Jonny Gould's Jewish State
Jonny Gould
Jonny Gould is the go-to interviewer for presidents and politicians, artists and ambassadors, military commanders, rabbis and rock stars - and even Mossad agents. This is Jonny’s podcast of record and diplomacy for Israel and the Jewish diaspora. Conversations for everyone with his guest’s most essential thoughts and perspectives. Apple Podcast Number 1’s all over the world, all the time. Tell your friends! Subscribe now.Find more of Jonny at http://linktr.ee/Gould and http://x.com/jonnygould
177: Shannon Seban: "I won't go against my beliefs for political opportunism"
The podcast which prides itself in introducing new voices to the world on the issues we all care about.This is Shannon Seban, a young standout politician from Paris. She’s a conviction politician who believes if you behave otherwise, eventually you’ll lose trust and votes.Shannon currently serves as a municipal councilor in Rosny-sous-Bois and president of Macron’s Renaissance party in Seine-Saint-Denis, it’s where she was born and raised, a diverse and socio-economically challenged area. Her up
176: Tal Hartuv: "Evil never made me cry, but kindness makes me weep"
Do you enjoy Jonny's podcasts? Help support him with a coffee here or join his Substack.There’s a higher consciousness and awareness about Tal Hartuv. She's grounded but spiritual, realistic but also optimistic. Because Tal’s very existence since 2010 is an improbable miracle.She makes one imagine the dead returning to recount the experience of their murder. In December of that year, she was brutally attacked by Hamas terrorists while hiking the hills around Jerusalem alongside her friend, Krist
175: Edy Cohen addresses the Arab and English speaking worlds at the same time EXCLUSIVELY here
Find more Jonny and buy him a supportive coffee here and he's got a Substack too.Dr. Dan Diker of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs spelt it out for me a couple of episodes back. You've got to address the neighbours in Arabic! So I took his words to heart and did something about it.And where better to start than with President Trump's astounding news conference alongside Prime Minister Netanyahu when he said, "we'll own Gaza".The man to deliver truths to the Arab world is Dr.
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174: Ghaith al-Omari, Palestinian negotiator: "We need to reconstruct Gaza to support reasonable and moderate Palestinian voices"
Find the rest of Jonny's podcasts here and support him with a well-earned coffee here.I was in Brussels as the European Jewish Association gathered experts together from all backgrounds to discuss Middle East post October 7th.In between sessions in the hotel conference centre, I found myself outside the entrance with Ghaith al-Omari, taking in the fresh air and we started talking. Sporting a Prince of Wales Check suit, Bohemian ponytail and smoking what looked like a Gitanes, Ghaith and I drumme
173: Dr. Dan Diker, Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs: "The world is really suffering from the lack of a rules-based order".
Find and follow the rest of Jonny's interviews in the series here.Is Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office a cause for celebration in Jerusalem, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh - and fear in Tehran? Is the multipolar world but a consequence of America’s loosened grip on the world by previous administrations? Will President Trump reassert his nation on the world stage? And the hostage deal: what should we make of its grievous cost in terms of future security with the release of hundreds of convicted murd
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172: Professor David Hirsh, antisemitism in academia: becoming a professor despite the hostility
What happens in academia when the best minds are curbed by antisemitism and its modern day manifestation, antizionism? We all know the problems of campus antisemitism, more acute since October 7th.It’s an honour to discuss and unpack academic antisemitism with world-renowned scholar on antisemitism, Professor David Hirsh.Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, David focuses on contemporary antisemitism, crimes against humanity and totalitarianism. He's also Aca
BONUS EPISODE: Hostage deal to end the October 7th War. Will it stand? Will Israelis stand for it? Will President Trump underwrite it?
With his kind permission, Benjamin Anthony, CEO of the MirYam Institute has given me permission to release this momentous episode of his show on Jonny Gould's Jewish State, and you can follow his regular show here.Benjamin is joined as always by MirYam Institute's in-house military analyst, Yaakov Lappin, as they discuss the deal's implications for Israeli society, the IDF, Israel's security and the hostage families and whether the whole thing will collapse amid the murderous bad faith of Hamas.
171: Erin Molan: "Point out what I've said ever that's controversial. Ever!"
Find and follow the rest of Jonny's interviews in the series here.Erin Molan’s moral clarity, critical thought and searing conviction has elevated her voice to a world stage.Tasked with making testy opinion pieces straight down the barrel at Sky News Australia, Erin was removed rather abruptly from her starring role towards the end of 2024.Aside from her forthright journalism, it's her background which also makes her so compelling. Moving around the world as a child, her father Jim Molan was a M
170: Mark Birbeck, Our Fight UK founder. Why I fight for Israel, the Jewish people and the West
Find more of Jonny's podcasts here. Support his podcast work here.Mark Birbeck’s civic life changed on October 7th. Taken aback by the lack of widespread support for the victims from his fellow Britons, he set about being the change he wanted to see. He founded Our Fight UK to support the Jewish community and Israelis following the terrible events of that morning and the wars and plight of the hostages ever since.With other key figures, notably Kurpa Patel and Iranian dissident Niyak Ghorbani, M
169: Survivor: the true story of Ivor Perl’s boyhood journey through the Holocaust
Find more from Jonny here.This is Survivor, an animated film created by puppeteer and cartoonist, Zoom Rockman.It's the story of Auschwitz and Dachau survivor, Ivor Perl BEM, based upon his Holocaust memoir, Chicken Soup Under The Tree.The first screening in London took place in November 2024 and you'll hear Ivor and Zoom reflect on the movie and why it's so important.I’ve had the privilege of having a one-to-one conversation with Ivor at his London home, where he shared his harrowing e
168: Mandy Damari: 🎗️ Bring Emily Home. Emily's mum Mandy addresses UK media in Central London
Emily Damari, who's 28, is a joint UK and Israeli citizen and the only living remaining British national held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.On the morning of October 7th, 2023, Emily was in her home on Kibbutz Kfar Azza, 2 miles from the Gaza border, when terrorists entered her house.Her beloved golden cockapoo Choocha was shot dead, Emily was shot and left with severe injuries. She was then blindfolded and kidnapped in the back of her own car and driven into Gaza.Emily's captivity is now we
167: Jotam Confino: Netanyahu, Trump, the future of the Right and reporting Israel's wars
Jotam Confino is one of Israel’s brightest young journalists. Both disciplined and intrepid, Jotam brings together old school standards with open source leads which surround us all on the socials today. The key is to discern which video is real, which source reliable. That’s journalism. Originally from Denmark, Jotam made Aliyah (the Jewish ideal of return) because he wanted to live and work in Israel as a journalist. His career only really began when he moved there in February 2018, wh
166: "Midas Man", the Brian Epstein story. The movie's screenwriter, Brigit Grant tells the story of Brian and the film
Brian Epstein is one of the most significant cultural figures in Anglo Jewry’s 20th century. *Midas Man* is his story as "the fifth Beatle"Also from Liverpool, Brian saw the fledgling Fab Four performing at the Cavern one lunchtime, was bedazzled by them and went about masterminding their rise to global fame.He crafted their image, secured their first record deal, and so heralded the British cultural Invasion of America.Brigit Grant wrote the screenplay for "Midas Man” highlighting his journey f
165: Andrew Fox: What will Trump's return mean for Israel, Iran, Turkey, the UN, UNIFIL and UNRWA?
What is “strategic drift” and why does it threaten Israel’s military progress in Gaza? How dismantled is Hamas? How can Israel’s borders be secured so that the people of Sderot, Ofakim and the kibbutzim return home? Is Israel going to have to build a wall? In the north, the IDF is capitalising on some remarkable early breakthroughs in the battle to break Hezbollah. What now? As Yoav Gallant is sacked by Benjamin Netanyahu - again, is that a signal of military progress?And the return of
164: Imshin 3: Life after Sinwar. Hamas steal scores of food aid trucks to cling onto power. They choose who gets what. Profits pay salaries.
"An urgent ceasefire, get humanitarian aid in without further delay, release the hostages. Oh, and let's move towards a Two-State Solution". When we switch on the news, that's the agenda-setting drumbeat from politicians, aided and abetted by international institutions and their media lackies.The unrepentant, unaccountable BBC and others don't care about the mess they leave.Welcome back for the third time to Jonny Gould's Jewish State, Imshin, Jacqui Peleg.Her sources are impeccable, tr
BONUS EPISODE: Mosab Hassan Yousef, "The Green Prince" addresses the European Parliament
Find more of Jonny’s podcasts and writing here.Israel is fighting an existential war on seven fronts but an eighth one always seems to be discounted from the reckoning. It’s the battle of narratives, played through media, both legacy and social.Somewhere since October 7th 2023, the truth has been trampled down a long deep rabbit hole. What you’re about to listen to is totally irreconcilable with the shorthand, throwaway phrases you get from mainstream bulletins. Mosab Hassan Yousef, bor
163: Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum meets David Green: Schools Podcaster of the Year
This is a rather different and special episode of Jonny Gould’s Jewish State. It's year 2 of our “Schools Podcaster of the Year” award, presented this year by Dangoor Education. It stars our winner, 11-year-old David Green from Year 6 at North West London Jewish Day School, who won the chance to make this episode with me. David has the open mind of a young man blessed with great intelligence and the capacity for profound uncluttered insights. And he secured time for us with Rabbi Dr. Ra
162: Brendan O'Neill: "After the Pogrom": Why have the young and educated classes come out for Hamas?
Support Jonny's work here.“After The Pogrom” - what now for Israel and the Jewish diaspora? And for western civilisation for that matter? The swirling dust of conflict has brought with it significant changes to our world and yet amid Israel’s fight on seven fronts, Brendan O’Neill’s coherent methodic analysis explains what we’re witness to. Brendan’s not on X, you’ll only find “burntoakboy” as he’s known on Instagram “because the rest of social media is far too rough and ugly” for him.And it’s w
161: Irit Lahav, Survivor of the Kibbutz Nir Oz massacre on October 7th: "An old boat oar and a Dyson vacuum cleaner saved my life"
Help Jonny make the podcasts: buy him a coffee here.Amid the IDF's push into Lebanon to eliminate Hezbollah, the thwarting of terror attacks on Israel’s streets and the hail of rockets fired into them, we must always, always keep in our minds the plight of our hostages incarcerated by the savages of Hamas and their accomplices in Gaza. For it was on that fateful Shabbat and Simchat Torah morning of October 7th 2023, that the lives of Israeli and Jewish people around the world changed fo
160: Joe Walsh, the lifelong Republican who wants Kamala to win and wishes "to retire and die in Israel"
If you like Jonny's podcasts, support by buying him a drink or make him a monthly donation with Gift Aid.Here’s a voice from the American right, steeped in generations of support for Israel and so recognisable through the decades.But times, they are a changing, even for this staunch supporter of the Jewish State. Joe Walsh remains so, amid the swirling winds of university protests for Hamas and rallies in major cities right across America. But even as a former Congressman, a lifelong Re
BONUS EPISODE: Netanyahu’s extraordinary speech to the UN General Assembly
Find more of Jonny's podcasts right here.Even as aerial assaults continued over Lebanon’s capital city Beirut, rumoured to be targeting Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave an impassioned speech to the UN General Assembly in New York.Here’s the full speech on this bonus episode.In his address to the 79th session of the General Assembly, Prime Minister Netanyahu emphasized several critical issues:Iran and Regional Security: Netanyahu positio
159: “Iran is a paper tiger, we must eliminate Hezbollah”, Benjamin Anthony, veteran of the 2006 Lebanon War.
Find more of Jonny’s podcasts here: https://podfollow.com/jonny-goulds-jewish-stateHow should Israel tackle Hezbollah and its estimated 150,000 rockets all pointed at them? Is pushing the Lebanon’s terror insurgency back behind the Litani River enough? In this era of long range technology, isn’t a river just an arbitrary line? The terrorists can still reach Israel from there. Hezbollah is a battalion of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Wouldn’t it be best if they were removed c
158: Fleur Hassan-Nahoum: Israel's wartime economy with the Trade & Innovation Special Envoy. Coping with wars on seven fronts.
