Feminists Against Antisemitism Podcast

A firsthand account from activist Taryn Thomas on how seeing the reality of October 7 for herself exposed the deception at the heart of the antizionist movement. What really happened inside the elite university antizionist encampments? When student Taryn Thomas joined the high-profile anti-Israel student encampment at Stanford following October 7th, she expected a space dedicated to human rights,...

In this episode, we share a recording of our recent live interview with Melanie Phillips, journalist and author of Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege . Drawing on decades of experience analysing media narratives, political extremism, misinformation and moral inversion, she shares practical strategies for responding in real-world situations at work, online and in social settings. As...

FAA’s Georgia Ladbury interviews musician Zohara Niddam about the cancellation of her band’s UK tour, and the growing effort to keep Jewish and Israeli artists off stage. We’re marking the UK’s Jewish Culture Week with Israeli musician Zohara Niddam who joins Feminists Against Antisemitism to unpack the recent cancellation of a klezmer band tour in a case that raised serious questions about whethe...

Most people assume maternity care is neutral and a safe, compassionate space where politics stays outside the room. This episode of the Feminists Against Antisemitism podcast challenges that assumption. For Maternal Mental Health Week 2026, Georgia Ladbury, a public health professional and doula with a particular interest in maternal health and health inequalities, is joined by Laura Godfrey-Isaac...

Since 7 October, Australia has seen a rapid rise in open antisemitism — from “gas the Jews” chanted on the steps of the Sydney Opera House to the doxxing of hundreds of Jewish creatives, most of them women. What many once dismissed as fringe has broken into the mainstream, and Jewish women have been forced to confront it head on. This conversation brings together four women who have lived the cons...

Birmingham entrepreneur and social activist Simone Schehtman reveals how misinformation and antisemitism almost kept Jewish fans out of Birmingham, and why the consequences reach far beyond football. Recently Susan McDonnell sat down with Simone Schehtman , who is a quietly unstoppable Birmingham community leader who found herself at the centre of one of the most bewildering — and frankly frighten...

Izabella Tabarovsky unmasks the Soviet playbook hiding behind today’s so‑called “compassionate” anti‑Israel mobs, and the lessons we can take from the Soviet Jews who resisted. In this episode of the Feminists Against Antisemitism podcast, Freya Papworth speaks with the writer and historian Izabella Tabarovsky to uncover the origins of the antisemitism erupting in feminist spaces. In the West, mos...

Susan McDonnell speaks with legendary second‑wave feminist Phyllis Chesler – founder, scholar, and author of Women and Madness, An American Bride in Kabul, and The New Antisemitism – about a lifetime of documenting how parts of the feminist left embraced Antizionism, excused Islamist misogyny, and silenced women who refused to go along. Chesler traces the rot back decades: from UN women’s conferen...

In this urgent episode of Feminists Against Antisemitism, journalist Nicole Lampert speaks with Nika Hazini and Niaz Maleknia, two Iranian women who grew up under the shadow of the 1979 revolution and have spent their adult lives watching their homeland fall deeper under a regime that brutalises women, minorities, and anyone who dares to oppose it. The conversation traces Niaz and Nika’s childhood...

A conversation you almost never hear outside academic circles, this webinar cuts through theory and speaks directly to the activists who’ve been sensing something is wrong in feminist spaces but haven’t heard it named clearly until now. Our first Feminists Against Antisemitism webinar was a sweeping exploration of how antisemitism has threaded itself through feminist movements—historically, academ...

In the first-ever episode of the Feminists Against Antisemitism Podcast, Freya Papworth talks with Professor Rosa Freedman – human-rights lawyer, academic, Orthodox Jewish woman, and long‑time defender of women’s sex-based rights – for a conversation about what it means to stand for truth in a political climate shaped by fear, factionalism, and rising antisemitism. Rosa reflects on her journey fro...