Podcast Against Antisemitism

Alissa Timoshkina is a celebrated Jewish food writer, historian, chef, and author. Her recipes have been featured in numerous publications, including The Guardian, Red Magazine, Olive Magazine, The Independent and House & Garden.  In this episode, Alissa dives into how the history of antisemitism has influenced Ashkenazi Jewish food today. Subscribe at antisemitism.org/podcast and send us your...

Janet Singer Applefield is a Polish Holocaust survivor whose parents made the harrowing decision to leave her in the care of others when she was seven years old in order that she may live. Janet was a ‘Hidden Child’ until the war ended and was miraculously reunited with her father. She has chronicled her story in her memoir, ‘Becoming Janet: Finding Myself in the Holocaust‘. In this episode, Janet...

Joe Jacobson is one of only a few current British Jewish professional footballers. Until very recently, Joe served as the captain for the Wycombe Wanderers where he played for ten years and made 400 appearances. He was also the former under-21 captain for Wales and the first Jewish player to score a goal in a professional game at Wembley in 53 years. In this episode, Joe discusses racism against J...

Dr Einat Wilf is a leading thinker on Israel, Zionism, foreign policy and education. She was a Member of Knesset with the Labor Party and then the Independence Party from 2010 to 2013 and is the author of seven books. Following the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks on 7th October, Einat has become one of the leading voices on the issue.  In this episode, Einat looks at the anti-Israel protests on u...

Zoe Buckman is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and photography. Known for her artwork that explores themes of feminism, mortality, and equality, Zoe's work has reached audiences around the world. Zoe has repeatedly spoken out about her Jewish identity, using her platform to be a voice against antisemitism. In this episode, Zoe speaks about the denial of Hamas’...

Reverend Hayley Ace is the co-founder of the grassroots movement, Christian Action Against Antisemitism, along with her husband Timothy Gutmann.   Both Hayley and Timothy are reverends from Lea Valley Church in Waltham Abbey and stand firmly alongside the British Jewish community against antisemitism, using their perspective as Christians to educate people on racism against Jews. In this episode,...

Since 2010, Mike Freer has been the Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green. On 1st February of this year, Mike announced his decision to not stand for re-election to Parliament at the next general election, citing the “intolerable stress” that he and his family have been enduring from the several serious threats he has received to his personal safety, including a recent arson attack on his...

Brett Gelman is a multi-talented actor, writer, and comedian whose work spans television, film, and stage. Brett has had several memorable roles in a variety of shows such as BBC’s “Fleabag,” FX’s “Married” and Netflix’s “Stranger Things”, and has made guest appearances in some of the most loved comedy shows, including “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “The Office”. Brett is not only known for his impres...

Elad Poterman, along with his baby daughter and wife Maria, are survivors of the Kibbutz Nahal Oz massacre. Nahal Oz sits just 800 metres from the Gaza border and was one of the first targets in the early hours of the Hamas terrorist attacks that took place on 7th October. Terrorists tore through the kibbutz and murdered, took hostage, burned and destroyed one of Israel’s most peaceful communities...

Mervyn Kersh is a distinguished Second World War veteran. Now 99 years old, he joined the army in 1943 at the age of 18. In this episode, we speak about his experiences of antisemitism growing up as a Jew in south London, witnessing the atrocities of the Nazi regime firsthand as he fought across Europe, and his conversations with survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp just days after it...

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...