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Our guest is journalist, author and social commentator, Melanie Phillips.
She was once a committed diaspora Jew, pledged to contribute to life and society in her native UK. Moving to Israel was not on the radar; why would it be when she lived in the “goldener mediener”, a “golden country” in Yiddish, where Jews could live and prosper?
Today she’s an arch-Zionist, living mostly in Jerusalem with her husband, the BBC’s former legal affairs correspondent Joshua Rozenberg.
This episode chronicles Melanie’s change of mindset, using her story to illustrate what’s been happening to Anglo Jewry since the end of World War II. We also ponder the modern Conservative Party, why she thinks the BBC see her as the “acceptable face and voice of lunacy” and whether zealotry can ever be a positive influence. Jonny produces these podcasts for free.
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44: Lecturer sacked because he says "Jewish people are among the cleverest in the world!"
43: Reimagining Trevor Horn: a lockdown tribute to “the man who invented the 80s”
42: Katharine Birbalsingh and Inaya Folarin Iman: Immigrant pride in British values
41: Trevor Phillips and Karen Harradine: diversity is going on mission creep and how to reset it for purpose
40: Nick Timothy: Solidarity, philosemitism and China
39: Jason Greenblatt: Peace to Prosperity in the Middle East: straight to the heart of the deal
38: Red Sea Spies: Mossad and their Ethiopian Jewish brothers: Raffi Berg and "Dani"
Israel Briefing 1 with James Marlow: Another new government, Iran in Syria, Pompeo China warning
37: Netflix Fauda: Itzik Cohen and Lior Raz, Israeli drama popular in surprising places
36: Unorthodox Netflix: Deborah Feldman, the Real Esty
35: Prof. Gerald Steinberg, NGO Monitor: Why is mainstream media so pro-Palestinian? It all started in 2001 in Durban. This is how Human Rights was captured
34: Israel Advocacy, Joseph Cohen: Zionism's Angel of the North
33: Ed Husain, Islam & Israel: “Bashing Israel is the Muslim liberal's last refuge. It must stop!”
32: Yaakov Lappin, Europe's refugee crisis II, “The Virtual Caliphate”, an online threat to Europe
31: Ambassador Mark Regev: Israel’s modern story in one person
31.1: 🇮🇱 Brexit and Israel, Ambassador Mark Regev on the UK's relationship with Israel post-Brexit
30: Anthony Scaramucci: “I’m a Zionist, but there’ll be no peace without symmetry”
29: Col. Richard Kemp OBE in Israel: Trump's Deal Of The Century, IDF’s Muslims, Iran post Soleimani
28: Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Jerusalem’s Rock from Gibraltar
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