You can help Jonny by buying him a coffee here!I’ve known Israel’s Trade and Innovation Special Envoy, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum for so long. which is why it was a pleasure that she had time to stop by and join me for a chat and a phone-in on my early breakfast show on Talk. Having moved on from being Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, Fleur now beats the drum for Israel’s famed enterprise as the Startup Nation, but how has the economy adjusted to wartime? Can growth and inward investment be restored
157: Tuvia Tenenbom's Careful, Beauties Ahead! A year with Israel's ultraorthodox communities
Jonny would love your help. If you buy him a coffee while looking through all his previous interviews, do it right here.They told Tuvia Tenenbom, don’t go to Mea Shearim, Jerusalem’s ultra orthodox enclave, it’ll be dangerous, they’ll throw stones at you. But after living among Israel’s Charedi communities in Jerusalem and Beer Sheva, Tuvia found the community to be quite the contrary. And, he believes they’re more liberal and progressive than the world beyond. This is the story behind
156: Paul Martin: "I knew Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader assassinated in Tehran. He jailed me in Gaza".
Jonny needs your help to battle the wave of anti-Israel media coverage. Do you want to help his podcast counter this? Donate here or buy him a coffee hereFind all of Jonny's previous episodes here.Who was Ismail Haniyeh, Leader of Hamas? He was assassinated in Tehran on the last day of July 2024 and buried in Doha two days later. He's been branded a "moderate”, but was in charge of Hamas’ so-called political wing, who’s murderers, rapists and kidnappers pillaged - and filmed - their way
155: Major (Ret.) Andrew Fox : "Iran could have FIVE nuclear warheads in THREE weeks". So what's stopping them?
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The October 7th War in Gaza is the longest war in Israel’s history.
But how to grasp the nettle that is Hezbollah?
What will “the day after” really look like in Gaza?: are the oil rich gulf states the answer to a more moderate Palestinian state?
How soft have the West been on Iran? Is dethroning the theocracy in Tehran the key to an Islamic reformation?
Is Britain’s foreign policy reset really pondering between Qatar and Saudi? And is it a Hobs
154: Ivor Perl: Auschwitz and Dachau survivor, "I paid a terrible price for being Jewish, but how can I break the chain?"
Find the rest of Jonny's podcasts right here.This is Ivor Perl, survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau.Born Yitzchak Perlmutter, in a family of 11 in Mako, Hungary in 1932, Ivor’s youth and education was stolen from him in 1944. His orthodox Jewish childhood was stable enough, but there were always antisemites who slapped and pushed him about on the way to school - but it got far worse during World War II, because the Nazis began targeting Jews in Hungary. In 1944, when he was just 12, Ivor,
153: Manuel Valls, France's former Prime Minister describes the threat of extremist politics to the French Jewish community (en Français)
Our guest today is France’s former prime minister, Manuel Valls.
We met at the European Jewish Association delegation to Auschwitz.
France has the biggest Jewish community in Europe and it's the only country outside the Middle East where Sephardim outnumber Ashkenazim. Undoubtedly, this is a legacy of the Holocaust and the subsequent migration of French-speaking Jews from North Africa after World War II.
Notre invité aujourd’hui est l’ancien Premier ministre Français, Manuel Valls, rencontré à
152: Imshin returns: "Hezbollah isn't Hamas, it's much stronger. As a family, we're planning for war”.
Back by popular demand, Imshin returns to Jonny Gould’s Jewish State
Scroll back and listen to our first episode, an introduction to Imshin, real name, Jacqui Peleg.
Imshin’s feed on X with the famous hashtag, #TheGazaYouDontSee is a phenomenon of the social media era.
And what Jacqui achieves couldn’t have existed before Twitter, YouTube and TikTok.
Because such a specific subject via these video news sources, couldn’t have been so constantly delivered in real time. It’s now so readily availab
Iran's War on Israel: Conricus on Iran nuclear threat, Bibi arms wrestle with Biden, sex crimes on October 7th
This is the latest on Iran’s War on Israel, produced and presented by Jonny Gould.
All of the soundbites you’ll hear in this bulletin are compiled from interviews in episodes of Jonny Gould’s Jewish State podcast.
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The headlines:
Israel faces full military confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon because of a significant escalation of tensions.
The IDF’s Chief of Staff meets with Arab counterparts in
151: Dean Furman and Michael Sweetney: fighting antisemitism and racism in sport with the MAX Project
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Our two guests today are professional sportsmen from two different continents, cultures and sports, united in countering antisemitism in the sports industry.
They’re part of Project Max, who’s MD Eric Rubin was with me in Amsterdam at the European Jewish Association conference, where he moderated a session on fighting antisemitism, racism and intolerance alongside Dean Furman, who played internationally with South Africa an
Iran's War on Israel: Hostage stories and reaction plus the latest with Jonny Gould
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Jonny is back with the latest on Iran's war on Israel including the moment the IDF came to rescue the "diamonds", the code word for the hostages incarcerated in Gazan hell since October 7th.
All of the soundbites you’ll hear in this bulletin are compiled from interviews right here - in episodes Jonny Gould’s Jewish State podcast.
The IDF continue its operations against Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah lau
150: Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Conricus: #AllEyesOnRafah: How has the world been reduced to this?
“All eyes on Rafah”: The AI generated graphic shared by 50m people on Instagram, spread by slebs like Dua Lipa, Lewis Hamilton and Gigi and Bella Hadid.How has the world been reduced to this?”It’s a near total disconnect with the reality of the Gaza War.The Ayatollah is prolifically tweeting including antisemitic tropes about Jews running the media. But does Iran have Israel where it wants them, in a cycle of “forever war”?How must Israel change to get out of a perpetual state of war? D
Iran's War on Israel Latest News Bulletin
Iran's war against Israel emerges from behind its terror proxies across the Middle East.Since Iran's unprecedented direct attack on Israel, Jonny compiles and hosts a regular news bulletin rounding up major stories as the Middle East conflict is being realised as the Iran-Israel War.These regular bulletins expose the Iran Octopus as the prime mover in the Middle East conflict.The top stories in this bulletin.We hear from Yoseph Haddad with an unequivocal rebuttal of the accusations poin
149: Alex Deane: running to be Finchley and Golders Green's next MP on July 4th
You’ll know Alex Deane if you’re a regular news channel viewer.
A regular commentator and reviewer on Sky News, BBC’s dateline London and GB News, he says couldn’t stand idly by in an era where the conviction politician might stand an electoral chance to buck the trend.
And Alex is standing in Finchley and Golders Green, Margaret Thatcher’s seat made vacant by Mike Freer, hounded out of public life when his constituency office was burned down. He was also the original target of assassin Ali Harb
Iran's War on Israel Latest News Bulletin with Jonny Gould
Iran's war against Israel comes fully out of the shadows.
Since Iran's unprecedented direct attack on Israel, Jonny compiles and hosts a regular news bulletin rounding up major stories as the Middle East conflict is being realised as the Iran-Israel War.
These regular bulletins expose the Iran Octopus as the prime mover in the Middle East conflict.
The top stories in this bulletin:
The Butcher of Tehran Raisi is killed in a helicopter crash, the IDF continues its operations in Rafah as the ICJ i
148: #TheGazaYouDontSee: @imshin reveals the REAL Gaza: how Gazans see themselves through their own videos
The mainstream news channels are stuck in a tiresome stream of programmes which you know misrepresent Gaza and Israel. That ignore key facts and amplify voices from just one side (with honourable exceptions, of course).The world’s media would have you believe Gazans are helpless, living in an overcrowded prison camp, unable to escape their predicament, sitting ducks to Israeli aggression. It couldn't be further from the truth.Hamas leadership need the bleeding hearts of Europe aided by
147: Dr. Meir Javedanfar: What's it like for the Jews who STILL live in Iran?
What’s it really like in Iran - for its citizens and the Jews who still live there? Iran’s major cities, Tehran and Isfahan still have functioning synagogues, but the communities have declined sharply since the Islamist revolution which shapes the world today. Let’s discuss today's Iran with someone who really knows it.This is an interview conducted in Israel just a matter of weeks before October 7th. During the heady late summer days of weekly judicial reform rallies, this is Dr Meir J
Iran's War on Israel Latest News Bulletin presented by Jonny Gould
Iran's war against Israel comes fully out of the shadows.
Since Iran's unprecedented direct attack on Israel, Jonny compiles and hosts the first of a regular news bulletin rounding up major stories as the Middle East conflict is being realised as the Iran-Israel War.
These regular bulletins expose the Iran Octopus as the prime mover in the Middle East conflict.
All of the soundbites from world-class experts are compiled from interview episodes of Jonny Gould's Jewish State podcast. Subscribe now
146: Neturei Karta: what are they for?
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You’ve been on protests and rallies countering the never ending anti-Israel hate marches in London.
You look on wondering why Saturdays in central London are allowed to become the domineering space for terror supporting hordes and their throngs of useful idiots, as they snake past the splendid museums, jaunty theatres, flagship stores and centuries old architecture which talk of deep Bri
Iran's War on Israel Latest News Bulletin with Jonny Gould
Iran's war against Israel comes fully out of the shadows.
Since Iran's unprecedented direct attack on Israel, Jonny compiles and hosts the first of a regular news bulletin rounding up major stories as the Middle East conflict is being realised as the Iran-Israel War.
These regular bulletins expose the Iran Octopus as the prime mover in the Middle East conflict.
All of the soundbites from world-class experts are compiled from interview episodes of Jonny Gould's Jewish State podcast. Subscribe now
145: Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis: "If you're a rabbi and everyone loves you, you're not a rabbi and if you're a rabbi and nobody loves you, you're not a mensch!"
This is a rather special episode featuring a competition winner from North West London Jewish Day School who won the chance to make an episode of Jonny Gould's Jewish State.
Awareness of news and current affairs is certainly heightened by the pressure of social media - so imagine a young person growing up in this day and age.
I ran a competition for the pupils of Year 6 and I said to the class, “get me an interesting interviewee and write down the questions you’d like to ask them”.
I was deligh
Iran's War on Israel News Bulletin
Iran's war against Israel comes fully out of the shadows.Since Iran's unprecedented direct attack on Israel, Jonny compiles and hosts the first of a regular news bulletin rounding up major stories as the Middle East conflict is being realised as the Iran-Israel War.These regular bulletins expose the Iran Octopus as the prime mover in the Middle East conflict.All of the soundbites from world-class experts are compiled from interview episodes of Jonny Gould's Jewish State podcast. Subscri
144: Ruth Wasserman Lande: “Iran’s mullahs have held the Iranian people hostage since 1979”
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The Islamic Republic of Iran emerges from behind the regional proxies it's used as pawns until now to take direct action against Israel.
Over 300 suicide drones, ballistic and cruise missiles targeted Israel from multiple fronts from Iran, as well as Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
99% were intercepted, mostly outside of Israel's airspace by Israeli, British, American, French, Saudi and Jordanian forces.
So what tactical change by Ira
143: Amichai Chikli: "October 7th has created a reset for world Jewry. There is an awakening of the Jewish spirit"
Support thirsty Jonny here with a coffeeJonny also produces and presents 🍎 number one hit podcast, 🎙️Jonny Gould’s Jewish State. Follow now at this link:This is Israel’s minister of the diaspora Amichai Chikli, with me in Krakow, just a short distance from Auschwitz, where we’d journeyed together with other international leaders as part of a European Jewish Association delegation.We were all there for a symposium on antisemitism in Europe called, "Never Again: Lip Service or Deep Comm
142: Emily Schrader in London: "shocked at tolerance of antisemitism" and Benedict Spence: "happy days ahead for Bibi?"
Support thirsty Jonny here with a cup of coffee. Emily Schrader returned to London for a whistlestop tour of speaking engagements and appearances and attend street protests in solidarity with Britain's Jewish community, embattled by the unrelenting pro-Palestinian hate marches which never seem to end.Listen to how she deals with the antisemites on the streets of London and how she views the over tolerance of Islamofascism spreading fast across the West.Emily appeared on my Talk TV early
141: Col. Richard Kemp: "The UN, US and UK just threw the Israeli hostages under the bus"
The war started by the October 7th massacres is the longest in Israel's history.But with rockets still being fired from Gaza into Israel’s southernmost city of Sderot and a first Houthi rocket landing further south, what next steps are open to Israel - and what of the deteriorating relationship with the United States?Our esteemed guest today is Col. Richard Kemp, commander of British Forces in Afghanistan and Chair of the COBRA Intelligence Group, coordinating MI5 and MI6 during the Lon
140: Avi Issacharoff, Fauda co-creator: "October 7th has restored pride and understanding that antisemitism won't win this time. We're the good guys""
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For 20 years, Avi Issacharoff has been an accomplished Israeli author and journalist and now he's emerged as the internationally renowned television drama producer, the co-creator of hit TV series of Fauda.
