Podcasts about gadi taub

01:00 Dave Green v Nathan Cofnas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JCq-wlOg88&ab_channel=TheDistributist 28:00 The power of nations: measuring what matters, https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/43/2/7/12211/The-Power-of-Nations-Measuring-What-Matters 42:00 The source of Donald Trump's energy 48:00 Tim Dillon on Hamas propagandist Miss Rachel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjYNk6BrHqw 59:30 Michael joins to talk Jake Tapper's new book, https://x.com/Michaelmvlog 1:19:00 Megyn Kelly Details Her Viral and Explosive Jake Tapper Interview Strategy, with Mark Halperin 1:28:00 Noah Carl: In Defence of Non-Experts, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/podcast-should-we-have-more-experts 1:47:30 Expertise in hard sciences is not of the same value as expertise in the soft sciences 1:56:00 NYT: For Trump, Civil Rights Protections Should Help White Men, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-race-civil-right-white-men.html 2:00:00 John Lott Jr. talks to Ann Coulter about Biden's war on domestic terrorism, https://substack.com/home/post/p-163858429?source=queue&autoPlay=true 2:13:00 John Lott: DNI Releases Secret Biden Plan Raising Serious Civil Liberties Concerns, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/23/dni_releases_secret_biden_plan_raising_serious_civil_liberties_concerns_152689.html 2:15:00 John Lott: Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/22/crime_rates_of_illegal_migrants_underreported_152825.html 2:22:00 Mark Halperin on Trump's humor and how he's a more effective president this time round, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul_fmOpcVhE 2:26:00 Gadi Taub talks with Michael Doran about Trump & Israel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8MmHlVpUQM 2:40:00 PsychHacks: The most TOXIC RELATIONSHIP BELIEF: how you may be sabotaging your success, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dcf4a8hW10 2:44:00 Joe Biden releases news of his prostate cancer just before the release of Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson's new book, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVFu2WZqoXA

President Trump and his team came into the White House determined to reverse the course of American foreign policy. Most every president does. It's what President Obama wished to do vis-à-vis President Bush, President Trump vis-à-vis President Obama, and President Biden vis-à-vis President Trump. Where Biden was for, Trump would be against; where Biden was left, Trump would be right; where Biden was blue; Trump would be red. Every question of foreign policy with any relevance whatsoever to the cut and thrust of domestic American politics would henceforth be set in the opposite direction. In the Middle East, President Trump thought that his predecessor was too acquiescent to Iran, too squeamish about empowering the Israelis to protect themselves, and too untroubled by Houthi attacks. For President Trump and many of his supporters, the quintessential act of the Biden administration was the withdrawal from Afghanistan in the fall of 2021—a symbol of American weakness, incompetence, fecklessness, and delusion. With the start of his second term as president, Donald Trump set about restoring the maximum-pressure campaign on Iran. He confronted—with aggressive military force—the Houthis. He restored the American supply of materiel to Israel. And yet, these decisions do not tell the whole story of the Trump administration's conduct of American foreign policy during its first hundred days. The foreign-policy record, the disorder, the personnel, and some possible future steps of the administration seem confused. To bring forth some clarity from this confusion, and to shed light on the murky picture of the Trump administration's approach to the Middle East, Michael Doran joins this week's podcast. Doran is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, contributor to Mosaic, Tablet, the Wall Street Journal, and the Free Press, and the co-host, with Gadi Taub, of a new podcast called Israel Update. This conversation was recorded live for an audience of members of the Tikvah Society. If you'd like to learn more about supporting our work, and joining the Tikvah Society, please visit Tikvah.org/Society. Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble.

Hugh discusses the stock market gains, China, tariffs, and the GOP budget bill with Comfortably Smug, Mary Katharine Ham, John Campbell, Charles C. W. Cooke, Phil Balboni, Sarah Bedford, and Gadi Taub.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

01:00 Trump's plan for Gaza 08:00 How morality is used against Israel 13:30 Under Trump we have more free speech 15:00 Affirmative action 23:00 Why Michael Kochin eschews jargon 25:00 Paying obeisance to the tiny group of people who decide what knowledge is 31:00 "It is not possible to articulate common experience in politically acceptable language." 39:00 Collegiality among professionals 45:00 Does Israel have a higher quality of life than America? 51:00 Jacob Taubes: The Man Who Made Thinking Erotic, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/17/books/review/professor-of-apocalypse-jerry-z-muller.html 53:00 Accreditation 57:00 The right-winger who wants a career in academia 58:00 Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? by Harry Lewis, https://www.amazon.com/Excellence-Without-Soul-Harry-Lewis/dp/1586485016 1:06:00 Nathan Cofnas's critique of woke 1:08:00 Critiquing women in law enforcement, fire fighting, and the military 1:12:00 Prof. Thomas Powers' recent book on civil rights politics deemed ‘the definitive study, https://www.carthage.edu/live/news/51009-prof-thomas-powers-recent-book-on-civil-rights 1:14:00 Israel judicial reform, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israeli_judicial_reform 1:22:00 Donald Trump is a race realist 1:23:30 Steve Sailer 1:24:34 Leo Strauss 1:30:00 Paleocons vs Straussians 1:51:00 Gadi Taub, https://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/israel-update 1:52:00 Caroline Glick, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Glick 1:54:00 Meir Kahane, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane 1:50:00 United States Semiquincentennial, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Semiquincentennial 2:02:00 Historicism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicism 2:04:00 Walther Rathenau, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Rathenau 2:05:00 Exodus, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus 2:08:00 Who wrote the Torah? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah 2:11:00 Nehemia Gordon, https://carm.org/preachers-and-teachers/nehemia-gordon/ https://x.com/mskochin https://telaviv.academia.edu/MichaelKochin https://americanmind.org/salvo/reforming-the-national-security-state/ https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-crisis-of-the-managerial-state/ An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States, https://www.amazon.com/Independent-Empire-Diplomacy-Making-United-ebook/dp/B082T3MYJD/ Five Chapters on Rhetoric: Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art, https://www.amazon.com/Five-Chapters-Rhetoric-Character-Nothing-ebook/dp/B017EUAR4C/

