My daughter's father. Editor in Chief
@JNS_org
, Host of Top Story With Jonathan Tobin podcast, Senior Contributor
@FDRLST
. Columnist
@Newsweek
, others.
At a time when Israel & the Jewish people remain under dire threats from antisemitic enemies, Jewish journalism is more important than ever. That's why we believe
@JNS_org
is an essential need that deserves your support.
#GivingTuesday
We are a long way from knowing who won the presidency. But one thing is clear. Predictions of a
#bluewave
& a
@JoeBiden
landslide were wrong. So far it looks like another close one.
#ElectionNight
I'm on
@simonschuster
's email list & learned that the same company that won't publish a book by
@HawleyMO
is putting out one by
@SouljahBooks
, famous for her advocacy for murder of white people which earned her a rebuke by
@BillClinton
. Interesting ethical standard for authors.
Obama’s moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel encourages hate. His 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. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
The man who published a cover story 23 years ago about the need to revive belief in American national greatness is now endorsing for VP & likely future president someone who wants to debate tearing down George Washington's statues. Because he hates Trump. A new low even for him.
Biden lays out the argument for Hamas's destruction & then demands that Israel fight an immaculate war that is made impossible by Hamas. And a cease-fire that will enable Hamas's survival & victory.
#SOTU2024
Re-upping this from 10 days ago. Kamala Harris thinks campus antisemites are very fine people. Her praise for pro-Hamas mobs is no different from what the Dems falsely claimed Trump said about neo-Nazis. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Israel’s global isolation is caused by antisemitism, not bad policies. The answer to the Jewish state’s diplomatic dilemma is victory. Heeding the world’s demands to stop the war and let Hamas win will only make it worse. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Jonathan Glazer's ‘As a Jew’ Oscar moment shows how woke antisemitism works. The Holocaust movie writer/director used his moment on the stage to virtue-signal his opposition to Israel and tacit support for modern-day Nazis. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
The refrain that Joe Biden is a ‘good’ or ‘decent’ man falls flat when you consider the president’s decades of recorded lies and slander. I explain in the
@FDRLST
.
Kamala Harris thinks campus antisemites are very fine people. Whether or not the vice president becomes the Democratic nominee, any attempt to portray her as a friend of the Jews is undermined by her praise for pro-Hamas mobs. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
The issue is not how to deal with Bibi, Smotrich & Ben-Gvir. It's accepting that Israel is not a Middle Eastern variant of the blue state enclaves where most US Jews live & that it still needs to be defended against its foes. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Harvard's surrender to the woke leftist mob on the appointment of an antisemite like
@KenRoth
demonstrated the moral bankruptcy of elite universities. Jews should take note. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Pundits on
#CNN
are debating how racist the GOP is while not showing the speech of new
#Virginia
Lt. Gov.
#WinsomeSears
who just noted that she is black and has been her entire life.
#Election2021
The problem is bigger than three college presidents. The woke ideologies that govern academia enable the antisemitism that the heads of Harvard, Penn and MIT refused to say breaks their rules. I explain in
@JNS_org
that getting rid of DEI is key.
Israel doesn't need to send another schmoozer to represent it in the U.S. It needs a truth-teller to bluntly confront its critics & foes. That's why Netanyahu ought to be resolute & name
@CarolineGlick
to be consul in New York City. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
After acting as his bodyguards & major funders during his stealth campaign,
@JoeBiden
owes
#BigTech
big time. I explain in
@Newsweek
that the influence of the Internet & social media oligarchs in the new administration is the real threat to liberty.
Pro-Israel Americans need to stop cowering and start protesting. After months of biased news coverage & open antisemitism, friends of the Jewish state need to take back the streets and tell Biden that he should worry about them. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
It's not just that
@elivalley
's cartoons disgracefully revive
#Nazi
images. It's that the position he supports — the elimination of the one
#Jewish
state on the planet — is inherently
#antisemitic
. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Her lie about the Dee family terror victims is just one more example of
@amanpour
's anti-Israel bias. But she is just the tip of the iceberg of the institutionalization of leftist media bias. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Think Joe Biden is too old to be president but that he's really a nice guy? Think again. Decades of recorded lies & slander proves otherwise. I explain in the
@FDRLST
.
Yesterday my family suffered a terrible tragedy with the loss of my beloved big sister dianetobindruckman. Her shocking & unexpected death after a stroke has broken our hearts. She left us far too soon & it’s hard…
Understanding the collapse of liberal Zionism. I explain in
@JNS_org
that
@PeterBeinart
claimed to speak for Jewish critics of Israel. Now he wants to replace it with a binational state, leaving Jews defenseless. Is anyone really surprised?
On
#NBC
, Chuck Todd is explaining that
#Scott
& DeSantis outperformed
#Trump
in 2016 in
#GOP
counties in
#Florida
that didn't touch water. If so & their leads hold up, it looks like
#Trump
's strategy of emphasizing turning out the base was right.
