Is Israel an Ethnostate? And the 2026 Israeli Olympic Bobsled Team

Jonah Platt· Host0:00

Shalom, chaverim, banot ve-banim, and welcome to another very special episode of the world's number one Jewish podcast. I have to ask for a small favor. As an independent show, we don't have a massive marketing machine behind us. Our growth is purely organic, fueled by dedicated viewers and listeners like you. So if you would be so kind, please take 30 seconds, head over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify, find this show, and leave me a five-star rating and a short written review. I love seeing all of your thoughtful and generous feedback. Some of it has even made it onto the show and may again. And as of this recording, we are just eight ratings away from hitting five hundred on Apple. Crossing that threshold would be a huge milestone for us. It's a small mitzvah on your part, but it really is the fuel that allows us to keep these amazing conversations going, so thank you in advance. Unless you don't leave a rating, in which case you're a butthead. Let's cut the [beep], shall we? We've spent the last couple weeks deconstructing the major buzzwords and libels most frequently tossed around in anti-Israel discourse. If you haven't checked out those monologues yet, I strongly recommend it for your personal sanity, if nothing else. But there's one word we've yet to unpack, an academic and esoteric term that literally no regular person uses in any context except to denigrate Israel. Many of you will be familiar with the great Jewish activist Natan Sharansky's three Ds of antisemitism: demonization, delegitimization,