In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin conducts a wide-ranging special interview with former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

They discuss

• If US elections are actually fair
• Domestic and foreign threats facing the United States
• His controversial comments on the Holocaust and how America should have "one religion"
• The US/Israel relationship under Biden

and much more in this unedited raw interview.

The billionaire is wrong to single out the ADL for attacks on his platform and enabling far-right Jew-haters. Yet Jewish security can’t be assured by threatening free speech.

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Though a respected historian claims that backing the former president and Israel’s religious parties is “immoral,” politics is not a binary choice between good and evil.

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The Jewish groups that welcomed a letter from Gov. Gavin Newsom about avoiding bigotry are betraying the community. The courses are an invitation to antisemitism.

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At a time of such division, it has never been more timely to look back at the roots and history of Zionism.

JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by author Rick Richman who discusses his new book, And None Shall Make Them Afraid: Eight Stories of the Modern State of Israel.

They discuss

• how two compatible ideologies, Zionism and Americanism, helped create a free and democratic state of Israel.
• our misunderstanding of key figures like Theodor Herzl, Ze'ev Jabitinisky and others.
• why this history is so important for today.

Publicizing a meeting with Libya’s foreign minister was a blunder. But the incident speaks to both the momentum for normalization and hatred towards the Jewish state.

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The epic hit “Oppenheimer” and the new documentary “A Compassionate Spy” illustrate the moral blindness of treating Stalinism as a reasonable choice

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The U.S. State Department condemned recent comments by Itamar Ben-Gvir. But the real problem is not what the controversial cabinet member said; it’s support for a Palestinian right to terror.

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Republican voters want to end funding for an endless and unwinnable war against Russia in Ukraine. Linking the alliance with the Jewish state to that cause is a mistake.

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Is Israel ignoring its existential problems? Has Israel swept its problems under the rug for the political needs of the here and now?

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin discusses the problems facing Israel as it heads towards its 100th birthday with historian and former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren. He is the author of the new book 2048: The Rejuvenated State, a manifesto about how the Jewish state can deal with a long list of existential challenges including those brought to the fore by the divisions over judicial reform.