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Robert Garson, a Manchester-born barrister and US attorney known for his advocacy on Jewish security, discusses the urgent need for Britain’s Jews to seek refuge in the United States. He shares personal experiences of rising antisemitism in the UK and explores why many believe asylum is now a viable option. Garson highlights contrasts between US and UK responses to threats against Jewish communities, emphasizing the importance of self-defense and community safety. He argues that Britain risks cultural loss if Jewish migration continues, revealing a growing interest in relocation among Jews and even other threatened communities.

For nearly half a century the Islamic Republic has ruled Iran through fear, censorship and organised cruelty. It has crushed dissent at home while exporting terrorism abroad, and it has relied on a simple calculation: that the world would look away while its own people suffered in silence.Today that calculation is collapsing.Across Iran, ordinary men and women are rising against a regime that has impoverished them, humiliated them and treated their lives as disposable. They are marching in the streets knowing they may never return home. And for the first time in decades, they feel that the outside world might finally be listening.In this powerful and deeply personal conversation, Jonathan Sacerdoti is joined by Iranian activist Niyak Ghorbani, one of the most visible organisers of protests in the United Kingdom and a relentless opponent of both the Islamic Republic and the antisemitic movements it sponsors. Drawing on his own experience of life under the regime, and on the stories of family and friends still trapped inside Iran, he describes what this moment feels like from the inside.👁‍🗨 Watch if you want to understand why the battle for Iran’s future matters far beyond its borders, and why this uprising feels different from all those that came before.💬 We Discuss:🇮🇷 What daily life under the Islamic Republic is really like for ordinary Iranians🔥 Why this wave of protests feels closer to regime change than ever before🇺🇸 How Donald Trump’s words transformed Iranian morale📺 The failure of mainstream media to report the uprising honestly👮‍♂️ Niyak’s own arrests in Britain for opposing antisemitic marches🕊️ The bravery of protesters who know they may be killed for demonstrating👑 Why many Iranians now rally behind Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi🌍 How Iran’s struggle mirrors the rise of Islamist influence in the West📱 Social media, citizen journalism and the fight to break regime censorship⚠️ The lessons Britain should learn from Iran before it is too late🔔 Subscribe for more fearless conversations about world affairs, freedom and the fight for truth.📲 Follow JonathanOn X: https://x.com/jonsacOn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathansacerdoti/On Substack: https://jonsac.substack.com

Europe’s relationship with Israel has never been simple. It is shaped by history soaked in blood, by moral claims born from catastrophe, and by institutions that insist on speaking in the language of values while acting through interest. In the aftermath of October 7, those tensions have hardened, exposing fractures between governments and peoples, ideology and reality, rhetoric and reliance.As Europe’s political centre shifts and its demographics change, Israel finds itself simultaneously condemned in public and depended upon in practice. Accusations of antisemitism collide with strategic cooperation. Recognition of Palestinian statehood sits uneasily alongside intelligence sharing, weapons procurement, and military coordination. The question is no longer whether Europe and Israel disagree, but whether they still understand each other at all.In this conversation, Jonathan Sacerdoti is joined by former Israeli Ambassador to the EU and NATO Ronny Leshno Yaar, and Professor Sharon Pardo of Ben Gurion University, to examine whether Europe has turned against Israel, or whether the reality is more structurally complex and morally uncomfortable. Drawing on diplomatic experience, academic analysis, and personal history, they explore Europe’s changing identity, the return of antisemitism, Israel’s missteps in European politics, and the quiet depth of cooperation that continues despite the noise.👁‍🗨 Watch if you want to understand why Europe’s posture towards Israel appears hostile yet remains dependent, and what that means for Israel’s future in a changing West.💬 We Discuss:🧭 Why Europe is not a single actor, but a shifting collection of interests, institutions and contradictions🧬 How Jewish history is embedded in European identity, and why that inheritance is now contested📉 The return of antisemitism after October 7, and Europe’s failure to confront it structurally🏛️ How Israel aligned with Europe’s right and what it gained and lost by doing so🛡️ Europe’s quiet military and intelligence defence of Israel, despite public condemnation✈️ Why people to people ties, from academia to travel, may matter more than diplomacy⚖️ Whether Israel can afford deep cooperation with Europe while facing existential political disagreements🔔 Subscribe for more fearless conversations about world affairs, freedom and the fight for truth.📲 Follow JonathanOn X: https://x.com/jonsacOn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathansacerdoti/On Substack: https://jonsac.substack.com/👇 Comment below — can Israel and Europe remain partners if they no longer share a moral language?#Israel #Europe #EuropeanUnion #Antisemitism #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #JonathanSacerdoti

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, an Israeli politician and former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, shares her insights on the intersections of media and politics. She critiques Piers Morgan's confrontational style and discusses her strategic decisions to engage with controversial figures. Fleur assesses Benjamin Netanyahu's political acumen, highlighting both his strengths and communication failures during crises. She reflects on how October 7th catalyzed awareness of threats and emphasizes the important role of diaspora Jews in fostering solidarity and identity.

