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Jonathan Tobin Daily

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

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Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Top Story Daily: Golda Meir would agree with Netanyahu on this one 23.02.2023

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. Listen to the full story now!

Top Story Daily: Biden’s ‘equity’ policy is racializing America 21.02.2023

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. Listen to the full story here!

Top Story Daily: There’s more to rising antisemitism than Joe Rogan’s rants 21.02.2023

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. Listen to the full story now!

Top Story Daily: Why keep pretending that Jews building homes prevents peace? 19.02.2023

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. Listen to the full story here!

Top Story Daily: How Americans can save Israeli democracy 15.02.2023

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. Listen to the full story now!

Top Story Daily: Netanyahu’s Western Wall decision gives the lie to democracy hysteria 12.02.2023

Despite provocation by the Shas Party, the prime minister demonstrates that gloomy predictions about Israel becoming the next Iran are baseless. Listen to the full story now!

Top Story Daily: The anti-Bibi resistance wants Americans to thwart Israeli democracy 09.02.2023

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. Listen to the full story now!

Top Story Daily: Kyiv is still trying to drag Jerusalem into its war 09.02.2023

Israel’s foreign minister shouldn’t pay Ukraine’s price for a photo op with Zelenskyy. Listen to the full story now!

Top Story Daily: The Ilhan Omar vote is a turning point for American Jews 07.02.2023

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. Listen to the full story here!

Top Story Daily: US Mideast diplomacy isn’t advancing peace or democracy 02.02.2023

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. Listen to the full story here!

Top Story Daily: Israel’s critics continue to hold the Jewish state responsible for Palestinian terror 30.01.2023

The anti-Bibi resistance at home is helping foes abroad blame the Netanyahu government, not the terrorists, for the Jerusalem massacre. Listen to the full story now!

Top Story Daily: Why leftists shrug at calls for violence against Jews 29.01.2023

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.”Listen to the full story here!

Top Story Daily: The Ukraine war starts to undermine Israeli security 25.01.2023

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? Listen to the full story here!

Top Story Daily: Harvard surrenders to the antisemites 22.01.2023

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. Listen to the full story now!

Top Story Daily: Is a Biden-Netanyahu brawl inevitable? 19.01.2023

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

Top Story Daily: Americans shouldn’t be swayed by the Israeli left’s freakout 17.01.2023

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. Listen to the full story here!

Top Story Daily: Harvard didn't cancel Kenneth Roth; it decided not to honor an antisemite 16.01.2023

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. Listen to the full story here!

Top Story Daily: Ilhan Omar is the Democrats’ problem, not Kevin McCarthy’s 12.01.2023

The new Speaker of the House has good reason to boot the antisemitic congresswoman from the Foreign Affairs Committee. Listen to the full story here! Read Jonathan Tobin's column at jns.org

Top Story Daily: Where’s the outrage over Biden comparing illegal immigrants to Holocaust victims? 11.01.2023

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. Listen to the full story here! Check out the article here: https://www.jns.org/opinion/wheres-the-outrage-over-biden-comparing-illegal-immigrants-to-holocaust-victims/

Top Story Daily: What killed the two-state solution? Cheers and cash for terrorists 08.01.2023

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

Top Story Daily: Is Israel really threatened by Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount gambit? 05.01.2023

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. Listen to the full story here!

Top Story Daily: Should Zelenskyy get away with using a UN vote to blackmail Israel? 04.01.2023

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.”Listen to the full story here!

Top Story Daily: Can US Jews love the real Israel—or only the fantasy version? 01.01.2023

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. Listen to the full story here!

Top Story Daily: The anti-Bibi resistance is playing with fire 29.12.2022

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. Listen to the full story here!

Top Story Daily: The top 10 Jewish stories of 2022 25.12.2022

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. Listen to the full story here!

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