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The Brendan O'Neill Show

Zoe Strimpel: How ‘anti-Zionism’ corrupted the arts

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Writer and historian Zoe Strimpel returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss her notorious encounter with Matthew Collings’s self-described ‘anti-Semitic art show’. Plus: they discuss her new book, Good Slut, and how the left and the right turned against women’s freedom. Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest ever live event, on Saturday 27 June in Westminster featuring Konstantin Kisin, Lionel Shriver, Katharine Birbalsingh, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and more speakers to be announced. Get tickets here: https://www.spiked-online.com/event/spiked-summit/  Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and get unlimited, ad-free reading and other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s Vibe Shift now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vibe-Shift-Wokeness-Greenism-Technocracy/dp/106871932X/  🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Vibe-Shift-Wokeness-Greenism-Technocracy/dp/106871932X/  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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I had zero idea that this was going on.

0:32.6

I mean, I just completely randomly popped in off the street.

0:35.6

You know, the penny started to drop.

0:41.1

I saw the exhibition notes that Collings had written.

0:42.8

By the way, I'd never heard of Matthew Collins.

0:48.6

The Screed was like this A4 block of text that just, I could just see the words Zionism and hell, like repeatedly.

0:53.9

Plus like these disgusting crimes that were, that he'd imagined Israel was responsible for.

0:56.6

I'm in the fray. Like, I'm aware of the kinds of things that pass for legitimate in this debate, none of which are. But this was such

1:03.5

next level. Israeli Jews were all pictured spewing blood. Some of them were in the IDF, like

1:08.6

stamping on skulls. I thought, look, I have a duty here. I mean, maybe these guys haven't even met a Jew. Maybe it just takes someone saying to them, like, guys, this is like completely insane and I'm acceptable. So I did speak to the man, and he was immediately just horrible shouting at me, cutting me down. It was just like this, you know, this specificity of this hatred. It's just like, he's getting in there with like Jewish lingo and repurposing it to throw

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