#Midterms2018
Netanyahu is right to reject vassal-state etiquette. The prime minister broke protocol by calling out the Biden administration for slow-walking arms shipments. Washington’s real goal, however, is appeasing Iran & toppling him. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Where was
@BernieSanders
when Americans fought for Soviet Jewry? I explain in
@JNS_org
that it matters that while other Jews were protesting Soviet
#Antisemitism
, the Socialist failed that moral test.
Biden may be performing relatively well (bad news for Democrats) but he is recycling his attacks on Israel, failed two-state policies & lies about Palestinians rejecting Hamas. Same clueless Joe who has been wrong about every foreign policy issues for the last 40 years.
1) Following weeks of complaints about which I wrote last week,
@amanpour
has issued a correction for her statement that the Dee family were killed in a "shootout." She says she misspoke and should have said "shooting." But that's insufficient.
The
@UofPenn
can't hide behind a bogus defense of academic freedom to justify the holding of an antisemitic event masquerading as a conference about Palestinian literature on its its campus. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
1) We don't know yet what Israel's response to the Iranian attack on its soil will be, but if the Biden administration is counseling restraint, that will be, as with its efforts to save Hamas in Gaza, rooted in left-wing Democratic Party politics, not US interests.
The contempt of the
@nytimes
' Bret Stephens for Jews that he considers "bad" & whom he thinks should be kept in their place is a disgrace & shows how the debate over Israeli judicial reform is driving polarization. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Why all the unfair critiques, slanders & bias about the conflict with the Palestinians boils down to belief in the myth that Israel is "occupying" another people's land. That's the big lie that must be consistently refuted. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Though reports about the
#texassynagogue
situation — including the
@washingtonpost
— have made it clear that the hostage taker is demanding the release of an Islamist terrorist, that fact has yet to appear on the
@nytimes
account. Curious, isn't it?
The Israeli left claims to be defending democracy, but like the US left, its goal is to silence opposition. That's why they're doing everything they can to shut down Channel 14, the sole conservative television news outlet there. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Sometimes even veteran critics of the
@nytimes
are baffled by the ignorance & misinformation it spews. On its homepage, right now the paper has a headline: "Iran Edges Toward One-Party Rule as Clerics Sideline Moderates." Are they serious?
Will there be prime time speeches featuring outrage about antisemitism at Harvard & demanding the return of the Americans held by Hamas at the Democratic National Convention next month? Just wondering.
#RNCConvention2024
Why we should care about threats to
#Azerbaijan
. The strengthening of
#Iran
from US appeasement &
#Biden
’s
#Afghanistan
debacle is creating pressure on a country aligned with
#Israel
& upsetting a delicate regional balance of power. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Organizing Zoom programs for Jewish students to meet those seeking Israel’s destruction, including antisemites like
@RashidaTlaib
, is anti-Israel activism, not giving kids information they’re being denied elsewhere. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
A White House that is enabling antisemitism with its DEI indoctrination program can't be trusted to fight antisemitism no matter which definition it uses. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
The 2002
#GOP
All-Star team is turning out for
@Liz_Cheney
. Too bad for her it's 2022 &
#Republican
voters have long since moved on from the Bushes & their family retainers especially one who has become a Democrat hatchet-woman. I explain in the
@FDRLST
.
Don’t look away from the primary cause of an epidemic of antisemitism. As shocking incidents pile up & surveys show prejudice growing, the way woke ideology grants a permission slip for Jew-hatred cannot be ignored. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
They back ‘Palestine’ because they hate Jews. It’s time to stop pretending that those who march to defend Hamas or advocate for Israel’s destruction in the
@washingtonpost
like
@karenattiah
are defending human rights. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Also, he's the same guy who said Obama's policies toward Israel were an "emergency" in 2010 & but now wants to replace a pro-Israel admin with a revival of Obama's policies. Whatever you think of Trump, it's obvious that he is now a mindless partisan without a shred of principle.
Biden notes the awful attack on Paul Pelosi, which was terrible but not political. No mention of the incitement from the left against pro-life centers or the assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh, who is sitting right there.
#sotu2023
Jews need to stop cowering & start protesting. After months of biased news coverage & open antisemitism, friends of Israel need to take back the streets and tell Biden that he should worry about their votes, not the antisemites. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
The
@MJHnews
' decision to ban
@GovRonDeSantis
isn't just hypocritical. It's a symptom of how woke doctrine now rules Jewish institutions & seeks to silence debate. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Once they elect a speaker, with the crisis at the border growing worse & the Democrat cheerleaders in the corporate media still ignoring the problem, why the new GOP House majority has no choice but to impeach
@SecMayorkas
. I explain in the
@FDRLST
.
Sue and defund schools that tolerate antisemitism. What happened at Haverford College is a case study in how respected liberal institutions are harming Jewish students. They need to be held accountable.
A moral panic about race solidified journalists’ contempt for non-elites, as well as helped perpetuate economic suffering and anti-Semitism. I write about "Bad News,"
@bungarsargon
's excellent book on the great awokening.
The goal of
#transgender
activists like
@HHS_ASH
Rachel Levine is to intimidate & silence dissent against dangerous "treatments" for children. That's why outraged parents need to fight back. I explain in the
@FDRLST
.
