exists. Can once formidable Jewish groups provide wartime leadership?

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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 counter-attack proceeds?

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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 profit from their crimes.

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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.

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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.

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The cheers for a collaborator highlighted something the media and foreign-policy establishment are ignoring: Ukrainian nationalism’s ongoing antisemitism problem.

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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 historical stock.

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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 which secular “pro-democracy” protesters disrupted a prayer service in Dizengoff Square.

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Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman talks about his new movie "Route 60: The Biblical Highway" and the sacrifice that Israel should NOT make for the sake of peace.

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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 on campuses.

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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 liberal ideologues.

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A High Holiday message from editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin.

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Did Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer tell the truth about the nuclear scientist? Also, Is the communist ideology alive and well in today's politics?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with historian Harvey Klehr about the movie “Oppenheimer” and the legacy of American Communism.

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Join the editor of JNS in guessing what will happen in the New Year.

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 different goals.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin conducts a wide-ranging special interview with former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

They discuss
* If US elections are actually fair * Domestic and foreign threats facing the United States * His controversial comments on the Holocaust and how America should have "one religion" * The US/Israel relationship under Biden

and much more in this unedited raw interview.

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 threatening free speech.

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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 and evil.

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The Jewish groups that welcomed a letter from Gov. Gavin Newsom about avoiding bigotry are betraying the community. The courses are an invitation to antisemitism.

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At a time of such division, it has never been more timely to look back at the roots and history of Zionism.

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by author Rick Richman who discusses his new book, And None Shall Make Them Afraid: Eight Stories of the Modern State of Israel.

They discuss
* how two compatible ideologies, Zionism and Americanism, helped create a free and democratic state of Israel. * our misunderstanding of key figures like Theodor Herzl, Ze'ev Jabitinisky and others. * why this history is so important for today.

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 state.

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The epic hit “Oppenheimer” and the new documentary “A Compassionate Spy” illustrate the moral blindness of treating Stalinism as a reasonable choice

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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 for a Palestinian right to terror.

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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 a mistake.

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Is Israel ignoring its existential problems? Has Israel swept its problems under the rug for the political needs of the here and now?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the problems facing Israel as it heads towards its 100th birthday with historian and former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren. He is the author of the new book 2048: The Rejuvenated State, a manifesto about how the Jewish state can deal with a long list of existential challenges including those brought to the fore by the divisions over judicial reform.

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.

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Even normally serious people are looking for antisemitism in the wrong places. Misplaced anger about a movie undermines the fight against genuine Jew hatred.

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What is true Jewish leadership? Have we been thinking about our Jewish heroes all wrong?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the essence of Jewish leadership with Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, the author of Providence and Power: 10 Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship.

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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 ideology.

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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 the answer.

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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 and judicial reform.

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Is the Israeli left by refusing to serve in the military holding the country hostage? Have we seen this before?
In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the battle over judicial reform with Dr. Iddo Netanyahu, the physician and playwright who is the younger brother of the prime minister and the hero of Entebbe, Yoni Netanyahu.

They discuss
* the real issues underlying the battle for judicial reform * the United States and American Jewry and what their place is, if any, in the current crisis * the history of the left in Israel and how it impacts today * Iddo's personal history in being a part of one of Israel's most illustrious and controversial families.

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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 the alliance.

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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?

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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 see it as a trap, not a favor.

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Has any President ever failed so thoroughly domestically and internationally as Joe Biden?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin talks with the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel, author of the new book, "The Biden Malaise: How America bounces back from Joe Biden’s Dismal Repeat of the Jimmy Carter Years".

They discuss
* Comparing and contrasting the circumstances and policies of the Carter and Biden administrations * How culture wars are NOT the way to win the presidency and were not why people loved Donald Trump * Could another Ronald Reagan exist again and would he even win?

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 against children.

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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 delegitimize fellow Jews.

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Four toxic elements are coming together to create a rising tide of antisemitism.

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the factors fueling a rising tide of antisemitism around the globe with scholar Richard Landes, author of the book "Can The Whole World Be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism and Global Jihad."
They discuss:
- The intertwining of far-left ideology and Islamist worldview
- How the media has paved the way for lies and propaganda to enter the mainstream

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 contempt.

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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.

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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 diversity racket.

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While progressives flirt with “racist state” smears, Biden blackmails Netanyahu with talk of ending the alliance. Both show the impending crack-up of the bipartisan consensus.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discussed the debate over judicial reform in Israel as well as the way American intervention in the controversy – both from the Biden administration and from U.S. Jews — Aylana Meisel, the founder of Tikvah Fund Israel’s Law and Liberty Forum.

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 Jew-hatred.

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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 on this issue?

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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 Netanyahu, then it will be a betrayal of his office.

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The president’s latest shot at the Israeli government as “extreme” is hypocritical and inaccurate. The Palestinians remain the obstacle to peace.

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Smearing the parental-rights organization as a pro-Hitler hate group demonstrates the stupidity of current public discourse and the partisan manipulation of the Jewish community.

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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 nightmare into reality?

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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 them.

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Why have liberal Jewish groups protested the Supreme Court decisions that favor religious freedom and meritocracy?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discussed the hypocrisy of liberals who support the independence of Israel’s out-of-control Supreme Court but want to impeach the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court. He also spoke with law professor and LegalInsurrection.com founder William Jacobson about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions on affirmative action, free speech and curbing the power of the executive to cancel student loans.

The civilizational struggle in which the left has cast the United States as an irredeemably racist nation holds important stakes for the Jewish people.

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Has this crucial aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict been left out of the discussion?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin spoke with Farley Weiss and Leonard Grunstein, the authors of a new book about the battle to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Because It’s Just Right: The Untold Backstory of the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving the US embassy to Jerusalem.

Why is the US Jewish Establishment focused on causes that have so little to do with Jews? Has the Jewish leadership betrayed the Jewish community?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin spoke with Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser, editors of a new collection of essays titled Betrayal: the Failure of American Jewish Leadership to discuss these issues.

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 price to make it happen.

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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 politicians.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin spoke with Tablet Magazine’s Liel Leibovitz who argues that the battle over Israeli judicial reform is an “existential crisis” and not just a political dispute about Netanyahu or the Supreme Court. Is Israel to be a Jewish state or a state for the Jews?
They also discuss a recent article penned by Leibovitz in which he described the rise of woke ideology about race and especially sex and gender as a new form of “paganism.”

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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 defend freedom.

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Depicting harsh criticism of the billionaire as akin to traditional conspiracy theories remains a partisan talking point. Defending him endangers Jewish and American lives.

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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 be ignored.

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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 accountability.

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Are the policies of equity, diversity quotas and defunding the police really helping Black people?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discussed the new secular religion of anti-racism and the woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) with Heather Mac Donald, author of the new book, "When Race Trumps Merit: How The Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty and Threatens Lives".

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 Jew-hatred.

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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 should take note.

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Organizing Zoom programs for Jewish students and those seeking Israel’s destruction is anti-Israel activism, not giving youth the information they’re being denied elsewhere.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin talks with columnist Stella Morabito about her new book “The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide and Conquer”.