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In this episode of the Gatekeeper podcast, Gadi Taub speaks with renowned evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad about his book The Parasitic Mind (now available in Hebrew too) about his first encounter with anti-Semitism as a child, back in Lebanon, about how woke ideas colonize our minds and attack our civilization, and about whether it is all no more than a new version of Cultural Marxism (it isn't just that). One thing should be clear by now: humor is a most effective tool against wokeness, and Saad has been employing it effectively. Buy the Hebrew edition of the book here:https://sellameir.com/products/%D7%A4...

 According to reports, Israel is about to sign a ceasefire deal with Hamas that will secure the return of some hostages in return to a partial Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, paving the way to ending the war. Gadi Taub, the co-host of Tablet's popular Israel Update podcast and one of Israel's most influential journalists, opposes the deal. He joins Liel to shed light on the Israeli government's challenges and missteps, on the incoming Trump administration's potential and worrying decline in support for Israel, and on how the Israeli public is reacting to this difficult and flawed deal. 

Gadi Taub is an Israeli writer, journalist, and academic. He serves as a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, focusing on public policy and communications. Taub holds a PhD in American History from Rutgers University and has published extensively on Zionism, political ideology, and contemporary Israeli culture. We like Gadi because he has shown he can change his mind, moving across the political spectrum from left to right. His podcast "Shomer Hasaf" (The gatekeeper) is one of the few independent media channels offering an almost objective picture of Israeli politics and his latest books about mobiles and sedentaries (still only available in Hebrew) offers a fascinating explantion to the rift in Israeli society. He is a pleasure to listen to. Join us. Israel update with Mike Duran https://www.youtube.com/@IsraelUpdate- The Gatekeeper podcast (some episodes are in English) https://www.youtube.com/@Shomersaf WHAT IS THEJEWFUNCTION - A 10min EXPLANATION https://youtu.be/5TlUt5FqVgQ LISTEN TO THE MYSTERY BOOK PODCAST SERIES: https://anchor.fm/thejewfunctionpodcast SETH'S BOOK: https://www.antidotetoantisemitism.com/ FREE AUDIOBOOK (With Audible trial) OF THE JEWISH CHOICE - UNITY OR ANTISEMITISM: https://amzn.to/3u40evC LIKE/SHARE/SUBSCRIBE Follow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram @thejewfunction NEW: SUPPORT US ON PATREON patreon.com/thejewfunction

Gadi Taub is a prominent Israeli public intellectual; a true Renaissance man who has distinguished himself in recent years as one of the strongest voices in support of the leadership of PM Benjamin Netanyahu. He has moved, politically, over two decades, from the center/center-left to the hard right of the spectrum. Taub was also hawkish on the judicial reform program that led to so much civic turmoil in Israel in the year leading up to October 7, and remains so. And hardline on the recent firing of Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, that went down on American E-Day. In fact, Gadi Taub thinks that the firings of military and security officials should have been done long ago. Why? Because as a group they are subverting the will of the democratically elected prime minister and coalition government. Taub calls it as he sees it. It's a lively discussion and definitely to be continued.State of Tel Aviv is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Gadi Taub is a Senior Lecturer at the Federmann School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a Ph.D. in American history from Rutgers University. His books include bestselling works of fiction and non-fiction the most recent of which is Global Elites and National Citizens in Israel, the US and the West (Bestseller, Hebrew). He hosts Israel's leading conservative Hebrew podcast Gatekeeper, as well as co-hosting (with Michael Doran) Tablet Magazine's Israel Update podcast. His column in Haaretz was canceled for his support of judicial reform. He now writes for Tablet and JNS.Follow us: @stateofTLV on “X” / @stateoftelaviv on Instagram. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stateoftelaviv.com/subscribe

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/10/mistakes-israel-afford-repeat/680185/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/10/israel-hamas-october-7-lebanon/680162/ The Embodied Expression Of The Elite Attitude, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157628 In his Oct. 7, 2024 “Israel Update” video with the Hudson Institute's Middle East analyst Michael Doran, right-wing Israeli historian Gadi Taub selected this as his dumbest media commentary moment of the week: “[Journalist] Ilana Dayan speaking on CNN to Christiane Amanpour who asked her about the horrible death tall in Gaza including she said 16,000 innocent children… Ilana Dayan is trying to explain why she is under such a strong impression of October 7 that she primarily sees that, but she confesses Israel does not cover Gaza's suffering enough. this is how our elites are — the supplicants of progressive elites elsewhere because what any sane Israeli journalist, and there are very few of these, should have said is that why are you asking me when these [Hamas] people are deliberately using their children as human shields and then you want me to take responsibility for that? These [Israeli] elites are looking up to elites [elsewhere], their their sense of solidarity and belonging is closer to elites in other countries than they are to their own people and this becomes especially poignant since they think of themselves as provincials and they want to rise up to the tier of the metropolitan elites where the real elites are, the real cultured people are Christian Amanpour, who are the real people with a moral compass, so they end up kissing the feet of anti-semites and playing to CNN biases with which are tinged with with anti-Semitism. This is not just a dumb take on the news, this is infuriating. Ilana Dayan is called the Barbara Walters of of Israeli TV so she's the dean of highbrow journalism and she has the fanciest Israeli accent with the knitted brows and and the thoughtful look in her eyes and the rimless glasses, she's like the epitome of intelligence and conscience and yet what she does in the end when faced with something like that is she grovels at the feet of a nasty CNN anchor.” Michael Doran: “I need to get a knitted brow and rimless glasses. I've never mastered that look — thoughtful, pensive.” This discourse by Gadi Taub made me wonder if there are certain physical manifestations of the elite point of view and of the counter-elite view. Take Tucker Carlson for example. I can't think of any elite commentator who makes Tucker's dramatic facial postures. Could we detect who has the elite worldview vs the counter-elite worldview just by looking at someone without listening to anything they're saying? Did Tucker's expressions change as he became more populist? Tucker today presents himself differently from the Tucker of the 2000s. He no longer wears a bowtie. He's more flamboyant and he pulls more funny faces. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/04/west-bank-settler-violence-serves-israel-interests-idf-gaza-war/ “The conclusion therefore is that settler violence leading to the transfer of communities is functional, even if the army does not directly manage it, because it serves the goal of territorial control—something the IDF could not officially openly achieve. Security officials and center-left voices will continue to condemn the dysfunctional violence. But the functional version—the kind of violence that poses a greater risk to the potential establishment of a Palestinian state—will continue to go unobstructed and unpunished.”

