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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Ceasefire talk, hostage politics and Logan Roy

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

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

4.7770 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A US-Iran deal appears to be taking shape — and Israel isn't in the room. As diplomatic back-channels buzz and American strikes on Iran continue under a ceasefire that apparently requires bombing to maintain, Netanyahu finds himself watching from the outside: no seat at the table, no answers on the nuclear file, no movement on proxies. Meanwhile, two hostage parents — whose sons were held in Gaza at the same time — are entering Israeli politics from opposite ends of the spectrum, a story that says more about where the country is heading than any poll. Plus: the Caroline Glick appointment, the Israel Solidarity Parade in New York, antisemitism in London's British Museum, and a Chutzpah award for a congressman whose concession speech managed to be both funny and deeply troubling. This week's Mensch of the Week will leave you wanting to move to Tel Aviv.

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0:00.0

There's talk of a deal between the United States and Iran, but Israel apparently left in the cold.

0:06.8

And some of the hostage families of Israel enter the political fray on very different sides.

0:13.8

It's unholy. I'm Jonathan Friedland in London.

0:17.0

And I'm Munich Le Levian Tel Aviv.

0:30.3

Unholy, two Jews on the news.

0:31.7

I mean, so much news.

0:32.4

Really?

0:33.5

Lots.

0:35.0

So much going on.

0:36.0

How is this possible?

0:37.7

We should start having a daily podcast.

0:44.5

I'm just saying, Jonathan, I mean, you're going to have to see me every day because we have to get like our minds wrapped around all of this.

0:46.2

No, there is so much news. And the funny thing is the thought that this put in my mind is, given how much news there is, how on earth do all these world leaders who've got big decisions to make and take have time to be apparently as socially media plugged in as they are?

1:02.5

I look at the likes of Donald Trump particularly, and he just seems to be on his phone, you know, more than my kids.

1:10.0

I mean, and more than I am, where are where are the hours in the day? But, I mean, and the stuff they are putting on, you know, online as well, did, I have to say, got me this week, both of them, Trump, Netanyahu, they're both at it. Yeah, I mean, what do you want to start with? Because I want to talk about Netanyahu's video. Go with that. Go with that one. So it is a, he sent this out for Chavuots, the celebration. We talked about it a lot last week, but it was a holiday. And what he posted was this video of a family. There's no other way to describe it to the kind of stereotypical leftist family in which is a son, a daughter and parents.

1:46.5

And the son says, I have something to say to you, guys. And so the parents think, obviously, you're going to say you're gay. We're fine with it. Don't worry about it. He says, no, no, I'm coming out to you as a BB supporter. And then the mother gets a cardiac arrest. the father said you should have said you were gay, you know, the whole thing and how people are,

2:01.9

and the sort of underlining line of the video is kind of saying people are discriminated against in the country because they are Netanyahuas supporters. A lot of criticism for this, particularly because it came out on a holiday. And a lot of people are saying, wait a minute, you're the prime minister of the country. You're celebrating a holiday here at Chavuot. You're not supposed to, you know, do the whole

2:20.9

dividing parts of the country. So that was one video. And it kind of, and we talked about this,

2:25.8

this week, you and I kind of offline about how it reminded me of that video, the AI video,

2:31.0

again, around the world, Trump and Stephen Colbert.

2:35.4

Yeah, there was this video of Donald Trump appearing to put Stephen Colbert in a big dumpster

2:40.4

bin and then doing his little YMCA dance afterwards.

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