Tobin’s Take
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...
Not everything is an anti-Semitic dog whistle
Jonathan TobinMay 16, 2019
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s upstart presidential campaign has gone far better than anyone could have predicted. But when speaking in Las Vegas this week, he made...
Holocaust remembrance on Instagram
Jonathan TobinMay 06, 2019
To say that the impact of social media on society and popular culture has not been entirely beneficial is the understatement of the 21st century. Our politics has been...
Who denied the Palestinians a state?
Jonathan TobinApr 25, 2019
According to The New York Times, the re-election of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has left Palestinian families seeing “no light at the end of the...
False narrative
Jonathan TobinApr 11, 2019
For critics of the pro-Israel community and US President Donald Trump, it was the ultimate “gotcha” moment. After months of having to listen to Jews and friends of...