Following the execution of six Israeli hostages in Gaza, Israeli protesters are demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agree to a cease-fire deal that would guarantee the release of the remaining hostages. The deal on the table, however, would force Israel to concede to Hamas's central demand: that the IDF withdraw from the Philadlphi Corridor which separates Gaza from Egypt. Those calling for a ceasefire argue that saving the remaining hostages should be the highest priority for Israel, which can always re-occupy the corridor in the future should it present another security risk. Others argue that Benjamin Netanyahu is right and any deal that allows Hamas to retake this essential strip – whose tunnels operate as the supply line for weapons being smuggled into Gaza – presents a major security risk that Israel cannot tolerate. Striking a deal now will allow Hamas to recapture Gaza and guarantee that this war, which has cost too many lives on both sides of the border, will soon have to be fought again. Arguing in favour of the resolution is Barak Medina, a Professor of Human Rights Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Arguing against the resolution is Gadi Taub. He's an Israeli historian, author, political commentator, and co-host of the popular Tablet Magazine podcast, Israel Update.   The host of this Munk Debates podcast episode is Rudyard Griffiths Tweet your comments about this episode to @munkdebate or comment on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/munkdebates/ To sign up for a weekly email reminder for this podcast, send an email to podcast@munkdebates.com.   To support civil and substantive debate on the big questions of the day, consider becoming a Munk Member at https://munkdebates.com/membership Members receive access to our 15+ year library of great debates in HD video, a free Munk Debates book, newsletter and ticketing privileges at our live events. This podcast is a project of the Munk Debates, a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to fostering civil and substantive public dialogue - https://munkdebates.com/ Senior Producer: Ricki Gurwitz Editor: Kieran Lynch

You do not want to miss this episode to hear what former IDF Chief of Staff and Prime Minister Ehud Barak is up to, and what a former Israeli leftist star ideologue, Gadi Taub, has to say to explain what exactly is going on today. It is important that we understand the true reality of what is going on and why, while being optimistic based on the truth!Am Yisrael Chai!!!

In Gadi Taub's eyes, Israel is hardly a democracy — "it's a juristocracy."The historian, activist, and public intellectual believes that there are many forces at play that threaten the Jewish state: progressivism, elitism, and Western ideals. Formerly on the left himself, Gadi is one of Israel's most popular conservative thinkers. Gadi co-hosts Tablet's Israel Update podcast and his own Hebrew podcast, Gatekeeper. Outside of those roles, he is a senior lecturer at the Federmann School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Previously a columnist for Haaretz, he now writes for Tablet and JNS.Now, he sits down with us to answer 18 questions on Israel, including judicial reform, Gaza's future, and the Palestinian Authority.Here are our 18 questions:As an Israeli, and as a Jew, how are you feeling at this moment in Israeli history?What has been Israel's greatest success and greatest mistake in its war against Hamas?How do you think Hamas views the outcome and aftermath of October 7—was it a success, in their eyes? What do you look for in deciding which Knesset party to vote for?Which is more important for Israel: Judaism or democracy?What role should the Israeli government have in religious matters?Should Israel treat its Jewish and non-Jewish citizens the same?Now that Israel already exists, what is the purpose of Zionism?Is opposing Zionism inherently antisemitic?Is the IDF the world's most moral army?If you were making the case for Israel, where would you begin?Can questioning the actions of Israel's government and army — even in the context of this war — be a valid form of love and patriotism?What do you think is the most legitimate criticism leveled against Israel today?Do you think peace between Israelis and Palestinians will happen within your lifetime?What should happen with Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict after the war?Are political and religious divides a major problem in Israeli society?Where do you identify on Israel's political and religious spectrum, and do you have friends on the “other side”?Do you have more hope or fear for Israel and the Jewish People.

