I'm Jonathan Sacerdoti

Journalist, broadcaster, and commentator Jonathan Sacerdoti engages in in-depth conversations with thought leaders, experts, and influential voices from around the world. Covering politics, culture, history, and current affairs, each episode delivers sharp analysis, valuable insights, and engaging discussions on the most pressing topics of our time. Cutting through the noise, this series provides informed perspectives on the issues shaping the world today.

I'm Jonathan Sacerdoti is a news podcast hosted by Jonathan Sacerdoti, with 67 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  How Britain and Europe rely on Israeli defence tech, whatever their leaders say — Yuval Steinitz on the catastrophic consequences of boycotting Israel and on Jewish survival

  Jul 23, 202655 min

  Israel has become one of the most formidable developers of advanced defence systems in the world, despite its tiny size and population. Now, as calls to boycott its arms industry grow louder across Europe, Yuval Steinitz — Chairman of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and former Israeli Minister of Finance, Energy and Intelligence — tells Jonathan Sacerdoti how Iron Dome, David's Sling and the revolutionary Iron Beam laser have defended the country against more than 40,000 missiles and rockets in three years, and why he believes those pushing to disarm Israel are handing its enemies exactly what they want. As Britain reluctantly accepts its new Prime Minister, Steinitz responds to Andy Burnham's proposed arms restrictions on Israel, argues that singling out the Jewish state for boycott while ignoring China, Russia or Saudi Arabia is indefensible, and points out that British fighter jets and air defense systems already depend on Israeli technology developed by Rafael. In this wide-ranging conversation, Jonathan Sacerdoti speaks with Yuval Steinitz about the hypocrisy behind BDS, the $2 laser rewriting the rules of warfare, Israel's rise past Britain, France and Germany in GDP per capita, the legacy of David Ben-Gurion, and what a defenceless Israel would mean for 8 million Jews. Donate to support these conversations, at https://jonathansacerdoti.com/donate ️ Watch if you want to understand why disarming Israel would not bring peace, but risk a new Holocaust in the Middle East. We Discuss: How Israel intercepted over 40,000 missiles and rockets in three years Why Britain's new Prime Minister made Israel his first target ⚖️ The hypocrisy Steinitz sees in boycotting Israel but not China, Russia or Saudi Arabia The $2 laser beam that could end the era of missile warfare How France's arms embargo backfired and forced Israel to build its own defence industry How Israel's GDP per capita overtook Britain, France and Germany The secret history of Ben-Gurion founding Rafael in 1948 ️ Why Britain's own fighter jets already rely on Israeli-developed technology Steinitz's warning: what a defenceless Israel would mean for 8 million Jews ️ Why he still believes peace with the Palestinians remains possible Subscribe for more serious and unflinching conversations about Israel, defence, Western politics and the forces shaping the Middle East. Follow Jonathan On X On Instagram On Substack Comment below — can the West keep criticising Israel's right to defend itself while relying on the very technology that defends it? #IronDome #IronBeam #Israel #IDF #IsraelDefense #BDS #JonathanSacerdoti #MiddleEast #IsraelNews #WesternCivilisation

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  The Muslim Brotherhood "invasion" the UK refuses to see – a warning from two Emiratis on the threat Britain is trying to ignore

  Jun 29, 202651 min

  Britain has been infiltrated, the Muslim Brotherhood's quiet takeover is already underway, and the West is listening to the wrong Muslims. Rauda Altenaiji and Ahmed Sharif Al Ameri are part of a new wave of Emirati voices speaking out, proudly and publicly, in defence of the Abraham Accords and the world's only Jewish state. They feel safer walking through Dubai at 4am than London at 8pm, and their leadership has stopped sending students to British universities for fear they'll be radicalised. But beneath the warning are harder questions. The UAE enforces its famous tolerance through some of the world's harshest laws — including execution. Is that a model the West could ever, or should ever, follow? Is their picture of coexistence too perfect to be true? And when two polished young influencers appear defending Israel and the Accords, who exactly is behind them — and why? In this conversation, recorded live at the ARC 2026 conference, Jonathan Sacerdoti speaks with Rauda Altenaiji and Ahmed Sharif Al Ameri — Emirati commentators and social-media political voices — about the Abraham Accords, Islamist extremism in Britain, the Muslim Brotherhood, antisemitism, migrant workers' rights, the death penalty, and why they believe London is losing its identity while the Gulf thrives. Filmed at ARC 2026 ARC’s new book: ⁠The Age of Reconstruction⁠ - by Johnny Patterson, ARC Chief Ideas Officer Donate to support these conversations, at: ⁠https://jonathansacerdoti.com/donate⁠ 👁️‍🗨️ Watch if you want to understand how two Emiratis see Britain's extremism problem — and why they believe the West is listening to the wrong Muslims. 🎙️ We Discuss: 🔴 Why two Emiratis publicly defend Israel and the Abraham Accords — and what it cost them 🕌 The Muslim Brotherhood "invasion" of the West, and why they say it now works through PR, not conquest 🇬🇧 Why the UAE will no longer send its students to study in the UK ⚖️ How the UAE treats antisemitism as terrorism — and the one case that ended in execution 🏙️ Why they'd walk through Dubai at 4am but not London after 8pm 👷 The truth about the UAE: the uncomfortable questions on migrant workers, labour laws and 87.9% of the population 💀 Tolerance enforced by the death penalty — model or warning? 📖 The idea of a "civilisational jihad" 🎓 How a Muslim woman was branded Islamophobic by a white British university professor 🤔 "Is this engineered?" — answering the suspicion that these influencers came from nowhere 🌍 How to spread coexistence to the rest of the Arab world 🔔 Subscribe for more serious and unflinching conversations about the Middle East, Israel, the Gulf, Islamism, and the forces reshaping the West. 📲 Follow Jonathan On ⁠X⁠ On ⁠Instagram⁠ On ⁠Substack⁠ ARC Conference: On ⁠X⁠ On ⁠YouTube⁠ On ⁠Instagram⁠ 💬 Comment below — is the UAE's model of enforced tolerance something the West should learn from, or the very thing it should fear?

