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As westerners, as Jews, as supporters of Israel, we should know more about the Kabyle people, the largest of North Africa’s indigenous Amazigh (Berber) groups.

On December 14th 2025, Kabylia declared independence from Algeria.

With their own language, culture, and a centuries-long tradition of autonomy, the Kabyle have maintained a distinct identity despite repeated periods of foreign rule and the oppression which always follows.

Is there future at a turning point.

Rogue state Algeria has sharply escalated it...

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Today we explore the legacy of Joe Lieberman and the documentary movie Centered about his life. He remains to this day the only orthodox Jew to stand for vice president of the United States, on the ticket with fellow Democrat Al Gore, losing by the narrowest and most controversial of margins to George W. Bush.

And how he may have stood again as a Republican candidate alongside John McCain later in his career.

Centered, directed by Jonathan Gruber, who also made the...

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The BBC's top brass have lost their jobs over the institutionalised bias of their news coverage. But their news output which made them so famous and trusted around the world has let the rest of the corporation down for a very long time.

Director-General Tim Davie and CEO of News, Deborah Turness resigned over a series of scandals exposed by a memo written by Michael Prescott and leaked to the Daily Telegraph.

As a supporter of Israel, you'll have known for a long...

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A chunk of my background, both personal and professional, has been washed away.

I didn’t think football was supposed to hurt like this.

Banning a mere thousand or less Israeli football fans from Villa Park for a Europa League tie is a cause for deep sorrow.

But not just for me, an Aston Villa fan through my Holocaust-surviving grandfather who setup his typewriter shop bang next to Aston Station on the Lichfield Road, but for this ge...

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The anger we feel as British Jews has reached a head as we mourn the two congregants from Heaton Park, who were killed on Yom Kippur inside the synagogue.

This episode also includes the regrettable appearance of David Lammy, the deputy prime minister in front of a furious community in north Manchester. Jonny Gould's Jewish State is proudly supported by Dangoor Education, the Rosemarie Nathanson Charitable Trust and UK Toremet, promoting philanthropy.

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Benjamin Netanyahu has called the recognition of a Palestinian state led by western nations 'sheer madness' - it shows 'murdering Jews pays off.' he added in defiant disgust.

All this as the United Nations General Assembly disgraced itself again as scores of so-called diplomats walked out en masse jeering, sounding more like a wrestling match than the highest chamber of world diplomacy - as Mr. Netanyahu began his address.

As you’ll hear Israel’s Prime Minister took apart the cowardice and appeasement which lies...

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As Jews prepared for Rosh Hashanah around the world, the leaders of the UK, Canada and Australia declared for Palestine.

Rounding up the reaction from London and Jerusalem on a day millions feared would come, here's a bonus episode.

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Tanya Gold’s provocative article, Shameless: Exploiting the Holocaust is in the Autumn 2025 edition of the Jewish Quarterly, the magazine of stories, ideas, and debates shaping Jewish culture and history.

Tanya takes aim at the state of Holocaust fiction — think Schindler’s List, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Tattooist of Auschwitz. 

She passionately argues these stories push Jewish victims to the margins all too often, centering on non-Jewish heroes or romanticized narratives that soften the Shoah’s brutal reality. 

Why do these p...

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The Labour government has a super majority in Britain’s House of Commons, the sixth biggest of all time, similar to Tony Blair’s in 1997 - but that makes it prone to backbench rebellion.

Even within its first year of government. As we’ve seen.

And as Sir Keir Starmer failed to win support to get his original welfare bill over the line, with big U turns on an inquiry into grooming gangs and winter fuel payments to the elderly, there’s also that queasy feeling when it comes to...

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Today, we’re honoured to share the agonising recollections of Keith and Aviva Siegel, survivors of Hamas captivity in Gaza.

They came to London and addressed the media at the Israeli Embassy in Kensington.

Abducted from their Kibbutz Kfar Aza home on October 7, 2023, Aviva endured 51 days, Keith 484, facing starvation, abuse, and torture, even attempts to force conversion to Islam.

Now reunited, they talk tirelessly for hostages still held.

I wo...

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It's the third year of Jonny Gould's Jewish State Schools Podcaster of the Year, presented with Dangoor Education.

Our winner from Year 6 is 10-year-old Meira Masher from Independent Jewish Day School in Hendon, London and she secured time for us with an international cricketer with an extraordinary story.

