Jonny Gould's Jewish State

Jotam Confino is one of Israel’s brightest young journalists. Both disciplined and intrepid, Jotam brings together old school standards with open source leads which surround us all on the socials today.  The key is to discern which video is real, which source reliable. That’s journalism.  Originally from Denmark, Jotam made Aliyah (the Jewish ideal of return) because he wanted to live and work in...

Follow the rest of Jonny’s podcasts here Brian Epstein is one of the most significant cultural figures in Anglo Jewry’s 20th century.  Midas Man is the fifth Beatle's story. Also from Liverpool, Brian saw the fledgling Fab Four performing at the Cavern one lunchtime, was bedazzled by them and went about masterminding their rise to global fame. He crafted their image, secured their first record dea...

What is “strategic drift” and why does it threaten Israel’s military progress in Gaza?  How dismantled is Hamas? How can Israel’s borders be secured so that the people of Sderot, Ofakim and the kibbutzim return home?  Is Israel going to have to build a wall?   In the north, the IDF is capitalising on some remarkable early breakthroughs in the battle to break Hezbollah. What now?  As Yoav Gallant i...

"An urgent ceasefire, get humanitarian aid in without further delay, release the hostages. Oh, and let's move towards a Two-State Solution".  When we switch on the news, that's the agenda-setting drumbeat from politicians, aided and abetted by international institutions and their media lackies. The unrepentant, unaccountable BBC and others don't care about the mess they leave. Welcome back for the...

Find more of Jonny’s podcasts and writing here. Israel is fighting an existential war on seven fronts but an eighth one always seems to be discounted from the reckoning.  It’s the battle of narratives, played through media, both legacy and social. Somewhere since October 7th 2023, the truth has been trampled down a long deep rabbit hole.  What you’re about to listen to is totally irreconcilable wi...

This is a rather different and special episode of Jonny Gould’s Jewish State. It's year 2 of our “Schools Podcaster of the Year” award, presented this year by Dangoor Education.  It stars our winner, 11-year-old David Green from Year 6 at North West London Jewish Day School, who won the chance to make this episode with me.  David has the open mind of a young man blessed with great intelligence and...

Support Jonny's work here. “After The Pogrom” - what now for Israel and the Jewish diaspora? And for western civilisation for that matter?  The swirling dust of conflict has brought with it significant changes to our world and yet amid Israel’s fight on seven fronts, Brendan O’Neill’s coherent methodic analysis explains what we’re witness to.  Brendan’s not on X, you’ll only find “burntoakboy” as...

Help Jonny make the podcasts: buy him a coffee here. Amid the IDF's push into Lebanon to eliminate Hezbollah, the thwarting of terror attacks on Israel’s streets and the hail of rockets fired into them, we must always, always keep in our minds the plight of our hostages incarcerated by the savages of Hamas and their accomplices in Gaza.  For it was on that fateful Shabbat and Simchat Torah morning...

If you like Jonny's podcasts, support by buying him a drink or make him a monthly donation with Gift Aid. Here’s a voice from the American right, steeped in generations of support for Israel and so recognisable through the decades. But times, they are a changing, even for this staunch supporter of the Jewish State.  Joe Walsh remains so, amid the swirling winds of university protests for Hamas and...

Find more of Jonny's podcasts right here. Even as aerial assaults continued over Lebanon’s capital city Beirut, rumoured to be targeting Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave an impassioned speech to the UN General Assembly in New York. Here’s the full speech on this bonus episode. In his address to the 79th session of the General Assembly, Prime Minis...

Find more of Jonny’s podcasts here: https://podfollow.com/jonny-goulds-jewish-state How should Israel tackle Hezbollah and its estimated 150,000 rockets all pointed at them?  Is pushing the Lebanon’s terror insurgency back behind the Litani River enough?  In this era of long range technology, isn’t a river just an arbitrary line? The terrorists can still reach Israel from there.  Hezbollah is a ba...

You can help Jonny by buying him a coffee here! I’ve known Israel’s Trade and Innovation Special Envoy, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum for so long. which is why it was a pleasure that she had time to stop by and join me for a chat and a phone-in on my early breakfast show on Talk.  Having moved on from being Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, Fleur now beats the drum for Israel’s famed enterprise as the Startup Nati...

Jonny would love your help. If you buy him a coffee while looking through all his previous interviews, do it right here. They told Tuvia Tenenbom, don’t go to Mea Shearim, Jerusalem’s ultra orthodox enclave, it’ll be dangerous, they’ll throw stones at you.  But after living among Israel’s Charedi communities in Jerusalem and Beer Sheva, Tuvia found the community to be quite the contrary.  And, he...

