Elders of Zionism

On this Episode Judah Friedman, Guy Goldstein and a previously thoroughly drenched but now dry Golan Ramraz open (00:00) with the Spanish floods and a phone-free philosophy of concert-going (02:56), then pivot to the flydubai hijacking attempt (06:02). The hosts argue that people with ugly ideas attach themselves to the Gaza cause to launder them, and Guy lays out how the suspect's radicalization predates the war (36:40). From there the conversation widens to the October 7 erasure (13:16), the Green Party's Zionism motion (19:31), SJP's funding (20:36), and Tucker Carlson's interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg (22:02). Judah makes the peace-through-strength case for Trump (26:14) and asks who is knifing him from inside the pod sphere (29:30). The hosts then break down how quickly the Israeli press turned the plumber hero into a Netanyahu campaign story (41:38, 44:40), and Guy frames Bibi's reaction as a redemption arc (45:49). The episode closes with the ICEJ and Christian allies (52:44), Falling Down and the inversion of heroes and villains (55:57), whether Israeli athletes should keep traveling (58:08), and Yuval Raphael's Eurovision stand (1:03:57).
 

Judah, Golan, and Guy open with a friend's choice of El Al for a January trip to Israel (00:01), then turn to the Dubai to Tel Aviv flight where an Omani co-pilot stabbed his captain and put the 737 Max into a dive (01:34). They break down why "hijacking" is the wrong word for a man who wanted to use 174 mostly Israeli passengers as a weapon (02:29), how the wounded captain still managed to open the cockpit door (04:55), and why the line between a hijacking and a homicide matters (08:18). Golan describes explaining it to his 10-year-old daughter (08:37). Then the passengers storm the cockpit, an Israeli dentist treats the captain, and a passenger who learned his flying knowledge from Mayday pulls the jet out of the dive (09:42). The hosts weigh what this means for pilot screening and airport security (14:10), why Judah finds jihadism harder to deter than communism (17:21), and why the Saudi landing, the IAF escort, and CENTCOM coordination show how far the region has moved (20:08). They also ask how this pilot was ever vetted (28:07) and why Saudi Arabia refused to let a rescue plane in (30:56). From there the show moves to Netanyahu's secret UAE trip and the Israeli media leak (31:54), the foreign influence operations betting on his defeat (38:50), and Golan's Substack piece on useful idiots (41:02). Guy ties the day together with the Dayenu sequence of miracles (44:25). The last stretch covers the instant "Israel knew" narrative (47:03), the BB clip edited to say the opposite of what he said (49:53), Zara's latest scandal and the age of unreality (51:07), the show's own run-in with YouTube over hate speech (53:20), Rahm Emanuel's endorsement of El-Sayed (55:17), and Guy's closing case for Western values (57:59).

Protocol 38 begins with (00:01) Judah welcoming Guy Goldstein and Golan Ramraz, thanking a listener for a five-star Apple review, and pushing everyone to search "Elders of Zionism" on Google, followed by a detour through Judah's dog, the yogurt diet, and a vet who never offers a compliment (00:50). The news opens at (05:52) with the Friday-afternoon story dump in Israeli politics and the claim that Netanyahu was warned about October 7th. Golan lays out how a dubious claim gets laundered through Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, the UN and eventually an Oscar-winning film until nobody has to cite the original source (07:14), and Guy extends it to AI search results, where influence laundering becomes truth laundering (10:34). They cover the Guardian fact-checking the BBC on its count of journalists killed in Gaza (11:37), the Egyptian and UAE warning stories (13:05), and the "McLamore to Tor Gaza 2027" joke episode followed by an announced free Palestine tour, which Golan argues was arranged well in advance (14:24). Judah explains that YouTube pulled the previous episode and, for the first time in roughly 75 pulled episodes across his shows, supplied a timestamp citing hate speech (17:00), and the three trade platform ban stories, from Guy's lifetime Fiverr ban to Golan's unactioned reports and the Whitney Cummings flag on Truth Social (19:12). The conversation turns to the Netherlands searching Israeli travelers over goods from Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights (23:12), and Guy ties the wave of sanctions to the erosion of equality under God and liberal democracy (25:09). After a lighter aside about a family banned from an airline over a large Indian meal (26:53), Golan argues that "genocide" has become a political conclusion rather than a legal one, with the ICJ case still undecided (28:31), Guy roots due process and the presumption of innocence in the Judeo-Christian foundation of the West (30:48), and Judah lands the beta-test framing: Jews are the test case for what comes next for everyone else (33:49). The second half moves to the UK, where a former Hamas bodyguard received citizenship and was later caught organizing weapons caches on the continent through Israeli and German intelligence rather than British services (34:19), then to the foiled plot near a US air base housing strategic bombers, reportedly spotted by a local farmer, and why the story is getting so little coverage on the left or the right (41:58 to 47:56). Gillian Anderson is attacked for mentioning Sudan without mentioning Gaza (49:20), and Guy points out that the Gaza ceasefire began a year ago while the UN General Assembly is still litigating a war that ended (51:36). Judah raises Tucker Carlson's claim not to be fixated on Jews (52:43), Golan and Guy discuss the Dutch student who allegedly identified himself in October 7th footage (53:35), and Judah closes the news by launching a recurring "Capo of the Week" segment (56:07). The episode ends on a serious note as Guy reflects on Holocaust survivor families saying they are glad their parents did not live to see this (59:04), and Golan reminds everyone that the difference from 1938 is the existence of Israel (1:01:19).