Mandy Yachad wore tzitzit at the crease while batting for South Africa. They’re on display at Lords, the Home of Cricket, in...

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The United States struck three Iranian nuclear sites - with President Donald Trump hailing it a 'spectacular military success'.

In this episode, listen to announcements by President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a momentous night of aerial attacks over Iran.

And coming up a fascinating listen in hindsight as Mr Trump speculated over the original two weeks he had given Tehran - with an abrupt and stinging dismissal of his European allies over the Iran...

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Iran's reckless retaliation against Israel's highly targeted attacks on military targets is throwing up new challenges for Israel, the US and other western countries who SHOULD be rallying around the Jewish State.

In this episode, listen to the incredulous response of stranded British nationals Max Radford and Gabriella Somerville telling them to go to Egypt in order to fly home!

And Colonel Richard Kemp becomes one of the first international voices to eyewitness the heroic work...

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A people that rises like a lioness and raises itself like a lion.

כדהֶן־עָם֙ כְּלָבִ֣יא יָק֔וּם וְכַֽאֲרִ֖י יִתְנַשָּׂ֑א

More than 200 fighter jets from the Israel Air Force, guided by Israeli Intelligence, struck over 100 targets across Iran, including hideouts of senior operatives in the Iran’s military leadership. The strikes eliminated the three most senior military commanders of the Iranian regime: Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Iranian regime, Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami and Commander of Khatam al-Anbiya (Emergency Command). Support Jonny...

Support Jonny's work ⁠here⁠, find all his⁠ writing and podcasts here⁠ and follow his ⁠YouTube Channel⁠. Reform UK are gathering momentum if polls are anything to go by.

The only one that matters is of course, the next General Election which isn’t until 2029 at the latest.

Despite that, and a massive majority in the commons, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is treating Reform UK like the opposition, with the Tories in turmoil.

Would you vote for Reform? Is it safe to vote for them? How do you feel about Nigel Farage? Can we trust Refor...

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From gospel stages to the Western Wall, Dumisani Washington’s journey is anything but ordinary.

As the founder of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel, Dumisani shares his extraordinary path - born and raised in the African American church and studying classical piano, to discovering his deep connection with Israel and founding a movement to bridge the gap between Black and Jewish communities.

In this powerful and deeply personal conversation, Dumisani exposes the dangerous manipulation of Black identity by mo...

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This is for every Jewish fan of the Beautiful Game! It's a hearty football discussion with the one and only David Pleat, featuring Paulo di Canio, chicken soup, Alex Ferguson, chopped liver, Brian Clough & Peter Taylor and Leslie Silver at Leeds.

Oh, and throw in Chris Waddle and mum's meatballs for good measure.

Tipped as “the next Tom Finney” as an England Schoolboy, David rejected the overtures of a host of clubs to stay at home, finish his ‘O’ Levels and enjoy his mum's ho...

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Julia Haart doesn’t hold back in this raw and riveting conversation. From her early years in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community to building a billion-dollar global fashion powerhouse, she shares the gripping, often painful journey behind the headlines. This is the woman behind My Unorthodox Life—but what she reveals here goes far beyond reality TV.

In this interview, Julia opens up about what really drove her to walk away from a life of religious constraints, how she buil...

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Phase 2 of the Gaza War is underway, as strikes continue against Hezbollah in the north - even though their command has been decimated "upto 80% of it", according to our guest, Andrew Fox.

In this Voices of Clarity series of live events at Chabad of Hampstead Garden Suburb, Andrew discusses the live issues affecting Israel as the conflict on seven fronts continues since October 7th.

We talk about a newly rebooted Syrian enemy beyond Mount Hermon and Turkey's growing influence and how reliable a...

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Agree or disagree, Joe Walsh’s counter-intuition on American politics, Donald Trump and the Middle East is hard to ignore. 

With one and half million followers across his social media channels, Joe, who served Illinois's 8th district in the House of Representatives returns to Jonny Gould’s Jewish State for a second time. 

Because having appeared on the show before Donald Trump’s second election victory, here’s why.

A lifelong Republican with a penchant for throwing a Tea Party, Joe opposed Dona...

“I can’t align with Palestinian protests and they say I’m less Irish because of it”.

Rachel Moiselle is a young woman born and bred in Dublin, a PhD. student who calls herself a city girl.

She loves the place she grew up in - but the feeling among her people isn’t much reciprocated.

