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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

The fallout of the Israeli attack on Doha and the killing of Charlie Kirk - with special guest Jonathan Freedland

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

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Watch us on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Teq1Qe9EEyM Meet us at Unholy Live NYC - October 29th, 2025 - https://streicker.nyc/events/unholy-live Follow us on social media: https://linktr.ee/unholypod Join our Patreon community to get access to bonus episodes, discounts on merch and more: https://bit.ly/UnholyPatreon Order "The Traitors Circle" by Jonathan Freedland - https://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Circle-Resistance-Germany_and-Betrayed/dp/0063373203 As America reels from the shocking assassination of the pro-Trump activist and organiser Charlie Kirk, Yonit and Jonathan assess the rising menace of political violence in the U.S. — from toxic rhetoric to loose gun laws. Meanwhile, the region is rocked by Israel’s first-ever airstrike on Qatar, raising fears of escalation and fury in the Gulf. Jonathan wears two hats this week — both co-host and guest — as he reflects on the release of his new book The Traitors Circle, which tells an astonishing true story of courage, resistance and betrayal during the Third Reich. Plus: a Chutzpah award that dominates the headlines, and a Mensch nominee whose pronunciation sparks an unexpected debate.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The fallout from the Israeli airstrike in Doha, a political assassination in Utah,

0:05.0

and we will be speaking to someone we know very well, Jonathan Friedland,

0:09.2

moving from the co-host chair to the guest chair this week.

0:12.5

It's Unholy. I'm Ui Lee Levy in Washington.

0:15.0

And I'm a nervous Jonathan Friedland in London.

0:28.5

Thank you. in London. It's unholy.

0:30.1

Two Jews on the news.

0:31.0

We'll get to all of that.

0:33.1

News has been coming thick and fast all week.

0:36.1

We did a special update episode at the start of the

0:40.1

week about Doha, but the news that has broken in the last 17 or 18 hours, as you and I speak,

0:46.9

has come out of the United States and you are in the United States, you need. So you have been

0:53.1

really able to follow very directly

0:55.8

the U.S. reaction to this killing of a podcaster, right-wing activist, Republicans, a rainmaker,

1:04.9

Charlie Kirk. The feeling here, Jonathan, really, is that something massive has happened. You talk about political

1:13.3

assassinations, so your mind goes to, you know, presidents and the likes. My mind immediately went

1:18.9

to Gabby Gifford, and obviously there's this country has sadly a history, a long history,

1:25.1

of political violence. But this shooting of Charlie Kirk and the questions around why he was shot, the way he

1:34.7

was shot, of course, this kind of turned into the feeling in Washington was, first of all,

1:39.3

shock, of course, but of even a kind of day of morning. And of course, this falls very much in political lines.

1:49.0

We know his politics, his right-wing politics. It was an avid supporter of Donald Trump, you know, this young man building this movement, all of his, I mean, I'm putting the opinions aside now just to say that it immediately, like everything else we live in this era where everything is politicized.

2:06.0

So immediately it sounded like the music here was the violence of the left against the right.

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