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Please donate to support these conversations: https://jonathansacerdoti.com/donate When NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani referenced Islamic teachings and invoked the Hijrah in his speech at a multi-faith event, was he offering a message of spiritual resilience — or signalling something more political? In this conversation, Prof Mordechai Kedar unpacks what that reference really means, explaining how Hijra...

Iran’s regime is relying on executions, foreign fighters and extreme repression to survive. In this conversation, Jonathan Sacerdoti speaks with Dr Tamar Eilam Gindin, a specialist in Iranian language, culture and political mythology, about what she is seeing emerge inside the Islamic Republic. Drawing on reports and her own sources from within Iran, she explains how executions surged in the month...

What happens next in Iran? Will the United States strike, and if so, when? Will Israel be drawn in again, or deliberately held back this time? Will Britain take part, or remain confined to a defensive role? What would the targets actually be – nuclear facilities, missile infrastructure, or the leadership itself? And if the regime is hit hard enough to fall, who takes over? If it survives, what the...

Britain’s justice system is facing a profound rupture. Under the banner of efficiency and backlog reduction, reforms are being proposed that would remove large numbers of cases from jury trial, weaken appeal rights, and concentrate decision making power in the hands of the state. These changes touch principles that have defined British liberty for centuries and raise fundamental questions about ou...

Donald Trump’s lawyer went on the record and said it plainly: Britain’s Jews need protection. They need somewhere to flee. He's urging the US President to let them come to America . When The Telegraph put the proposal on its front page , it was no longer a hypothetical concern whispered in private, but a public warning, issued at national level, about the condition of Britain itself. In this f...

For nearly half a century the Islamic Republic has ruled Iran through fear, censorship and organised cruelty. It has crushed dissent at home while exporting terrorism abroad, and it has relied on a simple calculation: that the world would look away while its own people suffered in silence. Today that calculation is collapsing. Across Iran, ordinary men and women are rising against a regime that ha...

Europe’s relationship with Israel has never been simple. It is shaped by history soaked in blood, by moral claims born from catastrophe, and by institutions that insist on speaking in the language of values while acting through interest. In the aftermath of October 7, those tensions have hardened, exposing fractures between governments and peoples, ideology and reality, rhetoric and reliance. As E...

Fleur Hassan Nahum has worked at the sharp end of politics, media and national crisis. As a former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem and Special Envoy for Innovation , she has dealt directly with international leaders, hostile broadcasters and the pressures that follow war into every public space. In this conversation with Jonathan Sacerdoti , she lifts the lid to reveal the real workings of media and pol...

Condemned by mobs on the streets of the West, denounced by governments across Europe and beyond, and vilified by the United Nations and its satellite institutions, Israel might nevertheless be in a stronger strategic position than at any point in its history. Two years after October 7th, Israel’s international standing has deteriorated even as its regional power has expanded. What appears in Weste...

For years, British public life told itself a comforting lie: that tolerance meant silence, that compassion meant compliance, and that asking hard questions was somehow immoral. Josh Howie no longer believes that story. In this uncompromising conversation with Jonathan Sacerdoti , Howie explains how comedy, journalism and politics were quietly captured by fear. Not fear of violence, but fear of soc...

For more than half a century, Professor Mordechai Kedar has studied Arabic language, Islamic texts and Middle Eastern political culture from the inside. A former Israeli military intelligence officer and one of Israel’s most seasoned experts on Arab society, he has spent decades listening to what the region says in its own words, not through Western translations or assumptions. In this far reachin...

A filmmaker set out to document the fallout of October seventh. Instead, she uncovered something far larger and far darker: a coordinated ideological capture of Western institutions, a foreign-funded corrosion of democratic values, and a generation primed to cheer for extremists before the bodies in Israel had even been counted. Wendy Sachs joins Jonathan Sacerdoti for a stark, unflinching look at...

David Collier joins Jonathan Sacerdoti for one of his clearest and most wide-ranging conversations yet about Britain, the media, extremism and the pressures reshaping public life. Drawing on years of undercover work inside activist movements, online networks and university groups, Collier explains what he has seen from the inside — and why he believes the country is struggling to understand the fo...