Raised a Roman Catholic, her father’s family were Jewish - and in standing up for Ireland’s community of around 3,000, Rachel’s found out the hard way about antisemitism since October 7th.

She’s been shunned, canc...

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"There are two million Palestinians in Gaza!", they cry. All the time.

It's repeated as fact.

"Bringing Judea and Samaria into Israel would create an Arab majority".

Is that right?

Quite apart from being untrue, the problem with these statements is that Israel creates policy based on them. So is it time to establish real facts about population and childbirth?

Where is the population momentum? Does it l...

The podcast which prides itself in introducing new voices to the world on the issues we all care about.

This is Shannon Seban, a young standout politician from Paris. She’s a conviction politician who believes if you behave otherwise, eventually you’ll lose trust and votes.

Shannon currently serves as a municipal councilor in Rosny-sous-Bois and president of Macron’s Renaissance party in Seine-Saint-Denis, it’s where she was born and raised, a diverse and socio-economically challenged area. 

Her upbringing there has significantly shaped her...

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There’s a higher consciousness and awareness about Tal Hartuv. 

She's grounded but spiritual, realistic but also optimistic. 

Because Tal’s very existence since 2010 is an improbable miracle.

She makes one imagine the dead returning to recount the experience of their murder. 

In December of that year, she was brutally attacked by Hamas terrorists while hiking the hills around Jerusalem alongside her friend, Kristine Luken, an American Christian. 

Kristine was murdered next to...

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Dr. Dan Diker of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs spelt it out for me a couple of episodes back. You've got to address the neighbours in Arabic!

So I took his words to heart and did something about it.

And where better to start than with President Trump's astounding news conference alongside Prime Minister Netanyahu when he said, "we'll own Gaza".

The man to deliver truths to the Arab world is Dr...

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I was in Brussels as the European Jewish Association gathered experts together from all backgrounds to discuss Middle East post October 7th.

In between sessions in the hotel conference centre, I found myself outside the entrance with Ghaith al-Omari, taking in the fresh air and we started talking. 

Sporting a blue pinstripe suit, Bohemian ponytail and smoking what looked like a Gitanes, Ghaith and I drummed up a chat that moved onto the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which he wa...

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Is Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office a cause for celebration in Jerusalem, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh - and fear in Tehran? 

Is the multipolar world but a consequence of America’s loosened grip on the world by previous administrations? Will President Trump reassert his nation on the world stage? 

And the hostage deal: what should we make of its grievous cost in terms of future security with the release of hundreds of convicted murderers? Will we see a repris...

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What happens in academia when the best minds are curbed by antisemitism and its modern day manifestation, antizionism? We all know the problems of campus antisemitism, more acute since October 7th.

It’s an honour to discuss and unpack this problem in academia with world-renowned scholar on antisemitism, Professor David Hirsh.

Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, David focuses on contemporary antisemitism, crimes against humanity and totalitarianism. 

He's also Academic Director and CEO of the London Centre for...

I’m releasing this key episode of the Benjamin Anthony Show on Jonny Gould's Jewish State, and you can follow the show here.

Benjamin is joined as always by MirYam Institute's in-house military analyst, Yaakov Lappin, as they discuss the hostage deal's implications for Israeli society, the IDF, Israel's security and the hostage families and whether it might collapse amid the murderous bad faith of Hamas.

They also analyze what might have been offered as a "sweetener" by incoming President Trump to Prime Minister Netanyahu and whether or not U.S. collaboration around the targeting of...

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Erin Molan’s moral clarity, critical thought and searing conviction has elevated her voice to a world stage.

Tasked with making testy opinion pieces straight down the barrel at Sky News Australia, Erin was removed rather abruptly from her starring role towards the end of 2024.

Aside from her forthright journalism, it's her background which also makes her so compelling. Moving around the world as a child, her father Jim Molan was a Major General in the Australian Army and later a li...

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Mark Birbeck’s civic life changed on October 7th. 

Taken aback by the lack of widespread support for the victims from his fellow Britons, he set about being the change he wanted to see. He founded Our Fight UK to support the Jewish community and Israelis following the terrible events of that morning and the wars and plight of the hostages ever since.

With other key figures, notably Kurpa Patel and Iranian dissident Niyak Ghorbani, Mark has fronted protests and counter-protests, challenged boy...

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This is Survivor, an animated film created by puppeteer and cartoonist, Zoom Rockman.

