Think Twice with Jonathan Tobin

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...

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...

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’...

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 afra...

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...

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 righ...

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 Merc...

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 discussio...

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...

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, t...

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 a...

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...

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 Am...

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 Departmen...

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 gener...

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 ‘Corbyn...

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 u...

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. T...

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...

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 delv...

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...