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Jonathan Tobin Daily

The Internet is inundated with misinformation. Join JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin for his daily analysis of the most important stories affecting Israel and the Jewish world. If you want to understand what’s really going on, this show is for you.

  1. 527

    Ep. 283: Antisemitism, Islam and the future of the GOP

    The red-green alliance of Marxists and Islamists is fueling hatred for Jews and Israel among young people, while giving Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly a new audience.

  2. 526

    Ep. 282: Why are liberals and Democrats embracing anti-Israel extremists?

    Mainstream support for Senate candidates like Graham Platner and Abdul El-Sayed reflects both panic about Trump and the acceptance of antisemitism.

  3. 525

    Ep. 281: Anti-Zionists who condemn antisemitic crimes are gaslighting us

    Attempts to separate the movement to accomplish the genocide of half the world’s Jews in Israel from attacks on them elsewhere have zero credibility.

  4. 524

    Ep. 280: Defeating Iran’s regime requires patience, but shouldn’t take ‘forever’

    Given enough time, a combination of economic and military pressure may be enough for Trump to topple the Islamist terrorists. The question is whether he has it.

  5. 523

    Ep. 279: Who’s to blame for declining American support for Israel?

    The growing distaste for the Jewish state isn’t the fault of Netanyahu or Israeli behavior. It’s driven by forces seeking the destruction of the West and beyond the control of Jerusalem.

  6. 522

    Ep. 278: Political violence is a consequence of the politics of anathema

    The latest attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump demonstrates anew that, like the toleration of antisemitism, the demonization of opponents leads to the unthinkable.

  7. 521

    Ep. 277: It’s Zohran Mamdani’s New York now, not Eliot Engel’s

    The late congressman demonstrated how to be a passionate Zionist and an ardent liberal Democrat—something that is no longer possible.

  8. 520

    Ep. 276: Unraveling the lies we were told about hate in America

    The indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for funding extremism like the 2017 Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally discredits liberal hysteria about race, immigration and Islamophobia.

  9. 519

    Ep. 275: Asking the wrong questions about antisemitism

    As the arts world legitimizes bias against Israel in the post-Oct. 7 world, a hit play about author Roald Dahl’s Jew-hatred explores the intersection of culture and prejudice.

  10. 518

    Ep. 274: What do the Democrats want from Israel?

    Senate Democrats haven’t turned on the Jewish state because the Netanyahu government is reckless. It’s because they fear a party base of deluded antisemites.

  11. 517

    Ep. 273: Hasan Piker is the Democrats’ Tucker Carlson, only worse

    The rise of the popular podcaster illustrates the left’s normalization of antisemitism. Rather than shunning him, liberal opinion leaders are tolerating his extremism.

  12. 516

    Ep. 272: Neutrality in the fight against genocidal terror isn’t moral

    President Trump should have ignored Pope Leo’s comments, and non-Catholics should respect the papacy’s symbolism. But treating Iran as morally equivalent to Israel or America is still wrong.

  13. 515

    Ep. 271: Why they blame Netanyahu for antisemitism and the Iran war

    The attempts to portray the prime minister as the reason why people hate Jews or for having “bullied” President Trump into the conflict are rooted in traditional blood libels.

  14. 514

    Ep. 270: Iran hasn’t won, and America hasn’t lost … yet

    The assumption that the ceasefire means the Islamist regime has triumphed is premature at best. What follows will determine whether President Trump miscalculated.

  15. 513

    Ep. 269: Unlike Israel, many of America’s NATO allies aren’t really allies

    Europe’s moral abdication in the fight against the Islamist terror regime is proving a surprising truth. Right now, Washington and Jerusalem both have only one reliable ally: each other.

  16. 512

    Ep. 268: Why is the media obsessed with violent Israelis?

    The purpose of a false narrative about rampaging “settlers” and a new death-penalty law is not just to smear Israelis. It’s to distract attention from Palestinian terror.

  17. 511

    Ep. 267: How many Jews will attend a Mamdani-style seder?

