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Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by Daniella Bloom to discuss her journey from Democrat to conservative, the rise of anti-Israel sentiment, Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, free speech, Trump, antisemitism and the future of the conservative movement.
Daniella Bloom is a former California Democrat, a psychotherapist, keynote speaker, producer and on-air commentator. She appears regularly on Fox News and is the #1 bestselling author of the Under the Tree series.
www.DaniellaBloom.com
CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
01:14 New York, Israel, and Changing Political Culture
06:44 From California Democrat to Jewish Patriot
11:43 The Rise of Anti-Israel Voices on the Right
23:52 Daniella Bloom's Charlie Kirk Controversy
31:33 Free Speech, Tucker Carlson, and Conservative Media
40:14 The Digital War and Social Media Influence
44:04 Why Daniella Supports Trump
45:50 Iran, Israel, and American Foreign Policy
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Josh Szeps joins us for a wide-ranging conversation about Israel, Gaza, antisemitism, Zionism, Jewish identity and why the debate has become so exhausting and distorted.
We talk about whether Jews outside Israel are being forced to answer for the Israeli government, what anti-Zionism really means, the failure of the peace process, Netanyahu, Gaza, drones, Palestinian leadership, the pressure to “circle the wagons,” and whether it is possible to criticize Israel without giving ammunition to people who hate Jews.
Josh Szeps hosts one of the biggest shows on Substack, Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps, where he has funny, bullshit-free conversations with people like Sam Harris, Jimmy Carr, Bari Weiss and Mark Normand about subjects that the mainstream media fails to discuss honestly. He has been on Joe Rogan's show seven times, he was a founding host of HuffPost Live in New York, then went on to get cancelled from his own top-rating talk radio show on Australia’s national public broadcaster. He's a columnist for Australia's most prestigious newspaper, the Australian Financial Review, and a major media figure Down Under.
https://x.com/joshzepps?lang=en
https://uncomfortableconversations.substack.com/about
Chapters:
00:00 Intro and Josh Szeps joins the show
03:06 Josh’s background, Australia, and his previous Israel controversy
07:12 Jokes, parenting, kids, porn and the internet
12:59 Antisemitism, Australia, and the post-October 7th climate
15:36 Anti-Zionism, Israel’s legitimacy, and the meaning of a Jewish state
22:07 Palestinian refugees, Arab countries, and the right of return
27:26 Gaza, drones, October 7th, and whether Israel had another choice
30:29 Josh’s controversial “abandon Israel” column
38:16 Circling the wagons, Jewish identity, and criticizing Israel from the diaspora
47:58 Anti-Israel backlash, boycotts, and Jews being blamed for Israel
54:16 Kristof, the dog allegations, and the difficulty of discussing ugly claims honestly
01:08:35 The flotilla, Israeli detention, and skepticism toward activist claims
01:11:23 War crimes, double standards, history, and modern technology
01:13:05 Uyghurs, Kurds, ethno-states, and why Israel gets singled out
01:17:00 Media collapse, audience capture, and trying to have sane conversations
01:18:29 Finkelstein, complexity, and final thoughts -
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Peter Savodnik joins us to talk about Nicholas Kristof’s column alleging abuse of Palestinian prisoners, including the most extreme dog-rape allegation, and how pro-Israel people should respond when the reporting is weak but the underlying issue may still deserve investigation.
We talk about the difference between bad journalism and false accusations, the danger of reflexively circling the wagons, Ben-Gvir and the Israeli prison system, antisemitism, double standards against Israel, whether Jews are being pushed back into history, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Gavin Newsom, Jonathan Haidt, Twitter addiction, and the general collapse of everyone’s sanity online.