A landmark tribunal has ruled that Islam critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act , and the man at the centre of that historic decision, Patrick Lee, sits down with Jonathan Sacerdoti for his first full, unfiltered interview since the judgment shook Britain’s institutions. Patrick Lee is an actuary who never sought public attention, yet found himself monitored, censured and threatened...

The BBC is facing its biggest crisis in decades — but the scandal isn’t just about two resignations. It’s about years of skewed reporting, buried corrections, and a newsroom culture that has normalised bias while persuading the public that it stands for impartial truth. In this revealing conversation, Hadar Sela, co-editor of CAMERA UK and one of the most meticulous analysts of BBC coverage anywhe...

The most powerful images in today’s pro-Palestinian campaigns aren’t new — they’re borrowed from Christianity. From the Madonna and Child to David and Goliath , centuries-old sacred symbols have been re-cast to portray Palestinians as modern saints and martyrs, reshaping Western sympathy through religious familiarity. In this gripping conversation, Professor Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of Lo...

Michael Gove, former Cabinet Minister and one of Britain’s most articulate conservative thinkers, joins Jonathan Sacerdoti for an unflinching conversation about the perilous state of Britain — a nation he says is “desperate” and in danger of moral collapse. From Islamist extremism on British streets to the cowardice of the political class, Gove warns that antisemitism is not a Jewish problem but a...

When Israel agreed to release hundreds of convicted terrorists in exchange for its hostages, Tal Hartuv discovered that one of them was the man who stabbed her 18 times and murdered her friend. In this deeply moving and unsparing conversation, Tal speaks to Jonathan Sacerdoti from Jerusalem, describing the impossible emotions of watching her attacker walk free — anger and disbelief mixed with reli...

This is Tommy Robinson as you’ve never seen him before. In his most intimate and revealing conversation yet, Britain’s most controversial activist sits down with journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti, who asks the tough questions — about violence, Islam, Israel, fear, family, and the future of Britain. Branded a far-right extremist by his critics and a free speech champion by his supporters, Tommy Robinso...

Kellie-Jay Keen — known globally as Posie Parker — is the women’s rights campaigner behind the “adult human female” billboard and the viral call for women to “Free your face” from the niqab. In this fearless conversation with Jonathan Sacerdoti, she challenges Britain’s cultural taboos: from niqab and who gets to wave a flag, to 'grooming-gang' euphemisms, transgender ideology, surrogacy,...

Yasmine Mohammed is a Canadian human rights activist and author of "Unveiled". She escaped a forced marriage to an al-Qaeda member and now campaigns against Islamism’s grip on women and the West. In this raw and fearless conversation with Jonathan Sacerdoti, she dismantles the illusion of “moderate Islam”, exposes the dangers of Western appeasement, and warns that what happened on Octobe...

Ruth Wasserman Lande is a former Israeli Knesset member, diplomat, intelligence expert, and Arabist — and she has a stark warning for Britain. Fresh from her viral Channel 4 interview, she tells Jonathan Sacerdoti why Western media is complicit in whitewashing extremism, how Qatar bankrolls the Muslim Brotherhood’s PR machine, and why the West is blind to the religious war already unfolding. Drawi...

Rafe Heydel-Mankoo is a British historian, political commentator, and cultural critic warning that the revolution in Britain has already happened — just not the kind we notice. In this urgent, unflinching conversation with Jonathan Sacerdoti, he lays bare the institutional capture of Britain, the alliance between the radical left and political Islam, and the future we’re too afraid to confront. Fr...

Dr Qanta Ahmed is a British-born Muslim physician, a fierce critic of Islamism, and a global voice for truth in the face of jihadist denial. In this wide-ranging and courageous conversation with Jonathan Sacerdoti, she dismantles the lies of the Muslim Brotherhood, exposes the ideological roots of 7 October, and warns how Western weakness is emboldening radical Islam. Speaking from Israel—her 18th...

Colonel Richard Kemp is a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, counterterrorism expert, and outspoken defender of Israel. In this gripping and unapologetic conversation with Jonathan Sacerdoti, Kemp tears through the lies surrounding Gaza, the two-state delusion, and Britain’s moral failure in the face of jihadist threats. From London to Jerusalem, Kemp draws on decades of military a...