Condemned by mobs on the streets of the West, denounced by governments across Europe and beyond, and vilified by the United Nations and its satellite institutions, Israel might nevertheless be in a stronger strategic position than at any point in its history.Two years after October 7th, Israel’s international standing has deteriorated even as its regional power has expanded. What appears in Western capitals as isolation and moral failure is understood very differently in the Middle East, where strength is measured not by approval but by the capacity to act, to endure condemnation, and to defeat enemies who interpret restraint as weakness.In this conversation, Jonathan Sacerdoti speaks with Dan Schueftan, Head of the International Graduate Programme in National Security at the University of Haifa, about why Israel is emerging from this war in a dramatically improved strategic position, despite unprecedented hostility from Western opinion.Schueftan argues that Israel has dismantled Iran’s regional architecture piece by piece, humiliated Islamist movements across multiple fronts, and forced Arab regimes to confront an uncomfortable reality. Their own survival now depends less on Western guarantees and more on a strong, feared, and determined Israel.The discussion moves beyond the battlefield to examine why Europe has drifted from strategic thinking into ideological paralysis, why progressive politics treats self defence as a moral failure, and why Israel’s greatest strength lies not in its political leadership but in a society willing to fight, endure and rebuild without illusions.👁‍🗨 Watch if you want to understand why Israel’s unpopularity in the West has coincided with a historic consolidation of power in the Middle East, and what that reveals about the condition of Western civilisation.💬 We Discuss: 🧱 Why legitimacy in the West matters less than deterrence in the Middle East 🔥 How Iran’s proxy network was degraded through sequential confrontation 🛡 Why fear, not affection, is the foundation of regional stability 🏛 How European politics abandoned strategy for moral exhibitionism 🧠 Why progressive ideology treats weakness as virtue 👨‍👩‍👧 How Israeli social resilience outperformed political leadership ⚔ The shift from reactive defence to pre emptive security doctrine🔔 Subscribe for more fearless conversations about Britain, freedom and the fight for truth.📲 Follow JonathanOn X: https://x.com/jonsacOn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathansacerdoti/On Substack: https://jonsac.substack.com👇 Comment below — can a society survive when it confuses moral approval with the will to defend itself?#Israel #DanSchueftan #JonathanSacerdoti #MiddleEast #Iran #WesternCivilisation #Security #Geopolitics

For years, British public life told itself a comforting lie: that tolerance meant silence, that compassion meant compliance, and that asking hard questions was somehow immoral. Josh Howie no longer believes that story.In this uncompromising conversation with Jonathan Sacerdoti, Howie explains how comedy, journalism and politics were quietly captured by fear. Not fear of violence, but fear of social punishment: being labelled, deplatformed, or cast out for stating obvious truths.Now host of Free Speech Nation on GB News, Howie describes how institutions surrendered their authority through cowardice rather than coercion. He traces how activists reshaped language, how journalists abandoned clarity, and how dissent was redefined as extremism.He also speaks candidly about antisemitism on the contemporary left, the vulnerability of Jews caught between hostile extremes, and why historical memory makes neutrality impossible. What emerges is a conversation about free speech not as a slogan, but as the last line of defence between democracy and ideological conformity.👁‍🗨 Watch if you want to understand how Britain reached a point where telling the truth feels like a political act.💬 We discuss:🎭 Why comedians became the last people willing to speak plainly📰 How mainstream media normalised omission and distortion🧠 The capture of language and the policing of thought⚖️ Why women’s rights and biological reality were reframed as hate🕍 Antisemitism on the left and the collapse of old political loyalties🏛️ How institutions surrendered authority through fear and careerism🧭 Political homelessness and the erosion of left–right meaning🚨 Why dissent is now treated as danger rather than necessity🗣️ Free speech as a cultural immune system — and what happens when it fails🔔 Subscribe for more unflinching conversations about power, culture and the battle for truth in Britain.📲 Follow Jonathan:X: https://x.com/jonsacInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathansacerdoti/

For more than half a century, Professor Mordechai Kedar has studied Arabic language, Islamic texts and Middle Eastern political culture from the inside. A former Israeli military intelligence officer and one of Israel’s most seasoned experts on Arab society, he has spent decades listening to what the region says in its own words, not through Western translations or assumptions.In this far reaching conversation with Jonathan Sacerdoti, Kedar argues that the West’s greatest failure is not moral but interpretive. Immigration, Islam and integration, he says, are routinely analysed through liberal democratic frameworks that simply do not apply. Drawing on history, theology and direct engagement with the region, he explains why migration has a radically different meaning inside Islamic thought, why movements like the Muslim Brotherhood see Western societies themselves as occupied space, and why democracy is not a shared universal ideal.Rather than offering a policy argument, Kedar presents a civilisational diagnosis. He traces how post colonial guilt, demographic change and cultural self doubt have combined to leave Europe and America defending themselves with rules their opponents neither share nor respect. The danger, he warns, is not extremism alone, but a society that has forgotten how to name the difference between tolerance and surrender.👁‍🗨 Watch if you want to understand why debates about immigration and Islam are really about power, identity and whether the West still believes in its own legitimacy.💬 We Discuss:🧠 Why understanding Arabic language changes how you hear Islamist politics📜 How Islamic history frames migration as authority, not resettlement🏛️ Why democracy and equality are not culturally universal concepts🕌 Islam versus Islamism, and why avoiding the distinction is fatal🌍 How post colonial thinking reshaped European decision making📈 Demography, birth rates and why trends become destiny🚨 The Muslim Brotherhood’s long strategy and its influence in the West🏘️ Integration, parallel societies and where the line is crossed⚖️ Why liberal systems struggle against illiberal movements⏳ Whether Europe and America still have time to recover cultural confidence🔔 Subscribe for more serious conversations about extremism, identity and the future of Western civilisation.📲 Follow Jonathan:X: https://x.com/jonsacInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathansacerdoti/Substack: https://jonsac.substack.com