It's the story of Auschwitz and Dachau survivor, Ivor Perl BEM, based upon his Holocaust memoir, Chicken Soup Under The Tree.

The first screening in London took place in November 2024 and you'll hear Ivor and Zoom reflect on the movie and why it's so important.

I’ve had the privilege of having a one-to-one conversation with Ivor at his London home, where he shared his harrowing experiences and reflected on the reawakening of an...

Emily Damari, who's 28, is a joint UK and Israeli citizen and the only living remaining British national held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.

On the morning of October 7th, 2023, Emily was in her home on Kibbutz Kfar Azza, 2 miles from the Gaza border, when terrorists entered her house.

Her beloved golden cockapoo Choocha was shot dead, Emily was shot and left with severe injuries. She was then blindfolded and kidnapped in the back of her own car and driven into Gaza.

Emily's captivity is now well over a year long.

Emily's...

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 Israel as a journalist. His career only really began when he moved there in February 2018, when he was 27. 

He holds an MA in Security and Diplomacy and a BA in...

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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 deal, and so heralded the British cultural invasion of America.

Brigit Grant wrote the screenplay for "Midas Man” highlighting his journey from family d...

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 is sacked by Benjamin Netanyahu - again, is that a signal of military progress?

And the return of President Trump to the O...

"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 third time to Jonny Gould's Jewish State, Imshin, Jacqui Peleg.

Her sources are impeccable, transparent and open source and they tell the REAL story in Gaza.

Because they come fr...

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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 with the shorthand, throwaway phrases you get from mainstream bulletins. 

Mosab Hassan Yousef, born in 1978 is a child of the Israel Gaza conf...

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 the capacity for profound uncluttered insights. 

And he secured time for us with Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum, a man of great learning. His latest bo...

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“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 he’s known on Instagram “because the rest of social media is far too rough and ugly” for him.

And it’s where since October 7th 2023...

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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 of October 7th 2023, that the lives of Israeli and Jewish people around the world changed forever. 

Free the hostages. Bring them home now...

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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 rallies in major cities right across America. 

But even as a former Congressman, a lifelong Republican, he strenuously opposes Donald Trump so m...

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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 Minister Netanyahu emphasized several critical issues:

Iran and Regional Security: Netanyahu positioned Israel's actions within a broader context of combating what he described as Iran's "axis of evil...

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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 battalion of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Wouldn’t it be best if they were removed completely? 

Let’s talk about the sheer audaciousness of the pager and wa...

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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 Nation, but how has the economy adjusted to wartime? Can growth and inward investment be restored?

And as...

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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 believes they’re more liberal and progressive than the world beyond. 

This is the story behind Careful, Beauties Ahead! Tuvia’s follow up book...

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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-called political wing, who’s murderers, rapists and kidnappers pillaged - and filmed - their way through southern Israel on the S...

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The October 7th War in Gaza is the longest war in Israel’s history.

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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 War II, because the Nazis began targeting Jews in Hungary. In 1944, when he was just 12, Ivor, along with his whole family, were abducted and put...

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 War II.

Notre invité aujourd’hui est l’ancien Premier ministre Français, Manuel Valls, rencontré à la « European Jewish Association delegation to Auschwitz ». 

Manuel Valls est un fervent défenseur de la c...

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 video news sources, couldn’t have been so constantly delivered in real time. It’s now so readily available via the socials.

So Jacqui lifts...

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. 

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Israel faces full military confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon because of a significant escalation of tensions.

The IDF’s Chief of Staff meets with Arab counterparts in Abraham accords ally, Bahrain, while operations...

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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 antisemitism, racism and intolerance alongside Dean Furman, who played internationally with South Africa and Michael Sweetney, NBA Star for the New York Knicks and Chicago Bulls. 

Dean was one o...

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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 Gould’s Jewish State podcast. 

The IDF continue its operations against Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah launches drone attacks against Hurfeish and Nazareth in northern Israe...

“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, in a cycle of “forever war”?

How must Israel change to get out of a perpetual state of war? Does it start with pu...

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 this bulletin.

We hear from Yoseph Haddad with an unequivocal rebuttal of the accusations pointed at the IDF for the civilian deaths in Rafah. 

N...

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 life when his constituency office was burned down. He was also the original target of assassin Ali Harbi Ali, who murdered fellow Tory MP fo...

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 Tehran Raisi is killed in a helicopter crash, the IDF continues its operations in Rafah as the ICJ issue war crimes arrest threats against Hamas...

