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Jonny Gould's Jewish State — 228 episodes

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200: Young Podcaster of the Year treads the boards: Jason Isaacs and Nathan Trochet

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199: Eduard Shyfrin: The journey from Soviet steelworks to faith, purpose and Jewish identity

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BONUS EPISODE: Operation Epic Fury. US and Israel launch aerial attacks across Iran and assassinate the Ayatollah.

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198: Rawan Osman: The journey of an Arab Zionist, “I lost my family to find my truth” .

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197: From Soviet Shadows to Today's Campus Hate: Izabella Tabarovsky on How Anti-Zionism Targets All Jews Today

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196: Michal Cotler-Wunsh: a headline masterclass in defining and tackling antisemitism.

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195: London's "piece of Palestine on British soil", Starmer's Embassy is inaugurated.

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194: Bottling the Shock of Bondi as a Call for Action

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193: Kabylia's Declaration of Independence. As Jews around the world, we should care about this.

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192: Centered: The Senator Joe Lieberman Story with former Chief of Staff, Rob Schwartz

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191: The BBC's built-in bias "always believes the worst about Israel"

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190: Maccabi Tel Aviv's sorrowful ban from Aston Villa plunges football into darkness

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BONUS EPISODE: Yom Kippur tragedy in Manchester

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BONUS EPISODE: Netanyahu at the UN blasts "weak-kneed" leaders backing Palestine as Trump team presents Gaza peace plan

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BONUS EPISODE: Starmer declares for Palestine

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189: Tanya Gold: "Shameless: Exploiting the Holocaust". How the brutality of the Shoah is being whitewashed

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188: Sharon Hodgson MP and Joani Reid MP: There IS decency on Labour's backbenches. Let's meet two women of valour

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187: 🎗️Keith and Aviva Siegel, Hamas hostage survivors: "This is the worst thing that can happen to a human being".

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186: Mandy Yachad: I played international cricket wearing tzitzis and a yarmulke

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BONUS EPISODE: Trump attacks Iran's nuclear sites. How it started. How it finished.

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BONUS EPISODE: As Israel pounds Iran, what's Israel's aid to Gaza REALLY like? How will the Foreign Office get stranded Brits home?

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BONUS EPISODE: “Operation Rising Lion”, Israel attacks Iran with devastating results

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185: Richard Tice MP, Deputy Leader, Reform UK: "There's a competition to see who can use 'child killers' and 'genocide' more often in a more dramatic way. Hamas are the bad guys".

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184: Dumisani Washington: BLM is trying to capture black identity and spread Jew-hate. It's a self-destructive ideology

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183: David Pleat: Just One More Goal. Anglo-Jewry's most famous football manager

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182: Julia Haart: from ultraorthodox Jewish wife to billion dollar fashion mogul

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181: Andrew Fox LIVE: It's a terrible dilemma between the security of 9 million Israelis and 25 living hostages.

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180: Joe Walsh: "Donald Trump doesn't care for Israel. He cares for Donald Trump"

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179: Rachel Moiselle: the huge price defending Israel and the Jewish people in Ireland

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178: Yoram Ettinger: how many Palestinians are REALLY in Judea & Samaria and Gaza?

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177: Shannon Seban: “Political life has become very violent, to be honest.”

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176: Tal Hartuv: "Evil never made me cry, but kindness makes me weep"

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175: Edy Cohen's Gaza Riviera address in Arabic and English

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Have you listened to Jonny Gould's Jewish State recently? Surprising interviews await you.

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174: Ghaith al-Omari, Palestinian Authority negotiator: “I believe in Palestinian justice through statehood. I also think Jews deserve the state they have now"

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173: Dr. Dan Diker, Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs: "The world is really suffering from the lack of a rules-based order".

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172: Professor David Hirsh, antisemitism in academia: becoming a professor despite the hostility

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BONUS EPISODE: What kind of hostage deal is this?

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171: Erin Molan: "Point out what I've said ever that's controversial. Ever!"

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170: Mark Birbeck, Our Fight UK founder. Why I fight for Israel, the Jewish people and the West

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169: Survivor: the true story of Ivor Perl’s boyhood journey through the Holocaust

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168: Mandy Damari: 🎗️ Bring Emily Home. Emily's mum Mandy addresses UK media in Central London

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167: Jotam Confino: Netanyahu, Trump, the future of the Right and reporting Israel's wars

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166: "Midas Man", the Brian Epstein movie. Screenwriter, Brigit Grant tells the story of "the fifth Beatle" and the film

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165: Andrew Fox: What will Trump's return mean for Israel, Iran, Turkey, the UN, UNIFIL and UNRWA?