Morabito outlines how the pandemic highlighted the way isolation could induce Americans to abandon their belief in individual rights. Was this an isolated incident? Are there other examples where ideologues have used isolation and the fear of being canceled to get society to conform? Is there a pattern that is repeating itself?

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 conflict, not democracy.

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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. Apologies for these lies won’t suffice.

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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 and wrong.

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President Joe Biden may have come into office as a purported foreign policy expert but according to JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin he’s maintained his streak of being wrong on every issue for the last half-century.

Tobin is joined by Hudson Institute scholar Michael Doran to talk about the far-reaching consequences of Biden's weakness.

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.

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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.

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The community relations umbrella group has broken from the Federations, and has now chosen a veteran of J Street and progressive Democratic politics.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discussed the coronation of Britain’s King Charles and its significance for the larger struggle for Western civilization with British journalist and JNS columnist Melanie Phillips.

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 a century-old war against the Jews.

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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 has to stop.

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New report details how Muslim hate groups have rebranded themselves as intersectional allies to Jewish left-wingers.

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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 combating antisemitism.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discussed the partisan divide over Israel with former Senator Norm Coleman, who is currently national chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
They discuss
* Polling suggesting how Democrats have stopped supporting Israel * How and why this has happened? * The dire state of campuses for Jews and Pro-Zionists. * Coleman's journey from progressive to Republican

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 prejudice.

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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.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the way American Jewish groups are recklessly intervening in Israel’s political battle over judicial reform.

He also speaks with journalist Heather Robinson on
* What is the role of American Jews vis-a-vis Israeli government policy? * Can the struggle for judicial reform and the opposition in Israel be compared to the American political landscape? * Tucker Carlson’s firing at Fox News * The shift in American culture to reliance on government

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 anymore.

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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 state.

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As the debate about Netanyahu and judicial reform heats up, the umbrella group of Jewish Federations is showing less restraint about intervening in Israeli politics. That’s a mistake.

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JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by scholar and host of Young Heretics podcast Spencer Klavan, author of the new book "How to Save the West, Ancient Wisdom for Five Modern Crises".
Klavan posits that at a time when free speech and basic principles of equality and liberty are under attack from woke progressives, the best answer to the crisis may not be so much political as it is educational and spiritual.

They discuss
* science, politics and woke ideology replacing G-d in society * the relevance and importance of ancient philosophy and faith to contemporary problems. * the riches of Western civilization must be embraced rather than tossed aside.

The disgraced former governor of New York is hoping anti-woke stands and Jewish support can fuel a comeback. Does he deserve it?

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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 Soros.

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Museums, archives of testimonies and educational efforts preserved the survivors’ legacy. Still, that won’t counter contemporary antisemitic hatred and disinformation.

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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 lies about Zionism.

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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 anti-Zionist lies.

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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 its weakness.

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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 Haggadah.

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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 down foes.

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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.

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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 after 2016. It won’t end well.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with Kohelet Policy Forum founding chairman Moshe Koppel about the group’s efforts to promote judicial reform in Israel.
What’s next for the Kohelet foundation? Will judicial reform ever happen?
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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 stop until they get one.

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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 U.S.-Israel relations are ominous.

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Despite the natural sympathy for a dying man, the revisionist attempt to erase his failures and their consequences should not prevail.

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The ADL’s attempt to inject the question of antisemitism into the debate over a potential indictment of the former president undermines the real battle against Jew-hatred.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with JNS columnist Ruthie Blum about the ongoing fight over judicial reform in Israel. Blum says the point of the pushback against the reforms isn’t just to topple Netanyahu. They’re also attacking his voters. She characterized the battle over the issue as one that wasn’t solely one about religion but also about class and income and to ensure that Israel’s working class and religious voters are shut out of power indefinitely.

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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 Jewish state.

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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 orthodoxies.

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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 Accords.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak who discussed the famous insight of the publication’s founder Andrew Breitbart about “politics being downstream of culture.” In this far-reaching interview, they discuss
* Why do liberal Jewish institutions only see antisemitism on one side? * How the ADL has made common cause with hate groups and exaggerated antisemitism statistics to justify its existence * Addressing accusations against Breitbart of antisemitism and being part of the alt-right. * Pollak’s view on the current protests against legal reform in Israel.

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The debate over an open-ended commitment to Ukraine isn’t the place for Neville Chamberlain analogies.

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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 national agenda.

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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 mission.

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As leftist ideology dominates classrooms, red states are giving parents the chance to escape government-run education. That could change the map of Jewish America.

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Do Jews have a role to play in saving Western civilization? Can Jewish values pave the way to repairing today’s society?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with Tikvah Fund executive director Eric Cohen who argues that “the West and Israel are under assault.” Part of the answer must be a revival of classical Jewish education that will allow Jews, "to contribute to the renewal and strengthening of American culture at a moment when it needs Hebraic remedies for some of our woke disorders”.

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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 from their homes.

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Groups claim that they are trying to “save” Israeli democracy. But their support for extreme rhetoric aims at toppling a democratically elected government and aids anti-Zionists.

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A bid to strengthen the Taylor Force Act that penalizes the Palestinian Authority’s “pay for slay” policy is necessary. But the administration is still evading the law in other ways.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with historian Oren Kessler, the author of the new book, Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict. While Tobin puts the recent surge of Palestinian terror and Jewish debate about how best to respond to it in the context of the history of the conflict, Kessler explains that the events of the 1930s should help inform our understanding of the recent history of the conflict.

Jews who rioted in Huwara following a terror attack have been rightly condemned. But why do the world and the Biden administration still tolerate Palestinian terrorism?

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One year after the Russian invasion, it’s not apparent whether the emphasis on bolstering Kyiv is deterring or emboldening both Iran and China.

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An Internet announcement is troubling, but the idea of Jews cowering in response and the mainstreaming of antisemitism by the corporate media is the real problem.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with authors Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz about their new book, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation. The two, who are both journalists and mothers, discussed how the coronavirus pandemic weaponized the woke left’s efforts to use tactics to silence dissent.

Both point out that the easiest victims for those seeking to impose essential racist ideas like those of critical race theory and other leftist doctrines on the country are its children who are being discouraged from the independent thinking that is essential for a healthy democracy. They each say that developing a will to resist this assault on Western values and a culture of conformity is essential. As Markowicz says, “We all need to put up a fight and we need to start now.”

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https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Youth-Progressives-Replacing-Radicalism/dp/1956007083

Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

Helen Mirren is a wonderful actress, but her claim that she understands Golda’s “world” or the contemporary debate about Israel’s Supreme Court is pure bunk.

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The accelerated plans to put the DEI catechism at the center of government mandates undermine the goal of equality and give a boost to woke antisemitism.

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Poll results demonstrate an understanding that Jew-hatred is grown. But thanks to misperceptions, mistakes and failed leadership, efforts to counter this trend are failing.

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Palestinian terrorism and disinterest in a two-state solution ensure that peace is impossible. But the United States and its allies prefer to focus on Israeli housing starts.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with law professor and author David Bernstein about his new book, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America.

