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The Internet is inundated with misinformation. Join JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin for his analyses of the most important stories affecting Israel and the Jewish world. In each episode, he unpacks the headlines and tackles head-on critical aspects of politics, foreign policy and culture – adding his own insights and taking you along for relevant interviews with other experts in these fields. If you want to understand Jewish news, this JNS show is for you.

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The Internet is inundated with misinformation. Join JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin for his analyses of the most important stories affecting Israel and the Jewish world. In each episode, he unpacks the headlines and tackles head-on critical aspects of politics, foreign policy and culture – adding his own insights and taking you along for relevant interviews with other experts in these fields. If you want to understand Jewish news, this JNS show is for you.

    Ep. 121: Batya Ungar-Sargon: Our National Media Has Become the Mouthpiece For Terrorists

    Ep. 121: Batya Ungar-Sargon: Our National Media Has Become the Mouthpiece For Terrorists

    Since October 7th when Israel was brutally attacked by terrorists, the script has been flipped and the media now portrays Israel as the aggressor, a killer of innocents, and conflates Israeli captives to Palestinian prisoners. How did we get here?

    Newsweek opinion editor and author of one of the best books on how the media works "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy" Batya Ungar-Sargon joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss.

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Top Story Daily: Henry Kissinger and the limits of realism

    Top Story Daily: Henry Kissinger and the limits of realism

    Reviled by some and overpraised by others, he was a brilliant man who carefully curated his image. Still, most of his policies in the 1970s were wrong.

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    • 20 min
    Top Story Daily: Who’s winning the Biden administration’s civil war over Israel?

    Top Story Daily: Who’s winning the Biden administration’s civil war over Israel?

    A controversial presidential post on X highlighted the White House's attempts to simultaneously support Israel and signal its opposition to continue the fighting.

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    • 13 min
    Ep. 120: Alan Dershowitz: Anti-Israel Protestors on Campus are like Hitler Youth

    Ep. 120: Alan Dershowitz: Anti-Israel Protestors on Campus are like Hitler Youth

    Where is the explosion of antisemitism coming from and how can we defeat it? What will be the effect on terrorism worldwide if Israel doesn't defeat Hamas?

    To answer this question, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by legal expert and author Alan Dershowitz, who has written a new book about the current conflict, War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism.

    • 57 min
    Top Story Daily: Antisemitism in the schools spreads beyond the Ivy League

    Top Story Daily: Antisemitism in the schools spreads beyond the Ivy League

    A riot at a high school in Queens, N.Y., targeting a pro-Israel teacher is the latest incident that shows how Islamism and toxic woke ideology is fueling Jew-hatred.

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    • 13 min
    Top Story Daily: America shouldn’t let Hamas bargain its way to victory

    Top Story Daily: America shouldn’t let Hamas bargain its way to victory

    Israel had no choice but to accept a deal to release some hostages. But Washington shouldn’t pressure Jerusalem to let the terrorists run out the clock on a just war.

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    • 12 min

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