{"podcast":{"title":"On the Nose","slug":"on-the-nose-4035786","podcast_index_feed_id":4035786,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/on-the-nose/","website_url":"HTTPS://www.Jewishcurrents.org","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/2a127a56-456e-4230-b90b-d287cbccdb37/rjd_USHJ8yblBQZvj9Vkcq57.jpeg","author":"Jewish Currents","episode_count":149,"summary":"On the Nose is a biweekly podcast by Jewish Currents, a magazine of the Jewish left founded in 1946. The editorial staff discusses the politics, culture, and questions that animate today’s Jewish left.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T00:19:50.375145+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-the-nose-4035786"},"episode":{"title":"The Wrong Way to Fight Antisemitism in Britain","slug":"the-wrong-way-to-fight-antisemitism-in-britain","published_at":"2026-05-14T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-the-nose-4035786/the-wrong-way-to-fight-antisemitism-in-britain","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-the-nose-4035786","url":"https://jewishcurrents.org/the-wrong-way-to-fight-antisemitism-in-britain","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ac347943-5d49-4c47-a6af-636469347029.mp3","summary":"On April 29th in London, an attacker stabbed a Muslim acquaintance before traveling to the largely Jewish neighborhood of Golders Green and stabbing two Jewish men at random. This was only the latest in a string of attacks on Jews, synagogues, or other communal infrastructure in the UK since mid-March; other instances have included arson attacks on three synagogues as well as Hatzola ambulances . The British Jewish community—already on edge since the Yom Kippur attack on a Manchester synagogue that killed two and injured three—is in a state of rising alarm. Predictably, Jewish communal leaders , politicians , and the police have baselessly sought to tie the attacks to the Palestine solidarity movement, justifying crackdowns in civil liberties and proposing increased police budgets . The backdrop to these attacks is a local election cycle in which the two major parties, Conservative and Labour, lost substantial ground to tertiary parties on their wings: Reform on the right, and the Green Party on the left. Though newly elected members of the Reform Party include avowed racists and Holocaust deniers , much of the media attention has been on candidates whom the Green Party has removed from contention because of charges of antisemitism . There is particular focus on the head of the Green Party, 43-year-old Zack Polanski, whose Jewish identity and pro-Palestine stance has shattered some of the received wisdom about who British Jews are, announcing a new era in UK Jewish left politics. To discuss the London attacks and their political fallout, Arielle Angel speaks with Brendan McGeever, co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at the University of London, and Em Hilton, co-founder of Na’amod, an organization of British Jews opposing Israeli occupat…","meta_description":"On April 29th in London, an attacker stabbed a Muslim acquaintance before traveling to the largely Jewish neighborhood of Golders Green and stabbing two J…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2929,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/on-the-nose-4035786/episodes/the-wrong-way-to-fight-antisemitism-in-britain/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-the-nose-4035786/the-wrong-way-to-fight-antisemitism-in-britain.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}