NEVER AGAIN IS NOW Podcast

Delegitimizing the Jewish State is growing dangerously popular in Western academia and on social media. I discuss the roots of this with the renowned scholar of Sovietantizionism and contemporary antisemitism, Izabella Tabarovsky. She is a Fellow with the Comper Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism at the University of Haifa. She is the author of the book Be a Refusenik: A Jewish Studen...

A 17-year-old high school student from New York, Claire Ambinder Kanner, talks about being young and Jewish in America and what she expects the future will bring for her generation of Jews in America. Claire is a Solomon Fellow and is an editor of the Solomon Journal at the Tikvah Fund. She writes about politics, history, economics, business & technology in her Substack, Claire’s Substack http...

Antisemitism is growing in the progressive movement and in the America First movement. David L. Bernstein talks about the roots of these two developments and how they are related to each other. David L. Bernstein is the founder of the North American Values Institute (NAVI.org). He wrote the book “Woke Antisemitism: How a progressive ideology harms Jews”.

Azi Sims is from an important family in Iran. She grew up there and then moved to the UAE, Bahrain, the UK and California. She discusses the Iranian people’s views of theregime, of Israel and Jews, and her observations of antisemitism in Bahrain after the Abraham Accords.

Antizionism is spreading like wildfire. On May 17, Stop Antizionism organizes a world symposium with Ben Shapiro as the keynote speaker www.stopaz.org/symposium .Co-founder Naya Lekht tells us about the symposium and the need for the organization Stop Antizionism www.stopaz.org .

Qatar has developed close relations with Western media, education systems and important think tanks. Jordan Cope, Director of Policy Education at StandWithUs (www.standwithus.com) has done extensive research on influence campaigns of Qatar and its ties with terrorist groups. He shares his knowledge in this episode.

The organization StandWithUs just brought together more than 1000 pro-Israel participants in an international conference in Las Vegas, among them 600 high school and college students and many exceptional speakers. David Smokler presented at the conference. He talks about the growing anti-Zionist indoctrination in K-12 schools. He is the Executive Director of the K-12 Fairness Center for StandWithU...

The novel of Australian author Linda Margolin Royal,"The Star on the Grave", is now launched in the United States. The book is based on the true story of the "Japanese Schindler"-- the Japanese diplomat who rescued many Jews in Lithuania against the orders of hisgovernment. In this interview we also discuss the aftermath of the terror attack last December at Bondi Beach, Sydney...

Since October 7, Jewish healthcare workers and patients are experiencing antisemitism at healthcare institutions. Peggy Shapiro reflects on this with us in this episode. She is the Executive Director at the Center for Combating Antisemitism, where she develops and organizes training programs for healthcare and other professional sectors to reduce antisemitism in organizations. She also tells us ab...

Award-winning Israeli documentary maker Duki Dror discusses his new important documentary ‘Unraveling UNRWA’. The documentary recounts the history of the United Nations organization for Palestinian refugees and how it perpetuates the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Diversity officers have denied for a long time that manyJews feel vulnerable. This is starting to change now in some companies. Dr. Saba Soomekh works hard on it. She is the Director of Training and Education at the American Jewish Committee. She tells us about her training programs about antisemitism for companies. As she happens to be of Persian-Jewish descent, we also ask her some questions abo...

Negative portrayals of Jews in theater shows and tv shows, or in movies, can lead to antisemitism. Positiveportrayals can help decrease antisemitism. We speak with Estee Stimler, playwright, lyricist, and producer in London. Estee also serves on the board of Stand With Us UK, an organization that supports Zionists and Zionism on campus.

More and more Americans at the Left and the Right areturning against Jews and Israel. Yet America was founded on pro-Jewish principles. Michael Finch is a poet and essayist and the President of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He talks about America’s historical and cultural roots and the promise of freedom of religion and prosperity. He published a new book with remarkable essays  ‘A Time to St...

What do the media in the Middle East say about Israel,October 7, Gaza, and Jews now that several Arab and other Muslim countries are engaged in the international peace initiative for Israel and Gaza? Yigal Carmon, co-founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), reports. We recommend to follow the Arab media and media elsewhere in the world in translation at www. MEMRI.org  

With online messaging against antisemitism, we often reach only the echo chamber. But with a billboard we reach everybody who drives through that street. Archie Gottesman tells us about the billboard campaigns of herorganization JewBelong, and how these campaigns raise the number of people who speak up against antisemitism.  

We discuss the ties with radicalism of Zohram Mamdani with Dalia Ziada. She is an Egyptian political analyst specializing in the Middle East, and Islamist radicalism in the West. She is coordinator and research fellow at ISGAP, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy in Washington, DC. She had a leading role in the Arab Spring revolutions and spoke up bravely against Hamas...

Israeli historian, tour guide and IDF paratrooper veteranUri Goldflam is an expert in Israeli history. After October 7, he became a speaker in the diaspora, fighting the lies about Israel’s alleged genocide, colonialism, starvation policy, and apartheid. He provides talking points foreveryone to help dispel these lies How To Talk AboutThe Conflict - Travel Trailer Israel

Pro-Palestinian activists put pressure on the entertainment industry to boycott Israel. Some working in the industry yield, others don’t. We discuss this with Lana Melman, a leading expert fighting the cultural boycott campaign. She wrote the book “ARTISTS UNDER FIRE: The BDS War Against Celebrities, Jews, and Israel.”

ZAKA commander Simcha Greiniman shares his experiences of October 7, 2023, and of the weeks afterwards. Greiniman arrived on the scene torecover the dead and the body parts. He saw traces of cruelty he had never witnessed before in his 20+ years of doing this sacred work. ZAKA is the organizationof volunteers who search, rescue, and recover after accidents and disasters. We warn our listeners for...

At the two-year anniversary of the onslaught in Israel onOctober 7, 2023, Shelly Timar shares her heartbreaking experiences of that day and the days afterwards. So that we will never forget. Shelly lives in Israel and has close connections with Kfar Aza, one of the kibbutzim that were attacked by the terrorists.

Defender of Israel Micha Danzig debunks the allegation that Zionism is “White colonialism”. He has served in the Israeli Army and is a former police officer with the NYPD. He has published articles in the Jewish Journal, The Algemeiner, The Forward, the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS), and appeared on numerous local and national news shows on topics related to antisemitism, theArab-Israeli conflict an...

Author Sarah Hurwitz discusses her new book: As A Jew. Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us. It describes the hatred American Jews currently find themselves in and the internaland external forces that prevent them from understanding it.

Brandy Shufutinsky, Director of the Program on Education and National Security at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, discusses how teachers in America are trained to deny the history of the Jewish people in theLand of Israel, and to picture Arab Palestinians as the indigenous people instead.

Educator and ISGAP research fellow Naya Lekht exposes the “Woke Right” in growing parts of the Conservatives in the U.S. Anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, scapegoating of the Jews, Holocaust denial and putting Israel ontrial are moving from the fringe towards the center of U.S. Conservatives.

Thane Rosenbaum, law professor and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, and CBS News Radio’s legal analyst, describes the legal definition of ‘genocide’ and argues that Israel’s actions in Gaza donot meet the criteria. His new book is titled “Beyond Proportionality: Israel’s Just War in Gaza.”