The Fence Around the Congregation

Stay in the Room Podcast · Aug 23, 2026 · 9m

You know why this one is difficult. So let’s deal with it at the top rather than hoping you’ll stay long enough for me to get to it.

Over the last two years the word “Zionist” has done two entirely different jobs in British political speech. It has described a political position, which is what it means. And it has worked as a swap-in for “Jew” inside stories about hidden control — the ones where a small group is quietly steering the country from somewhere you cannot see. Both uses are live. Both are current. And you cannot always tell from the sentence in front of you which one you are…