Iran's missile and drone barrage at Israel earlier this month was the most brazen attack the Islamic Republic has ever conducted against the Jewish state. While Israel did respond with a limited strike, some say Israel should go further and destroy all of Iran's nuclear facilities. The Islamic Republic doesn't have nuclear weapons, but it has the material and know-how to put some together in a matter of weeks. But attacking Iran's nuclear installations comes with enormous risks: It would likely result in significant military retaliation by the Iranian government – something that could lead to a wider regional war that could draw in Israel's allies in the west. Arguing in favour of the resolution is Gadi Taub. He's an Israeli historian, author, political commentator, and co-host of the popular Tablet Magazine podcast, Israel Update. Arguing against the resolution is Trita Parsi. He's the executive vice-president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.    SOURCES: Al Jazeera English, Times Radio, BBC News The host of the Munk Debates is Rudyard Griffiths. Tweet your comments about this episode to @munkdebate or comment on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/munkdebates/ To sign up for a weekly email reminder for this podcast, send an email to podcast@munkdebates.com.   To support civil and substantive debate on the big questions of the day, consider becoming a Munk Member at https://munkdebates.com/membership Members receive access to our 50+ year library of great debates in HD video, a free Munk Debates book, newsletter and ticketing privileges at our live events. This podcast is a project of the Munk Debates, a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to fostering civil and substantive public dialogue - https://munkdebates.com/   Executive Producer: Ricki Gurwitz Senior Producer: Daniel Kitts Editor: Kieran Lynch

A few weeks ago, a team of Free Press producers and reporters arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. The energy was somber and still, almost like the country and its people were frozen in time. As one mother of a hostage told us, “Every single second of our lives is trauma.” And as the journalist Gadi Taub told us, “People don't even begin to understand the extent of this earthquake and how it will change Israel.” Since the earliest hours of October 7, we've been reporting on the war in Israel. We've published no fewer than seventy articles about it, and more than ten Honestly episodes. In other words: when we arrived in Israel, we thought we already knew all about what happened that day. But there is a difference between knowing something intellectually, and actually standing in a killing field.  The events of October 7—and the ongoing war between Israel, Hamas, and other Iranian proxies—isn't just about another war in another faraway place. This is about the difference between democracy and tyranny, between freedom and unfreedom—in a world that seems to have lost the ability to make a distinction between the two.  As one reservist told us, “We're doing this for the world. Hamas is an idea. It looks at you in L.A. as the enemy, not just us in Israel. We just happen to be their neighbors.”  So over the next few episodes, we're going to bring you The FP in Israel: a special limited series about our time reporting on the ground. We hope you listen. And for more of our content from Israel, subscribe to The Free Press at thefp.com, and check out our YouTube channel, where you will find additional videos and documentaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this special edition of Counterbalance, co-hosts Mike and Peter are joined by Israeli intellectual Gadi Taub. Mike and Gadi recently started the Israel Update Podcast with Tablet magazine. This week on Counterbalance, the trio discuss the Biden administration's attitude towards the war in Gaza, including the president calling Israel's response in Gaza “over the top.” They also float the possibility of the Biden administration recognizing a Palestinian state as early as the summer.

In 2023, host Jonathan Silver convened 47 new conversations probing some of the most interesting and consequential subjects in modern Jewish life, from theological and religious themes to political and military ones. He spoke to scholars, visual artists, rabbis, writers, soldiers, strategists, and generals. Now that 2023 has come to an end, he's looking back at a number of representative excerpts from the year past in hopes that, as we plan 40 or 50 more conversations in 2024, you'll return to the archive and listen to some of the most fascinating conversations from this year. In this episode, we present selections from some of our favorite 2023 conversations. Excerpts include the podcast host and president of Shalem College, Russ Roberts; the great American writer, Cynthia Ozick; the Hebrew calligrapher, Izzy Pludwinski; Peter Berkowitz and Gadi Taub debating judicial reform; Ran Baratz on the roots of Israel's rifts; Michael Doran comparing October's Hamas attacks with the Yom Kippur War; Meir Soloveichik on Jewish martyrs; and, discussing Mosaic's November essay on the Palestinian predicament, the scholar Shany Mor, the journalist Haviv Gur, and the intellectual Hussein Aboubakr. Finally, this episode ends on a note of hope, sounded by the historian Rick Richman, whose book of biographical portraits, And None Shall Make Them Afraid, turns out to have been the book we most needed this year. Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble.

This week on Unorthodox, it's our final episode of 2023. We bring you the latest installment of The Archive, our series exploring the collection of the National Library of Israel. This one is all about Franz Kafka: his feelings on Zionism, his attempts to learn Hebrew, and the tangled web in which his manuscripts were trapped. Then, we hear from Israeli historian and political commentator Gadi Taub about his new video podcast, Israel Update, which he hosts alongside the Hudson Institute's Michael Doran. You can follow along on Tablet at tabletmag.com/israelupdate.  Finally, we're sharing another installment of our country-crossing series, Across the JEW.S.A, created with the support of the Jewish Federations of North America. Liel travels north to Montreal to visit one of the oldest Jewish communities in Canada. You can catch up on all our travels Across the JEW.S.A. at tabletmag.com/jewsa.  Write to us at unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave a voicemail on our listener line: .  Find out about our upcoming events at tabletmag.com/unorthodoxlive. To book us for a live show or event, email Tanya Singer at tsinger@tabletmag.com. Unorthodox is produced by Tablet Studios. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. SPONSORS:  NLI, the National Library of Israel, proudly supports our series The Archive. Discover the treasures, collections, and stories of the National Library of Israel here. Simplify your giving with the Jewish Communal Fund, the nation's largest Jewish donor-advised fund. Act by December 29th to lock in the maximum charitable deduction for 2023. Get started at JCFNY.org. The Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards honor up to 15 Jewish teens from across the United States with an award of $36,000 to recognize their impact and leadership to repair the world. Learn more at DillerTeenAwards.org. Don't miss Harmony, the acclaimed new musical from Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman that Entertainment Weekly calls “powerful, moving and more resonant than ever.” Get tickets today at HarmonyANewMusical.com.