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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.

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BONUS EPISODE: Mosab Hassan Yousef, "The Green Prince" addresses the European Parliament

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163: Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum meets David Green: Schools Podcaster of the Year

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162: Brendan O'Neill: "After the Pogrom": Why do young and educated classes cheer on Hamas?

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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"

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160: Joe Walsh, the lifelong Republican who wants Kamala to win and wishes "to retire and die in Israel"

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BONUS EPISODE: Netanyahu’s extraordinary speech to the UN General Assembly

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159: “Iran is a paper tiger, we must eliminate Hezbollah”, Benjamin Anthony, veteran of the 2006 Lebanon War.

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158: Fleur Hassan-Nahoum: Israel's wartime economy with the Trade & Innovation Special Envoy. Coping with wars on seven fronts.

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157: Tuvia Tenenbom's Careful, Beauties Ahead! A year with Israel's ultraorthodox communities

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156: Paul Martin: "I knew Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader assassinated in Tehran. He jailed me in Gaza".

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155: Major (Ret.) Andrew Fox : "Iran could have FIVE nuclear warheads in THREE weeks". So what's stopping them?

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154: Ivor Perl: Auschwitz and Dachau survivor, "I paid a terrible price for being Jewish, but how can I break the chain?"

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153: Manuel Valls, France's former Prime Minister describes the threat of extremist politics to the French Jewish community (en Français)

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152: Imshin returns: "Hezbollah isn't Hamas, it's much stronger. As a family, we're planning for war”.

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Iran's War on Israel: Conricus on Iran nuclear threat, Bibi arms wrestle with Biden, sex crimes on October 7th

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151: Dean Furman and Michael Sweetney: fighting antisemitism and racism in sport with the MAX Project

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Iran's War on Israel: Hostage stories and reaction plus the latest with Jonny Gould

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150: Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Conricus: #AllEyesOnRafah: How has the world been reduced to this?

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Iran's War on Israel Latest News Bulletin

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149: Alex Deane: running to be Finchley and Golders Green's next MP on July 4th

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Iran's War on Israel Latest News Bulletin with Jonny Gould

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148: #TheGazaYouDontSee: @imshin reveals the REAL Gaza: how Gazans see themselves through their own videos

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147: Dr. Meir Javedanfar: What's it like for the Jews who STILL live in Iran?

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Iran's War on Israel Latest News Bulletin presented by Jonny Gould

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146: Neturei Karta: what are they for?

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Iran's War on Israel Latest News Bulletin with Jonny Gould

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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!"

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Iran's War on Israel News Bulletin

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144: Ruth Wasserman Lande: “Iran’s mullahs have held the Iranian people hostage since 1979”

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143: Amichai Chikli: "October 7th has created a reset for world Jewry. There is an awakening of the Jewish spirit"

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142: Emily Schrader in London: "shocked at tolerance of antisemitism" and Benedict Spence: "happy days ahead for Bibi?"

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141: Col. Richard Kemp: "The UN, US and UK just threw the Israeli hostages under the bus"

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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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139: Einat Wilf in London: Israel SHOULD demand the Palestinians declare, “our war with Israel is over”

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138: Loay Alshareef in London takes your calls on TalkTV and rejects claims of "Israeli land grabbing"

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137: Loay Alshareef in London: "It’s bad news for the enemies of peace”

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136: Nicole Lampert: I confronted Gary Lineker in public about his Palestinian tweets

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135: Itamar Marcus: UNRWA, the worst thing that ever happened to the Palestinians

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134: President Reuven Rivlin of Israel defies Poland's Holocaust Remembrance laws on Polish soil

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EXTRA: Elon Musk and Ben Shapiro return from Auschwitz with their first impressions

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133: Haviv Rettig Gur and Jonathan Spyer: “Deathblow” to Hamas would aid Gulf vision for stability

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132: "Golda": producer Nicholas Martin, "We knew we were winning when Assad shot his generals"

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131: “Another How To Make Peace In The Middle East" TalkTV Special

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130: Dov Forman: “My trip to Kfar Aza and the Nova Festival site will change me forever”

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129: Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Jerusalem's deputy mayor: "250,000 Israelis are displaced"

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128: Bring Them Home! Orit Meir: mother of Gaza hostage, Almog, 21.