According to Berstein, the hope that America might transcend its past history of racial division is being prevented by the efforts of critical race theorists and the vast number of people who benefit from efforts to make racial divisions permanent.
They discuss
* The racist roots of US race classifications

The need to separate government from race
The permission slip race ideology gives to anti-Semitism

Check out Prof. Bernstein’s book - Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America https://www.amazon.com/Classified-Untold-Racial-Classification-America/dp/1637581734

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Israeli elites have mobilized to attempt to essentially overturn last November’s Knesset election results. Foreign friends who help them shouldn’t pretend it’s about democracy.

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Despite provocation by the Shas Party, the prime minister demonstrates that gloomy predictions about Israel becoming the next Iran are baseless.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with journalist Tom Gross about the biased coverage of Israel as well as the debate about the Netanyahu government’s proposals for judicial reform.

Some well-known writers and publications aren’t just gaslighting the world about judicial reform. They’re also playing into the hands of their country’s foes.

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Israel’s foreign minister shouldn’t pay Ukraine’s price for a photo op with Zelenskyy.

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The partisan split on booting the congresswoman from committees is more than a symptom of political civil war. It illustrates the normalization of anti-Zionism.

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JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with Middle East Forum President Daniel Pipes who believes that the failure of Israel and its supporters to insist that the Palestinians concede defeat in their efforts to destroy the Jewish is the reason why the conflict continues. Pipes also argues that the main challenge to Israel is not Palestinian terrorism, terrible though it may be. Palestinian ability to generate “toxic hostility among leftists who accept the “Palestinian narrative at the UN and other international forums that have as their goal making it a pariah state,” is a much greater strategic threat.

The acceptance of the “Palestinian narrative” among left-wing elites and those who wish to do harm to the Jewish state is a problem to which Israelis are not paying enough attention.

Blinken’s call for “calm” and thinly veiled swipe at Israel’s judicial-reform plan will encourage more Palestinian terror and greater unrest in Israel.

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The anti-Bibi resistance at home is helping foes abroad blame the Netanyahu government, not the terrorists, for the Jerusalem massacre.

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While the world honors the Holocaust, outrage over calls for the murder of Jews at the University of Michigan is mocked as evidence that Jews are “snowflakes.”

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with entrepreneur and philanthropist Bernie Marcus, the founder of the Home Depot chain of stores, to his new book, Kick Up Some Dust: Lessons on Thinking Big, Giving Back, and Doing It Yourself. Marcus believes that Americans need to rediscover capitalism and hard work and reject woke socialist myths.

He’s just as angry about what he considers self-destructive behavior on the part of American Jews, who continue to support institutions and universities that promote woke antisemitism. “Jews are not the brightest people in the world,” asserts Marcus. Just as dangerous is the fact that groups that are supposed to be defending Jewish interests, like the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee, are, he says, “not pulling their weight,” when it comes to fighting antisemitism. He is equally outraged by anti-Israel organizations like J Street. Jews, he said, need to wake up and begin to defend their interests just as Americans need to reject the left’s toxic ideas.

The U.S. decision to strip arms stockpiles stored in the Jewish state to resupply Kiev’s forces in its deadlocked fight with Moscow is a gamechanger. Why is no one protesting?

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By bending its knee to pressure from Israel-bashers and their media cheerleaders, the school demonstrated the moral bankruptcy of elite universities. Jews should take note.

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Both men want to keep disputes between them private. But sympathy for the anti-Bibi resistance and differences over Iran could change that.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with legal expert Jerome Marcus about the controversy over plans to reform Israel’s judiciary. The two take a deep dive into the almost unlimited power that the Israeli Supreme Court has seized.

They also talk about the need for legislation that would restore some checks and balances to a system where the justices have given themselves the right to interfere in virtually every aspect of Israeli life on the basis of nothing more than their own idea about what is “reasonable.”

In Marcus’ view the impetus for this judicial power grab is the belief by secular liberal elites that they have the right to impose their supposedly more “enlightened” beliefs on the country’s right-wing and religious majority. “The secular left thinks Israel is illegitimate if they’re not running things,” says Marcus.

The apocalyptic rhetoric about Netanyahu’s government and its judicial-reform proposal is about maintaining the power of a minority and thwarting democracy, not protecting it.

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Denying a fellowship to the man who transformed Human Rights Watch into an anti-Zionist propaganda machine is justified, not a blow to free speech.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with historian Gil Troy about the legacy of Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement and critiques how understanding his journey can help inform our view of Israel today.

Tobin and Troy discuss Herzl’s relevance to contemporary Jewish life as well as the way it should influence our view of Jewish nationalism, which is not only justified but a positive force in the world. Troy also dismisses the “chicken little” hysteria from some of the new Israeli government’s critics who are wrongly claiming that the sky is falling on Israeli democracy, a stand that isn’t justified by the facts.

The new Speaker of the House has good reason to boot the antisemitic congresswoman from the Foreign Affairs Committee.

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Millions of economic migrants crossing the U.S. southern border want a better life. But most are neither refugees nor analogous to Jews fleeing Nazi slaughter.

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The Biden administration and leftist groups insist that Israel pave the way for Palestinian sovereignty. But broad support for anti-Jewish terrorism explains why it’s a non-starter.

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Read Jonathan Tobin's column here: https://www.jns.org/opinion/what-killed-the-two-state-solution-cheers-and-cash-for-terrorists/

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with Malcolm Hoenlein, vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, about the uproar over Israel’s new government and the surge in antisemitism. Tobin argues that there are three reasons why the predictions that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition will cause permanent damage to the U.S.-Israel alliance and the relationship between the Jewish state and American Jewry are overblown.

Hoenlein points out that successful efforts to achieve Jewish unity shouldn’t be underestimated. He also pointed out that a lot of the rhetoric about antisemitism is misplaced, declaring, “I’m tired of memorials for dead Jews. I'm tired of how good the world is at expressing regret. I want it to stand up for living Jews and living Jewish state.”

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Worries about terrorism, the alienation of allies and international condemnations are real. But denying Hamas a veto over Jerusalem and asserting Jewish rights also brings benefits.

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The Ukrainian president bartered opposition to an antisemitic resolution to pressure Netanyahu to join the war against Russia. The prime minister was right to say “no.”

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Most Americans don’t like the Jewish state’s new government. But it still deserves their support against those who work to undermine and destroy it.

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JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with author and JNS columnist Fiamma Nirenstein about antisemitism in Europe. Nirenstein says that accusations about new Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni being an antisemite or fascist are untrue. She argues that the left now constitutes a greater threat to Jews than the right.

In her view, the United Nations is a factory for antisemitism and the so-called “human rights” organizations are spewing lies about Israel and the Palestinians. The writer says the future of Jews in Europe is problematic. “I’m always pessimistic about the future of Jews outside of Israel.” Nirenstein also believes that the left’s control of popular culture outlets as well as much of the media accounts for the growth of anti-Zionism among the general populations in Europe as well as undermining Jewish support for Israel.

