Tobin’s Take
Ilhan Omar isn’t the only hypocrite on Armenia
Jonathan TobinNov 07, 2019
Last week’s overwhelming vote by the House of Representatives in favor of a resolution condemning the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923...
Trump trashes brave people
Jonathan TobinOct 24, 2019
The excuses President Donald Trump and his loyal fans continue to put forward for his disastrous decision to give Turkey a green light to invade Syria continue to be as...
Iran is not a normal country
Jonathan TobinOct 17, 2019
Gen. Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, gave a speech last month in which he celebrated Iran’s military might and...
House Democrats must stand up to ‘Squad’
Jonathan TobinAug 22, 2019
Taking the blame for actions undertaken by his or her government is part of every ambassador’s job. So it’s hardly surprising that Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador...
Analogies run amok foreclose debate
Jonathan TobinAug 15, 2019
In the wake of the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, the debate about the Trump administration’s immigration policies has become more divisive than ever. The fact that...
How anti-Zionists legitimize anti-Semitism
Jonathan TobinJul 18, 2019
The following are adapted remarks by Jonathan S. Tobin, delivered at the US Dept. of Justice Summit on Combating Anti-Semitism on July 15, 2019. It’s an honor to be...
How Jewish are open borders?
Jonathan TobinJul 11, 2019
American Jews have a long and understandable tradition of advocacy for immigrants. That’s due in part to the fact that most Jews were the children and grandchildren of...
Why removing a cross would be bad for Jews
Jonathan TobinJul 03, 2019
In the view of some ardent defenders of the separation between religion and state, there was no doubt that a war memorial in the form of a 40-foot-tall cross should not...
David Friedman and ‘annexation’
Jonathan TobinJun 13, 2019
The New York Times got quite a scoop when, in an interview with its Jerusalem bureau chief David Halbfinger, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said that he favored...
New strains of viral anti-Semitism
Jonathan TobinMay 30, 2019
Who could really be surprised by the story that grabbed the attention of the Jewish world this past weekend? When Felix Klein, Germany’s first commissioner for Jewish...