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127: TalkTV Special: “How To Make Peace In The Middle East”

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126: Chaim Oren: “A crisis can lead to rebirth”. How to build emotional resilience

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125: Relief work in Ukraine and Israel. Elnet UK's reception at the Houses of Parliament

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124: Lies, libels and lack of probity. Israel fights more than just Hamas, now also the UN and BBC

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123: Bring Them Home! says Entebbe survivor Benny Davidson, "I know what our hostages in Gaza are going through”

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122: Chuck Freilich: Catastrophe in Israel. What now as Hamas shows the world its true intentions?

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121: Bill Browder, Putin's thorn. “We all need to be leaders, to stand up against wrong and for right”

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120: Rt. Hon. Joan Ryan in conversation with the Rt. Hon. Lord Eric Pickles

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119: Israelophobia: Jake Wallis Simons on the newest version of the oldest hatred

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118: Edy Cohen: Can Saudi-Israel normalize? The tragedy of judicial reform, Swedes burn holy books

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117: Jonny goes to the Knesset to meet governing Likud MK: judicial reform, Arab Israelis and Iran

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116: Inside an Iron Dome staging post and crossing Kerem Shalom into Gaza: Jonny heads for Israel’s Gaza border

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115: Lord Daniel Finkelstein: Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

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114: UAE's evolving diplomacy, what's the state of the Abraham Accords. Should Israel be worried?

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113: The Escape Artist: Jonathan Freedland talks to Dr Bea Lewkowicz, "I knew both Vrba and Wetzler"

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112: Ronen Bergman: Rise and Kill First, Israel's secret history of targeted assassinations

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111: Trevor Horn: Adventures in Modern Recording, Buggles, “whiz bang” hits and old Jewish jokes!

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110: Sarah Idan: Miss Universe Iraq 2017, self-proclaimed Zionist, courageous Human Rights voice

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109: Judicial Reform crisis: “If one side wins Israel will lose. We must stay Jewish, democratic”

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108: Gary Lineker rushed back to air by the BBC, turning a blind eye to his toxic tweets

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107: Brighton & Hove, actually: BNJC’s vision and ambition for a brand new community in Sussex

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106: The Abrahamic Family House, UAE’s permanent expression of pluralism as they prepare for COP28

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105: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs' Dan Diker: Africa seeks Israeli defense, judicial reform

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104: Emily Schrader: everyday Iranians love Israel! Emily’s social media outreach resets the talk

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103: Yoseph Haddad: Arab Israeli defending a Jewish and democratic State of Israel

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102: The Greatest Comeback, Bela Guttmann’s Benfica glory with David Bolchover

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101: Uri Geller: "Israel was the making of me"

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100: John Ware: Three years. Three cases. Three wins.

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99: Dr. Einat Wilf: "Antizionism is an assault on Jewish life in the places where Jews exist"

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98: Winston Marshall: Mumford's Wise Son

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97: Jonny in Abu Dhabi: Amjad Taha, "The Abraham Accords is the miracle in the Middle East"

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96: Jonny in Abu Dhabi: Loay Alshareef, “Jews and Muslims destined to come together”

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95: Fleur Hassan-Nahoum: Jerusalem, Israeli law and order, Abraham Accords, Qatar and me

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94: "I met the Ayatollah when I lived in Iran. He asked me to write his memoirs. I'm Jewish". Catherine Perez-Shakdam

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93: Israel-Lebanon maritime border dispute and Iran protests: Edy Cohen’s verdict

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92: Jason Greenblatt: will Biden unmake Trump’s Middle East peace? In the Path of Abraham

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91: Queen Elizabeth II: Jewish community pays tribute to Her Majesty and what the future may hold

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90: Hillel Neuer: “The Saudis, the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt want MORE, not less Israel”

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89: Julie Burchill: "Without Jewish people, we'd all be sitting in caves grunting"

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88: Jonathan Freedland: The Escape Artist, Rudolf Vrba. The teenage Jew who escaped Auschwitz