How has October 7th changed Israel? Every family has been affected and Israel has become one big family. Avi’s Fauda family too.
Do we have the stomach for another series, isn’t it just too close to home?
And while the world from the White H
139: Einat Wilf in London: Israel SHOULD demand the Palestinians declare, “our war with Israel is over”
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It’s always a pleasure to see Einat Wilf, here again on a whistlestop tour of London, she met with politicians of all parties at the Houses of Parliament, plus journalists and Jewish leaders and their communities.
And it’s her clarity which is arresting. She elevates Zionism above politics, creating unity for Jews of every stripe to coalesce around.
Not to mention the millions of non-Jews who believe in the Jewish people’s right to self determ
138: Loay Alshareef in London takes your calls on TalkTV and rejects claims of "Israeli land grabbing"
Loay Alshareef came on my TalkTV show to talk about the peace which remains between Arabs and Jews despite the October 7 massacre by Hamas terrorists in Israel.
And it’s good news.
The Abraham Accords which bound the UAE, together with Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan with Israel in September 2020, remains steadfast and though the pogrom exacted on Israel is a “setback”, the opportunities for peace are still there.
Loay has become a good friend since he invited me to Abu Dhabi in 2022 and it’s alwa
137: Loay Alshareef in London: "It’s bad news for the enemies of peace”
Support Jonny here.Loay Alshareef has been on quite a journey. Growing up in Saudi Arabia and brought up a religious Moslem, he was exposed to antisemitic schooling about Israel and the Jews.“Jews are the fierce enemies of the Arabs and you shouldn’t have them as friends. Christians too. But first, Jews.” Loay was part of a generation of young Saudis who stood no chance. Isolated from the world, taught to hate. It still goes on - although less so. But the poisoning of his young mind was
136: Nicole Lampert: I confronted Gary Lineker in public about his Palestinian tweets
If I'd been asked which journalist might one day confront Gary Lineker face-to-face about his views on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, I might well have said, "it's going to be Nicole Lampert!", such is her journalistic courage.
And so it was, as Nicole and a small handful of other journalists were invited to a Broadcasting Press Guild Lunch to hear from Lineker about his burgeoning podcast business.
The Press all introduced themselves and Lineker admitted to feeling scared. He was right!
He'd
135: Itamar Marcus: UNRWA, the worst thing that ever happened to the Palestinians
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Itamar Marcus is the founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch, started in 1996 to monitor the consensus of the Palestinian world.
They started reading the papers for the views of their leaders and found school books and television programmes indoctrinating children in Jew hate.
But with 75% of Palestinians supporting Hamas’ October 7 massacres with 60% “extremely supportive” and 98% “feeling a sense of pride as a Palestinian”, what future peace for Israel?
This episode
134: President Reuven Rivlin of Israel defies Poland's Holocaust Remembrance laws on Polish soil
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In this exclusive interview, Reuven Rivlin, the tenth president of Israel pushes back on Polish law on remembering the Holocaust in Krakow. President Rivlin was among world leaders in politics and industry at the European Jewish Association’s delegation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and taking part in a symposium on the growing threat of antisemitism in Europe, entitled NEVER AGAIN: Lip Service or Deep Commitment?
Also with us, former French prime minister Manuel Valls, a strong voic
EXTRA: Elon Musk and Ben Shapiro return from Auschwitz with their first impressions
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Elon Musk returns fresh from visiting Auschwitz and here are his initial reflections.
He’s interviewed by Ben Shapiro. I’m with him and other delegates in Krakow at the European Jewish Association symposium.
The episode starts with a stirring Holocaust Kadesh, recited by EJA Founder and Chairman, Rabbi Menachem Margolin.
It was called "NEVER AGAIN: Lip Service or Deep Commitment?" Among the world leaders I managed to speak to are former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who pu
133: Haviv Rettig Gur and Jonathan Spyer: “Deathblow” to Hamas would aid Gulf vision for stability
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How has the October 7th massacre challenged Israeli public opinion on the conflict with the Palestinians? What about 'day after' planning? Has it seriously begun? And does peace lie with the Gulf states? Just how much do the Saudis and the UAE want Israel to win? Who in Palestinian society is there to deal peace with? Is there anyone? Has the Israeli left anywhere left to go? Is war from Lebanon inevitable? While the Houthis, another Iran
132: "Golda": producer Nicholas Martin, "We knew we were winning when Assad shot his generals"
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Our guest today is Nicholas Martin, movie producer and writer of the biographical drama, “Golda”.
Golda was seven years in the making, and as you’ll hear, Nicholas has delved so deeply into her story - and by extension Israel’s story from independence to the 1970s - which makes this such a captivating interview. He’s also made deep friendships with Golda’s family and throug
131: “Another How To Make Peace In The Middle East" TalkTV Special
This is “Another How to Make Peace in the Middle East", building on the success of the first Talk TV Special, with more highly informed guests from the worlds of politics, the military, frontline medicine, journalism, diplomacy and think tanks.
In this episode, British-born Israeli hand and trauma surgeon, Dr Elliot Sorene explains how he's operated on Hamas fighters, who after successful surgery have "promised to see him on the battlefield". He also tells us how his son survived the Nova Festiv
130: Dov Forman: “My trip to Kfar Aza and the Nova Festival site will change me forever”
Dov Forman, 20, co-author of New York Times bestseller, Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live, was invited to Israel by ELNET UK on a solidarity mission to see for himself the trail of death and devastation left by Hamas through Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7th. Scenes and smells he says have changed him forever.
ELNET’s been running constant missions ever since for European influencers and Parliamentarians. Almost 100 MPs from eight European countries have been
129: Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Jerusalem's deputy mayor: "250,000 Israelis are displaced"
"Israel's a self-starting civil society, which takes so much on itself", so says Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, who talks about her city's response to the 250,000 displaced Israelis who've left their homes in the south.
But there is a determination across the whole nation for them to return home and rebuild their lives and communities after the terrible pogrom of October 7th.
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128: Bring Them Home! Orit Meir: mother of Gaza hostage, Almog, 21.
On my TalkTV show, I spoke with Orit Meir, mother of Almog, 21, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7th, then seen in a Hamas propaganda video shortly after.
Nothing has been heard or seen of him since. Orit says he MUST remain front of mind amid the release of other Hamas hostages.
I can’t remember conducting a more emotional interview in all my years in broadcast journalism. This is a vital message to transmit through a mother’s agony and anxiety as you’ll hear.
Bring The
127: TalkTV Special: “How To Make Peace In The Middle East”
Aside from producing 🎙️Jonny Gould’s Jewish State, I also host live shows at Talk TV and was delighted to be asked to produce and present a Special, “How to Make Peace in the Middle East”.
This was the opportunity to bring guests from the podcast over the years to a mass English speaking audience around the world.
Joining me for this three-hour show were guests of the highest calibre: Col. Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Dr Einat Wilf, leading Zionist thinker, w
126: Chaim Oren: “A crisis can lead to rebirth”. How to build emotional resilience
Our guest is Chaim Oren, an expert on resilience, wellbeing and high performance, who advises professional sportspeople and leading CEOs on fulfilling their human potential.When it comes to strengthening personal resilience, Chaim quotes Victor E. Frankl, Auschwitz survivor and author of Man’s Search for Meaning: “If you have the why you can endure any how”.Frankl, who conceptualised “logotherapy” a therapeutic approach to find personal meaning in life, believed anyone, anywhere could “
125: Relief work in Ukraine and Israel. Elnet UK's reception at the Houses of Parliament
In these times of danger in the Middle East, even on one’s own doorstep, it was both heartening and morale boosting for everyone who attended a Parliamentary reception at the Palace of Westminster.
Led by Elnet UK with United Hatzalah of Israel and World Jewish Relief, we learned of support on the ground for victims in the Ukraine and Israel. Meant to mark the 600th day since the war started in Ukraine, the Hamas terror attacks meant the focus shifted - though we were urged not to forget the war
124: Lies, libels and lack of probity. Israel fights more than just Hamas, now also the UN and BBC
Words are important. In times of war, their importance is magnified. Never has my mission for Jonny Gould’s Jewish State seemed more urgent: to combat the slurs, the lies and the distortions of history which threaten Israel and Jewish people.
The media has a responsibility - at the very least - not to fan conjecture and untruths, because it comes with a by product: incitement.
And the media column seems found to be woefully short of moral purpose. Hundreds of thousands Britons felt emboldened to
123: Bring Them Home! says Entebbe survivor Benny Davidson, "I know what our hostages in Gaza are going through”
Israel’s collective spirit is rekindled.
After eight months of street protests, of political turmoil and the societal divisions it scored arising from judicial reform proposals, the nation has responded in unity to the terror committed by brutal Hamas murderers, rapists and kidnappers on October 7th.
The people have risen “ground up, not bottom down” in the best ideals of Israeli and Jewish society. The IDF, the collective “us” has brought Israelis together once more.
And it’s a phenomenon our g
122: Chuck Freilich: Catastrophe in Israel. What now as Hamas shows the world its true intentions?
Israel is heartbroken, the house of Israel is heartbroken. Israel is at war again fighting genocide.
It’s resilient people are traumatised by shock, horror and grief.
A quiet Shabbat morning, also the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah where Jews celebrate finishing reading the Torah and then start to read it again, “In the Beginning”, was shattered by a mass invasion of Hamas terrorists, smashing through the concrete border wall, paragliding into Israel, before rampaging through a music festival
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121: Bill Browder, Putin's thorn. “We all need to be leaders, to stand up against wrong and for right”
This is a special episode featuring a competition winner from North West London Jewish Day School, who won the chance to make an episode of Jonny Gould’s Jewish State with me.
I ran it for Year 6 pupils and was delighted when 11-year-old Bella Bolot stepped up to the plate and secured us an interview with Bill Browder.
Bill is a London-based American-born financier, the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, once the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia.
On discovering that
120: Rt. Hon. Joan Ryan in conversation with the Rt. Hon. Lord Eric Pickles
Our two guests today make their first appearances on the “podcast of record”, and you might say after 120 plus episodes of Jonny Gould’s Jewish State, they’ve been a rather glaring omission.
They are two of British politics' biggest supporters of Israel and opponents of antisemitism.
The Right Honourable, Lord Eric Pickles and the Right Honourable, Joan Ryan are in conversation.
We focus on the future of Holocaust remembrance, including a serious attempt to get to the bottom of what actually w
119: Israelophobia: Jake Wallis Simons on the newest version of the oldest hatred
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Let’s confront the latest expression of antisemitism: that which hates Jewish people for the State of Israel. I’m delighted that Jake Wallis Simons has given his first interview about his new book to Jonny Gould’s Jewish State, “Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It”.
We can’t really have a conversation about Jew-hate in the 21st century
118: Edy Cohen: Can Saudi-Israel normalize? The tragedy of judicial reform, Swedes burn holy books
Our guest today says the unedifying term “civil war” bandied describing judicial reform in Israel is a useful device to maintain pressure on both sides to find a solution.
Let me be clear: I spent much of July and August 2023 in Israel and the country is not “entering a state of civil war” as former Prime Minister and convicted criminal, Ehud Olmert claimed. There’s no curfews, no rubber bullets and no army in place of cops on the streets.
But that’s not to say this isn’t a serious situation. As
117: Jonny goes to the Knesset to meet governing Likud MK: judicial reform, Arab Israelis and Iran
Jonny Gould’s Jewish State heads for the Knesset in Jerusalem and a couple of nights out in Tel Aviv, fresh from an eye opening visit to the Israel-Gaza border (scroll back one episode for that atmospheric discussion beneath an Iron Dome rocket launcher).
