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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 boycotts, arms embargoes, and curbs on talking and protesting freely on Israel and antisemitism.
He was arrested for displaying a sign labelling Hamas as terrorists, which led to his ban from attending Palestinian-related protests for three months and even talking to Niyak under his bail conditions.
But for all the street activism, his faith in British democracy, standards in civic life and policing hasn’t eroded one iota and he engages in dialogue with young Muslims countering him on the streets and seeks out common values with them.
He says there are some. Listen for what they are.
And in the course of his extraordinary efforts, he’s re-engaged with a pride in our country.
Mark is an inspiration and comfort for those of us, including me, I confess - who fear that some of our nation's values have been eroded.
Share this episode far and wide, as you listen to Our Fight UK founder, Mark Birbeck.
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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 antisemitism today.
This is a Lemon Soul film, in loving memory of Jonny Zucker, an inspirational teacher, fantastic children's author, who celebrated reading among kids and envisioned educational ideas such as this movie.
The stirring title music was composed and performed by Erran Baron Cohen, who produced musical accompaniment on the night. Listen to the story of Survivor.
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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 mother Mandy, 63, is a Brit, born in Surrey and grew up with her parents and three brothers in Beckenham, Kent. She visited Israel on holiday aged 20 where she met and fell in love with her husband.
Emily is the youngest of four siblings and her mother Mandy says, "her unforgettable smile and cheeky and quick sense of humour light up every room she enters."
Emily is a massive Spurs fan and would often plan trips to the UK around a concert or a Spurs game.
Tottenham fans have recently initiated the #ShesOneOfOurOwn campaign in her honour.
Mandy faced the UK media at a London news conference with an impassioned mesage,🎗️Bring Emily Home.
Listen now. She's joined by Lord Stuart Pollak.
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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 International Studies.
You’ve seen him writing and broadcasting in The Telegraph, CBS News, BBC, USA Today, Haaretz, The Sun, Daily Mail, Good Morning Britain, Sunday Express - and now Jonny Gould’s Jewish State.
He doesn’t shirk the trolls on social media either. He’s Happy to debate online.
And we got together while he was here in London on a book tour.
“Netanyahu’s Israel: Rise of the Far Right” is a collection of interviews with key figures since 1996, and offers the reader a rare look behind the scenes of some of Israel’s most historic moments of recent decades.
It’s on Amazon.
Let’s talk about being a Jewish and Zionist journalist. In the overwhelming anti-Israel tirade of mass media, has his commitment to objective reporting relented into defending Israel? Is there anything wrong with that?
What are the tunnels like?
And Netanyahu: can he survive to the end of his term, could he ever win without the right wing of his coalition?
Oh, and will the new Trump Administration turn the tide for Israel. Are the mullahs day’s numbered in Iran?
Let’s meet Jotam Confino.
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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 department store heir to one of the most influential music managers of all time.
But behind the glitz and glamour was a man seeking acceptance and love, but not able to get it.
Midas Man peels back the curtain on the swinging '60s, the triumphs, heartbreaks, and secrets of the man who changed the face of music forever.
Brigit popped round my house, we put the kettle on and had a good chat about Brian and the movie.
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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 Oval Office: what that will mean to Israel’s fight against Iran and its proxies.
These are all questions for my friend, Andrew Fox.
Research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, Andrew served in the British Army for sixteen years, retiring as a Major in 2021
As a senior lecturer in War Studies and Behavioural Science at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, He holds degrees in Law & Politics, Modern War Studies, and Psychology.
It’s always good to speak to Andrew Fox.
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"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 from videos uploaded to social media by Gazans themselves. This is how they want us to see and hear them.
They’re all available now on her X account, Imshin.
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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 conflict.
He’s "The Green Prince," son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, co-founder of Hamas.
Raised in a family deeply entangled with Hamas, Mosab seemed destined for a life of terrorism.
But he defected to Israel in 1997 and worked as a spy for Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service for a decade until he moved to the United States.
He helped them prevent numerous suicide bombings and other terror attacks leading to the capture of several Hamas operatives.