A false narrative about the new government’s extremism, spread by both Lapid and left-wing rabbis, will aid the cause of anti-Zionists, not just Netanyahu’s critics.

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Antisemitism of all sorts, Bibi, Ben-Gvir, Zelenskyy and, of course, Trump, owned the headlines in a year full of surprising twists and some names that just don’t go away.

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JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with Commentary magazine executive editor Abe Greenwald about the future of conservatism. They discuss the need for Republicans to get to the post-Trump era as soon as possible while holding on to his populist spirit and not reverting to the policies of the failed establishment the former president displaced. Both think that Trump was the only person who could re-elect Biden in 2024.

Going into the Trump-Kanye West controversy, Greenwald says he was particularly troubled by Dave Chapelle’s Saturday Night Live monologue on the subject in part because of the way it ignored African-American violence against Jews. But more than that, Chapelle said Jews shouldn’t blame blacks for their problems. That was, Greenwald says, “preposterous,” because it was West who blamed the Jews for his problems.

The JCPA used to pretend to work for communal interests while promoting partisan political causes. Now it’s steering the Jews down a woke path of self-destruction.

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After leftists spent two months claiming outrage over groups vowing never to let Zionists speak on campus was overblown, the Department of Education is investigating.

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The festival of lights needs to be celebrated as a fight against the idols of woke popular culture, not a blue-tinsel version of Christmas.

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We now know that Twitter shut down coverage of stories and muted conservatives—and the ADL was all for it.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer about the war in Ukraine. While both condemn Russia’s illegal and brutal aggression, they note the widespread acceptance of the notion that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a defender of democracy and freedom even though his government is actually engaging in repression of dissent and religious freedom.

The two break down the way politics and the Russia collusion hoax have worked to influence American opinion about the need for America to fund the war rather than seeking to stop it. Zelenskyy and Ukraine’s dubious comments about the Holocaust and pressure campaign to force Israel to join the war are also discussed They then turn to the rise in antisemitism in the United States and the tragic failure of the Anti-Defamation League.

The autobiography of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister demonstrates everything we like and dislike about him, but also explains why he remains necessary.

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The ADL and other liberals mistakenly believe critiques of efforts to undermine national sovereignty and pushing woke leftist policies are always about Jew-hatred.

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The embrace of the Palestinian cause by Morocco’s team and many Arab fans shows the gap between their governments’ appreciation of Israel and popular opinion.

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The left-wing lobby’s conference was a reminder that the group isn’t just irrelevant to Middle East realities; it’s also at war with the interests of the people of the Jewish state.

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In this week’s episode of “Top Story,” JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with former Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Tevi Troy about the failures of the public health bureaucracy during the Covid pandemic as well as the damage done to children by school closures that were supported and extended by teachers’ unions. Troy also notes that states where people valued “liberty” and had a “lighter touch” on lockdowns generally fared better during the pandemic than those states that had a heavy-handed approach.

The two then discuss the growing problem of antisemitism. Troy notes it has four sources: Anti-Israel hysteria from the left, white nationalists on the far right, Muslim antisemitism that is rooted in hate for Israel and the one that “liberals really don’t want to talk about: African-American antisemitism.” Troy also points out that the Anti-Defamation League has “fallen down on the job” in dealing with this problem because it is only focused on hate on the right.

Few still oppose gay marriage. But if the state can force even creative artists to celebrate it, no one’s rights to religious liberty are safe.

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The focus on Kanye West should lead to a discussion about the acceptance of hate among African-Americans and the bizarre alliance of far-left and far-right, not partisan bickering.

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The goal of those going all out to sabotage the prospective Netanyahu government is to advance their failed agendas on peace with the Palestinians, not protect democracy.

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In this week’s episode of “Top Story,” JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with legal expert and author Thane Rosenbaum about how best to defend free speech while also pushing back against the mainstreaming of antisemites.

Tobin and Rosenbaum talk about the need to rein in Big Tech Internet companies and social media platforms to prevent them from using their unprecedented monopoly power to skew debates and even elections as happened with the suppression of Biden family corruption stories in 2020.

Kyiv is right to ask that Stalin’s terror famine be recognized as genocide. But it should be equally honest about those who collaborated with Hitler.

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The former president’s dinner with Jew-haters was a blow to efforts to combat antisemitism. His erstwhile allies can’t mince words about it.

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In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with critic, historian and novelist Michael Walsh, the editor of the new book “Against the Great Reset: 8 Theses Contra The New World Order.” It discusses the efforts of the World Economic Forum and the Davos set that attends the group’s influential annual conference to reshape society to conform to the dictates of woke ideology, radical environmentalism and socialism.

Few Jewish programs have been as effective as the one that takes young people on trips to Israel. Those who care about Jewish life need to act to prevent cutbacks.

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It’s not protesting misinformation; it doesn’t want a public square where opposing views can be heard, which is bad for democracy and Jewish security.

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Most Israelis don’t care about the talk of moves that upset the non-Orthodox. But even if many U.S. Jews are failing Israel, abandoning the largest Diaspora community is self-defeating.

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In this week’s episode of “Top Story,” JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with columnist Ruthie Blum about the fallout from both the Israeli election and the American midterm elections. Blum says Israel is ready for a shift in policy on dealing with terrorism and crime as well as judicial reform from a new government led by Benjamin Netanyahu.

The two argue that a main challenge for Netanyahu will be dealing with the Biden administration’s commitment to a policy of appeasing Iran, even though the regime there is tottering. They also discuss former President Donald Trump’s prospects in the 2024 presidential race agreeing that his ego-driven attacks on fellow Republicans have undermined his case for leadership of the GOP.

Zelenskyy’s two-faced stand illustrates both his own hypocrisy and how the world body acts as a toxic cesspool of hate.

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The comedian is right that we need to stop trying to cancel and fire those who say offensive things. But his SNL monologue ignored the truth about a major source of hate.

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The claim that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government will make life hard for Diaspora Jews ignores what motivates Zionism’s foes and other anti-Semites.

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JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with journalist Heather Robinson to break down the midterm election results with particular emphasis on races in New York and Pennsylvania that she covered for JNS.

The two analyze the failure of the GOP to do as well as expected in the midterms. Robinson discusses how the abortion issue may have influenced the votes of Jewish women as well as other factors that allowed Democrats to hold on in the Northeast.

Tobin and Robinson also break down the impact of the results on the 2024 presidential race and how Republican Jews will be faced with a choice as to whether to support former President Donald Trump because of his pro-Israel record or to embrace Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Democrats won the expectations game as a red wave didn’t materialize. But the results mean divided government and a worsening political tribal culture war.

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Israel continues to help Kyiv, but Zelenskyy’s escalating campaign to scapegoat the Jewish state will only escalate as Netanyahu takes office.

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Hyperbolic predictions of the end of democracy if Republicans win the midterms encourage extremism and conspiracy theories that fuel anti-Semitism.

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Democratic Party talking points about a supposed threat to democracy from the right may be the cause of the surge in American-Jewish hysteria about Netanyahu’s partners.