I was part of an Elnet UK delegation, an organisation sharing democratic values and strategic interests between the Jewish State and the UK and Europe. Now let’s talk to politicians and an Iranian expert for a snapshot on regional and domestic
116: Inside an Iron Dome staging post and crossing Kerem Shalom into Gaza: Jonny heads for Israel’s Gaza border
Let’s take you to a top secret location in the south of Israel to observe at firsthand an Iron Dome battery, followed by a trip to Kerem Shalom, the border frontier exchanging goods and workers between Gaza and Israel.We were told by the IDF the night before not to come because there’d been incoming rocket fire which they’d defended against from that very location.But in the end, the invite and clearance was reinstated. When I arrived there, I was surprised by the personnel in charge of
115: Lord Daniel Finkelstein: Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
This is a story of moderation, to use our history of oppression to resist fascism, anti-Jewish hate and uphold the rule of law and maintain hard-fought for liberties. Russia led by Stalin and Germany by Hitler were gruesome, murderous, evil regimes. Yet Soviet Russia’s crimes aren’t acknowledged in the same way as those perpetrated by the Germans and their accomplices across Europe. But they certainly are in this engaging chronicle of Lord Daniel Finkelstein’s own family history, “Hitle
114: UAE's evolving diplomacy, what's the state of the Abraham Accords. Should Israel be worried?
This episode of Jonny Gould’s Jewish State focuses on the United Arab Emirates.
The UAE is asserting itself diplomatically on the regional and world stage. Should Israel be worried about the swirling winds of interests in the region?
The Emiratis have followed Saudi Arabia in re-establishing diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran - and Syria has been welcomed back into the Arab League fold, despite Bashar al Assad’s brutal and bloody decade-long civil war.
Furthermore, Assad has bee
113: The Escape Artist: Jonathan Freedland talks to Dr Bea Lewkowicz, "I knew both Vrba and Wetzler"
Jonny Gould’s Jewish State circles back to a previous episode, uncovering startling new revelations. New details so rich, a bestseller has been updated to include them.
In episode 88, I sat down with my old friend, Jonathan Freedland to discuss The Escape Artist, the story of two young Jewish men who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world of the horrors within. Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler’s 32-page report reached the desks of Roosevelt, Churchill and the Pope and they warned Hungary’s Admir
112: Ronen Bergman: Rise and Kill First, Israel's secret history of targeted assassinations
“Since World War II, Israel has assassinated more people than any other country in the Western world.” is a brutal sentence from the start of “Rise and Kill First”.
Our guest is Ronen Bergman, author of the New York Times bestseller, which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. It’s the product of a thousand interviewees, some of whom Ronen quizzed multiple times, along with millions of words of research.
The detail also comes from a wealth of unclassified documents, some long forgotten in th
111: Trevor Horn: Adventures in Modern Recording, Buggles, “whiz bang” hits and old Jewish jokes!
This is my second sit-down interview with Trevor Horn and you’ll hear why it’s nothing like the first time. The previous one (episode 43) made an impression with Wikipedia’s editors, who included Trevor’s “I believe in Judaism, more than I believe in anything else” as a reference.
On leaving last time, Trevor told me at the door, "no one ever asked me about that before". In this in-depth conversation about his life and career, Trevor talks about growing up as a post-war baby boomer in Hetton-le-
110: Sarah Idan: Miss Universe Iraq 2017, self-proclaimed Zionist, courageous Human Rights voice
This is Sarah Idan’s story, Sarai more informally and publicly. She used to enter beauty pageants “to help bring people together”.But as Iraq’s winning Miss Universe in 2017, she got much more than she bargained for. Sarai’s new life as a renowned Human Rights campaigner started there and then, when she took a selfie with Adar Gandelsman, participating alongside her as Miss Israel.All hell let loose back home as the Iraqi tourism ministry ordered her to take the selfie down, “because it
109: Judicial Reform crisis: “If one side wins Israel will lose. We must stay Jewish, democratic”
These are the sage words of President Isaac Herzog as Israel's Head of State tries to bridge the gap between his people, the biggest schism in the young country’s history.Jonny poses the questions and well-positioned experts and well-positioned protestors present opposing arguments.PLUS we have an exclusive interview with Professor Avi Bell from the Kohelet Policy Forum, the very think tank who designed the proposals which threaten to tear Israel apart, conducted by Professor Chuck Frei
108: Gary Lineker rushed back to air by the BBC, turning a blind eye to his toxic tweets
The unedifying scurry by BBC management to get Gary Lineker back on air after suspending him diffuses both a row with its staff and kicks the can of impartiality into the long grass.A couple of tweets by the BBC’s lead football presenter brought down the entire coverage of the Corporation’s TV and radio sport for a weekend.Lineker compared the government’s language on immigration as "not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 1930s”. He was suspended by the BBC’s Director General, Ti
107: Brighton & Hove, actually: BNJC’s vision and ambition for a brand new community in Sussex
A shining light in the shimmering city. “If you build it, they will come”, said Kevin Costner in the baseball movie, Field of Dreams – and there’s a similar vision for BNJC, Brighton & Hove’s new Jewish community synagogue and residential property development. There are around 4,000 to 5,000 Jewish people in the East Sussex city and this audacious project is an attempt to revitalise Brighton & Hove’s Jewish community. The foundations were laid in 2015 and now it’s open. BNJC has
106: The Abrahamic Family House, UAE’s permanent expression of pluralism as they prepare for COP28
Big things are happening in the United Arab Emirates, really big things.As the nation which reached out to Israel in the most expansive expression of peace yet with an Arab partner, it’s time Jewish people understood more about this nation.Abu Dhabi is the stage for a new era of religious pluralism. The Emirati capital has opened the Abrahamic Family House, a beacon of mutual understanding, coexistence and religious peace.It consists of a mosque, church, synagogue and educational center
105: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs' Dan Diker: Africa seeks Israeli defense, judicial reform
Israel's judicial reform row is proving an awful spectacle for the watching world.I wanted to find voices of moderation and considered opinion - and in particular, within the ruling Likud Party: is there anyone willing to stand up to Benjamin Netanyahu over the division this is causing?As a diaspora Jew, I look on in dismay at the threat to unity of the Jewish people.Just as bad has been some Jews in the diaspora publicly dissociating themselves with the Jewish State. Never. Not in this
104: Emily Schrader: everyday Iranians love Israel! Emily’s social media outreach resets the talk
Emily Schrader was back in London with Yoseph Haddad on a whistlestop UK speaking tour, which included a nasty confrontation with pro-intifada students on campuses in London and Nottingham.Scroll back an episode for one of his energetic and hopeful speeches from the tour. Emily is an American-Israeli journalist and opinion former, a regular on the Jerusalem Post and the co-host of TV show, Headlines with the Haddads, an explainer on the Middle East to American audiences and tackling bio
103: Yoseph Haddad: Arab Israeli defending a Jewish and democratic State of Israel
Yoseph Haddad is an Arab Israeli who believes with body, mind and soul in his country. And by his country, I mean the State of Israel,Yoseph joined up with StandWithUs UK at one of London’s oldest continuous communities, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in west London.Being counterintuitive, Yoseph is the target of constant protest, even death threats – some substantial - as he advocates for both a Jewish and democratic state.A smallish opposition greeted his arrival at University C
102: The Greatest Comeback, Bela Guttmann’s Benfica glory with David Bolchover
This is a truly heroic story which starts in Holocaust disaster and heads to the glory of winning Europe’s greatest football prize. David Bolchover is the author of a biography on Bela Guttmann, “The Greatest Comeback, From Genocide to Football Glory”.David recounts the story of Bela, the ultimate Jewish footballing hero, who survived to become a twice-winner of the European Cup with Benfica and the inspiration for one Portugal’s greatest stars, Eusebio.Jonny Gould’s Jewish State is bro
101: Uri Geller: "Israel was the making of me"
Uri Geller went around the world, found and fame and fortune and has now returned home to Israel. Before Gal Gadot and Lior Raz, who was Israel’s biggest celebrity?Uri magnetised the world - literally - with his amazing feats of showmanship. Jonny Gould’s Jewish State wouldn’t be complete without a record of the life of Uri Geller!So what’s he doing now? Where is he? How did he attain such huge fame and notoriety and I ask him if Israel is the only place he could’ve possibly come from?H
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100: John Ware: Three years. Three cases. Three wins.
John Ware is the BBC Panorama documentary maker who took on the Corbynites - and won.His 2019 documentary “Is Labour Antisemitic?”, which was aired on BBC1, launched three long years of bitter legal struggle.It’s unusual for a journalist to sue for defamation - but everything was at stake for John - from his own reputation to the basic principles of journalistic process.So John sued the Labour Party, Jewish Voice for Labour and a fellow journalist, Paddy French - and with great fortitud
99: Dr. Einat Wilf: "Antizionism is an assault on Jewish life in the places where Jews exist"
“Being a Zionist is the path to peace”.There is hope in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Dr. Einat Wilf is a deep thinker on Israel’s ever-present challenge: the pursuit of existence in peace and security.It was an honour to host the Q and A session for StandWithUs UK as Einat addressed London's South Hampstead Synagogue.She was born in Jerusalem, raised in a Labour Zionist family and completed her Israeli military service as an Intelligence Officer with the rank of Lieutenant. Einat th
98: Winston Marshall: Mumford's Wise Son
Mumford and Sons were huge.Over 14 glorious years, Winston Marshall and his friends rocked stadia in front of hundreds of thousands of adoring fans and headlined Glastonbury!If you remember all the bearded hipsters and the tweed the kids were rocking, it’s likely they were listening to the Mumfords on their AirPods.But Winston left the band in 2021 after tweeting about Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, a book written by American journalist Andy Ngo.At first, W
97: Jonny in Abu Dhabi: Amjad Taha, "The Abraham Accords is the miracle in the Middle East"
This is the second podcast of discussions from a first ever trip to the United Arab Emirates.I attended the Global Media Congress in the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi, an impressive showcase of regional media with a clear message: “The UAE is reaching out to the world in peace and cooperation”. Amjad Taha is a well-known influencer in the Gulf Cooperation Council with a significant following on social media.The author of The Deception of the Arab Spring, an adviser to key institutions in t
96: Jonny in Abu Dhabi: Loay Alshareef, “Jews and Muslims destined to come together”
What do you know about the United Arab Emirates? Want to know more of Israel’s newest and perhaps most important partner in peace?I’ve just returned from my first ever trip to an Arab nation. I went to the capital, Abu Dhabi, to the Global Media Congress, a highly impressive showcase of regional media - with exhibitors from further afield including the Philippines, Russia, Azerbaijan - and Israel.It’s a place where East meets West.My guest today is typical of the spirit of big heartedne
95: Fleur Hassan-Nahoum: Jerusalem, Israeli law and order, Abraham Accords, Qatar and me
Support Jonny with a coffee hereFleur Hassan-Nahoum is Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem with an ambitious eye on the future. Her flying visit to the UK gave us a chance to chat on Jonny Gould’s Jewish State for the second time.Another year to go in office in Jerusalem, but will she stand for another term? There’s a Likud government to be a part of - and given her unique background, what about becoming an ambassador? She has strong diplomatic skills with her experience In Jerusalem in dealing w
94: "I met the Ayatollah when I lived in Iran. He asked me to write his memoirs. I'm Jewish". Catherine Perez-Shakdam
You’ve never heard a story like this!Catherine Perez-Shakdam lives in the UK. She was born and raised in France and also lived in Yemen and Iran.While living in Tehran and married with kids, she mixed in the regime classes, socialising, even going on pilgrimages to Iraq. Nothing unusual about that, you say.But Catherine is Jewish, of French Sephardi background. As an outsider in plain sight, Catherine never revealed her Jewishness - obviously - so got up close to the leadership. She say
93: Israel-Lebanon maritime border dispute and Iran protests: Edy Cohen’s verdict
The decades old Israel-Lebanon maritime border dispute is making headlines again with the planned Israeli start-up for drilling for offshore gas in Karish in the Mediterranean. But escalating rhetoric from Iranian-sponsored Shiite terror group Hezbollah threatens war. Their leader Hassan Nasrallah claims some of Karish sits north of Lebanon’s border line. Western Europe needs Mediterranean gas since Russia invaded Ukraine. Germany and their like need to extricate themselves from Putin’s
92: Jason Greenblatt: will Biden unmake Trump’s Middle East peace? In the Path of Abraham
Jason Greenblatt joins us for a second time as he looks on at how the Abraham Accords has matured since those historic signings in 2020. In our last instalment, Jason had just left Washington DC after co-writing President Trump’s "Peace to Prosperity Plan for Palestinians and Israelis" with Jared Kushner and US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman.It was a breakthrough document which helped seal the first four Abraham Accords agreements. Now he’s here to discuss his book, “In the Path o
91: Queen Elizabeth II: Jewish community pays tribute to Her Majesty and what the future may hold
The Elizabethan Age draws to a close. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest serving monarch passed away peacefully at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire on Thursday 8th September 2022 after 70 years on the throne.Her loss is indescribable and her passing has sparked the most extraordinary outpouring of grief from across the world.But what did she mean to her Jewish subjects? Will the nation’s temperature change? Is the end of the Elizabethan age a symbol of the end of the post World War I
90: Hillel Neuer: “The Saudis, the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt want MORE, not less Israel”
Hillel Neuer is so often the lone voice talking truth to power at a United Nations seemingly on interminable mission creep.Western countries are loosening their resolve in countering dictatorships. And worse still, power groups inside the UN Human Rights Council are trying to silence him.Hillel is Executive Director of UN Watch, the human rights NGO based at the UN in Geneva. Since 2009, he’s headed the annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, a renowned international gather
89: Julie Burchill: "Without Jewish people, we'd all be sitting in caves grunting"
She’s one of Britain’s most successful and irreverent writers. I met Julie Burchill at one of her favourite places on the Sussex coast - in Hove, actually, her home town for the last 27 years. Julie started her glittering career at the NME in 1976, aged 17 and left when after just two years as she thought that people in their twenties who still wrote about music were ‘sad old men'. Since then she’s had number one best-selling novels, won an Emmy and been condemned in the House of Common
88: Jonathan Freedland: The Escape Artist, Rudolf Vrba. The teenage Jew who escaped Auschwitz
Only four Jewish prisoners ever escaped the vicious SS guards, their ferocious dogs, rows of tall electrified fences and men on watchtowers wielding automatic weapons of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
But Walter Rosenberg, just 19-years-old used knowledge, cunning and patience to do what no Jew had done before.