Jonny needs your help to battle the wave of anti-Israel media coverage. Do you want to help his podcast counter this? Donate here or buy him a coffee here Find all of Jonny's previous episodes here. Who was Ismail Haniyeh, Leader of Hamas?  He was assassinated in Tehran on the last day of July 2024 and buried in Doha two days later.  He's been branded a "moderate”, but was in charge of Hamas’ so-c...

Subscribe/follow Jonny Gould’s podcasts here The October 7th War in Gaza is the longest war in Israel’s history. But how to grasp the nettle that is Hezbollah?  What will “the day after” really look like in Gaza?: are the oil rich gulf states the answer to a more moderate Palestinian state?  How soft have the West been on Iran? Is dethroning the theocracy in Tehran the key to an Islamic reformatio...

Find the rest of Jonny's podcasts right here. This is Ivor Perl, survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau. Born Yitzchak Perlmutter, in a family of 11 in Mako, Hungary in 1932, Ivor’s youth and education was stolen from him in 1944.  His orthodox Jewish childhood was stable enough, but there were always antisemites who slapped and pushed him about on the way to school - but it got far worse during World W...

Our guest today is France’s former prime minister, Manuel Valls.  We met at the European Jewish Association delegation to Auschwitz. France has the biggest Jewish community in Europe and it's the only country outside the Middle East where Sephardim outnumber Ashkenazim. Undoubtedly, this is a legacy of the Holocaust and the subsequent migration of French-speaking Jews from North Africa after World...

Back by popular demand, Imshin returns to Jonny Gould’s Jewish State  Scroll back and listen to our first episode, an introduction to Imshin, real name, Jacqui Peleg. Imshin’s feed on X with the famous hashtag, #TheGazaYouDontSee is a phenomenon of the social media era. And what Jacqui achieves couldn’t have existed before Twitter, YouTube and TikTok. Because such a specific subject via these vide...

This is the latest on Iran’s War on Israel, produced and presented by Jonny Gould. All of the soundbites you’ll hear in this bulletin are compiled from interviews in episodes of Jonny Gould’s Jewish State podcast.  Subscribe and follow now and scroll down for previous episodes - wherever you get your podcasts.  The headlines: Israel faces full military confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon becau...

Help Jonny by buying him a coffee here and seeing his other podcasts too Our two guests today are professional sportsmen from two different continents, cultures and sports, united in countering antisemitism in the sports industry. They’re part of Project Max, who’s MD Eric Rubin was with me in Amsterdam at the European Jewish Association conference, where he moderated a session on fighting antisem...

Subscribe and follow Jonny Gould's Jewish State podcast now and scroll down for previous episodes. Jonny is back with the latest on Iran's war on Israel including the moment the IDF came to rescue the "diamonds", the code word for the hostages incarcerated in Gazan hell since October 7th. All of the soundbites you’ll hear in this bulletin are compiled from interviews right here - in episodes Jonny...

“All eyes on Rafah”: The AI generated graphic shared by 50m people on Instagram, spread by slebs like Dua Lipa, Lewis Hamilton and Gigi and Bella Hadid. How has the world been reduced to this?” It’s a near total disconnect with the reality of the Gaza War. The Ayatollah is prolifically tweeting including antisemitic tropes about Jews running the media. But does Iran have Israel where it wants them...

Iran's war against Israel emerges from behind its terror proxies across the Middle East. Since Iran's unprecedented direct attack on Israel, Jonny compiles and hosts a regular news bulletin rounding up major stories as the Middle East conflict is being realised as the Iran-Israel War. These regular bulletins expose the Iran Octopus as the prime mover in the Middle East conflict. The top stories in...

You’ll know Alex Deane if you’re a regular news channel viewer. A regular commentator and reviewer on Sky News, BBC’s dateline London and GB News, he says couldn’t stand idly by in an era where the conviction politician might stand an electoral chance to buck the trend. And Alex is standing in Finchley and Golders Green, Margaret Thatcher’s seat made vacant by Mike Freer, hounded out of public lif...

Iran's war against Israel comes fully out of the shadows. Since Iran's unprecedented direct attack on Israel, Jonny compiles and hosts a regular news bulletin rounding up major stories as the Middle East conflict is being realised as the Iran-Israel War. These regular bulletins expose the Iran Octopus as the prime mover in the Middle East conflict. The top stories in this bulletin: The Butcher of...