The Common Denominator

After a brief hiatus we are back for Season #2 of The Common Denominator. Professor Richard Landes returns to expand on the parallels between Nazi ideology and the new religion of “Palestinianism” as well as the pathologies we witness in the pervasive Jewish tendency to engage in endless self criticism, such as with the so called “self hating” Jew. Find more from Professor Richard Landes: https://...

Ilana Rachel Daniel gives testimony of living in Israel, the only Democracy in the region, under the constant - and now immediate - threat of attack by the Islamic Regime of Iran and its multiple proxies. “We know, that October 7th was the gunshot start of world war. It was the call for Islamists across the globe, and the Axis that support them, to rise up and wreak havoc in pursuit of terrible ru...

With the Middle East at this moment teetering on the brink of a regional war, Ilana Rachel Daniel sat down for an in-depth conversation with the brilliant Dalia Ziada to discuss how the Arab world relates to Israel and our prospects for peace. Dalia, currently living in exile after fleeing Egypt, was accused of treason for acknowledging what truly occurred on October 7th. She has a long history of...

In a rare moment, world events this week have exceeded even Israel in its high intensity and rapid fire pace.  Former President Trump survived an assassination attempt. Days later, sitting president Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race that will take place this November. Kamala Harris is expected to take his place as the Democrat’s nominee and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ha...

For many Israelis, military service is seen as a national duty and essential for the survival and well-being of our nation. For the Ultra-Orthodox or Haredi community, however, military service is incompatible with their way of life and perceived as a threat to their religious existence. Many within this community believe that their study of the Torah is what truly protects Israel and the IDF from...

The drastic results of the French elections this week resulted in calls from Paris’s Chief Rabbi to the Jewish community to leave France and seek it’s future in Israel. The Far Left has joined its cause with those of France’s Islamists and together they offer a bleak future for the Jews in France and beyond. Ilana Rachel Daniel sat with Rabbi Dr Dov Maimon to learn more about the environment that...

The terrorists of the world remain emboldened, undeterred and bang drums of war without respite. These manufacturers of chaos are rooted in the Islamic Republic of Iran with fighters at the ready for combat across the Middle East and well beyond. Hezbollah, the crown jewel in the IRI defense sits at Israel’s northern border and does not cease to reign terror on both Israeli and Lebanese civilians,...

Today we will discuss in brief the only thing on our minds here in Israel and that, regrettably, is Hezbollah and nothing but.  The fear of confrontation with Hezbollah is founded. War between us holds the potential to devastate both tiny Israel as well as Lebanon who, not unlike Iran, suffocates under its parasitic, conquering leadership.  There is no negotiating peace with an entity that was cre...

This is not an exhaustive report nor could it be. The funneling of cash between terrorist organizations is clandestine by definition and so we can rightfully assume there are more branches of funding than we could name, while donations are made by a bottomless list of organizations worldwide. But, even at a glance one can see incontrovertibly that even the most lackadaisical government might have...

This past Saturday, on Shabbat June 8th 2024 in a joint operation coordinated with multiple branches of Israel’s defense forces including the military, Yamam - the elite counter terrorism unit of the police force, the air force, and intelligence units - those troops accomplished an extraordinary feat and succeed in rescuing four Israeli hostages to bring them home physically unharmed in an achieve...

Ilana Rachel Daniel welcomes Pastor Dumisani Washington, the Founder and CEO of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI) for a deep dive into the enduring bond between our Black and Jewish communities. Connected by our historic experience of slavery, the depth of our abiding faith in G-d and family, and our journey for a truth that is larger than us all and connects us to each other;...

Ilana Rachel Daniel sat with Robert Spencer for a fascinating discussion on Jihad in Islam. Here we covered aspects of Muslim theology well outside the radar of the Western mindset that are rarely, if ever, discussed. You will find this conversation as compelling as did we.  We are living in a world where Islamic Terrorism threatens nine million people and the entirety of the state of Israel - but...