Protocol 37 opens (0:01) with Judah, Guy Goldstein and Golan Ramraz surveying an unusually dense week at the United Nations, from Golan's line about an Israeli microphone working like an "anti-Semitism audit" (2:26) to Guy's case that the UN hasn't gotten more hostile, it's just that the bloc of fallen democracies keeps growing (5:02). The conversation turns to whether October 7th changed the UN itself or just handed existing hatred a socially acceptable vocabulary (6:19), then into Guy's read on the international order swapping Soviet-era Palestinian mythology for a new morality play pitting globalist orthodoxy against resurgent nationalist movements, Trump chief among them (8:33). Around the 14 minute mark the show turns personal, honoring Israeli ambassador Yechiel Leiter, whose son was killed fighting in Gaza in 2023 and whose second son was critically injured in a ramming attack days before recording, the same week his daughter gave birth in that same hospital (14:47). Golan connects that story to the erosion of "support the troops" culture (19:04), which folds into Netanyahu's own speech, his account of finding his brother Yoni before the Six Day War (23:05), and his framing of a murdered French national in Judea as part of a broader rebuke of Emmanuel Macron (20:03). The back half works through the modern Nakba narrative against the erased history of Jewish expulsion from Iraq, Egypt, Yemen and across the Arab world (24:46), why Israel remains the one place a Jew can walk down the street without hiding it (28:20), speculation on a Bradley effect in the coming Israeli election given the gap between mainstream polling and Channel 14's numbers (36:00), and a sharp contrast between Zelensky's Oval Office stumble and Netanyahu's fluency on the world stage (30:07). Guy and Golan trade a childhood memory about how image and eloquence shape Western sympathy, from Abba Eban to Arafat to a tailored rebrand for Syria's new leader (33:16). The show closes on Javier Bardem's attack on Pink, Ed Sheeran's compelled Free Palestine moment, and Boy George performing in Israel anyway (42:57), what the three hosts have personally lost and gained since October 7th (49:01), a security warning ahead of Sukkot and Simchat Torah following the Yom Kippur attacks in Canada and the UK (52:09), Mayor Mamdani's record on New York's shrinking Jewish population (54:12), the true cost of what Golan calls the "Jew tax" (58:13), and a closing message to anyone struggling with addiction or mental health, rooted in the twelve step community and interfaith support (58:46).

This Protocol opens on the most celebrated Gazan journalist of the war, Motaz Azaiza, admitting that Gaza coverage ran through a Hamas-overseen WhatsApp group and that he never released his footage of hostages being brought in (20:15). Judah and Guy also cover the new bar for a safe Yom Kippur (01:58), why the Christmas market attacks should wake up Christians to the same pattern Jews live with (08:18), the Macklemore mural and Kraft's capitulation (09:51), Ed Sheeran and the UK music industry's long record with BDS (15:53), and Gavin Newsom's regret that stops short of an apology (25:58). From there it's Goebbels and how a big lie gets laundered through trusted institutions (28:20), the Houthi threat to the Bab el-Mandeb (30:30), sanctions on the ICC (38:37), Trump's warmth toward Mamdani as a weapon (41:04), a Reform rabbi's Yom Kippur sermon urging Jews to vote for those who support them (45:00), why Israelis are done with the two state solution (51:47), and why a supposedly isolated Israel has never been more needed (59:06).

