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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 walkie talkie attack against them, the psychological effect of it and the downgrade in their military capabilities.
Then there’s Yemen, is America doing enough to quell their threat?
And boots on the ground in Syria: Israel is showing it can defend itself - even thousands of miles into enemy territory.
And is Iran, the country hiding behind its deathly proxies only a "paper tiger" after all?
Benjamin Anthony served in the Israel Defense Forces in the second Lebanon War during the summer of 2006,
Like now it was a war started by Hezbollah's attack on Israeli forces: they captured two soldiers and killed eight others. israel declared war.
Benjamin’s experiences and insights from then have influenced his later life.
He’s also a veteran of Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012 and Operation Protective Edge in 2014.
He’s now the CEO and cofounder with Rozita Pnini of the Miryam Institute, debating Israel’s future, engaging with international policy-makers.
He also hosts a weekly podcast, the Benjamin Anthony Show, where alongside Miryam Institute’s in-house analyst Yaakov Lappin they consider in detail the very latest military and diplomatic issues facing Israel. It’s available on this very platform where you're listening to my show now.
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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 Israel faces new military challenges, necessity is proved again to be the mother of invention. There are always secondary uses for technology in civilian life. Are new patents and processes in the offing?
We discuss UK Labour's Foreign Secretary David Lammy and his restoration of funding for UNRWA - then following it up with an arms embargo. My viewers didn’t like it.
Also: the threat from the north: Hezbollah - and Israel's displaced population and when they can go home.
The war is far from over.
And the hostages: Bring them home now!
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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 to the Taming of the Jew, eyeopening revelations on antisemitism is in Great Britain.
Now Tuvia, son and grandson of ultraorthdox rabbis returns to the communities of his upbringing and childhood in Israel. Have attitudes and practices changed in the years since he left?
We talk about new pressures on the ultrareligious to join the IDF for the first time - and we unpack what Zionism means to them.
And did the disaster of October 7th prove a truly unifying experience? Was it the realisation that finally, finally we are all the same?
Using his fluent Yiddish, Tuvia gained trust to produce this one-off guide to a world he calls “of wisdom, humour and contradictions”.
So poised with a packet of slims, Tuvia lights up ready for our interview. Enjoy this unique selection of stories from Israel.
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Paul Martin is an independent and unbiased international journalist. He has no connections whatever with the people who interview him or with the platforms on which those interviews are transmitted. He stresses that on Mideast affairs he talks to and presents reportage to outlets of a very wide variety and by speaking he is not endorsing any of the views or biases of any of these platforms.
ENDS.
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 Shabbat morning of Simchat Torah on October 7th.
It was the biggest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.
Slain on Iranian soil in their capital city, Haniyeh’s financiers were deservedly humiliated.
A resident of billionaire's playground Doha, the capital of terror-supporting state Qatar - he was in Tehran for the inauguration of their new president.
The last one, of course, was killed in a helicopter crash.
Haniyeh met the Ayatollah, they tweeted a resistance photo, he then went back to his guest house and was taken out in his bedroom with his security guard.
So what was Ismail Haniyeh like?
Well, he loved sport for kickoff, fitting that he should be eliminated before end of the Paris Olympics.
Here’s someone who knew him. I’m delighted our latest guest joins a list of distinguished guests to have graced Jonny Gould’s Jewish State.
Paul Martin is an exceptional international journalist and correspondent, making it his business to report from the most hostile territories - in the name of journalistic freedom.
He spent 26 days in Hamas jail in Gaza and Haniyeh knew he was there. Did it help Paul that he knew he was in his prison? Who helped him get released? Even arch anti-Zionist Archbiship Desmond Tutu called for his release!
Paul was subjected to mental torture and tried the “Hamas diet”, where he lost two stone in weight during his incarceration.
Yet he also experienced exceptional levels of human kindness from a fellow inmate.
You'll hear how he thought quickly on his feet to avoid deathly danger.
And even when the British consulate promised freedom, he wasn’t sure whether it was a Hamas trap leading to his execution.
I interviewed Paul on the day Evan Gershkovich was freed in a Russian prisoner swap. Listen out for his statement to the waiting media as he walked to freedom into Israel.
But would he ever return? Would his wife let him?