The mainstream news channels are stuck in a tiresome stream of programmes which you know misrepresent Gaza and Israel. 

That ignore key facts and amplify voices from just one side (with honourable exceptions, of course).

The world’s media would have you believe Gazans are helpless, living in an overcrowded prison camp, unable to escape their predicament, sitting ducks to Israeli aggression. 

It couldn't be further from the truth.

Hamas leadership need the bleeding hearts of Europe aided by mass media to continue underwriting UNRWA and other NGOs which only extend the...

What’s it really like in Iran - for its citizens and the Jews who still live there? 

Iran’s major cities, Tehran and Isfahan still have functioning synagogues, but the communities have declined sharply since the Islamist revolution which shapes the world today. 

Let’s discuss today's Iran with someone who really knows it.

This is an interview conducted in Israel just a matter of weeks before October 7th. 

During the heady late summer days of weekly judicial reform rallies, this is Dr Meir Javedanfar.

He was born in Tehran...

Iran's war against Israel comes fully out of the shadows.

Since Iran's unprecedented direct attack on Israel, Jonny compiles and hosts the first of 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.

All of the soundbites from world-class experts are compiled from interview episodes of Jonny Gould's Jewish State podcast. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.

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You’ve been on protests and rallies countering the never ending anti-Israel hate marches in London. 

You look on wondering why Saturdays in central London are allowed to become the domineering space for terror supporting hordes and their throngs of useful idiots, as they snake past the splendid museums, jaunty theatres, flagship stores and centuries old architecture which talk of deep British traditions. 

Tolerance of protests is an expression of our freedom and valu...

Iran's war against Israel comes fully out of the shadows.

Since Iran's unprecedented direct attack on Israel, Jonny compiles and hosts the first of 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.

All of the soundbites from world-class experts are compiled from interview episodes of Jonny Gould's Jewish State podcast. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.

To support Jonny's coverage of October 7...

This is a rather special episode featuring a competition winner from North West London Jewish Day School who won the chance to make an episode of Jonny Gould's Jewish State. 

Awareness of news and current affairs is certainly heightened by the pressure of social media - so imagine a young person growing up in this day and age.

I ran a competition for the pupils of Year 6 and I said to the class, “get me an interesting interviewee and write down the questions you’d like to ask them”.

I was delighted that 11-year-o...

Iran's war against Israel comes fully out of the shadows.

Since Iran's unprecedented direct attack on Israel, Jonny compiles and hosts the first of 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.

All of the soundbites from world-class experts are compiled from interview episodes of Jonny Gould's Jewish State podcast. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.

To support Jonny's coverage of October 7...

If you'd like to support Jonny's work, you can buy him a coffee here.

The Islamic Republic of Iran emerges from behind the regional proxies it's used as pawns until now to take direct action against Israel.

Over 300 suicide drones, ballistic and cruise missiles targeted Israel from multiple fronts from Iran, as well as Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

99% were intercepted, mostly outside of Israel's airspace by Israeli, British, American, French, Saudi and Jordanian forces. 

So what tactical change by Iran does this signify? Have they ramped up a level towards their endg...

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This is Israel’s minister of the diaspora Amichai Chikli, with me in Krakow, just a short distance from Auschwitz, where we’d journeyed together with other international leaders as part of a European Jewish Association delegation.

We were all there for a symposium on antisemitism in Europe called, "Never Again: Lip Service or Deep Commitment?"

Also among the notables, former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who pushed bac...

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Emily Schrader returned to London for a whistlestop tour of speaking engagements and appearances and attend street protests in solidarity with Britain's Jewish community, embattled by the unrelenting pro-Palestinian hate marches which never seem to end.

Listen to how she deals with the antisemites on the streets of London and how she views the over tolerance of Islamofascism spreading fast across the West.

Emily appeared on my Talk TV early breakfast show alongside news commentator and foreign policy expert, Benedict Spence as we discussed...

The war started by the October 7th massacres is the longest in Israel's history.

But with rockets still being fired from Gaza into Israel’s southernmost city of Sderot and a first Houthi rocket landing further south, what next steps are open to Israel - and what of the deteriorating relationship with the United States?

Our esteemed guest today is Col. Richard Kemp, commander of British Forces in Afghanistan and Chair of the COBRA Intelligence Group, coordinating MI5 and MI6 during the London bombings of 2005 and the Bali and Madrid terror attacks.

