529. Antisemitism, Polarisation, and How the King Outplayed Trump

The Rest Is Politics

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News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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How is polarisation fuelling antisemitism, and how should religious and political leaders respond? What can politicians learn from the King’s speech to Congress about how to challenge Trump? Is Russia's security partnership model collapsing across Africa? Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questions and more in this week's edition of Question Time. __________ Our new student discount: get TRIP membership for just £20 per year when you sign up using your university email at checkout on ⁠therestispolitics.com⁠. Go deeper into the world of The Rest Is Politics by signing up for our free newsletter HERE, featuring exclusive interviews, analysis and weekend reads from Alastair and Rory. Join The Rest Is Politics Plus. Start your free trial at therestispolitics.com to unlock exclusive bonus content – including Rory and Alastair’s miniseries – plus ad-free listening, early access to episodes and live show tickets, exclusive newsletters, discounted book prices, and a private chatroom on Discord. The Rest Is Politics is powered by Fuse Energy. Stop overpaying for energy. Switch at fuseenergy.com/politics and get a free TRIP+ subscription. Get our exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ nordvpn.com/restispolitics It's risk-free with Nord's 30 day money back guarantee ✅ __________ Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @restispolitics Email: therestispolitics@goalhanger.com __________ Social Producer: Celine Charles Video Editor: Vasco Andrade Assistant Producer: Daisy Alston-Horne Producer: Evan Green Exec Producer: Chris Sawyer General Manager: Tom Whiter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to The Restis Politics. To support the podcast, listen without the adverts and get early access to episodes and live show tickets, go to therestispolitics.com. That's the rest is politics.com. It's becoming very, very polarized. There's a sense that a lot of my friends who are worried about anti-Semitism are not very sympathetic to Islamophobia, and people who are
0:21.5	worried about Islamophobia are not very sympathetic to anti-Semitism. Actually, what we need is a reset of
0:26.0	the whole democratic conversation, which says fundamentally everybody is equal, everybody deserves
0:31.1	to be protected across the board, and they should be working together to make those arguments.
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1:49.9	Politics now demands a kind of constant attention.
1:52.9	News, alerts, statements, email links, clips, briefings, but it's all arriving at speed,
1:57.1	asking to be opened at once.
1:58.6	And once that becomes routine, you stop checking things as carefully as you should.
2:02.6	And data breaches are at record levels.
2:04.6	Most people don't realize how exposed they are.
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