Lots of new MR-related audio sprinkled around the Internet this morning. Parts 2 and 3 of my appearance on BEDROCK With Larry Greenfield have been posted and can be found here and here respectively. The podcast is broadcast weekly by the Claremont Institute, and I gave a longer overview of Larry and of the show when Part 1 went up (plus a reminder of what kind dishonest tools staff the NJDC). These new segments are a bit more policy-oriented, ranging from what we used to call the sociology of the academy in Part 2 - liberal academics and their academic liberalism - all the way into Middle East diplomacy and the Iran Lobby in Part 3. The academic discussion includes a good deal of mass communication theory and political philosophy, getting into some interesting stuff that rarely makes its way into MR or into The Omri Ceren Show.

Speaking of One Jerusalem's TOCS, the most recent episode with Dan Diker and Noam Bedein had some pretty critical stuff. Israel hasn't been this militarily besieged since May 1967 and it hasn't been this diplomatically vulnerable since the modern rebirth of the Jewish State. Given that, Diker's rundown of what's driving the UK's branding of Jewish goods from the West Bank - something we unpacked at length - comes pretty close to necessary listening.

The highlights I played from my interview with Noam spoke to global deligitimization in a less direct way: Palestinians have been firing rockets at Israeli schoolchildren walking to school for more than half a decade, but the only group doing sustained media outreach on the issue is a 7-employee NGO. There's a reason why we spend so much time talking about public diplomacy on the show. More importantly, you'll definitely want to check out the full 30 minute interview that got posted exclusively to the top of One Jerusalem's audio page. As always it had sections that never made it on the air. One section is about Noam's experiences with liberal American Jewish groups. It's exactly what you'd expect, in the sense that it's much, much worse than what you'd expect.

References and related after the jump...

References:
* Bedrock: Omri Ceren Interview, Part 2 [BEDROCK With Larry Greenfield]
* Bedrock: Omri Ceren Interview, Part 3 [BEDROCK With Larry Greenfield]
* Omri On Larry Greenfield's Claremont Institute BEDROCK Podcast, Part I [MR]
* NJDC Tool Aaron Keyak Helpfully Illustrates How Liberal Activists Sneeringly Cocoon Themselves In Asinine Arguments And Dishonest Smears [MR]
* The "Iran Lobby" Moves Into The White House [MR]
* http://www.onejerusalem.org/audio.php
* Noam Bedein - Sderot In An Era Of Hamas War Crimes [Omri Ceren Show]
* One Jerusalem Radio Audio [Official Site]

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* The Omri Ceren Show
* Israel
* Academia