Richard jo...

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For 20 years, Avi Issacharoff has been an accomplished Israeli author and journalist and now he's emerged as the internationally renowned television drama producer, the co-creator of hit TV series of Fauda.

How has October 7th changed Israel? Every family has been affected and Israel has become one big family. Avi’s Fauda family too. 

Do we have the stomach for another series, isn’t it just too close to home? 

And while the world from the White House down to the United Nations and th...

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It’s always a pleasure to see Einat Wilf, here again on a whistlestop tour of London, she met with politicians of all parties at the Houses of Parliament, plus journalists and Jewish leaders and their communities. 

And it’s her clarity which is arresting. She elevates Zionism above politics, creating unity for Jews of every stripe to coalesce around. 

Not to mention the millions of non-Jews who  believe in the Jewish people’s right to self determination too. 

And she’s been on a metaphor...

Loay Alshareef came on my TalkTV show to talk about the peace which remains between Arabs and Jews despite the October 7 massacre by Hamas terrorists in Israel. 

And it’s good news. 

The Abraham Accords which bound the UAE, together with Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan with Israel in September 2020, remains steadfast and though the pogrom exacted on Israel is a “setback”, the opportunities for peace are still there. 

Loay has become a good friend since he invited me to Abu Dhabi in 2022 and it’s always a privilege to spend quality time with him discuss...

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Loay Alshareef has been on quite a journey. Growing up in Saudi Arabia and brought up a religious Moslem, he was exposed to antisemitic schooling about Israel and the Jews.

“Jews are the fierce enemies of the Arabs and you shouldn’t have them as friends. Christians too. But first, Jews.” 

Loay was part of a generation of young Saudis who stood no chance. Isolated from the world, taught to hate. It still goes on - although less so. 

But the poisoning of his young mind was challenged when he...

If I'd been asked which journalist might one day confront Gary Lineker face-to-face about his views on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, I might well have said, "it's going to be Nicole Lampert!", such is her journalistic courage.

And so it was, as Nicole and a small handful of other journalists were invited to a Broadcasting Press Guild Lunch to hear from Lineker about his burgeoning podcast business.

The Press all introduced themselves and Lineker admitted to feeling scared. He was right!

He'd retweeted a BDS demand to ban Israel from international football. He took...

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Itamar Marcus is the founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch, started in 1996 to monitor the consensus of the Palestinian world.

They started reading the papers for the views of their leaders and found school books and television programmes indoctrinating children in Jew hate.

But with 75% of Palestinians supporting Hamas’ October 7 massacres with 60% “extremely supportive” and 98% “feeling a sense of pride as a Palestinian”, what future peace for Israel?

This episode discusses the damage UNRWA has done to peace in the Middle East and also includes Hillel Neuer’s stunning t...

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In this exclusive interview, Reuven Rivlin, the tenth president of Israel pushes back on Polish law on remembering the Holocaust in Krakow. President Rivlin was among world leaders in politics and industry at the European Jewish Association’s delegation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and taking part in a symposium on the growing threat of antisemitism in Europe, entitled NEVER AGAIN: Lip Service or Deep Commitment?

Also with us, former French prime minister Manuel Valls, a strong voice against antisemitism and Israel’s minister of the diaspora, Amichai Chikli. In 2018, Poland amended their domestic laws on N...

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Elon Musk returns fresh from visiting Auschwitz and here are his initial reflections.

He’s interviewed by Ben Shapiro. I’m with him and other delegates in Krakow at the European Jewish Association symposium.

The episode starts with a stirring Holocaust Kadesh, recited by EJA Founder and Chairman, Rabbi Menachem Margolin.

It was called "NEVER AGAIN: Lip Service or Deep Commitment?" Among the world leaders I managed to speak to are former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who pushes back on Polish Holocaust denial, former French prime minister Manuel Vall...

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How has the October 7th massacre challenged Israeli public opinion on the conflict with the Palestinians? What about 'day after' planning? Has it seriously begun? And does peace lie with the Gulf states? Just how much do the Saudis and the UAE want Israel to win? Who in Palestinian society is there to deal peace with? Is there anyone? Has the Israeli left anywhere left to go? Is war from Lebanon inevitable? While the Houthis, another Iranian proxy, bomb western ships in the Suez Canal, how many...

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Our guest today is Nicholas Martin, movie producer and writer of the biographical drama, “Golda”.