Peter Savodnik reported for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, GQ, Wired and other venues from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, Asia and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013 by Basic Books. He is now a senior editor at The Free Press and based in Los Angeles.
https://x.com/petersavodnik
Chapters:
00:00 Intro and Peter Savodnik joins
01:16 Nick Kristof’s Israel prison-abuse column
06:15 Olmert, Benny Morris, Haviv Rettig Gur, and what may actually be true
10:00 Double standards, bad reporting, and how Israel should respond
15:56 The dog-rape allegation and the danger of reflexive denial
22:22 Why Israel may need its own serious investigation
24:23 Circling the wagons vs. demanding proof
28:17 What real reporting would require
34:03 Retractions, antisemitism, and “emptying our pockets” for every accusation
38:27 Are Jews and Israel entering a more dangerous historical moment?
49:11 JD Vance, Rubio, Trump, and the future of the Republican Party
57:18 Gavin Newsom, 2028, and the Democrats
59:26 Jonathan Haidt, NYU, wokeness, and phone addiction
01:04:13 Twitter fights, the new Comedy Cellar room and final thoughts -
Noam Dworman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by return-guest, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, for a wide-ranging debate about truth, propaganda, evidence, starvation and the Israel-Gaza war. The conversation focuses on John Mearsheimer’s claims about October 7, whether public intellectuals should lose credibility when they make unsupported accusations, disputed casualty reporting in Gaza and the role political bias plays in shaping what people choose to believe.
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is a general, trauma, and critical care surgeon in California. He is also a humanitarian surgeon, having worked most extensively in Palestine, but also in Ukraine, Haiti, Zimbabwe, and Burkina Faso. He has written and spoken extensively about surgical humanitarian work, the United States’ role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the political consequences of medical relief work.
Twitter/X @FerozeSidhwa
Chapters:
00:00 Intro and Twitter fights
08:14 Mearsheimer, October 7, and “good faith” arguments
15:25 Trump, Epstein, and blackmail claims
22:01 The Israel Lobby and the Iraq War debate
34:05 Germany comparisons and collective punishment
37:09 Netanyahu, “Amalek,” and genocide accusations
46:15 Dead children, crossfire, and moral responsibility
47:43 Gaza aid shootings and casualty reporting
50:02 The Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion controversy
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Noam Dworman is joined by Professor Gerald Steinberg. Steinberg breaks down the hidden world of NGOs—what they are, how they gained massive global influence and why he believes many have drifted far from their original mission. From organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to their role at the United Nations, Steinberg argues that these groups now act as powerful political players shaping narratives around conflicts like Israel–Palestine.
Gerald Steinberg is founder and president of NGO Monitor and Professor at Bar Ilan University. His research focuses on Middle East diplomacy and Israeli security, and the politics of human rights and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Prestigious grants and prizes include Israel Science Foundation, Bonei Zion Prize (2017) and the Bernard Lewis Prize in 2025.
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Andrew Fox joins Live From The Table to talk about personal courage, Gaza, Hamas casualty numbers, Israel’s military strategy, Iran, the Strait of Hormuz and what modern war actually looks like.
Andrew Fox is a former British Army officer (three tours in Afghanistan), now a senior fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, a London-based think tank. Fox has been to the frontlines in Gaza, Lebanon and Ukraine. He wrote the first papers worldwide exposing the Hamas fatality figures manipulation in Gaza and showing how Israel actually fought on the ground in Gaza from a tactical perspective.
mrandrewfox.substack.com
https://x.com/mr_andrew_fox
0:00 Intro
1:00 Serving in Afghanistan
4:00 Looking back on the war
7:30 Hamas casualty numbers in Gaza
10:00 Why Andrew looked into the numbers
12:00 Hamas figures, IDF figures, and media coverage
15:30 Civilian casualties and Hamas’s strategy
18:15 Child fighters and Hamas
19:25 Why Andrew speaks up for Israel and Jews
22:00 Problems inside the IDF
28:40 Iran and the wider war
31:50 Why stopping Iran’s nuclear program matters
37:30 Strait of Hormuz
42:00 What kind of Iran deal would make sense?
47:20 Why this is different from the JCPOA
54:00 Gaza casualty ratios and urban war
57:00 Was the Gaza war worth it?