His autobiography, "Son of Hamas," details his life, his disillusionment with Hamas and his espionage. He converted to Christianity too, distancing himself from his roots still further - adding a layer to his own transformation.
Not enough delegates turned up to the European Parliament in Brussels to listen to him and he declares his disappointment at the start of this speech - so let's gets his stark message out still further.
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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 book is "Questioning Belief: Torah and Tradition in an Age of Doubt”, reconciling Judaism with modernity, addressing profound questions that intersect faith, science, and contemporary life.
He’s Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS) and holds the Rabbi Sacks Chair of Modern Jewish Thought, named in honour of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks of blessed memory, our late Chief Rabbi’s' legacy in contemporary Jewish philosophy and education.
With the Dangoor Education “Schools Podcaster of the Year”, I'm encouraging the next generation to think seriously about journalism and storytelling - not just to take in the TikTokers and YouTubers.
And the word is spreading, a second school is joining the title chase.
So if you’d like yours to have a separate competition, have a word with your head and put them in touch with me.
Here is Rabbi Zarum with competition winner, David Green.
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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, he’s been ever present with stout, sometimes uncensored defences of the State of Israel.
You’ve seen him writing for Spiked Online and on TV and radio.
But he’s no Johnny Come Lately: he’s not jumped on the Israel bandwagon.
In our first interview here on Jonny Gould’s Jewish state in 2020, Brendan compared the Jewish and non-Jewish people’s takeaways from the Second World War.
While Europeans declared that to end all wars, we needed “happy clappy borders”, Jews on the other hand recognised that secure borders were absolutely essential to our survival.
How right he’s proved to be. Scroll back to episode 51 for a gripping interview during the Brexit and Covid years.
But right now, recorded on this most poignant date in our recent history, it’s always a pleasure to spend time with Brendan O’Neill. Buy “After The Pogrom” here.
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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.
Let’s go back to where it all started.
As chaos broke out all around her, our guest today relives the moments of sheer terror that morning, but her words are laced with a message of future hope and delivered with tremendous dignity.
This is Irit Lahav, survivor of the Kibbutz Nir Oz disaster as she revealed how she survived, while her dearest friends were murdered or taken hostage around her. Also, when and why she wants to go home and why it’s so important for the country as a whole that she does.
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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 much, he’d prefer Kamala Harris to win the White House - whatever their differences, and take it from there.
Elected as part of the Tea Party wave in 2010, Joe freely admits he was a "divisive political asshole from the right!", Joe served Illinois's 8th district, for two years until 2013.
His rhetoric and demeanour has cooled since those days.
Now he says he’s politically homeless and says America is ready for more than a two party system.
Joe ran for the presidency in 2020 challenging President Trump for the Republican nomination, positioning himself as a critic of Trump’s leadership, focusing on what he saw as his undermining of American democracy.
In a two party system, Joe knew he was a long-shot, his aim was more to critique Trump than to win the nomination.
Listen to how Trump’s MAGA message differs so fundamentally from the Tea Party movement he was part of and what he’d do in the Oval Office if he was in charge of dealing with Israel.
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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," highlighting ongoing conflicts and the threat this poses to Israel and regional stability.
Gaza Conflict: With the Gaza situation nearing its one-year mark, Netanyahu likely addressed the military operations, defending Israel's actions while possibly facing international scrutiny over civilian casualties and humanitarian concerns.
Lebanon and Hezbollah: Amidst concerns of escalating conflict, Netanyahu's comments on returning northern residents home suggest a focus on ensuring security while potentially signaling intentions for de-escalation or at least a strategic pause in hostilities.
Global Perspective: His speech might have touched on the broader implications of AI and technological advancements, reflecting on both opportunities and perils, though this would be more speculative based on past themes rather than confirmed content.
International Relations: Given the backdrop of his controversial visit to the US earlier in the year and international reactions, Netanyahu might have defended Israel's policies, while also navigating the complex web of international diplomacy amidst calls for peace and criticism over his handling of conflicts.
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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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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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