Nick Robinson
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1,535 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Nick Robinson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hello and welcome to Political Thinking.
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We risk a repeat of what was seen in the nineteen thirties, say those who worry aloud about the spread of anti-Jewish hatred here in Britain.
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That, others contend, is to use the horror of the Holocaust to try to silence criticism of the horrors which Israel, the world's only Jewish state, is now responsible for.
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One man is better placed than most to judge these competing arguments.
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He's my guest.
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Guest on political thinking, Theodore or Ted Meron, whose book, A Thousand Miracles, from surviving the Holocaust to judging genocide, tells the extraordinary story of a boy who was liberated from a Nazi labor camp, went on to be a human rights lawyer in what became Israel, served for two decades as the president of the UN War Crimes Tribunals, and latterly was an advisor to the International Criminal Court.
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in the court when its prosecutor took its most controversial ever decision, the issuing of arrest warrant for Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Theodore Merron, Ted Merin.
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Thank you for joining me on political thinking.
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We're going to talk about that very controversial case that you were involved in, but I want to begin by talking about anti-Semitism now.
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You're in an almost unique position to judge whether there are any similarities with what you grew up with back in the nineteen thirties and the growth of anti-Semitism that it's argued we're seeing now.
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What do you think the similarities and differences are?
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In many ways the story of your life is the story of someone who escaped the Holocaust and went on to develop that international human rights law, which I I want to discuss.
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But before we do
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What do you say to people who say, Look, we're seeing some of what we saw in the nineteen thirties here in Britain?
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It's still very, very different.
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As we'll go on to discuss, you think that the Netanyahu government may well be guilty of war crimes.
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You've been highly critical of the policies of Israeli governments in the past as well.
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