He and Alfred Wetzler, in his early twenties, escaped from Auschwitz. But Walter, later to become Rudolf Vrba, hasn't been legendized like others who emerged from what became known as the Holocaust.
87: Ukraine: Kharkiv's Jews humanitarian crisis: Rabbi Mendel Moskowitz
Our guest today is a Rabbi raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine from the age of 6 months, it’s pretty much all he’s known. Rabbi Mendel Moskovitz moved there as a baby with his parents, Moishe and Miriam as his family served as Chabad emissaries to rebuild Jewish life in Kharkiv, following the fall of Communism. Graduating as a rabbi in Sydney, Australia,Rabbi Moskovitz returned home with his wife, Chani. There he raised three children, and served as a Rabbi to Ukrainian youth for 7 years, until
86: Douglas Murray: The War On The West: how to prevail in the age of unreason
Our guest today is Douglas Murray, best-selling author of The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity and Islam and The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity - and now The War On The West, how to prevail in the age of unreason.All the narratives and assumptions which underpin our understanding of the western societies we grew up in are under attack - from within.Much of it is being fought through the prism of race. Douglas examines how Western civilisation and its achievem
85: Ron Dermer and Ed Husain: The first steps on the road to the Abraham Accords
Ambassador Ron Dermer and Ed Husain addressed a live audience for StandWithUs UK, which I hosted in Central London.These two friends were instrumental in creating the pathway which led eventually to the Abraham Accords.This was no ordinary occasion and I won’t forget posing the questions, just as those in attendance will remember being there.We talk about Israel’s relationships with Russia, the Jews in Ukraine even Russian coordination in Syria over Israel’s security issues.Then there’s
84: Len Khodorkovsky: from Ukrainian refugee to the US State Department, an American story
Len Khodorkovsky is an American story.The same one repeated throughout generations of Jewish history.And his comes from today’s Ukraine where in 1981, young Len and his refusenik parents and grandparents fled the Soviet Union for the USA. Because by 2017, Len took an oath of office in the US State Department.“That’s quite a trajectory”, he says with considerable understatement.The poignancy is there’s bound to be another Len, barely a teenager trying to escape Ukraine (and even Russia)
83: National Jewish Assembly: Anglo Jewry's new leadership organization
The National Jewish Assembly's held its inaugural reception for brand new members and interested parties at London's Jewish Museum in Camden Town.CEO James Marlow and Chairman and founder Gary Mond were joined by members of the new advisory board to outline their plans and directions.So why has this all come about?What’s wrong with Anglo-Jewish leadership which they think needs to be addressed? Is it just a column of disaffected right wingers as certain media have insinuated?I caught up
82: Israel Bonds, Invest in Israel: Arnon Perlman's life in public service
Our guest today is Israel Bonds executive director of sales and operations in Europe and Latin America, Arnon Perlman.It’s never been easier or more accessible to invest in the State of Israel. This episode explains how (and you can follow the link to do so). www.online.israelbondsintl.comArnon’s led a life of public service in Israel. Before joining Israel Bonds, he served as prime minister Ariel Sharon’s head of communications for four years, on duty and on call at every waking (and s
81: Finding Abraham: Malcolm Green's Abraham Accords-inspired tour through Israel
Malcolm Green, filmmaker, innovator and storyteller who targets new audiences with new medium. “Finding Abraham” is his movie on how the most important diplomatic breakthrough of our age is filtering down to ground level across the Middle East.It follows a trip through Israel with the “Leaders of Tomorrow, a group from Israel, Bahrain, the UAE, Egypt and Morocco recording their reaction to what they see - and to each other.Our conversation is twice as long as the movie because we delve
80: The Imam of Peace, Mohammad Tawhidi: Without Israel, Islam “loses a fundamental pillar”
"If you erase the Jewish connection with the Holy Land, where does it leave us? Islam just floats in the air". Our guest today has an unequivocal message of peace between Muslims and Jews and his solution comes from faith and identity - from religion, not secularity.His name is Imam Mohammad Tawhidi, also known as the Imam of Peace. He has an extraordinary outreach in the world, with over 900,000 Twitter followers plugged into his worldview. In the secular west and its historical coloni
79: Edy Cohen: Israel’s supreme leader in Arabic
When it comes to Israel, there’s no more powerful a journalistic voice across the Arab world than Edy Cohen.This is his one-man story.You likely won’t have heard of Edy, but note the name, because he tweets mostly in Arabic. Edy has half a million X followers, almost exclusively in the Middle East and North Africa.Educating, informing, entertaining, even mocking Arabs in the colloquial language of the street - his mother tongue.He was born in Beirut in Lebanon, as were his parents and g
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78: Tuvia Tenenbom: “Call yourself a progressive? What a chutzpah!”
When Tuvia Tenenbom’s in London, it’s always a pleasure to catch up with him.The Taming of the Jew, Tuvia’s book on British antisemitism and Anglo Jewry’s approach to it was showcased at London’s Jewish Book Week.And while his dim view of British Jewish leadership is pretty much the same as when he was finalising his findings back in 2019, the world has moved on and he has plenty of new observations to make. His view of progressives and woke culture, the standard of journalism across th
77: Professor Alan Dershowitz: “Free speech for me, but not for thee” and his BBC’s cancellation
What an excitement to have a very sudden opportunity to talk to Professor Dershowitz. My friend Lawrence Ryz dropped him an email on my behalf, he said “yes”, I sent him a Zoom and off we went. And the conversation was as vibrant as it was rich in anecdotes.Just need to talk to him again after this. Among the Jeffrey Epstein/Prince Andrew trial, we discuss how free speech is being imperilled on university campus and he accuses BBC News of “advocacy not journalism”.He also tells a great
76: Emily Schrader and Yoseph Haddad come to London
Support Jonny and buy him a coffee.Yosef Haddad and Emily Schrader educate the world and rebut the lies told about the State of Israel. They’re an Israeli couple who are engaged to be married, but that doesn't mean they're a Jewish couple.Yoseph is an Arab Israeli from Nazareth while Emily, who’s Jewish is originally from Seattle, Washington in the US. They are both implacably committed to the Jewish and democratic State of Israel.Yoseph volunteered three years of his life to serve in t
75: The Wolf of Baghdad: Carol Isaacs' colourful history of Babylonian Jews
“I’m a proud Babylonian Jew”. Carol Isaacs is an author, cartoonist, accordionist and keyboard player. This is a wonderful creation matched by a wonderful conversation with Carol.And she’s poured every part of her extraordinary musical and graphic gifts into recounting her family‘s history in Babylon across 2,600 years.“The Wolf of Baghdad” is a vivid, vital recollection of Jewish life and culture stretching back generation after generation in what is now modern day Iraq. Jews lived the
74: El Al Israel Airlines: Israel's skies are open again, book with confidence
As Israel's skies reopened to the world, it was time to reacaquaint ourselves with Israel's national airline, El Al.This is the story of two torrid years for the airline industry, just as things were getting really good for air travel in early 2020.So how did El Al deal with the darkest days of Covid lockdown, what lessons did they learn from this unprecedented business crisis - and what's in store for passengers now we're all invited back on board?Meet El Al Israel Airline's Oranit Bet
73: The Right Hon. Dr. Liam Fox MP on the front foot with the Abraham Accords
While the Prime Minister fended off opposition derision and revolt from a few of his own backbenchers with his statement on Sue Gray’s pandemic partying, I was upstairs awaiting our guest who was in the chamber listening to Boris’ party piece.But it was peace of quite another kind I’d come to Parliament to talk about - with The Right Honorable Dr Liam Fox MP, chair of the UK Abraham Accords Group. The Abraham Accords is a pact which normalises relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahra
72: Jon Medved: Israel Scaleup Nation and OurCrowd's venture investing platform
Did Saul Singer and Dan Senor imagine their best-selling book, Start-up Nation, would reframe Israel’s brand - even its perception - right across the world?The book describes our guest today as “one of Israel’s legendary business ambassadors… whose taken on a role that anywhere else, would typically belong to the Chamber of Commerce, Minister of Trade, or Foreign Secretary.”But what is it that drives Israel’s extraordinary economic miracle and investability? And what extra dividends wil
71: Ben M Freeman: Jewish Pride, Rebuilding a People
Are you a member of a mainstream Orthodox Jewish community? Do you regard yourself as a “liberal” whether your political views are left or right? How should we include Jewish LGBTQ+ people in our communities?At the moment, they live on the fringes of the mainstream, neither included or excluded. Is that fair? Would it be so difficult to accommodate or recognise a union of two Jewish people of the same sex? Or would it bring the whole tent of Jewish values down with it?Is it the job of J
Israel Briefing 4 with James Marlow: What's Biden's game with Iran in Vienna?
