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Jonathan S. Tobin

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Jonathan S. TobinJanuary 19, 2018
Don’t blame Trump for Abbas rejecting peace
Some in the so-called peace camp prefer to blame Palestinian misbehavior on President Donald Trump rather than own up to the truth about Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Jonathan S. TobinJanuary 11, 2018
A law that allows hatemongers to pose as martyrs
Far from hurting the BDS movement, Israel’s new “blacklist” of boycott leaders banned from entering the country allows these enemies of the Jewish state to play martyrs and garner undeserved sympathy. Contrary to the fears of Israeli lawmakers, the real threat posed by BDS is to Jews in the Diaspora, not those in Israel, writes JNS Editor in Chief Jonathan S. Tobin.
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Jonathan S. TobinJanuary 8, 2018
Why Trump’s Palestinian aid cut threat makes sense
You don’t have to be supporter of President Donald Trump to understand that he is right to demand that if the Palestinians want U.S. money they must, at the very least, come back to the negotiating table and cease funding and fomenting terror. It isn’t so much a case of “America First” to demand that recipients of U.S. largesse cooperate with U.S. policy, as it is one of common sense, writes JNS Editor in Chief Jonathan S. Tobin.
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Jonathan S. TobinDecember 28, 2017
Defining ‘occupied’ and the semantic battle for peace
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman’s reported request that the State Department stop using the term “occupied territories” shouldn’t be dismissed as a lot of bother about mere words. These words are part of a high-stakes battle to determine the outcome of the debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Hanukkah: a holiday for Jews without religion
Jonathan S. TobinDecember 13, 2017
Jews around the world celebrate Hanukkah each year by lighting a menorah such as this one. Credit: The Jewish Museum, gift of Karl Nathan.
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Jonathan S. TobinDecember 8, 2017
Did Trump make the Israel-Diaspora divide seem smaller?
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Jonathan S. TobinDecember 1, 2017
The method to Trump’s madness on Jerusalem may make sense
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Jonathan S. TobinNovember 22, 2017
An unlikely bedfellow delivers a wake-up call
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Jonathan S. TobinNovember 22, 2017
An unlikely bedfellow delivers a wake-up call
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Jonathan S. TobinNovember 17, 2017
Time for a peace process paradigm change
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Jonathan S. TobinNovember 10, 2017
Who’s shutting down the debate on Israel?
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Jonathan S. TobinNovember 3, 2017
Hating Bannon no excuse to cry ‘wolf’ about anti-Semitism
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A Disconnect Wider than an Ocean?
Jonathan S. TobinOctober 30, 2017
Liberal Jews and that inconvenient Israeli consensus
The majority of the non-Orthodox Jewish community in America has little sympathy with the Israeli government’s positions on the peace process.
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Narrative Warfare
Jonathan S. TobinOctober 30, 2017
How Balfour explains why the peace process failed
The symbolism of Mahmoud Abbas' threatened lawsuit against Great Britain over the 100-year-old Balfour Declaration tells us what is preventing peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Jonathan S. TobinOctober 27, 2017
How Balfour explains why the peace process failed
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