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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

A Very Jewish Christmas

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

Jonathan Freedland, Society & Culture, Israel, Jews, Documentary, Judaism, News, Middle East, Jewish, News Commentary, Religion & Spirituality, Israel Podcast, Yonit Levi

4.7770 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Outside Israel, the world is preparing for the festive holiday period. In Israel, meanwhile, this is just another work week. Yonit and Jonathan catch up to discuss what Christmas is like for jews around the world. We also discuss the fallout of Donald Trump's comments on the Jewish community we aired last week.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Yonite Levi of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.

0:15.1

And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.

0:18.3

And we are unholy two Jews on the News from Keshet podcast. Well, that last episode kind of blew up in London. And we are unholy, two Jews on the News from Keshet podcast.

0:22.2

Well, that last episode kind of blew up, Jonathan.

0:25.6

It kind of did.

0:26.7

I was just going to say, you know, so what have we been doing the last few days?

0:29.7

This, you tweeted out a sample of the clips of Barakravides' conversation with Donald Trump that was exclusively on Unholy

0:40.3

last week. And I think it was thousands and thousands and thousands of retweets. And that prompted

0:46.2

news coverage kind of everywhere. I mean, CNN and the Washington Post and Vanity Fair and the

0:52.5

New York Times, everybody, the Guardian, everybody covered it,

0:55.6

all based on what we heard out of the mouth of the former president.

1:00.0

Yes, it was quite a week.

1:03.0

It's an interesting, I think it's an interesting thing that Barak had two big stories, right?

1:10.9

One was the F-him about Netanyahu, and the other was really the outrageous things he said about American Jews.

1:18.6

And in Israel, it was interesting to note that the first made the huge headlines here.

1:24.8

It shattered the illusion, you know, that the Netanyahu and Donald Trump

1:28.0

were two peas in a pod. And the second one, the latter, about American Jews, made much less

1:33.0

headlines. And I think we can talk a little bit about that gap. I don't think that Israelis don't

1:37.4

care about American Jews or what he said about them. But it was like, okay, first of all,

1:42.7

we kind of felt like he's not

1:45.2

in the political arena anymore. Netanyahu feels like he still is. So when he comes back,

1:51.1

we're going to deal with all of that stuff. So there was a discrepancy between both headlines,

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