Podcast Against Antisemitism

Zoom Rockman is a 23-year-old award-winning political cartoonist, illustrator, and puppet animator. At the age of twelve, Zoom became the youngest cartoonist in history to work for The Beano, with his monthly comic strip, ‘Skanky Pigeon’. This ran for four years until he left at age sixteen to become a regular contributor at Private Eye Magazine. For his cartoon on the subject of antisemitism, he...

Noah Abrahams is a BBC Sports reporter who has decided to quit because the BBC has refused to describe Hamas as terrorists. In the wake of the horrors inflicted by Hamas upon innocent people in Israel, he decided to put his morals first. In this special bonus episode of Podcast Against Antisemitism, Noah speaks to us about his difficult decision to leave the BBC and his thoughts on the response fr...

Blake Flayton is a columnist for the Jewish Journal and a social media commentator on American-Jewish and Israeli political issues.  In this episode, Blake speaks to us about the demonisation of Zionism on university campuses and reveals to what extent his decision to move to Israel was motivated by antisemitism. This episode is the final installment of Season 4 of Podcast Against Antisemitism. We...

Alma Hernandez is a Jewish Mexican-American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Arizona House of Representatives for the 20th district.  In this episode, Representative Hernandez explains why she is tireless in her commitment to fighting antisemitism and how she played a vital role in bringing Holocaust education to Arizona’s public schools. Subscribe at antisemitism.org/podcast and s...

Judy Gold is a Jewish comedian, actor, writer, and podcaster. Judy has had stand-up specials on HBO, Comedy Central, and LOGO. She was a part of Netflix’s Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration and has made appearances on television shows on FX, Apple+, and Hulu. Judy’s comedy pokes fun at real-life issues, including antisemitism, which she has no qualms about addressing in her act.  In this episode, Ju...

David Hirsh is an expert in antisemitism, the Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the founder of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. He has written extensively about modern antisemitism and anti-Zionism and is responsible for coining the term, the “Livingstone Formulation”. In this episode, David talks to us about Goldsmiths’ recently-lau...

Avraham Vofsi is a Jewish interdisciplinary artist based in Melbourne, Australia. His second and most recent solo exhibition, titled ‘B’Aretz: Portrait of a Land’, focuses on Avraham’s Jewish identity and building a connection to Israel as a result of the antisemitism that he has faced. In this episode, Avraham chronicles how his art has been influenced by his experiences of antisemitism, both ext...

Dame Melinda Simmons has served as the British Ambassador to Ukraine since 2019. Prior to her current post, Dame Melinda worked in the UK civil service for over 20 years, having held posts at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as well as the Department for International Development, where she worked on projects that included land restitution in the former Soviet Union.  In this episode, Dame Meli...

Rep. Ritchie Torres is the United States representative for New York's 15th congressional district, covering the Bronx. At 25, he became the youngest elected official in New York City, and the first openly LGBTQ+ elected official from the Bronx. Rep. Torres has repeatedly spoken out against antisemitism, both in his home of New York City and also globally.  In this episode, Rep. Torres speaks...

Eitan Bernath is an award-winning chef, entertainer, author, television personality, and activist who has amassed 3 billion annual video views from a global audience of over 10 million fans across social media. Eitan is the Principal Culinary Contributor on the Daytime Emmy Award-winning CBS programme, The Drew Barrymore Show, which made him the first TikTok star to expand into a recurring role on...

Kosha Dillz is a rapper and reality television star whose songs have garnered millions of views and streams. He has toured the world with artists such as Matisyahu, Snoop Dogg, and Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, and has become a mainstay in the hip-hop world and beyond, appearing on line-ups at South By Southwest, Rock The Bells, and the Vans Warped Tour. A regular performer on MTV’s hit programme Wild ‘N Ou...

Sarah Haskell, also known online as ‘thatrelatablejew,’ is an Orthodox Jewish content creator and artist with over 200,000 followers across TikTok and Instagram, whose educational online videos look at Jewish positivity, kosher food, Jewish holidays, and modest fashion. Sarah has used her platform and influence to not only teach her followers about the beauty in Judaism but she has also encouraged...

