Jonny Gould's Jewish State

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 th...

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 populati...

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 supporter...

This is the extended interview with Col. Richard Kemp, of which excerpts appeared alongside other world-class experts in the previous episode 52 on Israel's world leading vaccine rollout. I’ve produced this full version of the interview with Richard because we discussed wider global issues beyond just Israel’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis. We go on to the continuing threat of Iran’s nuclear asp...

Support Jonny with coffee How has Israel built a world-leading reputation in combatting the Coronavirus threat? Why do foreign governments look to Israel for their lead? It all started with the incredible vaccine rollout in the summer of 2020. A deep faith in science and healthtech, a militarised efficiency, a high price on the value of life and a commitment to innovation and a unifying national c...

If you enjoy Jonny's podcasts, you can help him by buying a coffee here. Our guest today is Spiked Online's chief political writer, Brendan O’Neill. Brendan is one of the English-speaking world’s foremost political commentators. He came to fore as the excruciating drama of Britain’s departure from the European Union edged on (and on). I first spoke to Brendan leading up to the 2016 referendum when...

Jonny Gould's Jewish State presents Israel correspondent, James Marlow for a special report on the fallout from the assassination of Iran's chief nuclear scientist. Support Jonny Gould’s Jewish State: Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=BW4GZLQCCL29Y&item_name=Podcast+production+&currency_code=GBP&source=url Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jonnygould?fan_landing=...

Today’s guest is Paul Harris, editor, proprietor and chief executive of the Jewish Telegraph newspaper. The Jewish Telegraph, the north of England (and Scotland’s) foremost community newspaper is 70. Paul Harris is the editor, proprietor and chief executive. Every week - and for the last seventy years, he and his mother and father before him have published the newspaper. Started in Manchester on t...

Today’s guests are Euan Philipps and Emma Picken of Labour Against Antisemitism. Support Jonny Gould’s Jewish State: https://ko-fi.com/jonnygould Jeremy Corbyn spent just nineteen days suspended from the Labour Party after the Equality and Human Rights Commission's report delivered a damning verdict into the party's victimization of its Jewish members. But as Corbyn was restored to the membership,...

If you’ve listened and enjoyed a few episodes, help me by following this link to donate: https://ko-fi.com/jonnygould. Today’s guest is Anne Frank’s stepsister, Holocaust survivor and world renowned speaker, Eva Schloss. Eva Schloss, step-sister of Anne Frank, forgives the Nazis. Aged just 11, her happy family life in Vienna was cancelled as the Germans annexed Austria, turning the populous agains...

Arnold Roth, father of teenager Malki, who was murdered in a Jerusalem suicide bombing, is calling for the extradition from Jordan of the attack’s planner. He’s also calling for the BBC to apologise to its Arabic audience for “toxic distortions” of the murderer’s characterisation. Malki Roth, just 15-years old, was one of 15 victims of a suicide bomber at the Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem,...

Today’s guest is His Excellency, Mansoor Abulhoul, UAE ambassador to the UK. Support Jonny Gould’s Jewish State. Buy him a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/jonnygould or make a bigger donation with Gift Aid at http://donorbox.org/jgpodcast “Normalization" is possibly the most understated word to describe the seismic changes triggered by the Abraham Accords of September 2020. Israel, the United Arab Emira...

Today’s guest is His Excellency, Ferenc Kumin, Hungarian ambassador to the UK. “We (Hungary) feel a moral drive to strengthen our ties to Israel and the Jewish community. And when you have that moral drive, it makes it easier, you don’t hesitate”. The words of the new Hungarian ambassador to the UK, Ferenc Kumin. It's been quite a summer covering Israel and it started for me with this remarkable i...

From Middle East peace to standup, from Lord Balfour to Israeli HealthTech, from Labour antisemitism to pop music and from smoked salmon to football, Jonny produces regular free podcasts. Want to help Jonny’s efforts? You can make a monthly donation of £3 and support his efforts at https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=BW4GZLQCCL29Y&item_name=Podcast+production+&currency_co...

A university lecturer at Southampton Solent was sacked for telling his course leader, “I believe that Jewish people are among the cleverest in the world. They are much maligned because of it.” Stephen Lamonby remarked to Dr. Janet Bonar that people from different countries had become good at certain things owing to “high exposure”. He said that Germans are good at engineering because they are “exp...

This a rework of the Trevor Horn episode from 2019. As lockdown looms large over 2020, this is a tribute to his creative vibrancy throughout the previous year: the worldwide concerts and ambitious records. And it’s updated to include the orchestral album with Rod Stewart and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which followed “Reimagining the 80s”, a 65-piece rework of the best songs by stars from th...

Help Jonny's podcast along with a coffee! This is the second episode of a two-part series on the future of Britishness, patriotism and the nation state. In Part 1, Trevor Phillips talked of “mission creep” in diversity and Karen Harradine distinguished between power and influence, arguing that though Trump and Johnson were in power on both sides of the Atlantic, many of our institutions were influ...

Cancel culture, editorial purges and your sporting heroes kneeling before kickoff. Why should sport be a promotional platform to institutionalize potentially divisive ideas? Unlike other countries, English football's popularity was built on its competitive integrity and little else. I just want to watch Aston Villa lose in peace in an ideologically free zone and wonder to why the jobs market might...

Today’s guest is Theresa May's former joint chief of staff, Nick Timothy. Many will recall a bushy beard during his time running Mrs. May’s administration; a style of grooming by which the tabloids dubbed him, “Brummie Rasputin” but they’ll have to find a new nickname for him now! Nick formulated and wrote policy in the Home Office before ascending to the corridors of Number Ten where he wrote Mrs...

Jason Greenblatt is the co-architect of the peace plan which changed the course of the Middle East during 2020. In January 2017, he was appointed Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations. With presidential advisor and President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner and US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, they drafted “Peace to Prosperity: A Visio...

Jonny's podcast is helped along by your generous support. Buy me a coffee here. How many acts of heroism never come to public attention because of the modesty of the heroes themselves? This is a first-ever audio interview in English with one such man. His name is "Dani', the Mossad commander in charge of “Operation Brothers” for five drama-filled years from 1978. Without doubt, this is one of Isra...

As Jonny Gould’s Jewish State grows, so does the challenge to deliver relevant content to a bigger audience. I have now expanded into news coverage as Israel gets a first government in 18 months after three exhausting elections. This is “Israel Briefing”, the first in a new series on Jonny Gould’s Jewish State, as James Marlow becomes our Israel correspondent. On Israel's 72nd anniversary, Binyami...

Israel is fast emerging as a hub for international TV drama. Netflix is syndicating a host of Israeli hit shows across 192 countries. It was unthinkable even five years ago that the Startup Nation would add cultural ‘soft power’ to its already established high-tech rollcall of global successes. Fauda was thought just to be of interest to an Israeli audience. Originally only in Hebrew and Arabic, i...

If you’ve listened to a few episodes and eagerly anticipate the next one, follow this link to support Jonny. Today’s guest is author and the creative power behind the Netflix smash hit Unorthodox, Deborah Feldman. This has become the runaway most-listened to episode of Jonny Gould's Jewish State so far. Unorthodox on Netflix has become the must-watch drama everyone seems to relate to. It’s a highl...

Our guest today is Professor Gerald Steinberg, founder and CEO of NGO Monitor. The values of Human Rights are part of modern-day international conflict. Modern warfare is also fought through social media, the United Nations and via NGOs or non-governmental organizations. "Soft power can be very deadly, I've seen it with my own eyes", says today's guest Professor Gerald Steinberg, founder of NGO Mo...