A New Segment! & “Jews Don’t Count” with British comedian David Baddiel
Being Jewish with Jonah Platt
Jonah Platt
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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David Baddiel — comedian, author, public intellectual, and the UK’s most outspoken Jewish voice — joins Jonah to unpack the core ideas behind his groundbreaking book Jews Don’t Count. With his characteristic wit and unflinching eye for truth, Baddiel deconstructs contemporary anti-Jew racism, explaining how it functions, its origins, why it persists in “progressive” spaces, how it’s different from traditional antisemitism, and why Jews are so often excluded from conversations about representation, identity, and minority status.
💬 Topics include:
- The double standards in how antisemitism is treated compared to other forms of racism
- Baddiel’s confusing Jewish upbringing and identity struggles
- His family’s escape from Nazi Germany and his grandfather’s unjust internment on the Isle of Man
- Antisemitism in UK football culture
- What it means to be a “Non-Zionist”
- Baddiel’s atheist yearning for divine comfort aka The God Desire
- His podcast with Muslim politician Sayeeda Warsi: A Jew and a Muslim Go There 🎧
- And why “Jews don’t count” as a minority when it comes to media representation on shows like Friends and Seinfeld 📺
This is a must-watch conversation for anyone interested in understanding contemporary antisemitism, generational trauma, and the challenges of fighting anti-Jew racism in today’s complex “woke” climate.
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Host & Production Team
Host: Jonah Platt; Produced by Rainbow Creative (Executive Producer: Matthew Jones; Story Producer: Sean Leviashvili; Editors: Patrick Edwards & Nathan Wheatley); Consulting Producer: Bethany Mandel; Research Associate: Samantha Greenwald; Executive Assistant: Josie Rothschild; Creative Associate: Rachel Stern; Social Media Manager: Yuval Yosha; Graphic Designer Noah Bell; Interns: Sasha Nelson & Emma Webb
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MENTIONED IN EPISODE
- Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel
- Jews Don’t Count Documentary (For Prime/BBC Select)
- The God Desire by David Baddiel
- My Family: A Memoir by David Baddiel
- The Secret Purposes by David Baddiel
- Watch The Infidel on Tubi
- David Baddiel: October 7th Was A Pogrom, I Couldn’t Ignore It
- Haaretz Article: ‘Jews Are A Glitch In The Matrix’
- Jeremy Corbyn & Antisemitism in The UK’s Labour Party
- Antisemitism in the U.K. Has Grown Over the Past Decade
- A Muslim & A Jew Go There
- Clips from David Baddiel’s Episode of Who Do You Think You Are?
- People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn
- Being Jewish with Jonah Platt (Dara Horn Episode)
- Israel: A Simple Guide To The Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
- George Orwell’s Politics & The English Language
- How Tottenham Became The “Jewish” Football Team in England
- No Room for Racism - Premier League anti-racism program
- The Y Word Film by David Baddiel (About Anti-Jewish Racism in British Football)
- Jeremy Irons Reads T.S. Eliot’s Poetry
- Burbank With A Baedeker by T.S. Eliot
- T.S. Eliot & The Jews
- Holocaust Survivors Living Below The Poverty Line in Los Angeles
- Dara Horn on the Jews of Harbin, China
- Mumbai Terror Attacks Target Jews
- Schrödinger’s Cat Theory
- Who Is Theodor Herzl (Founding Father of Zionism)?
- The Long Ugly History Behind “The Jews Will Not Replace Us”
- What Is The Great Replacement Theory? ADL Explains
- Why We Should Retire The Word ‘Antisemitism’ with Jonah Platt
- Tree of Life Shooting Motivated by Racist Jew Hate
- Rachel Dolezal: Woman Pretending To Be Black
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Shalom, Kavarim, Banot, and welcome to another very special episode of the world's number one Jewish podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | I have to ask for a small favor. |
| 0:10.4 | As an independent show, we don't have a massive marketing machine behind us. |
| 0:14.6 | Our growth is purely organic, fueled by dedicated viewers and listeners like you. |
| 0:19.5 | So if you would be so kind, please take 30 seconds, |
| 0:24.0 | head over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify, find this show, and leave me a five-star rating and a short |
| 0:30.0 | written review. I love seeing all of your thoughtful and generous feedback. Some of it has even |
| 0:35.0 | made it onto the show and may again. And as of this recording, |
| 0:38.7 | we are just eight ratings away from hitting 500 on Apple. Crossing that threshold would be a huge |
| 0:44.3 | milestone for us. It's a small mitzvah on your part, but it really is the fuel that allows us to |
| 0:50.0 | keep these amazing conversations going. So thank you in advance. Unless you don't leave a rating, |
| 0:56.1 | in which case you're a butthead. There's a lot I could talk to you about today. I could tell you |
| 1:00.9 | about my experience a few weeks ago when I appeared on a New York radio show to discuss the Jewish |
| 1:05.9 | community, only to have the segments MAGA-obsessed host abruptly cut to commercial 90 seconds in when he learned I had voted for Kamala Harris before a single word about Jews had been uttered. |
| 1:17.3 | I could talk about Israel's historic strike on Iran, the shifting power dynamics in the Middle East, the regime's indiscriminate response, and the Western far left's complete apathy to the murder of innocent |
| 1:28.1 | civilians in Israel again. I could talk about the sweeping deportations and protests roiling the |
| 1:34.3 | United States, the arguments around immigration, the ruthless methodology of an administration |
| 1:40.2 | seemingly more focused on creating chaos and fear than alleviating it. But I don't want to talk |
| 1:45.7 | about any of those things. Believe me, I tried. I've got like three different versions of this |
| 1:50.7 | monologue started and stopped. Each time I began, I would get a paragraph in and run out of ideas. |
| 1:57.2 | There are experts discussing these events on our TVs and phones all day, every day. |
| 2:02.3 | There's just not much I could add at this point, other than to offer you my support during |
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