Tyler Samuels is a Canadian-based Sephardic Jamaican Jew whose educational Jewish history content focuses on the Jews of the Caribbean and Canada. His content, posted to the Instagram account Blunt Black Jew, also debunks common myths and conspiracies and offers positive videos centred around Jewish and Black pride. Tyler has also previously served as Program Coordinator for the Tel Aviv Institute...

Dr Bàrbara Molas is an expert on far-right ideology, online radicalisation, and prevention who works as a Research Fellow at the Current and Emerging Threats Programme at The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, also known as the ICCT, a think-and-do tank based in The Hague, Netherlands. Earlier this year, she appeared as an expert witness at the failed appeal of the notorious antisemite Al...

Amanda Kinsey is a five-time Emmy Award-winning producer and the Director and Producer of the new documentary ‘Jews of the Wild West’. Through on-camera interviews, compelling footage, and historical photographs, the film tells a positive immigration story and highlights the dynamic contributions Jewish Americans made to shaping the Western United States. In this episode, Amanda explains how antis...

Aleeza Ben Shalom is the host of the new hit Netflix series, ‘Jewish Matchmaking’, the programme where Jewish singles in the United States and Israel employ the help of Aleeza to help them find a partner. She is also an author and the founder of the company Marriage Minded Mentor, and has appeared everywhere from Netflix and Aish.com, to BBC World News and NPR.  In this episode, Aleeza opens up ab...

Asher M. Seruya and Laur Plawker are the hosts of the Kvetching on the Couch podcast, a podcast that looks at Jewish mental health. Asher is a social worker and psychotherapist specialising in trauma-informed care, weight stigma, and eating disorder recovery, while Laur is a Suicide Prevention Specialist who works at the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit organisation that protects emotional health and p...

Doctor Sheila Nazarian is an award-winning Jewish Iranian-American plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills and the star of the Emmy-nominated Netflix Series, ‘Skin Decision: Before and After’. She has also guest starred on numerous other television series, including ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’, ‘Basketball Wives’, and ‘Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian’.  Dr Nazarian is also the host of ‘The...

Susanna Fogel is an award-winning director and screenwriter and the Executive Producer and multi-episode Director of the biographical drama A Small Light, a National Geographic miniseries streaming now on Disney+,  that takes a look at the remarkable real-life heroism of Miep Gies, the woman responsible for hiding Anne Frank’s family, the van Pels family, and Fritz Pfeffer, during the Holocaust. ...

Simon Miller is a Jewish professional wrestler and presenter known to millions as one of the hosts of the WhatCulture Wrestling YouTube channel, which regularly posts wrestling-related content to over 2 million subscribers. Simon performs on wrestling cards up and down the United Kingdom, as well as internationally, and has used his considerable online presence to draw attention to antisemitism. I...

Jonathan Brent is an academic and historian who serves as the Executive Director and CEO of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, a cultural organisation and place of higher learning with a world-renowned library and archive of 24 million documents whose mission is to preserve, study, share, and perpetuate knowledge of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide. In this episode, Jo...

Allison Josephs is the Founder and Executive Director of Jew In The City, a non-profit organisation that seeks to change negative perceptions of religious Jews and make engaging and meaningful Orthodox Judaism known and accessible. Allison was named by Variety as an advocate for inclusivity in the entertainment industry in its 2022 Inclusion Impact Report, has been quoted or written about in numer...

Tova Ricardo, better known as Tova the Poet, is a poet whose poems speak from her perspective as a Black Jewish woman. In her poetry, she ruminates on how she perceives the world and how the world perceives her, which includes celebrating her culture and identity, but also having to confront the antisemitism, anti-Black racism, and sexism that comes with it.  In this episode, Tova performs a poetr...

Rabbi Aubrey Hersh is the author of the popular podcast “History for the Curious”. He is also the Projects Director & Senior Lecturer at the JLE (Jewish Learning Exchange) in London. Over the past two decades, he has taken over 250 Heritage tours to Europe including destinations such as Auschwitz, and has specialised in Holocaust education, with several of his podcast series focusing on elemen...

Ben M. Freeman is a Scottish, gay, Jewish author, activist, and educator whose latest book, Reclaiming Our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride, is the second instalment of his seminal manifesto of the modern Jewish Pride movement that has taken the Jewish world by storm. In this live podcast recording, filmed at the inaugural “CAA presents…” event, Ben discusses how external antisemitism can result...