This is Paul Martin's 26-day story as a Hamas prisoner in Gaza
Intrepid doesn’t cover it!
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The October 7th War in Gaza is the longest war in Israel’s history.
But how to grasp the nettle that is Hezbollah?
What will “the day after” really look like in Gaza?: are the oil rich gulf states the answer to a more moderate Palestinian state?
How soft have the West been on Iran? Is dethroning the theocracy in Tehran the key to an Islamic reformation?
Is Britain’s foreign policy reset really pondering between Qatar and Saudi? And is it a Hobsons choice anyway?
And as President Trump dodges an assassin's bullet, we roll-call the achievements of his first administration, from the Abraham Accords to the Jerusalem embassy and ask what else can be achieved in a second term?
Retired Major Andrew Fox is a Research Fellow at The Henry Jackson Society. He served in the Army for sixteen years, with three tours to Afghanistan, one of them with US Army Special Forces.
He was in the Parachute Regiment and the Special Forces Support Group.
There were also tours in Bosnia, the Middle East, and Northern Ireland. He retired in 2021.
Andrew then leveraged his huge experience into academia, as a senior lecturer in the War Studies and Behavioural Science at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.
He holds degrees in Law & Politics, Modern War Studies, and Psychology.
Let’s have a word on David Lammy, British Foreign Secretary who once dubbed President Trump, "a neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath, a profound threat to the international order that’s been the foundation of Western progress for so long!”.
He marched with Sadiq Khan in protest at his UK visit.
Is that the same President Trump who dodged death by millimetres, where aggressive opposition rhetoric is seen as the trigger to political violence?
Is it the same President Trump, who produced the biggest diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East?
Striking a decisive blow IN FAVOUR of western progress in a troubled region?
This is Major (Ret.) Andrew Fox.
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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 on a train to Auschwitz.
Out of his family, only he and his brother Alec survived the mass murder, a fact that Ivor attributes to his brother's quick thinking and the binary luck of being placed in a line that spared him from immediate death.
After surviving Auschwitz, Ivor and his brother were taken to Dachau, where they were liberated by American soldiers in 1945. Ivor, who turned 13 during his time at Dachau, recalls marking his bar mitzvah day all alone behind barbed wire, a poignant moment in his life because as you’ll hear a religious child would have prepared what he would say on his barmitzvah day for years.
But he never got the chance.
He came to England at 13 in 1945, lucky to be alive - but as an orphan, alongside his brother Alec.
He lives in North London, but with a visceral mourning for the parents, sisters and brothers that never made it here with him.
Ivor spent many years quietly building a life for himself and his family, working in the textile industry. He didn't openly share his experiences of the Holocaust for nearly 50 years, only beginning to speak about it to help others understand the horrors of the past.
Even his transfer to England was cloak and dagger after the Nazis had been vanquished, as you’ll hear how the early Zionist pioneers wanted to take him and other children to Mandate Palestine instead.
Forgive me if some of my questions are a little direct about his most haunted and delicate of memories - but this like other Holocaust interviews on Jonny Gould’s Jewish State is a testimony for the ages.
It’s a privilege to have known people like Ivor, even in my own family.
To meet and speak one-to-one with Ivor Perl has been humbling to say the least.
Chicken Soup Under The Tree, his life memoir is available via the Lemon Soul website
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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 communauté juive de France et décrit les problèmes de la société française dans cet entretien informel, enregistré lors d’une pause-café entre les séances où il intervenait.
M. Valls a souhaité mener l'entretien en français afin de respecter la nature précise de ses convictions.
J’ai bien entendu accepté, conscient de l’auditoire nombreux francophone ici à Londres, en Europe et au Canada.
Nous avons parlé du Premier ministre français, Gabriel Attal, évoqué par certains comme l'héritier d'Emmanuel Macron - ce qui a fait sourire Manuel Valls puisqu’il a lui même été considéré comme tel par le passé !
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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 the lid on the real lives of Gazans, through their own eyes, via thousands of videos shot by Gazans themselves.
And as a news source, it’s impeccable, complete transparency of source.
Jacqui lives in Tel Aviv, and grew up in Liverpool before making Aliyah with her family as a child.
