You know what they say: two Jews, three opinions? Well, right now it can often feel that the Jewish community’s nuances are being drowned out. Emotions are running high, and the Jewish world can feel at once both monolithic and polarised. It can make having open and honest conversations about antisemitism and Israel/Palestine difficult for Jews and non-Jews alike. 

Meeting at irregular intervals, Jews Schmooze brings together a group of progressive Jews with a range of political and religious outlooks to press pause on the rhetoric, and to have honest conversations about all things Jewish in the news(ish). If you like semitics really looking at the semantics of what it means to be Jewish and progressive, this is the podcast for you.

So, the Labour Party NEC has passed the IHRA definition of antisemitism, with clarifications ensuring freedom of speech on Israel/Palestine... But what does that actually mean? In the first episode of Jews Schmooze, join writer and director David Schneider, journalists Rachel Shabi and Michael Segalov, barrister Adam Wagner and Yachad’s Hannah Weisfeld as they unpick Labour antisemitism, British-Jewish identity, and what you can and can’t say in Labour about Israel.

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