    Most American Jews attend Passover seders. But if, like the antisemitic New York City mayor, they omit mentions of Israel, then they are missing a key element of the Jewish holiday.

  18. 510

    Ep. 266: Is the anti-Trump resistance also anti-Israel?

    The “No Kings” rallies focused on the Iran war and immigration. But the presence of Palestinian flags and the example of the Women’s March are an ominous precedent.

  19. 509

    Ep. 265: Gavin Newsom and the Democrats’ Israel problem

    The California governor’s waffling on the “apartheid” slur reflects the dilemma faced by “moderates,” as well as their apologists as the party’s base embraces antisemitism.

  20. 508

    Ep. 264: The ‘failed war’ narrative on Iran is political spin

    Though not without cost, the U.S.-Israeli offensive has already made the world safer. Claims of a “quagmire” are an attempt to politicize an issue that should be bipartisan.

  21. 507

    Ep. 263: The Islamophobia narrative is about erasing Jews and antisemitism

    As was the case after the 9/11 attacks, the liberal media is trying to convince us that Muslims are under siege, instead of focusing on Islamist Jew-hatred and terrorism.

  22. 506

    Ep. 262: The crack-up of the antisemitic right

    Support for the Iran war among the GOP base and President Trump’s intervention in the podcast wars signal that the Tucker Carlson wing of the GOP has hit a dead-end.

  23. 505

    Ep. 261: Stopping Tehran’s apocalyptic goals is more important than thwarting Trump

    Critics assert that the price America is paying to force the Islamic Republic to give up its nuclear ambitions and zeal for terrorism is too high. But the alternatives are far worse.

  24. 504

    Ep. 260: Drawing some conclusions about antisemitic incitement

    Podcasters like Tucker Carlson—and other apologists for neo-Nazis and Islamists who incite hatred against Jews and scapegoat Israel—have blood on their hands.

  25. 503

    Ep. 259: The Mamdani victimhood narrative and the American future

    The embrace of terror supporters by the mayor and his wife, coupled with the media’s efforts to confuse the public about an Islamist terror attack, is a tipping point in American society.

  26. 502

    Ep. 258: The issue for war opponents is Trump, not Israel or Iran’s regime of terror

    As supposed moderates like Gavin Newsom demonize AIPAC and smear the Jewish state to appeal to their party’s mainstream, voters will have to draw their own conclusions.

  27. 501

    Ep. 257: Don’t blame Israel for America defending itself against Iran

    The Islamist terror regime, now allied to China and Russia, has been waging war against the United States for 47 years. But to Israel-bashers, it’s simply another Jewish plot.

  28. 500

    Ep. 256: Trump’s critics have a lot riding on the Iran conflict

    United by their hostility to Israel, the liberal establishment, leftists and right-wing antisemites are hoping to capitalize on a disaster. But it could also backfire on them.

  29. 499

    Ep. 255: Trump’s courageous decision to face Tehran head-on

    More kicking the can down the road, appeasing Tehran’s nuclear program, missiles and its relentless quest for terror, is not an option. The reality is that the regime must go.

  30. 498

    Ep. 254: Do we still need Jewish sports heroes?

    In a time of surging antisemitism, celebrating the Olympic achievement and patriotism of Jack Hughes shouldn’t be sacrificed to partisan contempt for Trump or nationalism.

  31. 497

    Ep. 253: What’s the real point of Tucker Carlson’s obsession with Israel?

    The antisemitic podcaster’s joust with Mike Huckabee showed that his goal is to sabotage the administration. Will Trump and Vance finally denounce him?

  32. 496

    Ep. 252: When it comes to civil discourse, there’s no choice between dogs and humans

    Those who were appalled by Rep. Randy Fine saying he preferred canines to Muslims were right, even if what he was responding to was also appalling.

  33. 495

    Ep. 251: Jesse Jackson and the betrayal of the civil-rights movement

    His attacks on Jews went beyond his “Hymietown” slur. More than that, his illiberal opposition to the Western canon and grifting racial hucksterism did great damage.