But now there’s the threat of a second front opening. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Israelis from the north and the south are living in hotels in the middle of the country.
As the threat of an escalation in the north hangs over the rest of Israel, we talk more about how the wars affect Israelis at home and preparation for a wider conflict.
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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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The headlines:
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 against Hamas continue in Rafah, 2 of the 4 remaining battalions are eliminated.
And Yemen’s Houthis increase their aggression against merchant shipping in and around the Dead Sea while announcing further joint strikes on Haifa and Ashkelon with Iranian-linked Iraqi Shia militias.
You’ll hear from Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Conricus on how close Iran is to completing their long term ambition of making a nuclear bomb.
Ayelet Razin Bet Or, a criminal lawyer at the State Attorney's Office on the gender-based violence committed by Hamas on October 7th.
And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who accuses the US of withholding weapons, but the US reply, “we don’t know what he’s talking about".
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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 of only four professional Jewish players plying their trades in the English game during his career.
At one point three of them were teammates together at Oldham! You’ll hear about that.
And Dean had a great career, starting off as a youngster at Chelsea, joining Rangers in Scotland with spells at Oldham, Doncaster and in South Africa with SuperSport United.
Dean was born in Cape Town and left for Edgware as a child with his family, went to JFS.
He made his Bafana Bafana debut - against Brazil - in São Paulo! Opposite Hulk, Neymar, David Luiz Oscar and Marcelo.
Also with us in Amsterdam was ex-NBA star, Michael Sweetney, who cuts a striking 6 ft 8 inches tall and 348 lbs.
Mike's now assistant coach of the Yeshiva University Macabees Men's basketball team and head coach of the girls varsity team at New York's Ramaz School.
This is a mensch in full flight. Listen closely to his humility and in particular to the education he got at home from his own father.
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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 Israel and four soldiers from the elite Givati brigade are killed in a booby trapped building in Rafah.
Stay tuned for comment on the plight of the remaining hostages and what the Arab world should do about Hamas - from former Entebbe hostage, Benny Davidson plus Emily Schrader on why the Iranian public love Israel.
We also hear from Izhar Lifshitz, the son of two of the oldest hostages Yocheved who’s 85, released on October 23rd and Oded, 83 who's still in Gazan captivity.
And the emotional rollercoaster experienced by Orit Meir, mother of Almog Meir Jan during the agonising months not knowing whether he was dead or alive.
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“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 pushing Hezbollah back north of the Litani river?
Iran has enough material for 13 nuclear bombs. They haven’t got the bomb yet. But if not now when?
And as Norway, Spain and Ireland declare for Palestine, is this down the weakness in support for Israel by the Biden administration?
These are questions for Jonathan Conricus, now retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the IDF, nowadays with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, he focuses on the Middle East.
Jonathan enjoyed a distinguished career serving as a combat commander in Lebanon and Gaza, a military diplomat, a foreign relations expert, and an international spokesperson for the IDF.
Born in Jerusalem in 1979, Jonathan spent his early years in Malmo before his family moved back to Israel when he was 13. He joined the IDF at 18 and served for 24 years, retiring in 2021.
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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.
Norway, Spain and Ireland join the European chorus in proposing to recognise a Palestinian statehood, which Israel calls a reward for the brutal terrorism of October 7th.
As Hamas takes its last stand in Rafah, Tel Aviv and the surrounding areas take a fresh barrage of rocket fire from the south of Gaza.
The IDF complete a 40-hour counter terror strike on Jenin and Iraq continues to emerge as a drone and missile threat to Israel's east.
We hear from Jason Greenblatt, Emily Schrader and Imshin AKA Jacqui Peleg.
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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 for Southend West, Sir David Amess.
Alex was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 2005 and served as Chief of Staff to David Cameron when he was Shadow Secretary of State for Education.
He’s also an historian and author of "Lessons From History" uncovering great heroes who history have forgotten but who helped shape the world we live in now.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak declared just hours before - with the poll set for July 4th.
Finchley is a big constituency stretching from Cricklewood Broadway, lapping at the shores of Whetstone, so if you’re an N or an NW, listen up, this is Alex Deane.
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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 AND Israel's leaders and the execution of a Jewish Iranian man is put on hold in Tehran.