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87: Ukraine: Kharkiv's Jews humanitarian crisis: Rabbi Mendel Moskowitz

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86: Douglas Murray: The War On The West: how to prevail in the age of unreason

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85: Ron Dermer and Ed Husain: The first steps on the road to the Abraham Accords

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84: Len Khodorkovsky: from Ukrainian refugee to the US State Department, an American story

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83: National Jewish Assembly: Anglo Jewry's new leadership organization

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82: Israel Bonds, Invest in Israel: Arnon Perlman's life in public service

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81: Finding Abraham: Malcolm Green's Abraham Accords-inspired tour through Israel

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80: The Imam of Peace, Mohammad Tawhidi: Without Israel, Islam “loses a fundamental pillar”

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79: Edy Cohen: Israel’s supreme leader in Arabic

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Trailer: Have you listened recently? Time to catchup. Here's why!

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78: Tuvia Tenenbom: “Call yourself a progressive? What a chutzpah!”

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77: Professor Alan Dershowitz: “Free speech for me, but not for thee” and his BBC’s cancellation

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76: Emily Schrader and Yoseph Haddad come to London

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75: The Wolf of Baghdad: Carol Isaacs' colourful history of Babylonian Jews

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74: El Al Israel Airlines: Israel's skies are open again, book with confidence

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73: The Right Hon. Dr. Liam Fox MP on the front foot with the Abraham Accords

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72: Jon Medved: Israel Scaleup Nation and OurCrowd's venture investing platform

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71: Ben M Freeman: Jewish Pride, Rebuilding a People

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Israel Briefing 4 with James Marlow: What's Biden's game with Iran in Vienna?

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70: Tom Tugenhadt MBE MP: Israeli Palestinian conflict has nothing to do with Arab civil rights

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69: The Chanukah Bus Story: BBC standoff with Britain’s Jewish community

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68: Beatie Deutsch: marathon champ, charedi mum: “mental & spiritual strength unlocks the physical”

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67: President Isaac Herzog meets Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the UK’s Jewish leadership

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66: Ambassador Neil Wigan: "Fundamental rights to free speech excludes intimidation"

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65: Ambassador Michael Oren: “We are living in the age of miracles”

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Israel Briefing 3 with James Marlow: The race to be the Jewish Agency’s new chair

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64: ‘Judge’ Robert Rinder LIVE at JW3: “There are millions of people of goodwill, allies of Jewish people”

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63: Ambassador Dore Gold: the art of diplomacy and how peace with Jordan came about

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62: Melanie Phillips: “Israel, the West’s last man standing”

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61: Tim Marshall: The Power of Geography, "compromise is a beautiful word"

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60: Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely: Israel’s first female ambassador to the United Kingdom

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59: Upheaval: The Journey of Menachem Begin. The documentary film of his life story

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58: Gaza: Israel and the Jewish diaspora under attack

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57: Je Suis Sarah Halimi, London: Solidarity with French Jews outside the French Embassy

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56: Shaun Bailey: Conservative candidate for London Mayor’s views on Israel and Jewish Londoners

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55: Tuvia Tenenbom’s “The Taming of the Jew” is British Jewry’s wakeup call

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54: Can Israel's political system be salvaged? Ambassador Danny Ayalon and Dr. Nachman Shai

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53: Bristol's Jewish students confront University over “end Zionism” professor

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52.1: Col. Richard Kemp: Educating Israel's public an important driver to their vaccine rollout

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52: Israel's world-leading Covid vaccine rollout

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51: Brendan O'Neill: Brexit, the nation state, self-determination, Israel and the hard-left

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Israel Briefing 2: The killing of the Iranian nuclear scientist and the Biden Administration

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50: Jewish Telegraph at 70: Editor Paul Harris on the day he took his family into Arafat’s lair!

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49: Labour Against Antisemitism: has Starmer done enough to change Labour?

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46: Eva Schloss: Anne Frank's stepsister, "I forgive the Nazis"

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48: Justice for Malki: Arnold Roth calls for Tamimi's extradition and BBC apology to its audience

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47: UAE Ambassador Mansoor Abulhoul: The Abraham Accords of Israel UAE peace

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45: Ambassador Ferenc Kumin: The Hungarian Holocaust and the State of Israel as allies

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Trailer: Jonny Gould’s Jewish State, “For those who listen, for those who are willing to listen”.