Recorded on September 29, 2023 We begin with a short discussion about the death of Senator Dianne Feinstein at age 90. We then touch back on our previous show about Naomi Wolf, Naomi Klein, and political doppelgangers, with a preview of what we will be discussing in depth when we return to this topic. We then break down this week's X (formerly Twitter) space, hosted by Ben Shapiro and featuring Elon Musk and a number of prominent Zionist personalities, who we are referring to as the Neo Parushim. We discuss the space itself and some of the people involved, the #BanTheADL campaign, and why this is the natural result of Elon Musk's campaign against the ADL designed to further weaponize  the global push to dictate the definition of Anti Semitism." https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1707137454304821373 https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1lDGLPvzDvRGm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpMPoBIK8N8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhaDlA5SIL0 https://www.edge.org/library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Agency_for_Israel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Nordau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketplace_of_ideas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump:_The_Art_of_the_Deal https://x.com/leahmcelrath/status/1707450845967642787 https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/1129207174830469120 https://x.com/lakotaman1/status/1707760392234012689 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/world/middleeast/israels-outspoken-envoy-is-wise-to-us-ways.html https://mishpacha.com/front-row-seat-to-history/ Gadi Taub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-sqFBlfpPc https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/18/donald-trumps-new-world-order https://www.bollyn.com/elbit-the-hellerstein-connection-to-9-11 https://jewishcurrents.org/elon-musk-the-jews-and-the-adl-with-know-your-enemy --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-antedote/support

Is the media complicit in creating division and hate in Israel? Have we been lied to all along?In this week's Caroline Glick Show, Caroline was reunited with her one-time co-host, historian and political commentator Gadi Taub.

Prominent Israeli intellectual Gadi Taub joins hosts Mike Doran and Peter Rough for an update on Israel's judicial reform, the uproar it has caused in Israel, and the attacks it is receiving from President Biden and his friends in the American press. The trio discuss whether those attacks are truly over the substance of the judicial reform or whether they are actually a stealthy means of pursuing their disagreement with Prime Minister Netanyahu over his Iran policy. 

Demonstrations in Israel are designed to bring down the government, and the Biden administration is behind the scenes, funding the protestors. Israel is a U.S. ally, but the White House wants a different man in charge. So the Biden team is deploying the same tools and tactics it used to target its domestic opposition.    In this riveting new two-part episode of Over the Target Live, Lee Smith speaks with Israeli analyst Gadi Taub and hard-charging attorney Joseph McBride to bring you the news behind the news. Why is the White House determined to damage America, abroad and at home? ⭕️ Watch in-depth videos based on Truth & Tradition at Epoch TV

To understand the dramas, disagreements, and protests roiling Israeli politics at this moment requires an understanding of the government's proposed judicial reforms, as well as the history of Israel's Supreme Court and its relationship to the Knesset. It also requires knowledge of Israeli society, and how the founding generations of Israel's political leadership—which tended to be Ashkenazi, secular, and oriented to the political left—have given way to an Israeli population that tends to be more ethnically diverse, more traditional and religious, and oriented towards the political right. That history, in turn, has got to be mapped onto the fact that Israel is also home to subcommunities that each have different historical relations to one another and to the government, and that is each pursuing different interests and outcomes. To understand this Israeli moment, in other words, requires understanding how each Israeli sector—Arab, Haredi, secular, national religious—relates to the nation as a whole. This week, Jonathan Silver discusses the judicial reforms and those deeper causes together with the professor, media personality, and author Gadi Taub, as well as the political scientist, and former state department official Peter Berkowitz. Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble.

We discuss Matt Gaetz's appearance on the TimCast and what it may signal in terms of elements of the agenda for the incoming Republican US House, and the apparent coming together of long sought after policy goals with the increasingly foreign oriented Republican party, and what it all might mean. We then discuss comments by Israeli historian and commentator Gadi Taub about how American neoconservatives surrendered the culture wars. From there we close by talking about Jordan Peterson's interview with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Links- https://www.patreon.com/posts/77700731 support us- www.patreon.com/theantedote --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-antedote/support

In this week's “Caroline Glick Show,” Caroline Glick discusses the outcome of Israel's election with guest Gadi Taub.Glick and Taub look at the election's results and compare them with the outcome of the previous rounds.The two also discuss the challenges facing the incoming Netanyahu administration.

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Caroline Glick and Gadi Taub tackle the reasons for the fall of the Israeli government and what the Jewish state can expect with Lapid as prime minister. They also discuss the anti-democratic disposition of Israel's ruling class in the framework of the outgoing coalition's last-ditch effort to pass a law that will bar Benjamin Netanyahu from forming a government.What else is on the agenda?- U.S. Supreme Court vs. Israeli High Court- Iran and Jerusalem under Yair Lapid- Why Glick was fired from Israel Hayom

In this week's episode of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, Caroline was joined by historian Gadi Taub. They discussed the successful Flag Parade in Jerusalem in the context of the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Israeli government, and the previous Netanyahu-led government's decision to cancel last year's parade in the face of mass Arab Israeli violence and Hamas's missile offensive.Caroline and Gadi talked about the increasingly palpable atmosphere of rebellion among Arab Israelis in the face of Israel's elites who refuse to defend the country.

Un día como hoy en 1956, el escritor y académico Gadi Taub, un importante comentarista del sionismo moderno, nació en Jerusalén. Tras completar su servicio militar, Taub comenzó a escribir y presentar programas infantiles de televisión y programas de radio. Obtuvo una licenciatura en historia de la Universidad de Tel Aviv mientras escribió un libro de ensayos influyentes y un libro de historias populares cortas. Recibió un doctorado de la Universidad Rutgers en Nueva Jersey con una tesis sobre el liberalismo estadounidense, y estudió licenciatura en la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén.

The past week in Israel saw two acts of terrorism by Israeli Arab citizens and the Negev Summit where Anthony Blinken transformed the Abraham Accords from an Israeli-Sunni strategic alliance against Iran into a US-Sunni political alliance against Israel. Quite a week. Caroline was reunited with Gadi Taub to analyze what has happened and what it means for Israel and for the world! Watch, listen, subscribe and share!

