Almost every day, we read of another antisemitic incident or physical assault within the United States. What was once  lurking on the margins of society has increasingly become prevalent and more normalized. The FBI has recently reported that there are more attacks on the Jewish people than on any other religious group. This week alone in Brooklyn, three Hassidic men were attacked. It seems that for some, the more overtly Jewish one appears, the more license they feel they have to assault you.

These sorts of physical assaults come from highly marginalized, angry groups that get their hatred from virulently antisemitic sites in the deep, dark web, and far too often even from preachers in their mosques or churches.

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About the speaker: Jonathan S. Tobin is Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish News Syndicate — JNS.org — an international wire service covering the Jewish world and Israel. He’s also a senior contributor for The Federalist and a columnist for Newsweek, the New York Post, Haaretz and Israel Hayom, as well as a regular contributor for other publications such as The Washington Examiner and Commentary magazine. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy and the Jewish world.

Previous to becoming editor of JNS, Mr. Tobin was executive editor, senior online editor and chief political blogger for Commentary magazine. He also served as editor-in-chief of the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger.

Mr. Tobin has won more than 50 awards including Top Columnist for Jewish publications ten times, most recently in 2018 and 2019. He appears regularly on television commenting on politics in the United States and Israel, foreign policy and Jewish affairs, and lectures on college campuses and to Jewish communities.

Mr. Tobin was born in New York City, attended local schools and studied history at Columbia University.

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