What has happened to American foreign policy since Joe Biden took the presidency from Donald Trump? Is every despot in the world emboldened by the shocking withdrawal from Afghanistan? And what does this mean to Israel as it faces the existential threat of Iran edging closer to nuclear capability? As the latest round of JCPOA talks between Iran and the US continue in Vienna, Israel correspondent James Marlow brings his latest “Israel Briefing 4” to Jonny Gould’s Jewish State. Help suppo
70: Tom Tugenhadt MBE MP: Israeli Palestinian conflict has nothing to do with Arab civil rights
Help support Jonny with a coffee right here.He’s been the youngest ever chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee with a military career served in Iraq and Afghanistan.Tom Tugendhat MBE MP is an Arabic speaker and a fervent supporter of Israel who names of one the Jewish state’s Prime Ministers as a political hero(ine), Golda Meir.He takes this opportunity to pay tribute to the small band of Jewish soldiers serving in the British military.This episode remembers Lieutenant Paul Mervi
69: The Chanukah Bus Story: BBC standoff with Britain’s Jewish community
Help Jonny make these podcasts: buy him a morale boosting coffee here!A crowd of around 250 gathered to hear Gideon Falter of the Campaign Against Antisemitism demand of the BBC, “Where is the proof? Tell the truth”.This is about a bus load of Jewish people heading down London’s Oxford Street in high spirits, dancing and singing celebrating Chanukah - only to be attacked by an aggressive group of men shouting anti-Zionist jibes, banging their shoes against the bus windows and panels, pe
68: Beatie Deutsch: marathon champ, charedi mum: “mental & spiritual strength unlocks the physical”
Beatie Deutsch, elite marathon runner, Israel’s three-time national champion, Olympic and World Championships hopeful, face of the Adidas “Impossible is Nothing” campaign - and Orthodox Charedi mother of FIVE.She won the Tiberias Marathon, which she called “a useful practice run”. Her running style and extraordinary pace isn’t the first thing one notices.She wears modest clothing and covers her hair while she runs. Her values attracted Adidas to seek her out, joining Lionel Messi, David
67: President Isaac Herzog meets Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the UK’s Jewish leadership
Support thirsty Jonny's podcasting when you buy him a coffee here.President of Israel Isaac Herzog’s visit to Great Britain in November 2021 set a new high mark in the nation-to-nation relationship.His Excellency met the Prince and Princess of Wales, who themselves just returned from a Royal tour of the Middle East in Jordan and Egypt and an exhibition at Chelsea FC, honouring elite Jewish athletes murdered in the Holocaust, President Herzog departs the chair of the Jewish Agency to bec
66: Ambassador Neil Wigan: "Fundamental rights to free speech excludes intimidation"
Jonny's podcast is thirsty work. Help by buying him a coffee here! Today’s guest is the UK Ambassador to Israel, His Excellency Neil Wigan.Britain and Israel have never been closer. Values are converging in the post-Brexit and the Abraham Accords eras: two nation states with common values, industries and defence challenges.And Ambassador Wigan is the embodiment of that; he’s married to an Israeli, Yael and they have two children.There’s some straight talk coming up in this episode, like
65: Ambassador Michael Oren: “We are living in the age of miracles”
Ambassador Dr. Michael Oren: solider, diplomat, ambassador, politician, author, journalist, opinion leader.
Dr. Oren was Israel’s ambassador to the US for four years until 2013, during fraught years where allies felt a personal enmity to one other, President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Born into small town upstate New York in 1955, young Michael swapped the wealth and confidence of post-war America for a front seat in what he calls the nation of miracles.
His childhood was influenced by
Israel Briefing 3 with James Marlow: The race to be the Jewish Agency’s new chair
In this special Israel Briefing number 3, Jonny Gould’s Jewish State Israel Correspondent, James Marlow joins us to talk about the race to become the next Jewish Agency chair.
The Jewish Agency is the bridge between the diaspora and Israel and prospective candidates are keener than ever to build and sustain relationships between Jews at home and abroad.
You’ll hear the latest from James as the race hots up and from two frontrunners for Israel’s most important job behind that of the country’s
64: ‘Judge’ Robert Rinder LIVE at JW3: “There are millions of people of goodwill, allies of Jewish people”
This is Jonny Gould’s Jewish State live on stage at JW3.
Had it not been for the pesky pandemic, live shows would’ve been a far more frequent occurrence for yours truly. So it’s with great pleasure that we present this show in aid of Jewish Blind and Disabled with Robert Rinder LIVE in the main theatre at JW3.
In this frank and funny conversation, Rob reveals how his hit daytime show, Judge Rinder was originally pitched as a remake of 70s courtroom drama, Crown Court.
He also discusses his lifec
63: Ambassador Dore Gold: the art of diplomacy and how peace with Jordan came about
Ambassador Dr. Dore Gold has spent his professional life as a diplomat and trusted senior prime ministerial advisor pursuing peace and security for Israel with willing Arab partners.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he lives in Jerusalem with his wife and family. Dore Gold was Israel’s ambassador’s to the UN in the late 90s.
He advised on the Madrid peace conference in 1991 before leading Likud’s dialogue with the Hashemite kingdom in Jordan which led to peace in 1994.
This was a direct respons
62: Melanie Phillips: “Israel, the West’s last man standing”
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Our guest is journalist, author and social commentator, Melanie Phillips.
She was once a committed diaspora Jew, pledged to contribute to life and society in her native UK. Moving to Israel was not on the radar; why would it be when she lived in the “goldener mediener”, a “golden country” in Yiddish, where Jews could live and prosper?
Today she’s an arch-Zionist, living mostly in Jerusalem with her husband, the BBC’s former legal affairs correspondent Jo
61: Tim Marshall: The Power of Geography, "compromise is a beautiful word"
Our guest today is former TV and radio foreign correspondent, now acclaimed best-selling author on geopolitics, Tim Marshall.
His book, The Power of Geography, Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World discusses the many changes in a globalised and multipolar world.
I’ve known Tim for over thirty years. Our paths have crossed radio and TV newsrooms at Independent Radio News, LBC and Sky News in London and we stayed in touch as he became a bestselling author on geopolitics.
He’s one of the med
60: Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely: Israel’s first female ambassador to the United Kingdom
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Our guest today is Her Excellency, Tzipi Hotevely, Israel’s first female ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Her Excellency’s honeymoon as Israel’s new ambassador to the UK didn’t last long. Israel’s world leading vaccine rollout (Episode 52) dominated headlines as Ambassador Hotovely took the reigns in London from Mark Regev in August 2020.
Then the fourth Gaza War ignited wicked antisemitism on our streets. I ask what Israel’s mission ca
59: Upheaval: The Journey of Menachem Begin. The documentary film of his life story
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In these troubled times, are we looking back with increased respect to Menachem Begin’s leadership? Is history being kind to one of Israel’s great prime ministers?
Our guest today is Jonathan Gruber, film director of “Upheaval, The Journey of Menachem Begin”. Menachem Begin helped build then mould today’s State of Israel, a tireless fighter for all Jewish people.
They say his life, both pragmatic and miraculous made him a m
58: Gaza, Israel and the Jewish diaspora under attack
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Israel’s Gaza conflict in the spring of 2021 lasted eleven brutal days but tragically, there’s no sign it’ll be the last.
Israel’s citizens endured a pace and ferocity of Hamas rockets unprecedented in the four conflicts dating back to 2008.
Yet over 90% of the 4,200 murderous missiles were shot out of the sky by the Iron Dome radar defence system.
This episode is a detailed media briefing by both the IDF and Israeli police BE
57: Je Suis Sarah Halimi, London: Solidarity with French Jews outside the French Embassy
Jewish communities and friends right across the world came together in solidarity with French Jews in sorrow and outrage at the murder of Dr. Sarah Halimi. Episode Lineup: (02:01) Muslims Against Antisemitism’s Liz Arif-Fear (02:25) Karine Gould (07:10) Maureen Lipman (11:43) Sophie Wiesenfeld (13:22) Hen Mazzig (16:44) Raphael Landau (19:35) Gideon Falter.The 65-year-old retired medic and teacher fell victim to a heinous and brutal attack before being thrown to her death over the balco
56: Shaun Bailey: Conservative candidate for London Mayor’s views on Israel and Jewish Londoners
Our guest today is the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, Shaun Bailey.
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I spent more time in a modest queue of journalists observing Shaun Bailey than I did actually talking to him directly.
But it was just as instructive.
As a Tory, Shaun is the best-placed candidate to beat Sadiq Khan in London’s mayoral election on May 6th 2021. But what chance does he have?
He’s not particularly well-resourced by his
55: Tuvia Tenenbom’s “The Taming of the Jew” is British Jewry’s wakeup call
Our guest today is renowned author, playwright and journalist, Tuvia Tenenbom.
Tuvia tells unvarnished, uncomfortable truths. He challenges what you actually believe to be true, confronts what you think you believe in.
Some Jewish people are scared by him. Some rant back and threaten him as a form of denial. Leadership runs from him.
The Taming of the Jew are a collection of his observations on the outward antisemitism he encountered while travelling the British Isles.
Utterly unrepentant, liste
54: Is Israel's politics only about Bibi vs. Anyone But Bibi? Ambassador Danny Ayalon and Dr. Nachman Shai
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Our guests today are Member of Knesset, Professor Nachman Shai PhD and former Israel Ambassador to the USA, Danny Ayalon.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s built his coalitions on the ultra-religious - but Covid disrupted their society.
Some are moving into secular academia and productive jobs, while Arab Israelis, 20% of the population are reaching the higher echelons of Israeli society for the first time, thanks to Bibi the pragma
53: Bristol's Jewish students confront University over “end Zionism” professor
Bristol University's reputation is being tarnished by their inaction over a conspiracy theorist professor who calls for an end to Zionism in lectures.
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Professor David Miller's called for "an end to Zionism in the world", a dogwhistle which has attracted support from Chris Williamson and Asa Winstanley, whose supporters have trolled Sabrina Miller and other Jewish students incessantly on social media.
I've handed the
52.1: Col. Richard Kemp OBE: Israel’s vaccine success and Biden’s foreign policy priorities
This is the extended interview with Col. Richard Kemp, of which excerpts appeared alongside other world-class experts in the previous episode 52 on Israel's world leading vaccine rollout.
I’ve produced this full version of the interview with Richard because we discussed wider global issues beyond just Israel’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
We go on to the continuing threat of Iran’s nuclear aspirations and if the Islamic theocracy will only be emboldened by the new Biden Administration.
Richa
52: Israel's world-leading Covid vaccine rollout. How did Israel lead the world in implementing the vaccines to the people?
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How has Israel built a world-leading reputation in combatting the Coronavirus threat?
Why do foreign governments look to Israel for their lead? It all started with the incredible vaccine rollout in the summer of 2020.
A deep faith in science and healthtech, a militarised efficiency, a high price on the value of life and a commitment to innovation and a unifying national cause.
I’ve spoken to leading figures from the worlds of medical research and innovation, national se
51: Brendan O'Neill: Israel and the hard-left, Israel and the EU
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Our guest today is Spiked Online's chief political writer, Brendan O’Neill.
Brendan is one of the English-speaking world’s foremost political commentators. He came to fore as the excruciating drama of Britain’s departure from the European Union edged on (and on).
I first spoke to Brendan leading up to the 2016 referendum when I was talkRADIO’s evening show host. I’ve watched him ever since, battling away for the 17.4m who v
Israel Briefing 2 with James Marlow: Mossad did kill Iran’s nuclear chief, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
Jonny Gould's Jewish State presents Israel correspondent, James Marlow for a special report on the fallout from the assassination of Iran's chief nuclear scientist.
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50: Jewish Telegraph at 70: Editor Paul Harris on the day he took his family into Arafat’s lair!
Today’s guest is Paul Harris, editor, proprietor and chief executive of the Jewish Telegraph newspaper.
The Jewish Telegraph, the north of England (and Scotland’s) foremost community newspaper is 70.
Paul Harris is the editor, proprietor and chief executive.
Every week - and for the last seventy years, he and his mother and father before him have published the newspaper.
Started in Manchester on their dining room table with a borrowed typewriter and £50 capital, it’s grown into a newsroom and ad
49: Labour Against Antisemitism: has Starmer done enough to change Labour?
Today’s guests are Euan Philipps and Emma Picken of Labour Against Antisemitism.
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Jeremy Corbyn spent just nineteen days suspended from the Labour Party after the Equality and Human Rights Commission's report delivered a damning verdict into the party's victimization of its Jewish members.
But as Corbyn was restored to the membership, new leader Sir Keir Starmer refused to return the parliamentary whip to his former boss. But even t
48: Justice for Malki: Arnold Roth calls for Tamimi's extradition and BBC apology to its audience
Arnold Roth, father of teenager Malki, who was murdered in a Jerusalem suicide bombing, is calling for the extradition from Jordan of the attack’s planner. He’s also calling for the BBC to apologise to its Arabic audience for “toxic distortions” of the murderer’s characterisation. Malki Roth, just 15-years old, was one of 15 victims of a suicide bomber at the Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, orchestrated by Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, who drove the bomber to the site. Tamimi was se
47: UAE Ambassador Mansoor Abulhoul: The Abraham Accords of Israel UAE peace
Today’s guest is His Excellency, Mansoor Abulhoul, UAE ambassador to the UK.
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“Normalization" is possibly the most understated word to describe the seismic changes triggered by the Abraham Accords of September 2020.
Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain entered a new era of peace and understanding, brokered by President Donald Trump'
46: Eva Schloss: Anne Frank's stepsister, "I forgive the Nazis"
If you’ve listened and enjoyed a few episodes, help me by following this link to donate: https://ko-fi.com/jonnygould.Today’s guest is Anne Frank’s stepsister, Holocaust survivor and world renowned speaker, Eva Schloss. Eva Schloss, step-sister of Anne Frank, forgives the Nazis.Aged just 11, her happy family life in Vienna was cancelled as the Germans annexed Austria, turning the populous against the Jews in an instant.She describes this national mood change as “unbelievable”. Non-Jewis
45: Ambassador Ferenc Kumin: The Hungarian Holocaust and the State of Israel as allies
Today’s guest is His Excellency, Ferenc Kumin, Hungarian ambassador to the UK.“We (Hungary) feel a moral drive to strengthen our ties to Israel and the Jewish community. And when you have that moral drive, it makes it easier, you don’t hesitate”.The words of the new Hungarian ambassador to the UK, Ferenc Kumin.It's been quite a summer covering Israel and it started for me with this remarkable interview with His Excellency, Ambassador Ferenc Kumin at the Hungarian Embassy in London.With
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44: Lecturer sacked because he says "Jewish people are among the cleverest in the world!"
A university lecturer at Southampton Solent was sacked for telling his course leader, “I believe that Jewish people are among the cleverest in the world.
They are much maligned because of it.” Stephen Lamonby remarked to Dr. Janet Bonar that people from different countries had become good at certain things owing to “high exposure”.
He said that Germans are good at engineering because they are “exposed to a high level of industry from an early stage in their lives”.
When Dr. Bonar, an engineering
43: Reimagining Trevor Horn: a lockdown tribute to “the man who invented the 80s”
This a rework of the Trevor Horn episode from 2019. As lockdown looms large over 2020, this is a tribute to his creative vibrancy throughout the previous year: the worldwide concerts and ambitious records.And it’s updated to include the orchestral album with Rod Stewart and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which followed “Reimagining the 80s”, a 65-piece rework of the best songs by stars from the decade.I was lucky enough to see Trevor in concert during this prolific period of creativi
42: Katharine Birbalsingh and Inaya Folarin Iman: Immigrant pride in British values
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This is the second episode of a two-part series on the future of Britishness, patriotism and the nation state. In Part 1, Trevor Phillips talked of “mission creep” in diversity and Karen Harradine distinguished between power and influence, arguing that though Trump and Johnson were in power on both sides of the Atlantic, many of our institutions were influencing against them.
Today, "Britain's strictest headmistress" Katharine Birbalsingh discusses the u
41: Trevor Phillips and Karen Harradine: diversity is going on mission creep and how to reset it for purpose
Cancel culture, editorial purges and your sporting heroes kneeling before kickoff.
Why should sport be a promotional platform to institutionalize potentially divisive ideas? Unlike other countries,
English football's popularity was built on its competitive integrity and little else. I just want to watch Aston Villa lose in peace in an ideologically free zone and wonder to why the jobs market might be engineering opportunites for some and not others.
What is antiracism and is it the same as being
40: Nick Timothy: Solidarity, philosemitism and China
Today’s guest is Theresa May's former joint chief of staff, Nick Timothy.
Many will recall a bushy beard during his time running Mrs. May’s administration; a style of grooming by which the tabloids dubbed him, “Brummie Rasputin” but they’ll have to find a new nickname for him now!
Nick formulated and wrote policy in the Home Office before ascending to the corridors of Number Ten where he wrote Mrs. May’s 2017 General Election manifesto.
But he didn't see out her premiership, taking the hit with
39: Jason Greenblatt: Peace to Prosperity in the Middle East: straight to the heart of the deal
Jason Greenblatt is the co-architect of the peace plan which changed the course of the Middle East during 2020.
In January 2017, he was appointed Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations.
With presidential advisor and President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner and US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, they drafted “Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People”.
Officially he’s left his role as one
38: Red Sea Spies: Mossad and their Ethiopian Jewish brothers: Raffi Berg and "Dani"
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How many acts of heroism never come to public attention because of the modesty of the heroes themselves?
This is a first-ever audio interview in English with one such man.
His name is "Dani', the Mossad commander in charge of “Operation Brothers” for five drama-filled years from 1978.
Without doubt, this is one of Israel's finest hours; a Mossad mission to emancipate thousands of Ethiopian Jews from the dangers of re
Israel Briefing 1 with James Marlow: Another new government, Iran in Syria, Pompeo China warning
As Jonny Gould’s Jewish State grows, so does the challenge to deliver relevant content to a bigger audience. I have now expanded into news coverage as Israel gets a first government in 18 months after three exhausting elections. This is “Israel Briefing”, the first in a new series on Jonny Gould’s Jewish State, as James Marlow becomes our Israel correspondent. On Israel's 72nd anniversary, Binyamin Netanyahu leads yet another government as PM, the Trump Administration urges him to scale
37: Netflix Fauda: Itzik Cohen and Lior Raz, Israeli drama popular in surprising places
Israel is fast emerging as a hub for international TV drama.
Netflix is syndicating a host of Israeli hit shows across 192 countries. It was unthinkable even five years ago that the Startup Nation would add cultural ‘soft power’ to its already established high-tech rollcall of global successes. Fauda was thought just to be of interest to an Israeli audience.
Originally only in Hebrew and Arabic, it's the story of the IDF's special units who go deep behind enemy lines to combat terror and rescue
36: Unorthodox Netflix: Deborah Feldman, the Real Esty
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Today’s guest is author and the creative power behind the Netflix smash hit Unorthodox, Deborah Feldman. This has become the runaway most-listened to episode of Jonny Gould's Jewish State so far.
Unorthodox on Netflix has become the must-watch drama everyone seems to relate to. It’s a highly moving portrayal in English, German - and Yiddish.
It’s about a pregnant teenager fleeing her ultr
35: Prof. Gerald Steinberg, NGO Monitor: Why is mainstream media so pro-Palestinian? It all started in 2001 in Durban. This is how Human Rights was captured
Our guest today is Professor Gerald Steinberg, founder and CEO of NGO Monitor.The values of Human Rights are part of modern-day international conflict. Modern warfare is also fought through social media, the United Nations and via NGOs or non-governmental organizations."Soft power can be very deadly, I've seen it with my own eyes", says today's guest Professor Gerald Steinberg, founder of NGO Monitor.And so often, the central battlefield of NGOs is between Israel and the Palestinians. G
34: Israel Advocacy, Joseph Cohen: Zionism's Angel of the North
Our guest today is Joseph Cohen, creator of the Israel Advocacy Movement and it's extraordinarily powerful viral videos.
Joseph Cohen’s helping to change perceptions of Israel and Judaism. Amid rising antisemitism and antizionism, Joseph hopes his work will inspire others to follow his lead.
His YouTube and Facebook videos have been viewed millions of times and been retweeted by President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Joseph's unusual background gives him a deep understanding of working c
33: Ed Husain, Islam & Israel: “Bashing Israel is the Muslim liberal's last refuge. It must stop!”
"I can go freely to the Western Wall or the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, why can't our Jewish and other friends go to the Temple Mount?"
Ed Husain is a vital voice from the British Muslim community with his many speeches and articles on tolerance and pluralism.
He was a teenage Islamist who embraced Muslim nationalism but started life in his father's more peaceful, religious mosque. Now he’s a steadfast opponent of the creed of the extremist. He's the author of The Islamist, an account of his f
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32: Yaakov Lappin, Europe's refugee crisis II, “The Virtual Caliphate”, an online threat to Europe
This episode opens with a stark warning to Europe’s leaders: a second refugee influx looks increasingly likely.
Yaakov Lappin is a military analyst and researcher whose book, “The Virtual Caliphate” predicted the emergence of ISIS as they then swept through Iraq and Syria.
He was alarmed at how easily accessible IS was online and how it led readily to the radicalization of so many young western Muslims.
And he says though ISIS have been defeated militarily, the threat of both extreme Sunni an
31: Ambassador Mark Regev: Israel’s modern story in one person
Ambassador Mark Regev embodies the modern Israeli story. Leaving his native Australia at 22 without family or contacts waiting for him, he praises Israeli mobility which aided his rise to the top of diplomacy. Armed with mother-tongue English, his ability to communicate Israel to billions of people is both of great advantage personally and nationally. He pays tribute to the pioneer generation of Israeli orators, led by South African-born Abba Eban and his stirring command of language. A
31.1: Brexit and Israel, Ambassador Mark Regev on the UK's relationship with Israel post-Brexit
This is an excerpt from Ep 31, the full interview with Israel's Ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev. In this ‘preview clip’ Ambassador Regev tells Jonny Gould that growing trade is but part of a burgeoning relationship between Israel and the UK, which can only grow post-Brexit. Bilateral trade stands at $18bn both ways so Israel was quick off the mark to complete a deal to continue trade seamlessly after the 2020 transition. Security co-operation and collaboration between the two independe
30: Anthony Scaramucci: “I’m a Zionist, but there’ll be no peace without symmetry”
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The former White House Communications Director, Anthony Scaramucci is a political celebrity.
He’s making a career out of his ten days in the Trump Administration.
The Mooch was heading to Pennsylvania to campaign for Mike Bloomberg’s short-lived Democratic Party bid for the Presidency.
And in advance of that, he was in London addressing an intimate invitation-only crowd at the Four Seasons, Ten Trinity Square Hotel.
After a wide-ranging
29: Col. Richard Kemp OBE in Israel: Trump's Deal Of The Century, IDF’s Muslims, Iran post Soleimani
This is my second meeting with Richard and delighted to tell you it took place in Tel Aviv.
He's a regular visitor to Israel and gives generously of his time to so many people and institutions helping to make the country stronger.
Our trips to Israel coincided and he graciously made time to sit down with me amid his many engagements.
There have been two significant, perhaps gamechanging events since we first met in September 2019; Donald Trump's much anticipated Deal Of The Century was launch
28: Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Jerusalem’s Rock from Gibraltar
“Jerusalem is the laboratory for the regional solution”.
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum has been Jerusalem's Deputy Mayor since November 2018.
I met her in London as she prepared to join a cross-party delegation in the House of Lords urging Britain to cease funding UNRWA to which they’ve just pledged a further £65.5 million.
It’s supposed to aid Palestinian refugees yet funds the “glorifying of martyrdom” to Palestinian schoolchildren.
With age-old communities in Israel’s capital living side-by-side,
27: Baroness Ruth Deech: Why the Holocaust Memorial shouldn't be built in Westminster
Baroness Ruth Deech gave me more than I bargained for in this wide-ranging interview.
I asked a question, she replied with 120% of an answer.
Ruth discusses the rise of British antisemitism, the post-Holocaust record of Poland, campaigning to ease tough abortion laws, restoring university maintenance grants to aid social mobility and the role of the BBC.
Baroness Deech tells me:
• about her lack of surprise at Sir Richard Evans’ decision to vote for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour before claiming to chan
26: Together Against Antisemitism rally as Corbyn’s General Election loomed
Together Against Antisemitism, a rally outside Parliament just days before the infamous 2019 General Election featuring Jeremy Corbyn.
To say this gathering at Parliament Square organised by Campaign Against Antisemitism attracted a cross-section of society is an understatement.
All the present to show their support for the Jewish community.
The anxiety ahead of the poll was palpable in the crowd.
This episode includes excerpts from rousing speeches made by TV Judge Robert Rinder and actor and w
25.1: Mrs. Thatcher LIVES! Zoom Rockman's Churchill and Steve Nallon's Thatcher
If only I could go back in a time machine and interview Mrs. Thatcher. This is the next best thing!As an extra to the Zoom Rockman interview, I was delighted to bump into Steve Nallon, the unforgettable Spitting Image voice of Mrs. Thatcher during her years as Prime Minister. Steve was there to add his support to Zoom's Portraits of Churchill launch at the Hyatt Regency Churchill Hotel in London. Relive his great impression from back in the day with updated political gags - and very fun
25: Teenage Kicks: Zoom Rockman and Harry Markham are both 19 and incredible
I'm giving this episode over to two brilliant 19-year-olds who energize the worlds around them.Zoom Rockman’s a magazine & newspaper satirist, a cartoonist and commissioned artist who at such a tender age has already left the Beano for Private Eye and from the Savoy to the Churchill hotels, where his distinctive sketches of Sir Winston Churchill now grace the walls.Harry Markham’s a self-declared "unapologetic” Zionist, who confronts Jew-hate on university campuses. While that role
24: 🇮🇱 David Collier (Mishtal), Fighting for UK Jewry: Labour’s toxic Corbyn era
David Collier is an extraordinary researcher and his facts and figures on Labour antisemitism and the deligitimization of Israel have at times, dominated the news agenda.