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44: Lecturer sacked because he says "Jewish people are among the cleverest in the world!"

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43: Reimagining Trevor Horn: a lockdown tribute to “the man who invented the 80s”

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42: Katharine Birbalsingh and Inaya Folarin Iman: Immigrant pride in British values

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41: Trevor Phillips and Karen Harradine: diversity is going on mission creep and how to reset it for purpose

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40: Nick Timothy: Solidarity, philosemitism and China

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39: Jason Greenblatt: Peace to Prosperity in the Middle East: straight to the heart of the deal

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38: Red Sea Spies: Mossad and their Ethiopian Jewish brothers: Raffi Berg and "Dani"

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Israel Briefing 1 with James Marlow: Another new government, Iran in Syria, Pompeo China warning

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37: Netflix Fauda: Itzik Cohen and Lior Raz, Israeli drama popular in surprising places

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36: Unorthodox Netflix: Deborah Feldman, the Real Esty

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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

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34: Israel Advocacy, Joseph Cohen: Zionism's Angel of the North

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33: Ed Husain, Islam & Israel: “Bashing Israel is the Muslim liberal's last refuge. It must stop!”

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32: Yaakov Lappin, Europe's refugee crisis II, “The Virtual Caliphate”, an online threat to Europe

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31: Ambassador Mark Regev: Israel’s modern story in one person

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31.1: Brexit and Israel, Ambassador Mark Regev on the UK's relationship with Israel post-Brexit

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30: Anthony Scaramucci: “I’m a Zionist, but there’ll be no peace without symmetry”

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29: Col. Richard Kemp OBE in Israel: Trump's Deal Of The Century, IDF’s Muslims, Iran post Soleimani

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28: Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Jerusalem’s Rock from Gibraltar

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27: Baroness Ruth Deech: Why the Holocaust Memorial shouldn't be built in Westminster

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26: Together Against Antisemitism rally as Corbyn’s General Election loomed

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25.1: Mrs. Thatcher LIVES! Zoom Rockman's Churchill and Steve Nallon's Thatcher

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25: Teenage Kicks: Zoom Rockman and Harry Markham are both 19 and incredible

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24: David Collier (Mishtal), Fighting for UK Jewry: Labour’s toxic Corbyn era

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23: US Special Envoy Elan Carr LIVE from Westminster addressing Parliament on antisemitism

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22: Col. Richard Kemp OBE: fighting evil becomes personal

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21: Mudar Zahran: all roads lead to Jordan for a Palestinian homeland

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20: Ashley Blaker and Bennett Arron, UK Jewish laughs: standup and be counted!

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19: John Ware, BBC Panorama: “Is Labour Antisemitic? Corbyn and the EHRC investigation

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18: US Special Envoy Elan Carr: The White House fight against antisemitism

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17: Hen Mazzig, Bad Progressive or True Progressive?

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16: "I was a British-Jewish soldier who witnessed the liberation of Belsen concentration camp"

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15: Lyn Julius, Uprooted: 3,000 years of Jewish life in Arab lands is over

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14: Lance Forman, smoking salmon, leaving Europe: the story of London's last salmon smokehouse

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13: Lord Leslie Turnberg, Balfour Declaration, Lord Balfour and the formation of the State of Israel

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12: Tuvia Tenenbom, “stand up for your rights or face annhilation”

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11: Bela Guttmann’s Greatest Comeback and UK Lawyers for Israel’s Greatest Hits

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10: Shin Bet chief, Yaakov Peri: Israel's unseen shield of security

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9: Labour antisemitism, Ian Austin and John Mann: fighting back inside the corridors of power

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8: Israeli HealthTech: the remarkable rise of digital health impacting the lives of millions

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7: Trevor Horn, Frankie Goes To Synagogue: pop and Jewish ideals

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6: Champions League Jews, Ivor Baddiel & David Bolchover: "Y Word" & football's top Jewish hero

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5: Jassem Tamim and Richard Millett, British Islam and English Irony: the fight for values

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4: My Grandma Olga’s Holocaust story: From Hitler's Vienna to Birmingham's Freedom

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3: Labour Against Antisemitism and Grandma's Holocaust Testimony

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2: Mark Lewis: Libel Lawyer, Campaigner and new Israeli

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1: Is the only route statehood for the Palestinians through "divorce" from Israel?