Jonny Gould's Jewish State

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 support Jonny Gould’s Jewish State (including Gift Aid) at https://www.donorbox.org/jgpodcast

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 Mervis from the 2nd Battalion, The Rifles, who was killed near Sangin in northern Helmand, Afghanistan in June 2009. He’s campaigning for the Law of Treason to apply to terrorist atrocities committed at home by British citizens after the unspeakable murders of fellow MPs Sir David Amess and Jo Cox and according to our mutual friend, Nick Timothy, former chief of staff at number 10, he’d make a great Foreign Secretary. I met Tom for the first time a few months before this interview as he helped launch EMAN, the Extremist Monitori

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, performing Nazi sieg heil salutes and then chasing the bus down the road. But the BBC covered the incident claiming they’d heard conclusive proof of an anti-Muslim slur which had come from inside the bus. All this from a video recorded by someone in the vehicle. BBC London TV went further and broadcast speculation that the slur might’ve even triggered the group of men into attacking the bus in the first place. Joining Gideon on the stage was Fiyaz Mughal OBE of Muslims Against Antisemitism who reminded the crowd that bias again

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 Beckham and Beyoncé on the roster. For a multinational corporate that usually shies away from G-d and spirituality, this is quite the departure. In this extraordinary episode, Beatie also discusses manifestation as part of spiritual and psychological race preparation.

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 become Israel’s head of state, pledging to strengthen diaspora ties to his nation. As you’ll hear his family spent over a century in the UK before moving to Israel and says his British-Jewish heritage shapes his identity and his mission as President. Support thirsty Jonny's podcasting when you buy him a coffee here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 when is the British embassy joining the US in Jerusalem? But he’s under no illusion of the existential threat posed by Hamas and others in the south and Hezbollah in the north.

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 his father and uncle’s US Army service in World War II and the terrible discovery of what the Nazi enemy had done to the Jews of Europe. But young Michael set about mapping out his life ambition to be Israel’s ambassador to the States, making Aliyah at 24. And for all the challenges Israel faces, Michael’s arch-optimism is based on lessons from Jewish history.

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 President and Prime Minister. Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, Fleur Hassan Nahoum and His Excellency Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. Isaac Herzog stepped down as chairman in July 2021 to be sworn in as the 11th president of the State of Israel. Support Jonny Gould’s Jewish State: Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/JonathanLGould

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 lifechanging attitudes from his deeply moving episode of “Who Do You Think You Are”, which told the story of his grandfather’s miraculous escape from a Nazi death camp. And there's more than a smattering of Yiddish in our exchanges - and the customary debate over their precise meanings! It’s not too late to make a donation to Jewish Blind & Disabled. On the night we raised a phenomenal £95,000 in the room. Donate now at https://www.jbd.org/donate And you can support Jonny Gould’s Jewish State too (including Gift Aid) at htt

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 response to the ruling Labour Party’s dialogue with the PLO. Ambassador Gold was also a key figure in the closure of the PLO’s office in East Jerusalem, a concession insisted upon as Israel opened talks with Yasser Arafat as part of the Oslo Accords. Since the turn of the millennium, he’s been president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs with his deep experience of US–Israel policy. A supporter of the Abraham Accords, he doesn’t believe the change of administration in Washington will undermine the extraordinary achi

Support thirsty Jonny with a coffee here! 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 Joshua Rozenberg. This episode chronicles Melanie’s change of mindset, using her story to illustrate what’s been happening to Anglo Jewry since the end of World War II. We also ponder the modern Conservative Party, why she thinks the BBC see her as the “acceptable face and voice of lunacy” and whether zealotry can ever be a positive influence. Jonny produces these podcasts for free. You can help support the show with Gift Aid at https://www.donorbox.org/jgpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho

