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Transported

Transported was conceived as an alternative look at travel and its place in modern life, and some of the more interesting things under the surface that I learned from the places I visited. As I spend a great deal of time in Israel, the last 18 months have led to a heavy focus on Middle Eastern affairs, hopefully also with a contrarian bent, which I apply to UK and US politics and other subjects too. In other words it"s really a self-indulgent diary of my thoughts, which I hope will be

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31:57

From Tehran to Davos

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2026/01/21

Iran’s protests continue amidst a communications blackout, and estimated fatalities in the tens of thousands. Rojava has fallen. A Board of Peace is recruiting global figures to create a post-war governance of Gaza. Greenland is preparing for an invasion, while Nicolás Maduro sits in a Brooklyn Jail. It has been a wild start to 2026. How do we tie together these divergent threads? What does one have to do with the other? Join us to unpack the first chapter of what is shaping up to be a historic

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28:18

From Caracas to Tehran

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2026/01/11

Wide-scale demonstrations have swept cities across Iran, growing more violent with each passing day. This, less than a week after Maduro was apprehended from his bed and brought to face charges in the US. The Trump administration is negotiating some sort of working relationship from the interim Venezuelan government, around oil extraction, seeking control of Greenland, and threatening repercussions if Iran oversteps some hidden mark with the protestors, all setting the scene for a new, openly

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28:08

From Phoenix to Pinner

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2025/12/25

From a conservative mega-conference in Arizona to a Jewish peer’s exchange with the online right, the fracture line is widening fast. The right’s uncomfortable alliance with Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as the leftist-islamist alliance. What happens when Jews stop fitting neatly into the political camps they helped build? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit transported.substack.com/subscribe

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24:23

From Guadeloupe to Portland Place

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2025/12/10

A drunk driver hits a food truck in Guadeloupe. Within hours, it mutates online into an Islamist attack on a Christmas market and gets laundered through Indian clickbait sites, before landing on Elon and Tommy Robinson’s X accounts. Meanwhile, the BBC racks up hundreds of “corrections” on Israel and quietly carries on. In this episode we ask: who is actually more accountable, and who is more ideological? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to

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32:34

From London to Buenos Aires

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2025/10/29

Sunday’s midterm elections in Argentina were a referendum on Milei’s past two years in office. His unconventional approach appears to be working. What does this mean for future of Argentina’s economy, as well as relations with the US, Israel and even the UK? Join us as we take a deep dive into the results and the big picture. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit transported.substack.com/subscribe

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29:19

From Luton Town to Aston Villa

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2025/10/19

Tommy is a highly divisive figure - as mentioned in the podcast, I strongly suggest watching a long-form interview with him to get the measure of him, rather than relying on second- and third-hand statements about him. I recommend Triggernometry, Andrew Gold or Jonathan Sacerdoti. For good measure, here is an interview with Amichai Chikli, the Minister for Diaspora Affairs.Also here is the essay I wrote in the aftermath of the Manchester attack and the subsequent spat between the Board of Deputies

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29:28

From Jakarta to Jerusalem

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2025/10/15

Two years after the most painful Simchat Torah in recent memory, we are once again at the end of the High Holidays, and have welcomed home 20 living hostages. The Sharm-Al-Sheikh peace deal, led by the White House, has involved some surprising players. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit transported.substack.com/subscribe

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28:02

From Manchester to Jerusalem

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2025/10/02

If there’s one thing for British Jews and non-Jews to take away from this episode, it’s this call to action. Home is where you make it, and for 370 years we have made our home in Britain. Next week is Succot (Tabernacles) - we call on British people of all faiths and none to visit their Jewish friends in their succah, and to spend time together reflecting on its symbolism as a fragile and temporary home for the Jews as they wander in their own proverbial desert. If you don’t know Jews and there is

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13:53

From New York to Ramallah - Rosh Hashanah Special

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2025/09/23

As always, thank you for listening. On behalf of Transported, we wish you a sweet new year. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit transported.substack.com/subscribe