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Democrats don’t want Netanyahu or a right-wing/religious government in Jerusalem. But what they really don’t want is for the Jewish state’s voters to determine their own fate.

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JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin and JNS columnist/author Ruthie Blum discuss the Israeli election results and what they mean for the future of Israel.

The ability of woke leftists to enshrine the toxic myths of CRT is on the line at the Supreme Court as it debates discriminatory admissions.

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Anti-Semites want to take advantage of the platform, but efforts by liberal groups like the ADL to promote censorship of political speech are undermining, rather than defending, democracy.

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Why is coverage of certain issues—like Israel—so one-sided? The midterm election once again proved that many reporters suppress the truth to bolster their position in any dispute. Listen to the full story right now!

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, author of a new book on media bias about how a partisan and untrustworthy press is not only destroying journalism but driving Americans further apart.

Tobin and Fleischer discuss how a biased mainstream legacy media is dominated by liberals who think alike and have lost interest in objective reporting. Instead, they engage in political activism, causing them to fail to understand the rest of the country. This trend has also enabled anti-Semitism since the left-wing acceptance of critical race theory and intersectionality has both undermined faith in the media and prioritized identity politics. Fleischer also makes predictions about the midterms and the 2024 presidential election.

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks about the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism on both ends of the political spectrum. He singled out the way popular podcaster Joe Rogan gave a platform to BDS advocate Roger Waters and Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson gave an hour of his program to Kanye West, an open anti-Semite as examples of how tropes of Jew-hatred are being showcased as legitimate discourse on popular sites.

He’s then joined by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs’ Yossi Kuperwasser. The two discussed how the recent Israeli maritime deal with Lebanon is a case of the Jewish state “paying protection” to terrorists rather than making peace as well as the conflict with the Palestinians and nuclear negotiations with Iran.

In this week’s episode of “Top Story,” JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior fellow Behnam Ben Taleblu about the fallout from the protests against the Iranian theocratic government’s despotic rule and the ongoing efforts of the Biden administration to reach a nuclear deal with the regime.

Tobin and Taleblu both discuss how the lip service being paid to the demonstrations by women and others against the regime’s “morality police” by President Joe Biden is contradicted by American nuclear diplomacy that is aimed at empowering and enriching the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.

JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with Zionist Rabbinic Coalition Founder Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt.

The two speak about the troubling shift in the American rabbinate. Weinblatt warns that there are rabbis who are afraid to speak out in favor of Israel. He then explains that just as rabbinical seminaries would not admit a racist, a homophobe or a misogynist, they should not accept anyone who doesn’t believe in Jewish peoplehood and the importance of Israel.

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with LegalInsurrecution.com’s William Jacobson about the Anti-Defamation League’s betrayal of its mission by including critical race theory teachings in the curricula it distributes in schools as part of its anti-hate programs. These toxic ideas are linked to anti-Semitism and hatred for Israel.

They discussed how the ADL has changed into a functional arm of the Democratic Party in recent years and become more focused on demonizing conservatives and staying in sync with liberal political fashion than in fighting anti-Semitism.

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone, who served in the Trump administration helping to bring about the Abraham Accords and the author of a new memoir about his experiences.

They discussed the fate of the Abraham Accords under a disinterested Biden administration and the threat of a new Iran nuclear deal. “My concern isn't whether or not the Biden administration wants to support the Abraham accords, but do they want to give $250 billion to Iran?" Furthermore, he asserts that the US is in fact the only country really pushing Iran to join the deal and provide a path to a nuclear missile.

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with columnist and author David Harsanyi about unjust Biden administration policies that hurt the working class and help the well-off and the rise of anti-Semitism on the left.

Harsanyi called President Joe Biden’s student loan bailout “Robin Hood in reverse.” He also said that Jewish groups' embrace of such unjust policies showed that they are “the same as the Democratic Party” and laments the rise of anti-Semitism on the left.

In this week’s episode, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with veteran Supreme Court litigator Nathan Lewin about the court’s recent decisions defending religious freedom.

According to Tobin, liberal Jewish groups are opposing the court’s stand due to partisan politics and their fear of allowing faith in the public square.

Lewin decried the willingness of Jewish groups to prioritize liberal social issues like abortion over the interests of the community, such as support for day schools and Israel as “degrading Judaism.” He also said that acceptance of woke ideas like critical race theory that oppose the principle of equal opportunity is dangerous for society as well as the Jews.

In this week’s episode of “Top Story,” JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with Matthew Continetti, author of “The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism.”

The two discuss the history of conservatism, as well as the way the rise of former President Donald Trump and his populist approach to politics can be traced to trends that were part of the debate between the various strands of the movement.

While the Left takes it as a given that the Right, especially under the leadership of Trump, embraces extremism, conspiracy theories and anti-Semitism, he said that these traits exist on both ends of the political spectrum.

Continetti argued that “the biggest threat to American support for Israel, to Israel's legitimacy and I think to the success of the American Jewish community does come from the Left today and not from the Right.”

The notion that Jews are manipulating U.S. foreign policy against American interests is false but also the product of ignorance, explains Walter Russell Mead, the author of The Arc of a Covenant: The United Israel and the Fate of the Jewish People.

He joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin this week to discuss how misperceptions of Jewish power are both an anti-Semitic trope and a misplaced belief in the centrality of Israel or Zionism. In fact, other nations and leaders are almost always pursuing their own interests.

Even many Jews believe that supporters of Israel influence events when the decisions of each president, including the search for the “holy grail” of Middle East peace. are motivated by domestic concerns and not either a conspiracy or an exercise in Jewish power.

In this week’s episode, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks with Batya Ungar-Sargon, author of “ad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy.” The two discuss how the shift away from objectivity to open left-wing bias on the part of the mainstream media is motivated not just by ideology but also by a desire for profit.

Ungar-Sargon explained that the embrace of toxic leftist theories about race by young journalists dovetails with the desire of leading outlets like The New York Times to market itself to elites. This has led to the near-total erasure of working-class Americans and their concerns from the news pages. But it has also done the same for Jews, who are falsely classified as White oppressors.

In this week’s episode JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses how former President Donald Trump’s firing of the foreign policy establishment and disdain for the failed policies of his predecessors was the factor that made the breakthrough to the Abraham Accords possible.

According to Tobin, though those experts disdained Trump, his achievements were too important for President Biden to overturn them.

He’s joined by Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East and the author of a new memoir about his experiences that set the stage for the Abraham Accords.

Greenblatt explained the success of the Trump administration’s Middle East efforts by pointing to the way the experts “blamed Israel for just about everything” and treated the Palestinians “like children.” Trump’s amateurs discovered that the Arab states “felt abandoned by Obama” and found Trump to be “a breath of fresh air.”

In this week’s episode of “Top Story,” guest host Melanie Phillips discusses the challenges of the Reform movement with guest Rabbi Cary Kozberg. According to the rabbi, the Reform movement hijacks words like God and Torah to push its political progressive agenda with little traditional or contextual backing.
“Words like God, Torah, Israel, commandment may be used,” he says. “But as far as I'm concerned, those are equivocal terms. And they're used in service of this agenda of political progressivism.”