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  How the world's self-proclaimed winner got played: Dan Schueftan on Trump’s Iran mistake

  Jun 15, 202653 min

  Is Trump's deal with Iran worse than Obama's JCPOA? Dan Schueftan tells Jonathan Sacerdoti how it emboldens every Iranian proxy from Hezbollah to the Houthis, and leaves Israel in one of the most precarious positions in its history. Both sides are claiming victory. But beneath those claims are harder questions. Has Iran been given a free pass to rearm? Has Israel lost the cover it needed to act? What does this mean for the Gulf states, for Lebanon, for the Iranian people desperate to be rid of their regime — and for the West's credibility as a civilisation willing to defend itself? In this conversation, Jonathan Sacerdoti speaks with Dr. Dan Schueftan — strategic analyst and former director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa — about what the Trump-Iran deal actually contains, why a president who built his identity on winning may have handed Iran a historic victory, what Israel can still do alone, and why the West's retreat from confrontation is the most dangerous signal it can send. Donate to support these conversations, at https://jonathansacerdoti.com/donate 👁️‍🗨️ Watch if you want to understand what the Trump-Iran nuclear deal really means for Israel, for the Middle East, and for any country that still believes in the willingness to fight for its interests. 🎙️ We Discuss: 🔴 Why Dan Schueftan calls this deal a capitulation worse than Obama's — and what Iran actually received 🇮🇷 How Iran keeps uranium enrichment, faces no limits on ballistic missiles, and its proxies remain intact 🇮🇱 What Israel can do now — alone, without the American cover it depended on 🔫 Why Hamas and Hezbollah will never disarm — and why that was never a realistic goal with or without the US 🌍 How the Gulf states, Lebanon's non-Hezbollah population, and Iran's own people were also abandoned by this deal 📉 Why Trump — a man who defines himself entirely by winning and losing — may not yet grasp what he gave away ⚔️ The 1930s parallel: how Western unwillingness to fight emboldened Hitler, and what today's retreat signals to today's barbarians 🏛️ Why Western democracy can no longer produce leaders like Churchill or FDR — and what that means for civilisation 🇮🇱 Why Israel's combination of open society and willingness to fight makes it unique in the Western world — and uniquely resented 💡 Dan's "smart optimism": why things will get worse, but Israel will grow stronger faster than things deteriorate 🔔 Subscribe for more serious and unflinching conversations about the Middle East, Israel, Iran, US foreign policy, and the forces reshaping the West. 📲 Follow Jonathan On X: https://x.com/jonsac On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathansacerdoti/ On Substack: https://jonsac.substack.com 💬 Comment below — is there something going on in this deal that Trump knows and we don't, or has the self-proclaimed master dealmaker just made the worst deal of his career?

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  Suspended, investigated, nearly expelled: what universities do to dissidents, and how Connie Shaw broke free

  Jun 2, 20261h 20mS0

  <p>Connie Shaw went on LBC at 8am to defend free speech on Islam — and was publicly called a racist before the interview ended. She had already been suspended from her university radio committee and faced potential expulsion for writing about trans ideology on campus. She used to be woke herself.</p><p>👉🏻 If you like this interview please share it with a friend, and give it five stars 👈🏻</p><p>Across universities, newsrooms, and public platforms in Britain, a pattern keeps repeating: point to Islamic extremism, question trans ideology, or defend Western identity — and the response is not debate but accusation...

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  Who controls what you know? Ashley Rindsberg on the capture of Wikipedia and public knowledge

  May 14, 20261h 17mS0

  <p>Ashley Rindsberg has uncovered how a small group of powerful online actors can twist the facts we trust, reshape public reality at global scale, and quietly influence what millions of people believe they know.</p><p>Search engines, encyclopaedias, artificial intelligence models and social platforms now form the infrastructure of public knowledge. They shape what citizens believe, what institutions repeat, what journalists trust, and what political actors can smuggle into respectable discourse. The deepest battles of the internet age are fought through language, sourcing, rankings, edits and definitions. This is a full scale battle for your mind.</p><p>...

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