Wendy Sachs, a filmmaker and investigative documentarian, unpacks the shocking aftermath of October 7th in her conversation. She reveals a troubling narrative where foreign funding and ideological manipulation are reshaping Western institutions and campuses. Sachs discusses the rapid mobilization of Students for Justice in Palestine and the alarming links to foreign powers like Qatar and Iran. She highlights the ideological grooming of youth and the rise of anti-Zionism, while urging communities to confront these challenges head-on.

David Collier joins Jonathan Sacerdoti for one of his clearest and most wide-ranging conversations yet about Britain, the media, extremism and the pressures reshaping public life. Drawing on years of undercover work inside activist movements, online networks and university groups, Collier explains what he has seen from the inside — and why he believes the country is struggling to understand the forces acting on it.Collier didn’t set out to become an investigator. His career began in Israel, before returning to a Britain he barely recognised. That shock pushed him to look more closely: into anti-Israel activism, into how information flows from Gaza to British newsrooms, and into the way online platforms drive people toward extremes. The picture he’s built over years of research has made him one of the most cited independent analysts of media bias and modern extremism in the UK.Watch if you want a clear, detailed account of the pressures shaping Britain — from someone who has spent years mapping them.💬 We Discuss:🕵️‍♂️ How Collier went undercover inside anti-Israel and activist networks🌐 Social media echo chambers and how they distort public life🎥 The BBC’s Gaza documentary and what it revealed about reporting pipelines🧩 Why Western journalism struggles to read Middle Eastern information sources📉 Cultural confidence, national identity and public trust🚨 The rise of political Islam and its influence on British politics📊 Demographic change and why it matters in Collier’s analysis🏫 NGO and university culture, and how activist currents spread🪧 Public symbolism: Palestinian flags, British flags and what each signals⚖️ Why Jews increasingly feel unsure of their place in the UK📣 How mainstream parties have mishandled these challenges🔎 What Collier believes the next decade could look like for BritainSubscribe for more conversations about Britain, culture and the forces shaping our future.📲 Follow JonathanOn X: https://x.com/jonsacOn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathansacerdoti/On Substack: https://jonsac.substack.com

A landmark tribunal has ruled that Islam critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act, and the man at the centre of that historic decision, Patrick Lee, sits down with Jonathan Sacerdoti for his first full, unfiltered interview since the judgment shook Britain’s institutions.Patrick Lee is an actuary who never sought public attention, yet found himself monitored, censured and threatened by his own professional body for simply quoting Islamic scripture and raising concerns about extremism, women’s rights and child protection. His case exposed a troubling truth: Britain has become far more comfortable policing offence than confronting doctrines that harm the vulnerable.In this powerful conversation, Lee explains how he went from a quiet private citizen to the unlikely figurehead of a legal battle about free speech, Islam and the limits of criticism in a supposedly liberal democracy. He details how the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries secretly scrutinised his tweets, why the tribunal finally defended his right to speak, and what his victory means for every citizen who refuses to lie about reality.This is not just a story about one man. It is a warning about what happens when fear governs public life, when institutions appease extremism, and when silence becomes a national reflex.👁‍🗨 Watch if you want to understand why Britain is losing its moral courage — and why this ruling may be a turning point.💬 We Discuss:📜 The tribunal decision protecting Islam critical beliefs in UK law🕌 Why Lee began scrutinising Islamic doctrine post 11 September📚 The violent Qur’anic and hadith texts he publicly highlighted🧕 How teachings on women, girls and child marriage shaped his concerns🚔 The grooming gangs scandal and the culture of enforced silence🏛️ His regulator’s secret monitoring of his social media🧩 The critical distinction between attacking ideas and attacking people⚖️ How sensitivity culture now outranks child safety and women’s rights🔥 The reach of cancel culture inside British institutions🕊️ Why free speech is the essential foundation of democracy🇮🇷 The role of Masih Alinejad’s warnings about Iran in the context of his tweets🧠 The moral duty to speak when everyone else is afraid🔔 Subscribe for more fearless conversations about Britain, freedom and the fight for truth.📲 Follow JonathanOn X: https://x.com/jonsacOn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathansacerdoti/ Substack: https://jonsac.substack.com👇 Comment below — Does protecting criticism of Islam mark the beginning of Britain’s free speech fightback?