In our final episode, we shift our focus from 20th-century writers to contemporary playwrights and modern allegations of dramatic antisemitism. Since antisemitism has been on the rise in recent years, it is crucial to examine how modern works, ...

In this episode, we turn our focus to the 20th century – a period marked by profound literary innovation and social upheaval. From the modernist verse of T.S. Eliot to the beloved children’s tales of Roald Dahl, the literature of this era is sa...

In the 19th century, the Jewish community in England faced both progress and prejudice. While legal reforms began to improve their status, antisemitic stereotypes persisted.In this episode, we turn to Charles Dickens, a towering figure ...

The early-modern period was a golden age for English theatre. Giants like Shakespeare, Marlowe, Dekker, Middleton and Jonson were all active in the 16th and 17th centuries. But where did the Jews fit into this Golden Age, and how were they repr...

The Jews were expelled from England in 1290, but this did not mean the end of literary representation.In this episode, we delve into the antisemitic tropes in 14th-century literature, focusing on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Joh...

Whilst we prepare for the next season of Podcast Against Antisemitism, welcome to our brand new six-part series chronicling the history of antisemitism in English literature. In this podcast, we explore the anti-Jewish tropes perpetuated by cen...

Gideon Falter is the Chief Executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), a charity dedicated to exposing and countering antisemitism through education and zero-tolerance law enforcement. Gideon was elected to lead CAA in the autumn of 2014,...

Natalie Sanandaji is a survivor of the Nova music festival massacre, where a reported 364 people were murdered by Hamas terrorists. This atrocity was part of the wider 7th October attacks in Israel, the single worst massacre of the Jews since t...

Shabbos Kestenbaum is a Religion and Public Policy graduate student from Harvard University. Since the 7th October Hamas atrocities, Shabbos has been embroiled in a long public battle with Harvard, which has resulted in him suing them for faili...

Steven Berkoff is an actor, author, playwright, theatre practitioner and director born in the Jewish East End of London. Over the course of his critically-acclaimed career, Steven has adapted Kafka, directed Shakespeare and produced his own ori...

Eylon Keshet is the cousin of Yarden Bibas who, along with baby Kfir, his five-year-old brother Ariel, and their mother Shiri, were kidnapped and taken as hostages to Gaza by Hamas terrorists on 7th October. The Bibas family lived on the Nir Oz...

Benjamin Till is a Jewish composer, director and filmmaker. He is currently the Composer in Residence for Mosaic Voices, a vocal ensemble at London’s New West End Synagogue. Benjamin’s music has been performed at top venues across the country, ...

Dora Reisser is a Bulgarian Holocaust survivor whose life was profoundly impacted by the rise of the Nazi regime. Despite facing unimaginable challenges, she emerged as an accomplished ballet dancer, actress, fashion designer and writer. <...

Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar is a historian, theologian and ethicist currently serving as Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford. Nigel has been described as “one of the leading living Western ethicists” by the N...

Marco Shalma is the creator and executive producer of the upcoming documentary ‘Here We Go Again’ which delves into the cyclical and cynical nature of antisemitism through the lens of a diverse group of activists. The film invites viewers to re...

Alissa Timoshkina is a celebrated Jewish food writer, historian, chef, and author. Her recipes have been featured in numerous publications, including The Guardian, Red Magazine, Olive Magazine, The Independent and House & Garden. <...

Janet Singer Applefield is a Polish Holocaust survivor whose parents made the harrowing decision to leave her in the care of others when she was seven years old in order that she may live. Janet was a ‘Hidden Child’ until the war ended and was ...

Joe Jacobson is one of only a few current British Jewish professional footballers. Until very recently, Joe served as the captain for the Wycombe Wanderers where he played for ten years and made 400 appearances. He was also the former under-21 ...

Dr Einat Wilf is a leading thinker on Israel, Zionism, foreign policy and education. She was a Member of Knesset with the Labor Party and then the Independence Party from 2010 to 2013 and is the author of seven books. Following the horrific Ham...

Zoe Buckman is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and photography. Known for her artwork that explores themes of feminism, mortality, and equality, Zoe's work has reached audiences around the world. Zoe has repeated...

Reverend Hayley Ace is the co-founder of the grassroots movement, Christian Action Against Antisemitism, along with her husband Timothy Gutmann.  Both Hayley and Timothy are reverends from Lea Valley Church in Waltham Abbey and stan...

Since 2010, Mike Freer has been the Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green. On 1st February of this year, Mike announced his decision to not stand for re-election to Parliament at the next general election, citing the “intolerable stres...

Brett Gelman is a multi-talented actor, writer, and comedian whose work spans television, film, and stage. Brett has had several memorable roles in a variety of shows such as BBC’s “Fleabag,” FX’s “Married” and Netflix’s “Stranger Things”, and ...

Elad Poterman, along with his baby daughter and wife Maria, are survivors of the Kibbutz Nahal Oz massacre. Nahal Oz sits just 800 metres from the Gaza border and was one of the first targets in the early hours of the Hamas terrorist attacks th...

Mervyn Kersh is a distinguished Second World War veteran. Now 99 years old, he joined the army in 1943 at the age of 18.In this episode, we speak about his experiences of antisemitism growing up as a Jew in south London, witnessing the ...