Straight Up with Danny Seaman

About Straight Up with Danny Seaman

"Straight Up" with Danny Seaman, former director of Israel’s Government Press Office, gives English speakers unfiltered access to the voices of Israeli journalists, analysts, and commentators rarely heard in Western media. Want to know what Israel’s conservative media is really saying? Start here.

Publisher

JNS

Category

history · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 May 2025

Latest episode

2 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

76 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Oct 2026

   FlyDubai Flight: The Israeli Instinct to Take Action

   Israeli passengers had just minutes to stop a hijacked plane from becoming a weapon, and Daniel Seaman says their actions reveal something much bigger about how Israel survives. In this episode of "Straight Up", Seaman examines the heroism aboard the FlyDubai flight and draws a direct parallel to the ordinary Israelis who rushed into action on October 7. He also returns to Gaza’s own social-media footage to challenge Western narratives about conditions there and examines why mounting pressure on Iran could dramatically reshape the region. Finally, Seaman turns to Kohelet and Sukkot for a larger lesson: in a long war, patience, endurance and the ability to see beyond the latest headline may matter more than anything else.

2. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Gaza’s Humanitarian Narrative vs. Images of Everyday Life

3. 

   23 Sept 2026

   Jewish Jess: Changing Israel’s Narrative Through Personal Stories

   Israel’s supporters are changing tactics: stop explaining, start going directly into the places most hostile to the Jewish state. In this episode of "Straight Up", Daniel Seaman sits down with “Jewish Jess” of Frontline Advocates, who says threats against her forced her to leave Britain and move to Israel. She reveals what happened when her group of IDF veterans took their message directly to NYU, Columbia and other New York campuses...where confrontations quickly erupted around their Israeli flag and “We fought in Gaza, ask us anything” table. Jess explains the provocative tactic they used to get pro-Palestinian activists talking about October 7, the intensive training behind their growing international operation, and why she believes personal stories, not traditional “Hasbara”, could be the key to changing the narrative about Israel.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

3.4 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 8 / 100

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Quality

16

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

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