The United Nations just issued a striking reduction in their estimate of the number of women and children killed in Gaza. Why? And by what measure? Listen to Dr David Adesnik, Senior Analyst for the FDD shed light on Hamas’s numbers game and how they go about inflating the fatality figures to progress the agenda of civilians as tools of warfare. Show Notes : www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/05/11/un-halv...

“Never again is now, we don’t stand for Jews being killed freely anymore, that stays in the 1940s where it belongs.” Andrew Fox served as an officer in the British Army from 2005-2021, leaving with the rank of Major. He completed 3 tours of Afghanistan, including one attached to US Army Special Forces. He also served in Bosnia, Northern Ireland and the Middle East. He studied Law as an undergradua...

In today’s episode, Ilana Rachel Daniel welcomes Dr. David Adesnik, Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who’s own research focuses on Syria and Iran, in particular their illicit oil trade and Iran’s use of proxy forces to project influence across the region.  We dive into Adesnik’s expertise on terrorism, warfare, and military threats across the Midd...

The chaos sweeping across US campuses has captured the attention of Americans and those worldwide no less. We watch as events unfold, we hear what is chanted on repeat, and see the unironic conviction of student protesters assured of their righteousness even as identifiably Jewish kids are physically blocked and bullied as they navigate a campus turned into a threatening neighborhood. In Israel wh...

In this episode Ilana Rachel Daniel welcomes Golsa Golestaneh. Golsa is an Iranian-Canadian passionate about challenging misinformation and propaganda. We dive into what life was like for her family who opposed the Islamic Regime, her own arrest by the morality police at age 14, and while living in Canada today, how she was accused of Islamophobia for calling out Radical Islam. Golsa speaks on why...

On April 14th 2024, Iran did what no one thought they would; launch an unprecedented attack upon sovereign Israel’s soil. “As for Israel, it has quite literally no choice but to respond to the Iranian regime's attack. And of the unending “impossible choices'' we, the people of Israel face and have enumerated here week after week - this would be the mother of them all. Their purpose is to terrorize...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has defined itself by waging a relentless and cynical war of terror against the United States, Israel and democracy as a whole for 45 years. In doing so, the IRGC attempts to legitimize its rule over an Iranian population who by far and large do not support the Islamic Theocracy. In this episode Ilana Rachel Daniel and our guest, David May, senior analyst at The Founda...

Professor Richard Landes book, “Can the Whole World be Wrong?” documents the inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drives Global Jihad. That misunderstanding has prompted a series of disastrous misinterpretations and misguided reactions that have contributed fundamentally to the ever-worsening moral and empirical disorientations of the mainstream media.  The press repor...

The Middle East and North Africa - MENA - is defined as the most autocratic region in the world. Yet Israel, has acted as an oasis of democracy in a desert of repression all while struggling to maintain its security and internal progress. In this program, Ilana Rachel Daniel returns to the pillars of our western democracies, what were the shared values that rooted them and why we see their erosion...

There is no country nor army more vilified than is Israel’s. Our experience has been one of inversion, where that which happens to Israel’s people collectively is robbed from them in broad daylight and claimed by her enemies as their own. But there are facts. There is evidence and documentation, policy and witness, and they stand in stark contrast to the propaganda manufactured. Here is one solide...

Here we report with firsthand account a harrowing incident of terror into our Negev village that headlined the news the next morning, on the precarious steps we take throughout this land under shadow of war and a threat greater now than ever before. “What the world wakes to but has not yet defined - is the purpose which Israel serves - in its original concept if not its imperfect realization. It i...

In last week’s episode we heard the first part of the historical model which brings a balanced - and therefore entirely new - framework to the past one hundred years of Jews in the land of Israel.  To recap part one of our discussion - Professor Francisco Gil-White illustrates for us the documented dynamics on the ground in British Mandate Palestine, one where the voluntary and enthusiastic sale o...

In what is our most important interview in four years; Professor Francisco Gil-White delivers an entire framework with which to view one hundred years in the land of Israel - the one never heard before - the Jewish perspective of events. We have met Jews at their moments of crisis - as victims of abuse and slaughter - but we have never heard the entirety of our position in history. Professor Gil-W...