Golda was seven years in the making, and as you’ll hear, Nicholas has delved so deeply into her story - and by extension Israel’s story from independence to the 1970s - which makes this such a captivating interview. He’s also made deep friendships with Golda’s family and throughout Israel.

A highly experienced...

This is “Another How to Make Peace in the Middle East", building on the success of the first Talk TV Special, with more highly informed guests from the worlds of politics, the military, frontline medicine, journalism, diplomacy and think tanks.

In this episode, British-born Israeli hand and trauma surgeon, Dr Elliot Sorene explains how he's operated on Hamas fighters, who after successful surgery have "promised to see him on the battlefield". He also tells us how his son survived the Nova Festival massacre and saved other’s lives too.

Hen Mazzig is a former IDF huma...

Dov Forman, 20, co-author of New York Times bestseller, Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live, was invited to Israel by ELNET UK on a solidarity mission to see for himself the trail of death and devastation left by Hamas through Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7th. Scenes and smells he says have changed him forever.

ELNET’s been running constant missions ever since for European influencers and Parliamentarians. Almost 100 MPs from eight European countries have been to Israel to bear witness.

And amid new denials from enemies of Israel and the...

"Israel's a self-starting civil society, which takes so much on itself", so says Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, who talks about her city's response to the 250,000 displaced Israelis who've left their homes in the south.

But there is a determination across the whole nation for them to return home and rebuild their lives and communities after the terrible pogrom of October 7th.

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On my TalkTV show, I spoke with Orit Meir, mother of Almog, 21, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7th, then seen in a Hamas propaganda video shortly after.

Nothing has been heard or seen of him since. Orit says he MUST remain front of mind amid the release of other Hamas hostages.

I can’t remember conducting a more emotional interview in all my years in broadcast journalism. This is a vital message to transmit through a mother’s agony and anxiety as you’ll hear.

Bring Them All Home N...

Aside from producing 🎙️Jonny Gould’s Jewish State, I also host live shows at Talk TV and was delighted to be asked to produce and present a Special, “How to Make Peace in the Middle East”.

This was the opportunity to bring guests from the podcast over the years to a mass English speaking audience around the world.

Joining me for this three-hour show were guests of the highest calibre: Col. Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Dr Einat Wilf, leading Zionist thinker, writer and former member of the Knesset, Ruth Wasserman Lande, advi...

Our guest is Chaim Oren, an expert on resilience, wellbeing and high performance, who advises professional sportspeople and leading CEOs on fulfilling their human potential.

When it comes to strengthening personal resilience, Chaim quotes Victor E. Frankl, Auschwitz survivor and author of Man’s Search for Meaning: “If you have the why you can endure any how”.

Frankl, who conceptualised “logotherapy” a therapeutic approach to find personal meaning in life, believed anyone, anywhere could “rise up to any challenge”. “If you develop a life meaning you can overcome any difficulties, dangers and hardships".

Chaim is the son...

In these times of danger in the Middle East, even on one’s own doorstep, it was both heartening and morale boosting for everyone who attended a Parliamentary reception at the Palace of Westminster.

Led by Elnet UK with United Hatzalah of Israel and World Jewish Relief, we learned of support on the ground for victims in the Ukraine and Israel. Meant to mark the 600th day since the war started in Ukraine, the Hamas terror attacks meant the focus shifted - though we were urged not to forget the war in Europe.

In both co...

Words are important. In times of war, their importance is magnified. Never has my mission for Jonny Gould’s Jewish State seemed more urgent: to combat the slurs, the lies and the distortions of history which threaten Israel and Jewish people.

The media has a responsibility - at the very least - not to fan conjecture and untruths, because it comes with a by product: incitement.

And the media column seems found to be woefully short of moral purpose. Hundreds of thousands Britons felt emboldened to head for Central London in support of Hamas, which pr...

Israel’s collective spirit is rekindled.

After eight months of street protests, of political turmoil and the societal divisions it scored arising from judicial reform proposals, the nation has responded in unity to the terror committed by brutal Hamas murderers, rapists and kidnappers on October 7th.

The people have risen “ground up, not bottom down” in the best ideals of Israeli and Jewish society. The IDF, the collective “us” has brought Israelis together once more.

And it’s a phenomenon our guest today says will change both the Middle East and Israel for good. Benny...

Israel is heartbroken, the house of Israel is heartbroken. Israel is at war again fighting genocide.

It’s resilient people are traumatised by shock, horror and grief.

