Eli Lake: Zohran Mamdani’s woke intifada

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Eli Lake – columnist at the Free Press and host of the Breaking History podcast – on hipster socialism, Islamo-leftism and the crumbling of the Democratic elites. Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.6	TNCs apply.
0:29.6	We are on the cusp of an historic kind of achievement for American socialism.
0:35.6	This has been a kind of persistent problem for the left, really you could argue for the last
0:41.3	150 years.
0:42.3	Once you allow in like illiberal authoritarian radicals, they will take over unless they are purged.
0:50.3	You don't care about Palestinians.
0:51.3	If you care about Palestinians, the first people you would blame for October 7th would be the party that started the war.
0:59.0	They want to recreate the Islamic Empire, the caliphate of the 8th century. That's what their program is.
1:08.0	And they say it explicitly. Oftentimes, when you see somebody saying, this is an anti-war demonstration, it's not an anti-war
1:14.9	demonstration at all.
1:16.6	They love war.
1:17.6	They just are on the other side. Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill, and my special guest this week, Eli,
1:31.8	Lake. Eli, welcome to the show. It's great to be here, Brandon. I've been a big fan for a while. I love
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