In this week's "Top Story," guest host Melanie Phillips meets with former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman to discuss U.S. President Joe Biden’s arrival in the Middle East. During the discussion, Friedman offers his own version of what Biden should have told Israel and Saudi Arabia and what needs to be done to attain further peace in the region.
Other topics of discussion include:
- Economic incentives for America in the region,
- Israeli relations with Saudi Arabia and
- U.S. support of the Palestinian government.

In this week’s episode, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses both recent Supreme Court cases defending religious liberty and the need to “separate the state from the new secular woke religion on race, sex and gender.”
According to Tobin, this set of beliefs that is rooted in Marxism and being brought into the schools is nothing less than a secular state religion that seeks to silence dissent.
He’s joined by Lori Lowenthal Marcus, the legal director of the Deborah Project, which is suing to halt the teaching of an anti-Semitic ethnic studies curriculum in California. Marcus warns that the course is marinating kids in hatred and provides the same rationale that led to violence against Jews in the streets of Los Angeles.

In this week’s episode, JNS editor-in-chief discusses the debate among conservatives over how to respond to woke Marxist cultural indoctrination and whether Yoram Hazony’s new book on Conservatism provides the answer needed to defend both liberty and Western civilization.

He’s joined by Hazony who warns that “woke Neo-Marxism” is carrying out a ”perpetual revolution indefinitely until it simply destroys everything.” He extols the virtues of personally leading “a conservative life” in which faith plays a central role and explains how his template for tradition and religion-based politics gives an answer to the left that liberalism has failed to provide.

In this week’s episode, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses how to cancel culture is spreading from college campuses to the rest of society, including journalism and even football.

He’s joined by University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax who discusses efforts to cancel her for her statements supporting Western bourgeois values and opposing multiculturalism and affirmative action. She points out that affirmative action is being used as a club to silence dissent against toxic woke ideas.

In this week’s episode, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses how a “mapping project” undertaken by BDS supporters in Boston targets Jewish institutions throughout the state of Massachusetts, including synagogues and schools. He explains that this illustrates how the movement to boycott Israel is motivated by “pure unadulterated hate.”

He is joined by Lana Melman, CEO of Liberate Inc. and author of a new book, Artists Under Fire, about the way the BDS works in Hollywood and the entertainment industry. Melman discusses how the movement attacks artists who go to Israel and intimidates others to avoid the topic.

In this week's episode, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses how progressive Democrats are seeking to undermine the U.S.-Israel alliance and what the Democratic primaries mean for Israel. Furthermore, he explains that the war being waged on AIPAC by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may end up dooming any hopes for bipartisanship in Israel.

He’s joined by Maurice Hirsch of Palestinian Media Watch who points out that the hate being fomented by the Palestinian Authority and its refusal to recognize Israel’s legitimacy effectively means there is “no difference” between the P.A. and Hamas.

In this episode JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses why the effort to tie mainstream Republicans and conservatives to the Buffalo mass shooting isn’t just wrong; it’s a smear that does more to undermine democracy and to break American society than anything done by an extremist.

He’s joined by Fox News contributor Ben Domenech who says the problem behind mass shootings is “evil”, not politics. Domenech also analyzes the need for a stronger foreign and defense policy in the wake of the war in Ukraine and the need for Big Tech to uphold free speech.

In this episode, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses how despite the UN's lack of legitimacy and clear anti-Israel bias, it pays for Israel not to ignore it. The growing support for intersectional ideology and critical race theory on the American left fueled in part by the UN's 'Apartheid State' lie, will eat away at U.S. support for Israel if not combated.
He is joined by Former Israel Ambassador to the UN Danny Dannon who discusses his first-hand experiences being in the lion's den, his new book and what can be done to defend Israel in and outside the UN.

Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin argues that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a consequence of President Joe Biden’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan and attempts to appease Iran.

He’s joined by Commentary magazine editor John Podhoretz who discusses how recent events had “vindicated neo-conservatism” by reminding us of the dangers of American weakness abroad. He and Tobin also discuss what enabled former President Donald Trump to choose to pursue a historic pro-Israel policy shift and how the left’s turn against parental rights and in favor of silencing the view of opponents has led them to “stop gaslighting” and “pull back the curtain” on their anti-democratic objectives.

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin says the greatest threat to free speech is intolerant woke progressives who are determined to silence anyone who disagrees with them. But he points out that the left’s hijacking of the word “liberal” on behalf of illiberal causes isn’t just destroying open public discourse.

He’s then joined by guest Karen Lehrman Bloch, the editor of White Rose Magazine, who explained that she founded the new journal to defend the principles of “classical liberalism,” after they came under renewed assault from leftists during the Black Lives Matter riots in the summer of 2020. She says her goal is to just promote free discourse but also to uphold the basic principles of the Western canon and aesthetics about the importance of beauty against those trying to destroy them.

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the plague of media disinformation and hypocrisy that is eroding democracy and fueling anti-Semitism. He’s then joined by KeepJerusalem.org’s Chaim Silverstein who discusses his efforts to reclaim Jewish property in the Shimon Hatzidik and Nahalat Shimon neighborhoods of Jerusalem.

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses how outrage about the Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to confusion about Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán and whether his “illiberal” nationalism is really antithetical to democracy or the defense of the Jewish community.

He’s then joined by JNS columnist Ruthie Blum to break down the latest news about Palestinian terrorism, the American hijacking of the Israeli-Arab states summit, the dangers from a new Iran nuclear deal and attitudes toward the war in Ukraine and the Hungarian election.

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the impact of American weakness and appeasement of Iran and how even the alliance of Israel and Arab nations who gathered in a historic summit this week can’t make up for this betrayal.

He’s then joined by journalist Ben Weingarten to break down the latest about Ukraine, the administration’s inability to define American national interests and how this is leading to certain disaster with Iran as well as the collapse of media integrity and the way the far left is taking over the Democratic Party.

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the new respect given to nationalism amid the wave of sympathy for Ukraine and why Zionism is just as deserving of support. He also analyzes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to the Knesset and says his attempt to pressure Israel to intervene in the war and falsification of the history of the Holocaust were unpersuasive.

He’s then joined by columnist Melanie Phillips who breaks down the latest about Israel and Ukraine, the hostile attitude of the Biden administration and the latter’s determination to push ahead with a new round of appeasement of Iran even if it means giving Russia a means to evade the sanctions meant to halt its aggression.

Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin analyzes how concern for Ukraine is sweeping aside other considerations that should be determining policy for the United States and is also being used to justify selling out Israel with another Iran nuclear deal. He’s then joined by Newsweek opinion editor and legal scholar Josh Hammer to discuss the meaning of the virtue-signaling about Ukraine, what’s really going on in Hungary with the Orban government, the dangers posed by critical race theory indoctrination, and the need to reboot American conservatism to become one more rooted in promoting the common good and the national interests of the United States.

Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses why Americans should care about Ukraine and the new axis of evil it has formed with China and Iran. He’s joined by columnist Karol Markowicz to discuss the conflict from the perspective of a child of Russian and Ukrainian Jewish parents, whether Americans have the bandwidth to care about this or any other foreign affairs issue for long. She then discusses her reporting and an upcoming book about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as well as wokeness on children and education.

Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses why the mainstream media can’t be trusted to tell the truth about the Biden administration’s appeasement of Iran. He’s then joined by journalist Eli Lake who analyzes the reasons why Russian President Vladimir Putin is escalating the crisis with Ukraine, the decline of support for a strong American foreign policy and the Biden foreign policy team’s belief in the nuclear deal with Iran is nothing less than a cult and why that’s so dangerous for the United States, Israel and the Arab states.

Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the Ukraine crisis and the decline of American influence as well as the connection to appeasement of Iran. He’s then joined by journalist Caroline Glick who discusses the failures of the Biden administration and the current Israeli government and the way she believes they are endangering the West and the Jewish state.

JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin explains how the Jews and other people of moral decency have failed to protest the "genocide" Olympics in Beijing while human rights organizations concentrate their fire on democratic Israel.

Elisha Wiesel joins the show to discuss his activism on issues like China and anti-Semitism, the failure to generate Jewish unity on these issues and in support of Israel as well as honoring the legacy of his Nobel Peace Prize laureate father Elie.

On today's show, editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the banning of Maus and the importance of not confusing censoring books with the need to fight critical race theory indoctrination.

He’s also joined by veteran Jewish communal leader Barry Shrage to discuss the backlash against woke politics and the future of American Jewry. The two talk about the changing demographics of the community, what measures help promote Jewish peoplehood and support for Israel and whether we should be more optimistic or pessimistic about the future.

Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the lie that Jews are stealing land from the Palestinians in Israel and then is joined by the City of David’s Doron Spielman to discuss archeology, Jewish history and telling the truth about the past.

The two talk about the development of the historic site, why some oppose efforts to uncover the treasures of Jewish history and how the finds at the City of David bring the Bible to life as well as the challenges of acting as a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces in times of crisis.

Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the Texas synagogue attack and whether it’s okay to discuss who is inciting anti-Semitism among Muslims. He’s also joined by author and legal expert Alan Dershowitz to discuss getting canceled for representing controversial clients including Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and how this has impacted his ability to speak up for Israel.

The two talk about the decline of pro-Israel sentiment in the Democratic Party, the future of Zionist advocacy, the way Jewish groups and colleges are silencing pro-Israel voices to avoid controversy and the impact of critical race theory on American politics and culture.

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin talks about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Deborah Lipstadt, Harry Potter and anti-Semitism and the legacy of Sheldon Adelson.

Also, former Pentagon official and author Doug Feith joins the show to discuss the Iranian nuclear threat, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S.-Israel relations.

JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin talks about the legacy of one of the Jewish world's biggest philanthropists and donor Sheldon Adelson.

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin gives his hot take on what really is behind the commemoration of the January 6th riot.

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin delves into the claim that goblins in Harry Potter represent Jews and posits that by being focused on dubious claims of Jew-hatred we are missing the real incidents of anti-Semitism.

JNS editor-in-chief discusses the Senate confirmation hold up of Dr. Deborah Lipstadt to the position of Special Envoy to combat anti-Semitism.

Former Pentagon Official and author Doug Feith joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss the Iranian nuclear threat, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S.-Israel relations.

The two discuss the future of American foreign policy, the impact of the Biden administration’s disaster in Afghanistan and appeasement of Iran as well as the judgment of history on American efforts in the war on terror and in the Middle East.

Author Yossi Klein Halevi joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss relations between Arabs and Jews, the current Israeli government, the peace process and anti-Semitism.

The two talk about the potential for conflict between Israel and the Biden administration, the future of interfaith dialogue in both Israel and the United States, relations between the ultra-Orthodox and other Israelis and how to talk about Israel to young American Jews.

Legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss the way international law is used to delegitimize Israel and Jewish rights in Jerusalem and the land of Israel. The two talk about recent controversies over the Biden administration’s efforts to reopen a consulate to the Palestinians in Jerusalem, the legal status of settlements and why the international community is determined to invalidate Jewish property rights in Jerusalem.

Historian and author Andrew Roberts joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss revisionist history and what’s behind the increasingly strident anti-Semitism in Great Britain. The two talk about Roberts’ latest book on George III, about Winston Churchill and the way debates about history can shape America’s vision of itself, as well as who is thwarting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s efforts to bring the U.K. closer to Israel.

Law professor and "Legal Insurrection" author William Jacobson joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss how intersectionality and critical race theory are destroying academic freedom and enabling anti-Semitism.

The two discuss the way cancel culture, fueled by leftist ideology, is distorting the educational system, creating an atmosphere in which both liberals and conservatives are afraid to speak up.

Author and Middle East analyst Jonathan Schanzer joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss his new book "Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War."

The two discuss how the myths about the conflict spread by Palestinian terror groups and picked up by the media have impacted opinion about Israel and how the conflict between Fatah and Hamas and their opposition to peace with the Jewish state is ignored by the Jewish state’s critics.

Composer and educator Daniel Asia joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss the way wokeness is undermining and ultimately destroying the arts.

The two discuss how the obsessive and misguided focus on race, the suppression of free speech and cancel culture is undermining the foundations of Western civilization as well as giving a permission slip to anti-Semitism.

Veteran journalist and Foundation for the Defense of Democracies founder Clifford May joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss the threat from Iran and China as well as the collapse of journalism. The two talk about the impact of the Afghanistan debacle, the Iran nuclear talks, whether climate change is a security problem and the way partisanship has infected the mainstream media.

Activist Elana Fishbein of No Left Turn in Education joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss the grassroots effort to halt the spread of critical race theory teachings in the school. The two talk about the way woke doctrines are distorting education in America, the way it grants a permission slip to anti-Semitism and how parents can organize to fight back.

Kenneth Marcus (Former Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights and Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law) joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss the plague of anti-Semitism on college campuses and his efforts to use the law to fight it.

NGO Monitor head Gerald Steinberg joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss the way Palestinian non-governmental organizations are used as fronts by Palestinian terror groups and the way international human rights groups work to promote lies about Israel.

The two discuss the recent Israeli decision to designate six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist groups and how the international human rights network has discarded its idealistic origins and now acts in concert with the United Nations and its Human Rights Council to assist the war on the existence of the Jewish state.

Author Dara Horn joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss the way sympathy for dead Jews gives the world a permission slip for hating live ones. The two talk about her new book "People Love Dead Jews: Report From a Haunted Present" and topics like the role that the memory of Anne Frank plays in granting the world absolution for the Holocaust, the dishonest effort to claim that “The Merchant of Venice” isn’t anti-Semitic, 'Jewish heritage' tourism and myths about name changes at Ellis Island.

Journalist and social media influencer Bethany Mandel joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on children, anti-Semitism and the way woke ideology is undermining respect for women.

