Owen Jones, journalist, author of Chavs and The Establishment, or "that left-wing idiot off the telly", is fed up with the establishment media. After all, it punches down, not up, blames minorities for all the problems in society, and, let's face it, often just parrots the government line. So this podcast is offering something different: speaking truth to power, giving the marginalised a voice, offering hope - and having a laugh along the way. From Michael Sheen to Judith Butler, Prof. Devi Sridhar to Noam Chomsky, Peter Hitchens to Chelsea Manning and Gary Younge to Stewart Lee, the interviewees couldn't be more eclectic. Expect documentaries, too, exposing injustice and going to enemy territory - and discussions with experts on everything from COVID dreams about the pandemic to the history of US-backed coups. We'll learn a lot - but above all else, have our optimism in a better world rebooted.
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Last night I went on Piers Morgan's show to debate Israel's mass slaughter in Gaza. Piers has previously said that Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine constitutes genocide. If that's true - then why doesn't the same apply to Gaza? Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oh. Dear. God. Let’s just go through her resignation letter shall we! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This morning, I went on Good Morning Britain to challenge media complicity in Israel's murderous onslaught against Gaza. Ed Balls - George Osborne's business partner - detonated. Listen for yourself. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The world is turned upside down. Apologists for Israeli war crimes are trying to portray those opposed to the mass killing of children as the real extremists. I speak to Ben Jamal, Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, on the truth. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Don't let them get away with this. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wow. She's really gone off the deep end this time. Unhinged is actually generous. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
There's a big reason we know why Israel's onslaught will fail, and badly. This is why. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Jun Pang from Liberty, on the nonsense legal case against the Gaza protests - Dr Hosnieh Djafari-Marbini, who resigned from the Labour party over Gaza, on Keir Starmer's moral cowardice Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
They've done everything they can to cancel the protest - and so far, it's backfired. The Met can't find an excuse to ban it. But this tawdry episode tells us so much - and it is not good. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Most of us have suffered bereavements: but how do you even begin to process 23 members of your family being killed, including little children, caused by unimaginable violence? Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist co-founder of We Are Not Numbers ( https://twitter.com/WeAreNotNumbers): and even more horrifyingly, other family members were killed before the latest horror. But he has a crucial message - that the media shares responsibility for the massacre of Gaza. He needs to be listened to u...
Atalya Ben-Abba is an Israeli conscientious objector: as a teenager, she was sent to prison for refusing to serve in the Israeli Defence Forces because of her opposition to the occupation. Now she's calling for a ceasefire - and the least we can do in response to her courage is to stand by her. Please sign her petition here: https://www.anothereurope.org/petitions/ceasefire-now/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
As over 10,000 have now officially been killed, we are at the stage of an Israeli minister stating dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza is an option. He was suspended from government meetings - for a few hours. It underlines a basic fact - claims that the Israeli has any respect for civilian life is a lie. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jewish peace activists have been at the forefront of many of the pro-Palestine protests that have swept Britain since the horrors began. These protests have been described as threatening to the Jewish community, as antisemitic, and there's even calls to have them banned. I speak to Em Hilton, director of Diaspora Alliance, a co-founder of Jewish peace movement Na'amod, about the truth. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...
This does not normally happen to leaders of the opposition when the government has collapsed. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
When Francesca Albanese speaks, we need to listen. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, she is an expert international lawyer - and here she provides the detailed legal argument against Israel's massacre in Gaza. She offers a comprehensive take down of any legal basis for the current onslaught. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
An interview with a Hamas official promising to repeat the 7th October atrocities has gone viral amongst opponents of a ceasefire. It shows, they say, that Israel's onslaught must continue, with an endless death toll. Here's why this argument is bankrupt on moral and practical grounds - and will unleash an even greater catastrophe. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Genocide is not a word which should be bandied around without good ground. So when a senior UN official resigns warning about genocide in Gaza, and hundreds of genocide experts warn of the same thing, then have to listen urgently - before it's too late. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
As the horrors of Gaza multiply, we are joined by: - Ahmed Najar, playwright, director, actor, financial analyst who has family in Gaza and studied at Al Azhar University in Gaza - Uri Goren, an Israeli man who cousin was kidnapped by Hamas - Dr. Brenda Kelly from Gaza Medic Voices on the latest humanitarian crisis Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Antisemitism is an evil in itself - it is the cause of terrible horrors over many centuries - and it is also a mortal enemy of peace in Palestine. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A leaked Israeli government document calls for the permanent mass ethnic cleansing of Gaza. When you listen to other statements by Israeli ministers and officials, this outcome can't be dismissed. They're not hiding their support for war crimes. They mean what they say - believe them. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
This is beyond outrageous. A Labour MP calls for a peaceful settlement for Israelis and Palestinians alike - and the Labour leadership suspends him for it. The attempt to demonise those opposing the current horror will only escalate - so we must speak louder. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Alon-Lee Green is the co-director of Standing Together, which brings together Israeli Jews and Palestinian citizens of Israel in the struggle for peace. In this interview he tells me what campaigners like him are up against, where the struggle for peace goes now - and what he'd like from the international left. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
He's a Palestinian leader who offers an alternative to both Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in the West Bank - and he desperately needs to be heard. Mustafa Barghouti leads the Palestinian National Initiative - which campaigns for a progressive, free Palestine - and here he lays down the facts - about the humanitarian catastrophe, the West's double standards, and why Palestinians will never be broken. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
Most of our media isn't even pretending that Palestinian life has an equal worth to that of an Israeli or Western life. Here, Palestinian writer Hamza Ali Shah exposes this endemic racism - and why it must be confronted Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Keir Starmer's decision to back war crimes - then be dishonest about it - and refusal to support a crisis has plunged him into crisis. A massive internal revolt has now gripped Labour, demanding the party support peace - and that's down to you. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is how a rogue state behaves. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Courageous Israelis - who support peace and Palestinian justice - are under attack. They are being victimised, harassed and targeted. Uri Horesh is one striking example: a sociolinguist who faces being fired for speaking out. This is a must-listen about what's happening in Israel right now. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
As the horror in Gaza mounts, we've got the latest best analysis and news, including: - İyad el-Baghdadi, writer, human rights' activist and Palestinian refugee. - Omar Abdel-Mannan, UK-based paediatric neurology doctor who has visited Gaza multiple times since 2011, to discuss the humanitarian crisis Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
With growing public fury at the horrors unleashed by Israel against Gaza, the cheerleaders of this crime have a strategy. Those who oppose it are to be harassed, intimidated, fired. Here we document what's happening, who has been targeted - and why we must fight it. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
As Israel's onslaught against Gaza unleashes ever greater horrors, supporters of peace have become increasingly targeted. In Germany, most pro-Palestinian protests have been banned, often using the justification of fighting antisemitism. I speak to German-Israeli author and Jewish peace activist Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus on Germany's crackdown, the racist implications - and why it doesn't make Jewish people safer. Here's a letter from Jewish writers, academics, journalists, artists, and cultural worke...