In this interview profiling his work and background, we get behind the computer screen to reveal more about the man and his mission.
He says his undercover work online has revealed extraordinary levels of Jew hate within the highest corridors of British politics. He explains antizionism as nothing more than antisemitism.
Da
23: US Special Envoy Elan Carr LIVE from Westminster addressing Parliament on antisemitism
US Special Envoy Elan Carr spoke to Parliament in his role as the United States' leading diplomat in the fight against antisemitism.
The address was hosted by Henley MP John Howell and I was given the honour of presenting Elan on behalf of Our Soldiers Speak and quite a platform to explain what the organization is about. In this tough yet uplifting speech, Elan clearly defines the three disparate sources of antisemitism, describing its 21st Century manifestation and how if not confronted, tyran
22: Col. Richard Kemp OBE: fighting evil becomes personal
Col. Richard Kemp has "seen evil at first-hand" and says fighting it "becomes personal". In this wide-ranging interview, Richard discusses his military career over three decades, starting in Northern Ireland, culminating in Whitehall as a senior government advisor and as commander of British Forces in Afghanistan. This episode opens with Jeremy Corbyn claiming we in the West don’t understand Iran’s “inclusivity, tolerance and acceptance of other faiths, traditions and ethnic groupings”.
21: 🇯🇴 Mudar Zahran: all roads lead to Jordan for a Palestinian homeland
Palestinian Mudar Zahran is Jordan's self-styled opposition leader but lives in exile in the UK after denouncing his country as an apartheid state.
In his absence, he was found guilty by a Jordanian military court of inciting hatred against the Hashemite kingdom, which handed down a sentence of imprisonment and hard labour.
But he continues to speak out against the 82-strong royal family who rule over the majority Palestinian populous and believes one day, he’ll return to Jordan as president
20: 🎭 Ashley Blaker and Bennett Arron, UK Jewish laughs: standup and be counted!
Ashley Blaker and Bennett Arron are the two most prolific Jewish standup comedians in the UK. Their journeys are different but their comic routines are both rich in life experience and observation.
As Ashley says, ”Jews are funny people”.
Bennett grew up in Port Talbot in the town’s last Jewish family. His father ran a glazing business staying there long after the rest of the community had moved on to Swansea, Cardiff and Manchester. He says his dad remembers a time when he couldn’t get a seat
19: 🌍 John Ware, BBC Panorama: “Is Labour Antisemitic? Corbyn and the EHRC investigation
My guest today is legendary BBC Panorama documentary maker, John Ware.
John has yet more revelations and assesses his view of Jeremy Corbyn since his Panorama programme, "Is Labour Antisemitic?" was aired on primetime BBC1.
“What we transmitted is not everything we have. There’s a sizeable iceberg beneath the surface”.
I like and respect John because as a libel barrister once told him, ”report the facts, don’t rant!”. And it’s his evidence-based journalism that make his documentaries so robu
18: US Special Envoy Elan Carr: The White House fight against antisemitism
US Special Envoy Elan Carr’s White House role is to monitor and combat global antisemitism.
But the tragedies of the Pittsburgh and Poway synagogue attacks have ensured his focus has become more domestic.
He was appointed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in February 2019.
Mr Carr's message is like Jonny Gould's Jewish State's: unity; for the Jewish community to stand together to fight anti-Jewish hatred - and to bridge the gap in an increasingly polarized America to work on bi-partisan solut
17: Hen Mazzig, Bad Progressive or True Progressive?
Hen Mazzig is truly a modern Israeli. A social media manager for major corporations and a writer and campaigner.
Born in Israel in 1989 to a Mizrahi family originally from Iraq and Tunisia, Hen campaigns for the advancement of Israeli Jews from the east and LGBTQ rights as an openly gay man.
He actually came out in the IDF serving in Ramallah and Jerusalem in a humanitarian role.
His life experience includes being blown out of an ice-cream shop by a suicide bomber when he was 12. It was an attac
16: "I was a British-Jewish soldier who witnessed the liberation of Belsen concentration camp"
This episode is dedicated to the 60,000 British Jews who fought for their country during 1939 to 1945.One of them, Stanley Fisher (100-years-old in August 2024), is my first cousin Samuel Posaner's great-grandfather - and we met by chance at Samuel’s Bar Mitzvah in Birmingham in the very 75th anniversary week he landed on Normandy’s beaches in 1944.Stanley is living history.Not only a teenage soldier arriving in Arromanches in the week of D-Day, he also fought at Arnhem, a terrible and
15: Lyn Julius, Uprooted: 3,000 years of Jewish life in Arab lands is over
Author, historian and campaigner Lyn Julius promotes the culture, history and lives of Mizrahim, the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa.
Mizrahi is the Hebrew word for Easterners - and their exodus from Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, Iran and Algeria has perhaps been overlooked in the last century.
After 3,000 years of vibrant Jewish life, interspersed with persecution and exile, the Mizrahim are all but erased from those countries. Most live in Israel now -
14: Lance Forman, smoking salmon, leaving Europe: the story of London's last salmon smokehouse
Jonny produces these podcasts in support of the Jewish diaspora and Israel. You can help support the show here.My guest is a fourth generation smoked salmon purveyor and a former EU politician (if not a European Union supporter).Lance Forman was elected as a Brexit Party MEP in the 2019 European election, which he says shouldn't have happened in the first place.He accuses the political class of being fast and loose with extremist rhetoric, while being cowardly in making the big decision
13: Lord Leslie Turnberg, Balfour Declaration, Lord Balfour and the formation of the State of Israel
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Today's guest is distinguished academic, medic, historian and legislator, Lord Leslie Turnberg.
Born in Salford in 1934 to Polish and Romanian immigrant parents, Leslie grew up to enjoy a successful career in medicine including presidency of the Royal College of Physicians.
He took his place in the House of Lords when Tony Blair was prime minister and now speaks with authority in the upper chamber on medicine, the NHS and Israel.
12: Tuvia Tenenbom, “stand up for your rights or face annhilation”
Tuvia Tenenbom, theatre director, playwright, author, academic and unapologetic, uncompromising Jew. For six months in 2019, he travelled the length and breadth of Britain, uncovering “a deep psychological Jew hate”.
He warns the Anglo-Jewish community’s in denial - just as they are in Poland, where he also gives examples. His UK experiences make up the fifth book in a series, The Taming of the Jew, which was released towards the end of 2019.
He spoke to many voices in British Jewry and found a
11: Bela Guttmann’s Greatest Comeback and UK Lawyers for Israel’s Greatest Hits
Today we focus on champions for our people in law and football.
We talk to CEO of UK Lawyers for Israel, barrister Jonathan Turner and David Bolchover, author of a biography on Bela Guttmann, “The Greatest Comeback”.
Jonathan describes the remarkable successes of his organisation despite limited manpower and resources and David recounts the ultimate Jewish football hero, Bela Guttmann, who survived the Holocaust to become a twice-winner of the European Cup with Benfica.
Jonny produces these p
10: 🇮🇱 Shin Bet chief, Yaakov Peri: Israel's unseen shield of security
Yaakov Peri has dedicated his life to public service. As director of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security, he was answerable only to the Prime Minister and oversaw the agency for nearly seven years.
He was also in the opposition Yesh Atid party from 2013 including a spell as Minister for Science, Technology and Space.
Yaakov tells me his hopes for peace with Palestine, the deeply problematic situation with Hamas in Gaza, how the flurry of Israeli elections will shape the future and changes to
9: 🟥 Labour antisemitism, Ian Austin and John Mann: fighting back inside the corridors of power
My two guests are MPs taking the fight to Jeremy Corbyn over antisemitism.
While Ian Austin became the ninth MP to leave Labour since Corbyn became leader, John Mann MP says he'll "have to be thrown out". But both are united in their fight against his leadership.
I share with Ian a deep respect and affection for the Black Country, where he's MP for Dudley North, and we discuss our shared heritage of family who sought refuge from the Holocaust in the industrial Midlands.
Jonny produces these p
8: Israeli HealthTech: the remarkable rise of digital health impacting the lives of millions
In this episode, I focus on an industry at which Israel leads the world, HealthTech.
In a matter of years, Israel's digital health industry has evolved from a small group of innovative start-ups to a rich eco-system around Tel Aviv. In a partnership of private and public sector investment, Israel's HealthTech industry is training AI algorithms, using massive data based on twenty years of medical records from half of Israel's population.
This was presented at the third UK Israel Business HealthTe
7: Trevor Horn, Frankie Goes To Synagogue: pop and Jewish ideals
"Seek the peace and prosperity of the city of your exile, pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper", Jeremiah 29:7, recited to me by the remarkable Trevor Horn.
The Grammy, Brit and Ivor Novello Award winning record producer, coined "the man who invented the 80s", gives me a very personal interview about his current projects, (touring and a new album) plus a rundown of his musical career and influences.
He also discusses his journey into Judaism; something he says he
6: Champions League Jews, Ivor Baddiel & David Bolchover: "Y Word" & football's top Jewish hero
This episode goes some way to explaining the Jewish relationship with football, both today and in the twentieth century.
My guests today are Ivor Baddiel, the comedy writer and biographer David Bolchover, who wrote "The Greatest Comeback", the amazing story of football's greatest Jewish hero, Bela Guttmann.
If you've been to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, you'll almost certainly have heard the word, "Yid" chanted in support of Spurs - or worse, AGAINST them by opposition fans. You may have eve
5: Jassem Tamim and Richard Millett, British Islam and English Irony: the fight for values
My two guests today are from very different parts of British society - but united in opposing Jeremy Corbyn and the scandal of antisemitism sweeping Labour.
Jassem Tamim (pictured hugging our own James Marlow at the 2021 Israel Solidarity Rally in Kensington, London) is a Sunni Muslim originally from Morocco, who considers his opposition to antisemitism as payback to Britain for the tolerance and acceptance he's found since moving here.
He also believes it's his Islamic duty to defend Israel a
4: My Grandma Olga’s Holocaust story: From Hitler's Vienna to Birmingham's Freedom
Dov Forman and her great-grandmother Lily Ebert have co-written a book, “Lily’s Promise” about her Holocaust story. But 35 years before, I recorded the same idea with my own grandma.
Grandma Olga’s recorded voice and when and where we recounted her life story will always be my most treasured episode.
This is her eyewitness testimony of leaving Nazi-occupied Vienna for a new and as yet, uncharted home in the UK.
She rebuilt her life in Birmingham where I grew up and where back in 1984, we recorde
3: Labour Against Antisemitism and Grandma's Holocaust Testimony
This is a very special episode for me. I rediscovered an old cassette I’d recorded of an interview with my late Grandma in 1984, when she was 77 - and I was 17.Thursday afternoons were always lunch at Grandma and I’d always wanted to record her voice for future Gould/Posaner generations.She narrates her own escape from Hitler's Vienna in 1938 and arrival in Birmingham.It’s her story of rebuilding family life destroyed by tyranny, the upheaval of leaving a place that made her - mixed wit
2: Mark Lewis: Libel Lawyer, Campaigner and new Israeli
Mark joins me to discuss moving to Israel with his fiancée, Mandy Blumenthal, what prompted their decision to leave the UK and the Israeli health system which promises him the world’s best treatment for Multiple Sclerosis, a condition he’s had since his twenties.
He’s had a remarkable legal career, the highlight was when he represented more than 120 victims of phone-hacking and exposed the News of the World’s role in the scandal. When specialist hacker, Glenn Mulcaire and royal reporter, Clive G
1: Is the only route statehood for the Palestinians through "divorce" from Israel?
“We ought not deal in the soft bigotry of low expectations of the Palestinians” – Benjamin Anthony, CEO, MirYam Institute.
This is the first podcast in a series on Jewish and Israeli issues - so let's start with the biggest of them all: peace with the Palestinians.
Brigadier General Amir Avivi (ret.) and Sgt. Benjamin Anthony of The New State Solution were in London to meet Egyptian officials to discuss their plan to create a Palestinian state from Gaza to North Sinai. Egypt is key to realising