The two discuss the way those pushing restrictive pandemic policies have disregarded their impact on children, vaccine mandates, how social media distorts the discussion about anti-Semitism, why Israel is singled out and the way women’s rights are trashed by left-wing activists.

Strategic analyst and former Bush administration senior figure Michael Doran and JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan S. Tobin discuss the reason behind the Biden administration’s appeasement of Iran.

The two talk about American foreign policy in the aftermath of the Afghanistan debacle, how Iran has been strengthened and its threats to neighboring countries, as well as the challenge to the United States from China and the legacy of the Bush administration.

Intelligence analyst and military veteran Michael Pregent joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss the debacle in Afghanistan and the implications of the triumph of the Taliban for American security and for its allies.

The two talk about the incompetence and misguided hopes that led to the Biden administration’s decision as well as how these events will impact international terrorism, the threat from Iran and trust in the United States by both friends and foes. They also touch on what lessons Israel needs to learn from recent events.

Law professor and human rights activist Anne Bayefsky joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss the Apartheid Israel lie and the way the United Nations has helped promote anti-Semitism and delegitimization of Israel.

The two discuss how the 2001 UN Durban Conference on Racism became the vehicle for anti-Semitic activism and resurrecting the canard that Zionism is racism. They also talk about the UN has become the home base for efforts to demonize Israel and the way the Biden administration’s devotion to multilateralism is giving a pass to the world body’s anti-Semitism.

Author and academic Ruth Wisse joins JNS editor-in -chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss how to understand anti-Semitism, the revival of Yiddish and her new memoir.

The two discuss Wisse’s analysis of how anti-Semitism is being legitimized and why so much of the Jewish community is incapable of responding effectively to this challenge. They also delve into how academia has become the springboard for so much Jew-hatred, why anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, how leftists are using Yiddish to attack Israel, which writer had the greatest impact on her career, her most important choice and the importance of Jewish learning.

Historian, novelist and former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss America’s disaster in Afghanistan and the U.S.-Israel relationship.

The two discuss the impact of America’s withdrawal from the Middle East on Israel and its Arab allies, U.S. policy toward Iran, the impact of critical race theory and intersectional ideology on American support for Israel. He also talks about how Israel’s new coalition government is working, Benjamin Netanyahu, how the Knesset works and what it’s like to be a writer of both novels and history books.

Former U.S. envoy for combatting anti-Semitism Elan Carr joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss what needs to be done to halt the rise in Jew-hatred.

The two talk about whether former President Donald Trump enabled anti-Semitism, extremism on the Internet and confronting Jew-hatred on both the left and right. They also discuss critical race theory, his successor at the State Department, whether Hungary’s government is anti-Semitic and his experiences as the son of a Jewish immigrant from Iraq and an Iraq war veteran.

Journalist and author Naomi Schaefer Riley joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss the damage that critical race theory is doing to children. The two discuss the impact radical and woke ideas about race are having on kids and how cancel culture works. They also explore what we’ve learned about the role that both intermarriage and the decline of faith are having on both society in general and the Jewish community.

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Washington Examiner magazine editor Seth Mandel joins JNS editor in chief Jonathan Tobin to talk about why the ADL is failing to confront anti-Semitism, polarization and home schooling.

The two discuss how the ADL is abandoning its role as an anti-Semitism watchdog in favor of partisan advocacy, the need to emphasize that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, whether the Democratic Party is being ‘Corbynized,’ the dangerous impact of polarization in American politics and why more people are turning to home schooling their children.

Author and commentator Liel Liebovitz joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to talk about whether Jews are white, the right Jewish answer to anti-Semitism and the disconnect between Israelis and Americans.

The two discuss the impact of critical race theory and ideas about white privilege on the way Americans think about the Middle East. They also talk about the revival of Jewish traditions in unfamiliar settings, the essential Jewishness of Stan Lee and Leonard Cohen, the spiritual dimension of video games and what Israelis and Americans don’t understand about each other.

Historian and author Gil Troy joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to talk about how toxic theories about the past are fueling anti-Semitism and undermining Jewish identity and support for Israel.

The two discuss how partisanship has given a pass to the spread of destructive ideas like critical race theory and intersectionality and how such ideologies give a permission slip to anti-Semitism. They also speak about how battles over history are impacting Jewish identity in the United States and ties with Israel and the role that Zionism and important stories – such as that of Natan Sharansky — should play in Jewish life.

In this week’s episode, the Tikvah Fund head and foreign-policy veteran of the Reagan, Bush and Trump administrations joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to talk diplomacy, democracy and the future of American Jewry.

The two discuss President Joe Biden’s strategies and his attempt to get closer to Iran and the Palestinians, the foreign-policy establishment in the Trump administration and the greatest threats to the American Jewish community.

In this week’s episode of Top Story, Fox News contributor and former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to talk about the politics of support for Israel.

They analyze the way the two political parties have changed in their attitudes toward Israel and what, if anything, can be done to restore a bipartisan consensus on the Middle East. In addition, they delve into what's behind a surge in anti-Semitism and how to fix a dysfunctional American political culture. This is an episode you don't want to miss!

In this week’s episode of “Top Story,” JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Shoshana Bryen, Senior Director of the Jewish Policy Center and editor of inFOCUS Quarterly. They discuss what to expect from the Biden administration’s efforts to reinstate the Iran nuclear deal and its approach to the Middle East as well as why efforts to appease the Islamist regime and the Palestinians won’t advance peace or American interests.

In Episode 6 of “Top Story With Jonathan Tobin,” JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the swearing-in of Israel’s new government and the ousting of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He asks whether it can survive and what it will mean if it does.

In Episode 5 of “Top Story With Jonathan Tobin,” JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by columnist Melanie Phillips.

Together they discuss the recent surge in anti-Semitism and examine the way that radical ideas like critical race theory and the demonization of Israel by leftist elites and Islamist groups have facilitated Jew-hatred in both Britain and the United States.

In episode 4 of “Top Story With Jonathan Tobin,” JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by JNS Jerusalem bureau chief Alex Traiman to discuss the possible end of the Netanyahu era as rivals Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid close in on a coalition agreement that will end the prime minister’s time in office. They consider the implications of a new government on Israel and the U.S.-Israel relationship as well.

In Episode 3 of “Top Story,” JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by columnist and editor Ruthie Blum who discusses the way smearing Israel legitimizes anti-Semitism and Hamas. They analyze the way the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the associated ideologies of critical race theory and intersectionalism have given a permission slip for anti-Semitism and the demonization of Israel, especially in the aftermath of the latest conflict with Hamas terrorists.

In this week’s episode of “Top Story with Jonathan Tobin,” the editor-in-chief of JNS explores reasons for the protests against Israel involving a controversial court case and the status of Jerusalem, as well as the way some in the Democratic Party have adopted a false narrative about the Jewish state oppressing Palestinians. He explains why in this story, as in so many others, understanding history and what it means matters if you want to get to the truth.

The first episode of JNS podcast Top Story with Jonathan Tobin. This week, JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan S. Tobin explains the ramifications of revelations that former Secretary of State and current U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry was sharing Israeli military intelligence with the Iranians.