  34. 494

    Ep. 250: The greatest threat to the West is immigration, not Moscow

    Europeans were relieved by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Munich speech, as it reaffirmed the Atlantic alliance. But were they really listening to what he was saying?

  35. 493

    Ep. 249: It doesn’t matter whether Americans call themselves ‘Zionists’

    A deluge of anti-Zionist propaganda has impacted support for Israel since Oct. 7; still, the majority of Jews stand with it against its antisemitic and genocidal foes.

  36. 492

    Ep. 248: The virus of Jew-hatred on the right is spreading

    It won’t be contained by trying to sweet-talk those who are failing to speak out or who are being seduced by political commentators Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.

  37. 491

    Ep. 247: Mamdani and the collapse of ‘liberal Zionism’

    Members of his administration can’t protect New York Jewry while working for a mayor who opposes Israel’s existence and defends antisemites.

  38. 490

    Ep. 246: The Epstein files’ toxic mix of true crime and conspiracy theories

    The mistaken belief that the sex offender’s vast network of connections explains all that is wrong or evil in the world fits easily into the way antisemitism is spread.

  39. 489

    Ep. 245: The resistance rabbit hole and the end of democracy

    Legitimizing Nazi comparisons to ICE agents and treating the debate about illegal immigration as akin to a fight against fascism cannot be separated from the rise of left-wing antisemitism.

  40. 488

    Ep. 240: Trump’s end run around the old world order

    The president’s Board of Peace won’t solve the Gaza problem, though it does have the potential to help Washington shatter a destructive international establishment.

  41. 487

    Ep. 239: The University of Pennsylvania is gaslighting the courts on antisemitism

    The Ivy League school is falsely claiming that it is standing up for Jews by stonewalling the Trump administration’s efforts to punish blatant hatred on campus since Oct. 7.

  42. 486

    Ep. 244: Trump shouldn’t fall into the Iran negotiations trap

    Tehran’s Islamist despots can’t be trusted to abide by agreements. Throwing them a lifeline, which they will use to go on spreading death and terror, would be a major blunder.

  43. 485

    Ep. 243: Stop chasing after the Saudis to join the Abraham Accords

    Now that they’ve stopped worrying about an Iranian bomb, Riyadh is making clear that it will never recognize the State of Israel. It was never going to be worth the price anyway.

  44. 484

    Ep. 242: Can Bari Weiss save the mainstream media from woke journalists?

    The “Free Press” founder is under fire for attempting to steer “CBS News” back toward the center. Those who think their job is to indoctrinate audiences will never forgive her.

  45. 483

    Ep. 241: Don’t mourn the Holocaust while supporting the genocide of living Jews

    Has education failed? Reject programs and ceremonies that enable false analogies and allow fashionable opinion to demonize Israel and legitimize antisemitism.

  46. 482

    Ep. 238: From Greenland to Israel: What America should expect from allies

    President Trump’s demand that Denmark sell the Arctic land mass is dismissed as megalomania. That said, Europe’s dependence on America raises questions about NATO.

  47. 481

    Ep. 237: Can Josh Shapiro rescue the Democratic Party from left-wing antisemitism?

    The Pennsylvania governor’s shocking story about Kamala Harris’s aides asking him if he was an Israeli double agent is the first shot fired in a battle to save his party’s soul.

  48. 480

    Ep. 236: Trump deserves ‘trust’ on Gaza and Iran, not blind faith

    The president’s tough talk won’t suffice if the administration passes on an opportunity to topple the mullahs and chooses to let Hamas survive.

  49. 479

    Ep. 235: Why do they march for Gaza, but not Iran?

    The movement that turned out en masse to demonize the State of Israel for defending itself is uninterested in the slaughter of Iranians. Maybe it’s because they can’t blame it on the Jews.

  50. 478

    Ep. 234: Can Trump avoid Obama’s Tehran blunders?

    Vice President JD Vance is leading efforts to persuade the president to appease Tehran rather than confront it. America has been down that disastrous road before.

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