Book Launch for Israel Strikes Iran
Air Date: - Season 6 - Episode 13 | Edwin brings you Israel Strikes Iran: Operation Rising Lion: The 20-Year Backstory. Available from Amazon at noon ET on July 10, 2025, and globally thereafter, this work tells the stunning and dramatic account of how the Iranian regime labored for decades to construct nuclear missiles for use against Israel and how Israel raced to stop it, culminating in the dramatic Operation Rising Lion and the 12-Day War. Famed investigative historian Edwin Black, author of IBM and the Holocaust and The Farhud, delivers another extraordinary book achievement.Show Topics: Israel, Iran, Book Launch
Happy Fourth of July
Air Date: | Happy Independence Day from Edwin, Carol, and Team Black. We'll be back on July 10 to launch Edwin’s newest book, Israel Strikes Iran.
Unanswered Questions XIX: Iran Attack
Air Date: - Season 6 - Episode 12 | Edwin reveals the knowns and unknowns about Israel’s strike, America’s follow-up, and what may come next. With Clare Lopez and Ken Abramowitz.Show Topics: Iran, Israel, Middle East
The Turkish Threat
Air Date: - Season 6 - Episode 11 | Türkiye: increasingly Islamist, threatening, and unpredictable. President Erdoğan, who dreams of a reconstituted Ottoman Empire, directs the second-largest armed force in NATO and materially supports Hamas — and Turkey now threatens Israel with its hegemony in Syria.Clare Lopez, Yaakov Lappin, and Harold Rhode join Edwin with their astute analyses, and Jonathan Harounoff gives us a sneak peek at his new book about the women pushing back in Iran: Unveiled.Show Topics: Turkey, War, Middle East
Next show: The Turkish Threat
Air Date: | There's no Edwin Black Show on June 5; the next show is June 12, “The Turkish Threat.” In the meantime, check out the first “Bad Company.”Show Topics: Hiatus
International Farhud Day — Is Canada Next?
Air Date: - Season 6 - Episode 10 | On June 1, we commemorate the horrific Arab-Nazi pogrom inflicted on the Jewish citizens of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities on June 1 and 2, 1941—The Farhud. This violent dispossession was the beginning of the Nazi-style process of persecution and exclusion that would conclude with the expulsion of the Jews and the end of the 2,700-year-old Iraqi Jewish community.Now, Edwin and his guests, including Josh Block, Sam Edelman, Sheldon Freilich, and others, examine the brutal, Nazi-like surge of oppressive antisemitism in Canada and how we must strenuously isolate Canada until that nation restores safety and dignity to its Jews.Show Topics: Canada, Antisemitism
Next show: International Farhud Day—Canada Next? We’re off May 15 & 22
Air Date: | There's no Edwin Black Show on May 15 or May 22; the next show is May 29, International Farhud Day — Is Canada Next? While we're off, please take a look back at the 2022 Farhud Remembrance show.Show Topics: Hiatus
Unanswered Questions XVIII
Air Date: - Season 6 - Episode 9 | Edwin takes on some unanswered—and still burning—questions. Almost every episode, we run out of time before we run out of questions. We save them, and these episodes give us a chance to address topics such as the future of Israel, global antisemitism, automation and AI, corporate bad behavior, privacy, China, and more. Edwin also accepts new questions via the Zoom Q&A. Join us for this no-holds-barred, nothing-off-the-table session with guests Yossie Hollander and Joseph Tipograph.
We’re off this week (May 1); next up: Unanswered Questions XVIII
Air Date: | There's no Edwin Black Show on May 1; our next show will be "Unanswered Questions XVIII" on May 8. While we're off, please check out the third in our series on the AI threat.Show Topics: Hiatus
Special Event: Edwin Black Moderates the Fighting Global Antisemitism Panel at the JNS Summit
Air Date: | Edwin moderates the panel on Fighting Global Antisemitism at JNS’s 2025 International Policy Summit.Show Topics: Israel