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 media’s good guys, staying clear of political commentary, instead seeing the world from the viewpoint of the people and places he observes. That makes for the integrity of his commentaries and analysis. Understanding people from their perspectives is in such a short supply in today’s social media rage! We can learn a lot from Tim’s generosity of spirit. Enjoy this episode with Tim Marshall and support Jonny Gould’s Jewish State: Paypal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Support Jonny Gould’s Jewish State with a cup of coffee! 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 can do to help Britain’s diaspora. She was born in Rehovot in 1978, the daughter of ardent Zionist immigrants from Soviet Georgia. As with Ambassador Regev (Episode 31), we talk about social mobility in Israel, the dynamism of the economy. Tragically, anti-Zionism exists among young Jewish people across the West, in the US. And here too. Heads are being turned by media and peer pressure. But while 75% of American Jews support Israel as a Jewish state, 85% say it’s “important or very important” to stand up for the “oppre

Support Jonny Gould’s Jewish State: https://www.paypal.me/JonathanLGould 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 man of contradictions and nuances. But wasn’t that just because he was charged with such grand responsibility on so many levels? Some events went spectacularly right, some tragically wrong. But throughout, his courage of conviction and unwavering values shone through. I’m joined by the movie’s director, Jonathan Gruber to discuss his film of one of Israel and the Jewish people‘s most important figures of the 20th century. Support Jonny Gould’s Jewish State: https://www.paypal.me/JonathanLGould Learn more about your ad c

Support Jonny Gould's podcast production by buying him a coffee here. 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 BEFORE the assembled journalists distilled what was said to the public. According to the IDF, 680 of the rockets fired from Gaza actually landed inside the strip, an astonishing 16%, putting their own citizens at the same risk as Israel’s. It’s also been horrifying for the Jewish diaspora, facing hordes of thugs loudhailing murderous intimidation at Jewish people from their cars in London and fighting on the streets of Europe and North America. And for the first time, Israel’s war was fought on both sides of its Gaza bor

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 balcony of her Paris apartment. The Court of Cassation, the highest in the French Republic, ruled Kobili Traore couldn’t face trial as he was high on marijuana while committing the most gruesome and sustained attack on his neighbour. All this despite being a violent drug dealer and known antisemite. He’d verbally abused Sarah and her daughter in the lead up to the murderous crime. Jonny Gould and his wife, Karine went to the rally organised in the UK by the Campaign Against Antisemitism. Despite Covid restricting numbers, the event

Our guest today is the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, Shaun Bailey. Support Jonny Gould’s Jewish State: Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/JonathanLGould 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 party which means it’s more down to him to drive his own campaign. But as you’ll hear, he counts himself as a characteristic London “hustler”, insisting his town is not necessarily a Labour city. He makes an impression with his honesty, but is he too unguarded to be a unifying London politician? With many thanks to Hendon Ward councillor Nizza Fluss, who organized his appearance with representatives of Shomrim and Hatzola at Hendon and Golders Green, Shaun answered my questions with clarity and brevity. We talk about

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, listen to Tuvia’s view of British Jewry. Hear which Lord threatened to sue Tuvia if he published what he told him in their interview and the shock at how some Jews are actually colluding with their accusers. You can buy The Taming Of The Jew by Tuvia Tenenbom here: https://amzn.to/3rATAcc Support Jonny Gould’s Jewish State: Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/JonathanLGould Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jonnygould?fan_landing=true Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/jonnygould Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Buy me a cup of coffee to support my work at https://ko-fi.com/jonnygould 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 pragmatist. Israel’s longest serving prime minister changes course without causing the upheaval that comes with it.

Bristol University's reputation is being tarnished by their inaction over a conspiracy theorist professor who calls for an end to Zionism in lectures. Support Jonny Gould’s Jewish State: Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/JonathanLGould 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 mike to Sabrina to tell the story of their struggle and included clips from the #HateOffCampus rally they organised by government advisor on antisemitism, Lord John Mann, Countdown superstar and antisemitism campaigner, Rachel Riley and JSoc President Edward Isaacs. I’ve also included interviews I've personally collected along the way from US Special Envoy Elan Carr and Baroness Ruth Deech. The fight against David Miller shouldn't just be left to a small group of Bristol's highly-motivated, inspiring Jewish students.