Against the backdrop of plea bargain negotiations between Benjamin Netanyahu and state prosecutors that may well banish Netanyahu from politics for good, in this week's episode of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, Caroline and co-host Gadi Taub spoke with Lee Smith, the author of The Permanent Coup and The Plot Against the President. The three discussed the influence the respective deep state coups in the U.S. and Israel that have unseated elected leaders have had on the two societies and what they portend for the future. They then shifted to the FBI's denial of the anti-Semitic motive of the Islamic terrorist who took four Jews hostage at Beth Israel synagogue in Texas over the weekend and what it means for the future of Jews and anti-Semitism in the United States. To Watch: https://youtu.be/bGf0HYVZTlw (https://youtu.be/bGf0HYVZTlw)

For this One-on-One interview, Sebastian talks to Gadi Taub, of the conservative children's book company "Heroes of Liberty," about how we can retake our culture and teach children about the greatness of America Support the show: https://www.sebgorka.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Episode 33 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, Caroline was joined by Gadi Taub for a discussion of the dismal state of efforts to block Iran from becoming a nuclear-armed regional hegemon. They walked across the regional terrain of Iran's proxy armies in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and Yemen and into the negotiating rooms in Vienna and came away with the understanding that the only true way to avert a disaster is to back the Iranian people in their quest for freedom. Watch, listen, subscribe and share. To Watch: https://youtu.be/qhYXWN5nAJw (https://youtu.be/qhYXWN5nAJw)

In Episode 29 of the Caroline Glick Middle East News Hour, Caroline and her co-host Gadi Taub discussed the implications of the U.S.'s farcical, destructive policies enabling Iran to acquire nuclear weapons and what Israel's options are going forward for dealing with Iran (and the Biden administration). They then moved on to domestic Israeli affairs. Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial has been going on for two months and all the prosecution's star witnesses have sat on the witness stand and obliterated the indictments against Netanyahu. Gadi and Caroline discussed what it all means for Israel's legal fraternity and its democratic system. To Watch: https://youtu.be/G8Q8OW2pg0c (https://youtu.be/G8Q8OW2pg0c)

In Episode 27 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, Gadi Taub returned after a long trip to the United States. Caroline and Gadi focused today's discussion on the transformation of Israel's left from an economic socialist political camp into a post-nationalist ideological camp that prefers to empower Israel's Arab enemies over sharing or ceding power to the Israeli Right. They then moved to the implications of the inclusion of the Ra'am Party, which is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood on Israel's ability to survive and on chances for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Watch, listen, share and subscribe! To Watch: https://youtu.be/HNMAICj1Dys (https://youtu.be/HNMAICj1Dys)

In Episode 22 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, Caroline and co-host Gadi Taub talked about Israel's diplomatic week. In a week marking the first anniversary of the Abraham Accords, the Lapid-Bennett government worked with Angela Merkel, King Abdullah of Jordan and the Biden administration to push a completely different diplomatic approach. The last part of the show focused on the battle Gadi is leading against right wing media organs in Israel that are legitimizing the government. Enjoy, subscribe and share! To Watch: https://youtu.be/ezpcJy3Vudk (https://youtu.be/ezpcJy3Vudk)

In Episode 20 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour with Gadi Taub, Caroline and Gadi discuss the anniversaries we marked this week - 20 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, 28 years since the launch of the Oslo peace process between Israel and the PLO which led to 28 years of terror and war, and the one year anniversary of the Abraham Accord. What was learned, what was lost and who decided what we would understand and miss about the nature of our nations and our enemies. To Watch: https://youtu.be/do8lemwXfa0 (https://youtu.be/do8lemwXfa0)

In this week's episode of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, Caroline and co-host Gadi Taub do a post-mortem on Biden's catastrophic failure in Afghanistan. Biden's refusal to acknowledge the failure suggests that he will also refuse to learn the lessons from the failure. This bodes poorly for the U.S. and for Israel. Caroline and Gadi discussed the Soviet roots of "Palestinian nationalism," and how the post-Holocaust war against the Jews fits into the Soviet goal of destroying American society. Join our dynamic duo for this lively discussion, and get the bonus of meeting Caroline's mom! Subscribe to the show and subscribe your friends and family as well. To Watch: https://youtu.be/WGc7S2GatRQ

Check out our NEW merch store! www.2njb.com/merch *** The government in Israel is celebrating 2 months since its establishment, and boy, what a ride has it been! This week, PM Bennet will go to Washington for his first meeting with President Biden. But here in Israel, many people feel this government doesn't represent them. 1 million Likud voters were left out of the party, because their leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, is boycotted by the leaders of the left and central wing parties. Some people in Israel claim that Israeli society is divided into two - First Israel, mostly left wing ashkenazis, and second Israel - mostly right wing mizrahis. The elites, which includes mostly ‘first Israel', is depriving second Israel from the game, according to those who believe in this theory. Many of them are Likud voters. In his new book, ‘The Mobiles and The Fixed - The Struggle of the Elites Against Israeli Democracy', Taub is debating that the struggle between First Israel and Second Israel, will define the future of the country. Dr. Gadi Taub is probably one of the most hated and despised people among Tel Aviv's intellectual elite. The reason is simple: once, he was one of them. An eloquent left winger, a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with a PhD in American Studies from Rutgers University and all the right opinions. But alas, Dr. Taub woke up one morning and decided to “shift sides”. Now Taub publishes in-depth, highly controversial, right-wing op-eds in Haaretz. We're thrilled to have Dr. Taub on the show to talk about his new book.