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14:56

11/09/25 - From Provo, Utah to unknown

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2025/09/11

The horrific murder of a public figure like Charlie Kirk had a grim inevitability about it. The tone of civil discourse has become anything but; Kirk's entire brand leaned heavily into retaining civility even when discussing the most contentious topics. This was not just the murder of a man, but the attempted murder of that approach to dialogue. At the same time, our society has become one where most people are bystanders, in every sense of the word and aspect of life. Some are unwilling and

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25:37

From around the world to São Paulo, part 4

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2025/09/08

Apologies for the delay in producing this and the rest of the NGF updates - our days at the conference were long, and I ran out of time and steam to produce them while I was there. So they’ll be coming out over the next few days, then normal service will resume. I hope they are of some interest and perhaps inspire listeners to find out more at www.ngfp.org and perhaps even to apply to be a fellow!Whilst it should be obvious, of course all views expressed in this podcast are my own and not those of

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24:15

From around the world to São Paulo, part 3

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2025/08/28

The collage in the cover pic represents my Jewish journey using a colour code system representing different things like home, community, education, belief and so on. Prize for anyone who guesses three of the elements!Whilst it should be obvious, of course all views expressed in this podcast are my own and not those of any NGF attendee. I hope I have fairly summarised the talks and attributed everything correctly - of couse any errors that you make me aware of will be noted and explained in a future

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24:39

From around the world to São Paulo, part 2

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2025/08/26

In these sessions we had an opportunity to discuss the essential qualities of leadership in the midst of the various crises we’ve all endured in the past five years, both within and outside the Jewish community and Israel. We also looked at contemporary feminism for Jews and Israelis, especially within the current context. What’s great about the NGF culture is that it encourages “productive discomfort” - too often these days, people refuse to be uncomfortable, and organisations are created or

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5:13

From around the world to São Paulo: Part 1

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2025/08/25

The NGF fosters Jewish connectedness among a new generation of current and future leaders from across the world, in the spirit of the man for whom it is named:“Ben Gurion once reproached me with being a wandering Jew, I answered that some people have their roots in themselves and have no need to put them down in any particular soil…. I once told Ben-Gurion that he considered problems from the viewpoint of Sde Boker, his little kibbutz, whereas I saw them from a plane flying twelve thousand metres

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36:19

From Tel Aviv around the world, part V

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2025/08/20

Henry Kissinger famously quipped that Israel has no foreign policy and only domestic politics. Now Israel itself is effectively a matter of domestic politics, rathern than foreign policy, in so many countries.In part V of “From Tel Aviv around the world”, we consider how to communicate our story given domestic political implications of the Israel-Hamas war and wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Jews are simultaneously the ultimate “somewhere people” (rooted in Israel) and “anywhere people”

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42:40

From Tel Aviv around the world, part IV

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2025/08/05

In this part of the episode, we delve further into the previously discussed concept of “locks and keys” as a way to think about the communication of Israel’s public diplomacy and the wider story of Zionism. As always I welcome feedback, questions, comments, and arguments. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit transported.substack.com/subscribe

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00:44:34

From Rafah to Rafah

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2025/07/26

It's been a very busy week with a lot to think about, with the shrill criticism from the sidelines of the aid situation in Gaza, and now Macron virtue-signalling with his unconditional recognition of Palestine. How did we get ourselves so cornered on all this? Is there still a way out? I try to explain the immense double standard by all these third parties on who has responsibility for working out what to do and who should actually do it, through two Rafahs.Strap in, it's a chunky one.

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00:11:34

From Pinner to Suweida

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2025/07/21

A quick thought or two about the situation with the Druze.

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00:32:28

From Tel Aviv around the world, part III

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2025/07/04

A dive into the psychology and archetypes of the Israel-bashers, and how this may hold the key to fighting back - not just for ourselves but for the West as a whole.

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00:12:22

From Missouri to Fordow, part III

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2025/06/26

Hopefully the concluding part of this war arc. Where we seem to have reached, what might happen next in an at least partly reshaped Middle East.

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