A comment feature for The Guardian in 2004"An American Scapegoat in London", The Guardian Comment, 16 October 2004, accessed September 2008. about her encounters with US-hatred in Britain led to her being invited onto the BBC's flagship Radio 4 political discussion programme, Any Questions? with Jonathan Dimbleby,Any Questions? 22/08/2008, BBC website (full audio). Accessed 12 June 2019. which in turn led to further appearances on radio and television as a political commentator, usually to give views on American politics and/or the Middle East, and sometimes on wider UK and American culture. Gould was a vocal critic of what she saw as increasing anti-Americanism and antisemitism in Britain,Carol Gould, Britain can be a brutal host, Jewish Chronicle, 19 August 2010 and expanded on her views in her book Don't Tread on Me, published in 2009 by the Social Affairs Unit in the UK and Encounter Books in the US. Her views have not always made her popular, and in July 2011 she and a fellow guest Jonathan Freedland were repeatedly disrupted and shouted down, when arguing against the cultural boycotting of Israel in a debate being held as part of the South Bank Literature Festival.Geoffrey Alderman, Making Sense of Bad Behaviour, Jewish Chronicle, 22 July 2011.Jonathan Freedland, Legislators against free speech, Jewish Chronicle, 12 August 2011Why Boycott Culture, Literature and Spoken Word Community, South Bank Centre, 11 July 2011"Why Boycott Culture?" — a revealing debate, One Democracy, 12 July 2011 She also gave regular guest lectures for Meretz UK,eg: Carol Gould: What Next for America and the World? (event), Meretz UK, 18 November 2018 and was a guest speaker and lecturer for YouGovStone,The YouGov Panel on US Politics, 29 February 2012 Manchester University, the Council of Christians and Jews, the United Nations Association UK,Carol Gould address to the UNAssociation London Meeting re Israel-Palestine, 28 September 2015 the British-American Project, and the Benjamin Franklin House.Election 2020: Carol Gould on American Politics (event), Benjamin Franklin House, 12 June 2019 For the American Women Lawyers in London Gould chaired the 'Eve of 2016 US presidential election debate' at the campus of Notre Dame University in London between Dr Jan Halper-Hayes for the Republicans and Salli Anne Swartz for the Democrats.The Unprecedented Election: A Bipartisan Discussion of the Key Issues (event), American Women Lawyers in London, 1 November 2016 The event was heated with a large, combative audience. In 2015, the London branch of the United Nations Association asked Gould to deliver the Hebrew prayer at its 70th Anniversary Commemorative Service at the Temple Church London.Multi-faith service for the 70th anniversary of the UN, 10 October 2015. UNA London and South-East Region newsletter, Feb 2016, p.7