Episode 18 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour with Gadi Taub focused on the strategic repercussions of the U.S. defeat in Afghanistan for the U.S. and it allies in the region and the world and of course on Israel. The Israel-centered second half of the show centered in on Israel's unelected Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's trip to Washington this week to meet with Biden and his top advisors while they oversee the abandonment of U.S. citizens and Afghan allies in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. How will the rout in Afghanistan affect Bennett's hopes of convincing Biden to work with Israel to block Iran's efforts to become a nuclear power? For all this, more tune in to this week's show and subscribe! To Watch: https://youtu.be/Q2j_ocpWLgA (https://youtu.be/Q2j_ocpWLgA)

לינק לרכישת ספריו של דאגלס מארי: https://bit.ly/2VvZC2Gקוד קופון: Shomer"שגעון ההמון: איך שיח הזכויות הורס את החברה" הוא מסע אל הפינות האינטימיות ואל כיכר העיר האלימה של שיח הזהויות. איך השיחה על מגדר תפס תפנית כנגד הפמיניזם המסורתי, איך הגיעו ה"פרוגרסיבים" לעידוד שינוי מין בילדים, איך הרס השיח על גזע את הקמפוסים ולא רק את מה שלומדים בהם, והאם הנחש התחיל סופסוף לאכול את זנבו? וגם: בונוס. קופון ל 20% הנחה על שני ספריו של דאגלס מאריי.

In Episode 15 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour with Gadi Taub, Caroline and Gadi began their conversation by describing the present-day media environment and its impact on Western societies and on democratic systems. They moved then to Israel and the most alarming strategic development in Israel in recent weeks – Russia's announcement that it will no longer honor its agreement to coordinate IDF operations in Syria to avoid armed conflict between Israel and the Russian military forces in Syria. From there the moved to a discussion of Foreign Minister Yair' Lapid's stunning choice of Israel's ambassador to the UAE and what it tell us about the future of the Abraham Accords. Finally, they ended with a brief conversation about J Street's move this week to criminalize pro-Israel Jewish and Christian organizations in America. It was a great show, watch or listen to the whole thing (or selected segments). Share it with your friends and family and be sure to subscribe. To Watch: https://youtu.be/ZEFlyfuO3eQ

In Episode 13 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour with Gadi Taub, Caroline and Gadi discussed the fall of the government's temporary immigration act in the early morning hours between July 5 and 6. The event exposed the anti-Zionist nature of the government and the stakes in bringing it down. Caroline and Gadi then shifted gears to discuss the Biden administration's latest package of sanctions relief for Iran and how to look at Biden's nuclear diplomacy in the face of Iranian dictator Khamenei's decision to elevate Ebrahim Raisi a psychopathic mass murderer to serve as Iran's next president beginning next month.It was all happiness and light as usual as our daring duo navigated a course in the dark world of progressive and jihadist business as usual.Watch, listen, subscribe to our channels and get the word out! To Watch: https://youtu.be/9Qt_y6VuISI

In Episode 12 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour with Gadi Taub, Caroline and Gadi discuss Israel new government's role in mediating between Hamas and the Biden administration.The analyzed the implications of the new government's inability to sustain Israel's immigration and citizenship laws, and its relationship to the international left's campaign against the nation state.Caroline and Gadi ended with a shout-out to Ilhan Omar whose anti-Semitism is so profound, she's even managing to force some American Jewish leaders to stand up for themselves. To Watch: https://youtu.be/OQRBfuSYYU0 (https://youtu.be/OQRBfuSYYU0)

In Episode 11 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour with Gadi Taub, Caroline and Gadi discuss the new Israeli government's policy of bowing to the will of the Biden administration in relation to Iran's nuclear program in the context of Benjamin Netanyahu's statement on Monday that their position endangers Israel's survival. They went on to describe the analyze the similarity between the pathological hatred of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu and the malcontents from their own ideological camps who colluded with the left and the radical left in both countries to bring the leaders down. Today's discussion ranged from radical feminism to the Bible, from Tehran to BlackLivesMatter. It was a wild – but entirely coherent ride. Join us, subscribe to our YouTube and Rumble channels and to our podcasts. Share with your friends and family. Let's win the war of ideas together and protect our sovereignty and national security together. To Watch: https://youtu.be/GsVweMytgJA (https://youtu.be/GsVweMytgJA) Or : https://rumble.com/embed/vgagzx/?pub=k4hzt (https://rumble.com/embed/vgagzx/?pub=k4hzt) #caroline_glick #gadi_taub

In Episode 10 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, Caroline and her co-host Gadi Taub analyze the nature of Israel's new government led by Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett and what its implications are going forward for Israel's core strategic interests vis-à-vis Iran and the Palestinians.As the new government was being sworn in, the principle cause that led to Israel's long-standing political deadlock – the Attorney General's pursuit of corruption charges against Netanyahu – fell apart in Jerusalem's District Courthouse. The prosecution's claim that Netanyahu accepted bribes fell apart as Netanyahu's attorneys cross-examined the prosecution's “star witness.”Gadi and Caroline discussed the earth-shattering developments in the case, and compared them to the Russia-hoax the U.S. Justice Department concocted against Donald Trump and used to paralyze his presidency for his first three years in office.Finally, they discussed the prospects for Netanyahu, now Opposition Leader to make a comeback. Join Caroline and Gadi as they walk you through the maze and misery of Israeli politics with warrior hearts and healthy senses of humor. Subscribe to their YouTube and Rumble channels and podcasts. And share their information – which you won't get on the network news – far and wide! To Watch: https://youtu.be/L_RqF2tg2cY (https://youtu.be/L_RqF2tg2cY)