1:02:00 Why Israel went into Gaza first
1:04:30 Final thoughts -
Separating Politics from Reality. Is the war going better than we realize?Eliot A. Cohen is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is a professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, the author of the forthcoming book The Strategist: How to Think About War and Politics, and a co-host of the Shield of the Republic podcast.
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Jamie Kirchick joins the crew for a sharp discussion on ideology, hypocrisy and why smart people can still fall for bad ideas.
A wide-ranging, no-filter conversation about Iran, nuclear tensions, global risk—and the dangers of antisemitism. They discuss everyone from Tucker Carlson and Daryl Cooper to Bryon Noem. This episode addresses serious geopolitical stakes and is part political analysis, part philosophical sparring and part classic around the table repartee.
Jamie Kirchick is a journalist and the New York Times-bestselling author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington and The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age. He is a contributing opinion writer to the New York Times and a writer at large for Air Mail.
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Are conspiracies and misinformation beginning to erode the basic assumptions on which public discussion depends?
Trump. Israel. JFK. Epstein. Iran. Big Pharma.
What is real, and what is conspiracy?
In this episode of Live from the Table, we sit down with Gerald Posner to talk about the JFK assassination, conspiracy theories, misinformation, Trump, Israel, Iran, the opioid crisis, RFK Jr. and Jeffrey Epstein.
The conversation moves from the enduring debate over whether Oswald acted alone to the ways conspiracy thinking spreads online, distorts public judgment, and reshapes political argument. It also turns to Posner’s reporting on Big Pharma, the Sacklers and the failures that fueled the opioid epidemic, along with his views on Epstein’s finances and the broader culture of suspicion surrounding high-profile events.
Gerald Posner is the author of thirteen acclaimed books, including New York Times bestsellers Case Closed, Why America Slept, and God’s Bankers. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in History and contributor to Forbes, he has been called “a merciless pit bull of an investigator” (Chicago Tribune). His 2020 book PHARMA was praised by The New York Times as a “withering, encyclopedic indictment” of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Featuring Walter Russell Mead, this conversation dives into one of the most dangerous questions in the world right now: what happens if Iran gets the bomb—and is it already too late to stop it?
From the real stakes behind the Strait of Hormuz to the risk of a global oil shock, nuclear proliferation across the Middle East, and the limits of deterrence, Mead breaks down why the situation is far more complex—and more urgent—than most people realize.
The discussion explores whether war with Iran is avoidable, how U.S. politics and leadership shape these decisions, and why history suggests the cost of inaction could be far higher than we think.
Mead addresses several important questions:
What happens the day Iran gets a nuclear bomb?
Are we already too late to stop Iran?
Would a nuclear Iran trigger World War III?
Could one chokepoint crash the entire global economy overnight?
Is doing nothing the most dangerous option of all?
Walter Russell Mead is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal and the Alexander Hamilton Professor of Strategy and Statecraft with the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida.
He has authored numerous books, including the widely-recognized Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World. His most recent book is titled The Arc of A Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People.
His recent piece in WSJ https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-surprisingly-good-for-the-world-b97e7b8e?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqecxWBrLmx573zbVo7yOBqntjzcRpFCYAQSv7RM5rosCy_YOIAMNCb6yOB0apk%3D&gaa_ts=69cddce9&gaa_sig=HpttmDViumH2cVRMuhAJiCGUkqg0x4FrdbN2ie-VtdgjgeCKjr5ZV_oW2JJzRYiKuyr-Nf6aGXt22IgzXXwylQ%3D%3D
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In a heated debate, Robert Pape argues that the current Iran crisis is not just about bombs, deterrence, or regime change. It is about an escalation trap.
In this interview, Pape says there is no military solution to stopping Iran from eventually getting a nuclear weapon. He rejects the idea that bombing alone can topple the regime, dismisses hopes that outside pressure will trigger collapse from within, and argues that the only remaining path is diplomatic.
His most controversial claim comes late in the conversation: if the United States wants diplomacy to have any chance, Washington may need to “contain” Israel by preventing further escalation.
