Ep#205 - Harry Saul Markham - The Melted Pot

The Godless Spellchecker Podcast

Aug 24, 2025•59 min

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This week on The Knight Tube, Stephen Knight (@GSpellchecker) welcomes author Harry Saul Markham to talk about his new book ‘The Melted Pot: Diversity, Antisemitism, and the Limits of Tolerance’

0:00 Intro 1:24 Why write about these issues? 2:56 Having the book cancelled by the publisher 5:30 Getting endorsed by Stephen Fry 7:20 What do we mean by ‘Islamism’? 10:31 Changing your Jewish surname and assimilating. 18:15 Is Jeremy Corbyn antisemitic? 23:53 Can we learn a lot about a society by how well it treats its Jews? 26:36 The impact of immigration on culture and nation 30:05 Can liberalism still save us? 34:09 ‘The Muslim vote’. 37:14 How has ‘multiculturalism’ failed. 42:20 Jewish safety in Europe 47:45 Israel 52:50 Greta Thunberg’s pro-Palestine activism.

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