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But now he’s making headlines after being arrested for holding up a placard in support of Palestine Action. “To be completely honest, I wasn’t expecting this time of my life … to be facing terrorism charges,” he tells Sangita Myska. “The terrorists here are the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza.”

In this episode of “Sangita Meets…”, the pair also take a deep dive into the most pressing issues of the climate crisis: they discuss how the vested interests of the fossil fuel industry are corrupting our politicians, how the U.S. has let China lead the world in renewables and why we need to radically reform capitalism if we want to save the planet.

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“The fossil fuel industry wraps the whole of government in this intricate layer of dependencies and deals,” he tells Sangita Myska, adding that any promises that new oil and gas energy projects will bring down costs are “a complete fabrication”.

In this extensive “Sangita Meets …” interview, Sangita and Jonathon take a deep dive into his activism not only on climate but also on the genocide in Gaza, which resulted in his recent arrests . He called the UK government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation “appalling”.

“You can’t say that what those protesters for Palestine Action did was genuine terrorism. It wasn’t,” he says. “It was a protest against the horror of what Israel is doing in Gaza and the West Bank.”

Sir Jonathon Porritt also speaks about:

• How the explosion in both the world population and the global economy has “put nature under the cosh”

• Why the direct-action protests are worth the “inconvenience” and “nuisance” they cause

• Why we need to radically reform capitalism if we want to save the planet

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But it’s the social justice advocate’s outspoken criticism of the Gaza genocide that, as Sangita Myska puts it, “made peopl…

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And in this second episode of ‘Sangita Meets…’, Misan speaks to Sangita Myska about what drove him to pick up the camera. “Watching somebody that looks like me, George Floyd, lying in his own piss, asking for his mama, while still calling the men who had [a knee] on his neck, sir, as he left his mortal coil … The choice was already made for me,” he says.

In this intimate and in-depth interview, Sangita also asks Misan, former chair of London’s Southbank Centre, about press culpability in the tragic death of British academic Jason Arday, who died by suicide this summer after what critics call a relentless, and often racist, media frenzy over his academic record. “Had it not been for the poison pen of many people you and I both know personally”, Misan says, “this human being, this man, this son, this father would still be alive.”

Misan also opens up on:

• The vicious online campaign against him over his support for Gaza and criticisms of Israel (“The forensic scraping of any story posts, any collabs, any shares … It means that they would have seen my advocacy with multiple Jewish groups.”)

• Why he continues to defend Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (“These are people that I consider as family.”)

• How he responds to criticisms that he’s part of the British elite

• What it feels like to have someone else tell his own story, in the documentary about his life, ‘Shoot the People’.

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She’s now launching legal action against ITV and, in her first independent media interview since then, she tells Zeteo UK’s Sangita Myska that behind the scenes, some of the show’s famous guests would thank her for speaking out, but only in hushed tones.

“I cannot understand why it’s so terrifying,” she says. “Why is everybody bloody whispering about an atrocity, an absolute atrocity that we can watch live?”

If you haven’t seen it yet, watch her exclusive “Sangita Meets…” interview above to hear Nadia talk about the call that pulled her off air, what she hopes to achieve, and why she won’t stop speaking out about Gaza.

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But when she started speaking out for Palestine after Israel launched its war against Gaza in the wake of the October 7 attacks, Nadia tells Zeteo UK’s Sangita Myska she was, without warning, taken off air. Her bosses, she says, told her “it’s a bit noisy out there.”

“I took it to mean… your beliefs, your passion, your anti-genocide, all of that… it’s creating noise we don’t want. It’s uncomfortable for us,” Nadia says.

Now, in this exclusive, inaugural “Sangita Meets…” interview – Nadia’s first with independent media since launching legal action against one of the UK’s top broadcasters – Nadia says she hopes her case will set a precedent. “We must make it more difficult to treat people unfairly, individuals unfairly, that are following their absolute moral compass.”

In this wide-ranging and fascinating podcast conversation, Sangita also asks Nadia about her Jordanian roots, fighting back against accusations of antisemitism, how it felt to receive a formal apology and libel damages from the Daily Mail after a defamation lawsuit, and why Nadia believes that legal proceedings against ITV will mean the end of her career as an actress.

Zeteo UK has contacted ITV for comment, but as of publication, the company has not responded.

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This is Sawalha’s first independent media interview since she launched legal action against one of the UK’s top broadcasters, ITV, the network which took her off the air as a founding panelist on the popular daytime talk show “Loose Women” after she began speaking publicly in support of Palestine.

”Why is everybody bloody whispering about an atrocity, an absolute atrocity that we can watch live?” Sawalha tells Myska.

Similarly, Myska was removed from her role at LBC after challenging an Israel government spokesman in a live interview over the genocide in Gaza. The two speak candidly about the backlash they’ve received for criticizing Israel, jeopardising their careers to stand against injustice.

But this is just the first episode of ‘Sangita Meets…’. Each episode will bring you unfiltered, wide-ranging interviews with cultural and political figures, and conversations that take you beyond the soundbite, freely and without bias.

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