The Lists, the Sanctions, and six weeks to go
September 8th was the deadline for Israeli parties to file their lists — and Netanyahu reached it less organised than he'd have liked, with...
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Unholy: Two Jews on the news
Yonit Levi of Channel 12 Israel and Jonathan Freedland of The Guardian are two Jews on the news. Each week on the podcast, Levi in Tel Aviv and Freedland in London give their take on develop...
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Rabbi Angela Buchdahl on forgiveness, Zionism and Mamdani
The Jewish new year arrives with the word ‘Zionist’ deemed an insult and a technology that never forgets anything that anyone has ever said...
Rock Bottom Politics and the Art of the If-Pology
Seven weeks out from an election that in many ways is a referendum on culpability for October 7th, Benjamin Netanyahu tells Channel 14 that...
Gordon Brown on Nationalist Populism, Israel and Hope
The former UK Prime Minister and Chancellor joins Yonit and Jonathan for the latest of our Unholy Conversations — on the void populist natio...
The 60-Day Countdown, Sledgehammer Politics -- and Dolly Parton
With sixty days to go until the Israeli elections, the political jockeying enters into overdrive. Yonit and Jonathan break down the high-sta...
Andy Nyman on saying "F-You" to Hitler on stage
It's the end of summer, and Yonit and Jonathan are taking a break from the news with a nugget of pure Jewish joy. Andy Nyman — the West End...
Bibi's Primary Battles, Gaza Deadlines, and the Plus-sign "Plot"
Sixty-eight days from the election, the hardest problems on Benjamin Netanyahu's desk are arriving from Washington. Jared Kushner is meeting...
The Middle East Cauldron - with Simon Sebag Montefiore
Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore returns to Unholy to discuss his sweeping new book, The Cauldron: A History of the Middle East be...
Clash with the White House, clash on the West Bank
Benjamin Netanyahu has said no to Donald Trump's 15-point Gaza plan, and the refusal is flat rather than fudged. In the West Bank, extremist...
The mediaeval image of the Jew - and why it’s lasted. With Miri Rubin
Three of the oldest myths about Jews — relating to money, blood and the way they look — were forged in medieval Christian Europe, mostly in...
Trump moves on Gaza, Netanyahu moves on his opponents
With Yonit away, Jonathan is joined by Anshel Pfeffer, Israel correspondent of the Economist, as they discuss the muted reaction to the anno...
Heather Reisman on How Canada's Jews Became a Target
Yonit Levi of Channel 12 Israel and Jonathan Freedland of The Guardian are two Jews on the news. Each week on the podcast, Levi in Tel Aviv...
Likud against the world, Democrats against each other
Ninety days before Israel votes, the campaign is revealing much about both the candidates and the country. The defense minister boasts about...
Rahm Emanuel
Fresh off his tour of Israel and Europe, this week on Unholy Conversations, Yonit and Jonathan speak to Rahm Emanuel—former Chief of Staff,...
Trump’s Saudi nuclear deal, Israeli elections get real
A nuclear deal between Washington and Riyadh breaks overnight — and Israel learns the terms from the same press release as everyone else. Th...
First Time Voters in Israel
This week, Yonit and Jonathan sit down with three first-time voters — Aviv, Yael and Dror — to talk about the topics that will shape these e...
Espionage in Iran, election manoeuvres in Israel - and unlikely football glory
The US-Iran war is back on. The ceasefire has collapsed, the naval blockade is reimposed, and Israel is asking if a moment is coming when th...
Jews and Football: a forgotten story - with David Bolchover
As football fans across the globe gear up for the World Cup final on Sunday, Jonathan talks to the author of a new book that uncovers a hidd...
Bibi’s dash to remake Israel, Rahm Emanuel’s warning and a wedding to beat the odds
Donald Trump declares the Iran ceasefire dead, while a new poll has alarming news for Benjamin Netanyahu: New York's trenchantly anti-Israel...
Danielle Haas on NGOs, Antisemitism & Institutional Bias
A new report accuses the world's most trusted human rights organizations of a problem that goes far beyond anti-Israel bias: antisemitism, a...