{"id":584310,"date":"2026-08-14T08:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/584310\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T08:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:26:16","slug":"netanyahu-mocks-uk-as-islamic-republic-of-britain-in-podcast-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/584310\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu mocks UK as \u2018Islamic Republic of Britain\u2019 in podcast remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a sharp swipe at Britain during a podcast appearance, referring to the country as the \u201cIslamic Republic of Britain\u201d in remarks likely to draw attention in London. Britain\u2019s Labour government under Andy Burnham is considered critical of Israel, but the United Kingdom remains one of Israel\u2019s important international partners, with deep ties spanning multiple fields.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu made the remarks during an appearance on Avi Harush\u2019s Melech Blitzer Haim podcast while discussing Randolph Churchill, the journalist and son of former British prime minister Winston Churchill. Netanyahu said Randolph Churchill had covered the Six-Day War in a way that was \u201cvery positive toward us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Netanyahu and the \u2018Islamic Republic of Britain\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u201cGo find that in Britain today, in what is called the Islamic Republic of Britain. Go find it,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he believed all of Europe had effectively become such a place, Netanyahu responded by alluding to remarks made two years earlier by U.S. Vice President JD Vance. \u201cSomeone said the first Islamic republic with nuclear weapons will be the Islamic Republic of Britain,\u201d Netanyahu said. \u201cWe are making sure there won\u2019t be another one here, in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

The remarks drew criticism from Avi Dabush of the Democrats party list. \u201cYou are a prime minister. You have responsibility, there is such a word, and you sit there making jokes about Britain,\u201d Dabush wrote on X. \u201cA member of the Security Council that is six times the size of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a sharp swipe at Britain during a podcast appearance, referring to the country…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-584310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}