In Episode 9 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, Caroline and co-host Gadi Taub go into the nuts and bolts of the new Israeli government that is set to be sworn in next Sunday, June 14. They explain why it is post-modern, post-Zionist, post-democratic and post-Jewish and what this means for Israel's national security, national identity and national sanity. With their happy warrior attitude, Caroline and Gadi guide the audience through the ins and outs of Israeli coalition politics, Naftali Bennett's double dealings and the dangerous deal he has made with the Islamic Ra'am party. Join them for the latest hour-long shower of facts and reality. It's a welcome respite from the normal lies that dominate the discourse on all things Israel-related. Subscribe to our channels, and share our content. Even the harshest truth is better than the sweetest lies. To Watch: https://youtu.be/sSnVxC-i2yw (https://youtu.be/sSnVxC-i2yw) #caroline_glick #gadi_taub

In Episode 8 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, Caroline and co-host Gadi Taub discussed the implications of the apparent formation of a leftist dominated government in Israel. They discussed the implications of the rise of the Israeli left for Israel's regional position, for the stability of the Middle East more generally, and for the preservation of Israel's Jewish national character. They also highlighted what the rise of the Israeli left means for the Biden administration's efforts to realign U.S. policy in the Middle East towards Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. Beyond dissecting the situation, they had a few key insights into the health and centrality of the British royal family to Israel's national discourse. (You're curious? Well, you're going to have to watch!) Please subscribe to our channels and podcasts and share our show with your friends and relatives. Even the most difficult truths are preferable to lies. So let's get the truth out. Email your comments to caroline@carolineglick.com To Watch:https://youtu.be/lHCEmd24t9U (https://youtu.be/lHCEmd24t9U) #caroline_glick #gadi_taub

In episode 7 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, Caroline and co-host Gadi Taub analyzed the latest round of war between Hamas and Israel from four perspectives. First, they discussed what the war taught us about Hamas's priorities and how “humanitarian aid” to Gaza is used. Second they discussed the war in the context of Iran and its relations with Hamas on the one hand and the U.S. on the other. They then spoke at length about what we discovered over the course of the past week and a half about the sinister nature of the Biden administration's policies towards Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Finally, they discussed what we discovered about the where the left in the U.S. and the Democrat Party now stands on Israel and the implication of the Corbynization (or rather Obamafication) of the party for the future of Jewish life in the U.S. Please watch, subscribe to our channels and share this information far and wide. The key to winning the battle for ideas is to get the ideas out! Comments and suggestions are welcome. Email us at caroline@carolineglick.com. To Watch: https://youtu.be/3h3V3mimQro (https://youtu.be/3h3V3mimQro) lRxVYOOUNTzSEYonMu5S

In Episode 4 of the Caroline Glick Mideast News Hour, Caroline and co-host Gadi Taub discuss the nature and likely outcomes of Israel's prolonged political crisis and the pros and cons and likelihood of various ways of resolving it, either through the formation of a right-wing minority government supported by an Islamist party, the formation of a left-dominant government formally led by a breakaway ideologically right-wing party led by Naftali Bennett, and various permutations in between. Caroline also discusses her experience running for Knesset with Bennett in the April 2019 election and what she learned about his character from that experience. Caroline and Gadi also analyzed the implications of Israel's political instability and the likelihood that it will soon be led by inexperienced leaders presiding over either a weak or radical government for prospects of regional war. https://youtu.be/Lq064JsxtkQ (https://youtu.be/Lq064JsxtkQ)  

In the second episode of the Caroline Glick Midest News Hour, Caroline and co-host Gadi Taub discuss the pathological state of Israeli politics in the wake of the country's fourth stalemate election. They take a deep dive into Senator Elizabeth Warren's anti-Israel screed at the J Street conference and they consider the implications of the woke revolution on America and its relations with the outside world. To wach: https://youtu.be/RU9chuT9tsM (https://youtu.be/RU9chuT9tsM)

Israel just had its fourth election in two years and is still struggling to form a government. Israeli professor, pundit, and screenwriter Gadi Taub talks with Mike (Marshall was out) about the impasse, and offers his views on the good, the bad, and the ugly of Israeli politics.

Shmuel Rosner and Gadi Taub discuss Gadi's latest book: "Global Elites and National Citizens: The Attack of the Upper Classes on Israel's Democracy", now out in Hebrew. Gadi Taub  is an Israeli historian, author, screenwriter and political commentator. He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Communications at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Taub is also an internationally noticed voice in the discourse on Zionism.   Follow Shmuel Rosner on Twitter.

Sec Pompeo: "We were prepared to use everything the United States had to make sure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon."US policy towards the Middle East under the previous administration was based on 3 central assumptions: 1. Iran is the destabilizing force; 2. We weren't prepared to continue a 40 year of bi-partisan policy which gave the Palestinians a veto; 3. We need to maintain military capacity to prevent terrorists from operating in the region. And more: on Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and China too. Exclusive to the GATE KEEPER podcast.

Greg Ellis reads Immigration Policy and the Rise of Anti-Democratic Liberalism—the Case of Israel, Gadi Taub's essay about how Israel is struggling to cope with a rising tide of illegal immigration.

Anyone who's visited Tel Aviv has walked down the famous, sometimes infamous, Allenby Street. It's hard to miss this road that crosses Rothschild Blvd, runs by the entrance to the Carmel Market and leads to the Beach Promenade. Today, it's a must see tourist attraction. But not so long ago, Allenby was still on the social fringes of Tel Aviv. Gadi Taub's best-selling novel “Allenby”, named after the street itself, sheds light on the gritty underground scene of Tel Aviv - from its shadier dance bars to its strip clubs and brothels. Taub's book was later turned into a TV series for Channel 10. But Gadi Taub's resume does not end there. He received his PhD in American Studies from Rutgers University and is a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has written extensively for various new publications including Haaretz, Yedioth Aharonoth, Maariv and more. Taub also wrote the novel “The Witch from Number 3 Meltchet Street” which too was adapted for the screen. Gadi Taub joins us today to talk about his life, his career and maybe a bit about his ideas.