The debate turns on several hard questions:
Can bombing actually work?
Is the Iranian regime more fragile than Pape thinks?
Is Trump driven mainly by MAGA domestic politics rather than an Israel lobby framework?
And if military pressure cannot solve the problem, what leverage does America really have left?
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Robert Pape’s background
09:58 The Vietnam–Iran “escalation trap” analogy begins
16:10 Did Mossad “stir” Iranian protests? Source dispute and first big clash
19:35 When did the escalation really start? Israel, the U.S., and June 2025
24:15 Trump, MAGA politics, Mearsheimer, and the “someone else’s interests” tweet
28:25 What kind of Iran deal could still exist, and where Israel fits into it
30:57 Fordow, enriched uranium, and Pape’s long-running bombing model
33:35 Why Pape says bombing Fordow leads to pressure for later regime-change war
42:05 The deal Pape thinks Trump should have taken before the bombing
44:54 Direct question: stop Iran militarily or accept the diplomatic cost?
46:42 Pape: there is no military solution, only a diplomatic one
49:07 Are the Iranian people ready to turn on the regime? Protest debate
51:51 Pape’s core airpower claim: bombing alone has never toppled a regime
56:11 “Negotiation without leverage is begging” vs Pape’s leverage argument
56:55 What does “militarily contain Israel” actually mean?
59:05 Pape’s concrete proposal: a U.S. law cutting aid if Israel bombs Iran
01:00:11 Stage three of the escalation trap and warning about ground war
01:03:04 Noam’s challenge: how can you weigh costs without projecting future nuclear risk?
01:10:56 Final clash: what real strategy stops Iran from getting the bomb?
01:13:08 Pape’s closing position: the best remaining chance is “hemming in” Israel -
The Table is joined by Professor Scott Sagan - leading scholar of nuclear security and international relations.
Sagan explains that the biggest risk of Iran going nuclear is being missed. It's the threat of accidental explosion and even full-out nuclear war in the Middle East. In his view, this is especially true when small despotic nations get the bomb.
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Philip Klay is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He is an author, a journalist and winner of the National Book Award. He currently teaches fiction at Fairfield University and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Yorker and other esteemed publications.
We discuss his recent piece in The New York Times, “Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran.”
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Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by social networking pioneer and entrepreneur, Andrew Weinreich.
Weinreich is known for launching SixDegrees.com in 1997, which is recognized as one of the first social networking sites. He has been named #175 on the Forbes 250 list of America's Greatest Innovators. -
Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by Eric Kaufmann. Kaufmann is the author of multiple books, including The Third Awokening: A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism. He is a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and director of the Center for Heterodox Social Science.
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Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by bestselling author and award-winning journalist, Jesse Brown. Brown is the founder and editor of Canadaland. He won the Hillman Prize for Investigative reporting for breaking the Jian Ghomeshi scandal and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Factual Series for the television documentary Thunder Bay. He is a bestselling author and reporter and host of the podcast, What Is Happening Here.
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Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by Beejhy Barhany. Hailed "Harlem’s queen of Ethiopian Jewish cuisine," Barhany is the owner of Tsion Cafe, the Ethiopian Jewish restaurant, where she recently ended dine-in service, due to anti-Israel harassment.
She is also the author of Gursha: Timeless Recipes for Modern Kitchens, from Ethiopia, Israel, Harlem, and Beyond. The book has been heralded as one of the best cookbooks of 2025 by The New York Times and The Boston Globe. -
While Noam is away, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by investigative journalist Michael Tracey to discuss the latest developments in the newly released Epstein files.
Tracey asserts that the popular narrative of Jeffrey Epstein running a vast international sex trafficking ring—especially one involving “elite” clients—is not supported by credible evidence. He says that the factual record doesn’t substantiate claims of a sprawling organized network. They discuss ulterior motives, questions about victims and what's fact and what's fiction.
Tracey has contributed to a wide range of publications across the political spectrum, from The Nation to The American Conservative, the New York Daily News to the New York Post, and many more. - もっと表示する