We hear from Benjamin Netanyahu, Imshin AKA Jacqui Peleg, Meir Javedanfar and Ruth Wasserman Lande.
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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 war another day, year or even longer.
But when you strip away the Hamas videos, ordinary Gazans don’t view themselves as victims at all.
They’re resilient, creative, great cooks, they eat good quality meat, fruits and vegetables. Wouldn’t you if you lived off the Mediterranean coast?
How do we know? They upload hundreds of videos about themselves, their lifestyles and their views, freely available for all to see.
And here’s Imshin who chronicles it all, a voice you certainly won’t hear on mainstream news. She doesn’t suit the story. It’s a great shame because her sources are impeccable and transparent.
Our guest today describes herself as an amateur Gaza watcher, her highly valuable resource is documented on Twitter or X under the handle, Imshin.
Imshin, real name Jacqui Peleg paints a vivid picture of Gazan society through the eyes of the people themselves.
There’s revelatory detail in every answer from Jacqui, including the accidental superstar Mr Fafo who went from little known YouTuber to worldwide attention.
You’ll hear how Joe Biden’s lack of support over Israel’s Rafah mission only helps to bolster Hamas inside Gaza.
This is a gripping interview from start to finish, full of insightful observations and detailed revelations.
This is “The Gaza You Don’t See”. This is Imshin, Jacqui Peleg.
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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 to a family from the city of Isfahan.
Meir Javedanfar is an Iranian-Israeli lecturer, author, and commentator. He's taught Iranian politics at Reichman University in Israel since 2012.
He is the coauthor of Ahmadinejad’s biography, “The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran".
He has published many articles on Iran and Iran-related matters for Foreign Affairs, Al-Monitor, The Diplomat, The Guardian and others.
He's guest lectured at more than 20 universities and his Ph.D dealt with Mohammad Reza Shah’s security decision-making in relation to threats posed by Iraq and the Soviet Union.
Eight months after his bar mitzvah in 1987, Meir and his family moved to the U.K as Jewish refugees from Iran.
He remains a committed Anglophile, he never quite left the English sense of humour behind, so listen out for a Basil Fawlty joke!
Whatever the status of the JCPOA in the wake of Iran’s first ever direct assault on Israel, he told me he supported it - and said Israeli military experts in the know did too… Why?
And he took part in the Iranian Revolution in 1979 - yes really! - but seven Jews were killed and the Persian Jewish population collapsed from 100,000 under the Shah to where it is today: a paltry and declining 7,000.
So why was there a revolution in 1979 in the first place?
The mullahs are wary of their own people, scared of American soft power, led by the threat of feminism.
This really is a fascinating interview which deserves the light of day, its own episode.
This is Dr Meir Javedanfar Ph.D.
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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 values.
But our free country and its values must be allowed to survive.
President Macron outlawed them in France immediately after October 7th. He looks wise in retrospect.
And then across the road amid the Palestinian flags and disgusting antisemitic placards, you see men you recognise with long coats, big hats, payot, beards and white socks.
The inexplicable Neturei Karta, the ultra orthodox anti Zionists, who literally side with the deathly enemy.
It’s one thing to be a religious Jew and believe Israel can only exist from the messianic age onwards.
It’s quite another to flirt, to consort with those who chirp for Israel’s destruction.
To support Iran and its proxies.
And as you’ll hear they actually believe they’re safe standing with these terrorist supporters - and believe antisemitism started with the Zionist movement and the formation of the State of Israel in 1948.
These are the most, extreme and unpleasant views ever expressed in Jonny Gould’s Jewish state but I believe we have broad enough shoulders to take this dissent from an extreme minority - and put it in its place.
And that place is in the dustbin of the wrong side of history.
So I walked through the police cordon and stood with the repugnant Islamist agitators and hatemongers with their Palestinian flags and covered faces and confronted the frummers.
I must confess I left them, with a feeling of despair because of the sheer treachery and lack of faith in what was said to me.
I ran a poll of regular listeners to see whether I should even run this as an episode. The result was 2/3 to 1/3 in favour of running it.
So here it is. You’ll hear two members of the sect.
Jacob Miller and Alte Hochhauser.
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