Why the Soros succession plan is creating a dynasty of destruction that amounts to a man-made disaster. And why charges that criticizing them is antisemitism is a big lie. I explain in the cover story of the latest edition of the
@dcexaminer
magazine.
Kamala Harris thinks campus antisemites are very fine people. Whether or not she becomes the Democratic nominee, her praise for pro-Hamas mobs is no different from what the Dems falsely claimed Trump said about neo-Nazis. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Time to unmask the pro-Hamas thugs. The revival of anti-masking laws is necessary to curb the post-Oct. 7 surge in antisemitism. But will Democratic-controlled legislatures pass them? I explain in
@JNS_org
.
If it had been supporters of
@realDonaldTrump
attacking a pro-Biden caravan of Jews rather than the other way around, the headlines would have been about "right-wing violence" & Trump's threat to democracy not a neutral one that said "fights erupt."
Van Jones tells the truth on CNN: A bullet couldn't stop Trump. A virus just stopped Biden. The GOP ticket is getting their butts kissed by their party. The Democratic candidate is getting his butt kicked by his party.
Netanyahu is right to reject vassal-state etiquette. The prime minister broke protocol by calling out the Biden administration for slow-walking arms shipments. Washington’s real goal is appeasing Iran & toppling him. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Brilliant piece by the great
@DavidAFrench
explaining why you can oppose vicious attacks on the media while still pointing out the bias that distorts so much coverage.
MSM outlets have convinced themselves of two things at once: 1) They cannot fairly cover America without a newsroom that looks like America, but 2) they can cover American without a newsroom that thinks like America. So the ideological monoculture remains:
Why the effort to rewrite history to wrongly depict Jimmy Carter as a better president than we thought is wrong. And though he had many good qualities, his much-lauded post-presidency was also marred by his vendetta against Israel. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
The problem isn’t that the
@ADL
hired a left-wing Twitter troll to do outreach. It’s that the group has accepted intersectional ideology about
#racism
& is dividing Jews along racial lines. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
You don't have to sympathize with the beliefs or life style of Hasidic Jews to understand that the
@nytimes
' assault on their schools is more than biased. It's another chapter in the paper's long history of antisemitic incitement. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
2) The Dees weren't killed by a random burst of gunfire. They were deliberately targeted and murdered at close range by Palestinian terrorists. Weasel-worded apologies for the pain she caused don't make up for her fallacious framing of the incident.
Don’t fall for the Islamophobia scam! A false narrative about Muslims being under attack after the Oct. 7 atrocities has it backwards. It is Muslim groups & their leftist allies who are fueling the surge in antisemitism. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
As careers are ruined for often-wrongful accusations of racism (questioning the
#BlackLivesMatter
movement even while affirming that black lives do matter),
@chelseahandler
is proving you can't get canceled for
#Antisemitism
. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
A toxic race curriculum has no place in Jewish schools. I explain in
@JNS_org
that adopting the 1619 Project version of history and indoctrinating students with its talk of Jews as racist beneficiaries of white privilege is a terrible blunder.
The price of calling Trump a Nazi is made obvious. Lone gunmen aren’t necessarily motivated by extreme rhetoric, but the shooting in Pennsylvania should put an end to the “anyone I don’t like is Hitler” discourse. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
The 2002
#GOP
All-Star team is turning out for
@Liz_Cheney
. Too bad for her it's 2022 &
#Republican
voters have long since moved on from the Bushes & their family retainers especially one who has become a Democrat hatchet-woman. I explain in the
@FDRLST
.
Why the vote on
@IlhanMN
matters. Democrats demonstrated they care more about not offending the intersectional left than they do about opposing antisemitism. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
When
#Hamas
fires missiles at
#Israeli
homes, forget nuance. There aren’t two legitimate opinions about this conflict. I explain in
@JNS_org
that those who lie about apartheid & target civilians must be defeated, not rewarded.
Tucker Carlson & the turning point for right-wing antisemitism. His platforming of Holocaust denial could blow up the GOP on the eve of the presidential election. Can Trump & J.D. Vance summon the will to condemn him? I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Can one criticize George Soros without being an
#antiSemite
? Though hate groups have obsessed about the billionaire’s influence, I explain in
@JNS_org
that we can’t treat the world’s largest funder of liberal and radical causes as off-limits for criticism.
Think attacks on Soros are enabling antisemitism? Wrong. It's the defense of the billionaire & his campaign to elect pro-crime prosecutors & fund leftist attacks on Israel that enables Jew hatred. I explain in
@JNS_org
why the
@AntiSorosJews
are right.
The conclusion to be drawn from the PA Senate debate is not so much about which candidate should win. It's that some journalists lied about Fetterman. That explains so much about all sorts of media bias. I explain in
@JNS_org
.
Biden's statement on the Hamas attacks on Israel was entirely appropriate as well as necessary. It should be echoed by other nations. I have a lot of criticisms of Biden administration policies in the Middle East, its appeasement of the Palestinians and Iran. In the future, there