A quiet Shabbat morning, also the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah where Jews celebrate finishing reading the Torah and then start to read it again, “In the Beginning”, was shattered by a mass invasion of Hamas terrorists, smashing through the concrete border wall, paragliding into Israel, before rampaging through a music festival killing 364, machine gunning people at the bus stop and in their own homes in Sderot and on kib...

Jonny Gould's Jewish State is at the forefront of innovation, be it as the foremost Jewish "podcast of record" and 24/7 radio station. Now we present the world's first #AI generated news bulletin of Jewish and Israeli stories. "Edmund" is an English voice generated by the powers of AI reading the bulletin from a selection of news websites. This is a trial made up of stories on the 27th September 2023. AI is coming. We need to engage with it fully to understand both its possibilities and shortcomings.

This is a special episode featuring a competition winner from North West London Jewish Day School, who won the chance to make an episode of Jonny Gould’s Jewish State with me.

I ran it for Year 6 pupils and was delighted when 11-year-old Bella Bolot stepped up to the plate and secured us an interview with Bill Browder.

Bill is a London-based American-born financier, the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, once the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia.

On discovering that taxes he was paying to the Russian exchequer were being st...

Our two guests today make their first appearances on the “podcast of record”, and you might say after 120 plus episodes of Jonny Gould’s Jewish State, they’ve been a rather glaring omission.

They are two of British politics' biggest supporters of Israel and opponents of antisemitism.

The Right Honourable, Lord Eric Pickles and the Right Honourable, Joan Ryan are in conversation.

We focus on the future of Holocaust remembrance, including a serious attempt to get to the bottom of what actually went on in the only concentration camp built on British soil by Hitle...

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Let’s confront the latest expression of antisemitism: that which hates Jewish people for the State of Israel. I’m delighted that Jake Wallis Simons has given his first interview about his new book to Jonny Gould’s Jewish State, “Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It”.

We can’t really have a conversation about Jew-hate in the 21st century without confronting those who try to separate anti-Zionism...

Our guest today says the unedifying term “civil war” bandied describing judicial reform in Israel is a useful device to maintain pressure on both sides to find a solution.

Let me be clear: I spent much of July and August 2023 in Israel and the country is not “entering a state of civil war” as former Prime Minister and convicted criminal, Ehud Olmert claimed. There’s no curfews, no rubber bullets and no army in place of cops on the streets.

But that’s not to say this isn’t a serious situation. As positions entrench further, is ho...

Jonny Gould’s Jewish State heads for the Knesset in Jerusalem and a couple of nights out in Tel Aviv, fresh from an eye opening visit to the Israel-Gaza border (scroll back one episode for that atmospheric discussion beneath an Iron Dome rocket launcher).

I was part of an Elnet UK delegation, an organisation sharing democratic values and strategic interests between the Jewish State and the UK and Europe. Now let’s talk to politicians and an Iranian expert for a snapshot on regional and domestic issues.

The white heat of judicial reform has seemingly push...

Let’s take you to a top secret location in the south of Israel to observe at firsthand an Iron Dome battery, followed by a trip to Kerem Shalom, the border frontier exchanging goods and workers between Gaza and Israel.

We were told by the IDF the night before not to come because there’d been incoming rocket fire which they’d defended against from that very location.

But in the end, the invite and clearance was reinstated. When I arrived there, I was surprised by the personnel in charge of the two bulky anti-missile launch...

This is a story of moderation, to use our history of oppression to resist fascism, anti-Jewish hate and uphold the rule of law and maintain hard-fought for liberties. Russia led by Stalin and Germany by Hitler were gruesome, murderous, evil regimes.

Yet Soviet Russia’s crimes aren’t acknowledged in the same way as those perpetrated by the Germans and their accomplices across Europe. But they certainly are in this engaging chronicle of Lord Daniel Finkelstein’s own family history, “Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival”.

Danny’s parents, like my own grand...

This episode of Jonny Gould’s Jewish State focuses on the United Arab Emirates.

The UAE is asserting itself diplomatically on the regional and world stage. Should Israel be worried about the swirling winds of interests in the region?

The Emiratis have followed Saudi Arabia in re-establishing diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran - and Syria has been welcomed back into the Arab League fold, despite Bashar al Assad’s brutal and bloody decade-long civil war.

Furthermore, Assad has been invited by the hosts to the forthcoming COP28 conference in Dubai, posi...