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, the threat from Iran and trust in the United States by both friends and foes. They also touch on what lessons Israel needs to learn from recent events.

Global Perspectives celebrates the one-year anniversary of the Abraham Accords with Ellie Cohanim’s interview with two of the architects of the warm peace deals - Dr. Victoria Coates (Fmr. Special Assistant to President Trump) & Robert Greenway (Executive Director of Abraham Accords Institute for Peace). Together they discuss the Trump Administration’s successful foreign policy achievements which culminated in the Abraham Accords, the Iranian threat, the recent US pull-out from Afghanistan and how more peace deals can be achieved in the Middle East.

In this week's episode, Ellie visits the old city of Akko, the site of violent riots last May.
Last May, Israel's seven officially mixed Arab and Jewish neighborhoods, which had been extolled as models of coexistence, saw protests by their Arab residents turn into mob violence.
Who were the perpetrators of the violence? Has the fragile coexistence in these neighborhoods been shattered beyond repair? and what's to prevent a re-occurrence of these attacks?
Filmed on-site in the old city of Akko, Ellie meets with the locals of the city to answer these fundamental questions. Some of what she learned will shock you.

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 about the UN has become the home base for efforts to demonize Israel and the way the Biden administration’s devotion to multilateralism is giving a pass to the world body’s anti-Semitism.

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 much Jew-hatred, why anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, how leftists are using Yiddish to attack Israel, which writer had the greatest impact on her career, her most important choice and the importance of Jewish learning.

In this wide-ranging interview, Ellie Cohanim speaks with former Soviet refusenik, human-rights activist, Israeli politician and author Natan Sharansky. The two delve into what gave Natan Sharansky the strength to survive and fight during his imprisonment in the Soviet Union; his feelings about Israel, now having lived there for more than three decades; and how the Jewish world can fight the rise of anti-Semitism. They also talk about the Iranian threat; human rights on the international stage; his wife, Avital; and advice to the younger Jewish generation.

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 American support for Israel. He also talks about how Israel’s new coalition government is working, Benjamin Netanyahu, how the Knesset works and what it’s like to be a writer of both novels and history books.

Filmed on location in Jerusalem and on the eve of the anniversary of the signing of the Abraham Accords, Ellie and Fleur discuss the “behind the scenes” of these warm
Peace deals and Fleur's role on the Israeli side. They also discuss the challenges of running Jerusalem, mainstreaming minorities in the city, and Israel/diaspora relations.
Catch the video version on Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS) on Wednesday (7:25 pm and 2:00 am) and Thursday (11:25 am) and Jewish News Syndicate's Youtube Channel.

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 Department, whether Hungary’s government is anti-Semitic and his experiences as the son of a Jewish immigrant from Iraq and an Iraq war veteran.

Ellie Cohanim talks with famed former Iranian political prisoner Ahmad Batebi and Iranian dissident Ben Tabatabai. Ellie joined the two as part of a delegation of Iranian Muslim dissidents traveling to Israel to express the Iranian people’s solidarity with the Jewish state. In this heartwrenching conversation, Ahmad Batebi shares his harrowing experience of undergoing torture and solitary confinement at the hands of the Islamic regime. They also discuss Iran prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and their joint aspiration for a Cyrus Accords peace deal between a free Iran and Israel.