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 and how to talk about Israel to young American Jews.

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 is determined to invalidate Jewish property rights in Jerusalem.

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’s efforts to bring the U.K. closer to Israel.

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 afraid to speak up.

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 the Jewish state is ignored by the Jewish state’s critics.

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 rights network has discarded its idealistic origins and now acts in concert with the United Nations and its Human Rights Council to assist the war on the existence of the Jewish state.