On this Protocol, Golan's theory closes the loop on this episode's title: JD Vance is treating rising antisemitism the way early Bitcoin adopters treated the coin itself, a trend he's betting will pay off if he gets in before everyone else does (53:08). The hosts trace how they got there. Judah opens on JD Vance's claim during his All In podcast appearance, hosted by David Sacks, that Netanyahu has been "in power for 40 years" (23:14), a factual error since Netanyahu's first term began in 1996, and uses it to launch a chronological rebuttal of the idea that Israel has always been America's default darling. Nixon's 1973 DEFCON 3 airlift over State Department objections, the Reagan administration's fury at Israel's strike on Iraq's nuclear reactor, Bush telling Israel to stand down during the 1991 Gulf War, the Oslo Accords under Clinton, and the pressure to kill Israel's Lavi fighter jet program in the 1980s to protect Boeing and Lockheed (24:37 through 30:26) all get laid out against Vance's repeated use of the word "subservience," with the read that Tucker Carlson's earlier post handed Vance the baton to keep pushing the same framing (31:01). Guy sharpens the distinction between America never being subservient to Israel and Democratic administrations since Jimmy Carter appeasing the Arab bloc and Qatar at Israel's expense, calling out that Qatari money and influence are the one thing missing from Vance's account (35:33 through 38:57). Golan flips the script with a catalog of Israeli intelligence contributions to the US, including the 2017 disruption of an ISIS airline plot, the 1966 theft and reverse engineering of a Soviet MiG, Vietnam-era radar intelligence sharing, and the direct line from the 1976 Entebbe raid to the formation of Delta Force (43:43). Earlier in the show, Guy brings in a creator's deep dive (name given as Nick Frehadis or Frajis, spelling unconfirmed) reporting that 59 percent of Democrats support the DSA and that the organization's largest internal caucus self-identifies as hardcore anti-Zionist, with most others identifying as Leninist or Stalinist (07:23 through 10:42), which the hosts connect to Gregory Meeks's public opposition to a reported 2.8 billion dollar Israel munitions package (06:26) and AOC's appearance at the 9/11 memorial (04:21) as evidence of where the party's actual center of gravity has moved. The episode lands on how JD Vance was introduced at the All In Summit as representing MAGA's shift from Israel toward "America first" or "America only" (57:37), framed as the opening move of a 2028 primary run staged outside Trump's current coalition, and closes on Golan's line that history has never been kind to people who bet against the Jews (59:11).

We unpack Saudi Arabia’s struggle against the Houthis, their expanding grip on Red Sea shipping, their Iranian backing and the sprawling black-market networks that keep terrorist money flowing beyond the reach of sanctions (01:58). We hammer Jared Kushner for publicly portraying the Doha strike as leverage used to pressure Israel, questioning both his characterization of the attack and the timing of his comments (08:40). We torch Tucker Carlson for backing Abdul El-Sayed and ask how many more opportunities JD Vance and the Republican movement need before finally jumping off the Tucker train (13:51). We examine the online right beginning to fracture as conspiracy influencers turn on one another and some former extremists reconsider narratives about Jews and Israel (18:46). We blast Mamdani and AOC for laughing during the reading of names at the 9/11 memorial and debate what that moment revealed about political power, memory and basic respect (24:49). We dismantle NAZA, its anonymous sources, AI-generated faces and voices and its claim that Israel used artificial intelligence to facilitate genocide, explaining what collateral-damage estimates actually mean under the laws of war and why the film’s own premise undercuts its argument (27:39). We condemn Venice for rewarding the film and trace the festival’s uncomfortable historical relationship with fascist propaganda (37:36). Finally, we celebrate Pink and Robert Kraft for using their leverage - with celebrity and with stadium owners, respectively - to help force Macklemore off Ed Sheeran’s tour and argue that fighting antisemitism requires going on offense rather than endlessly playing defense (55:05).

We dissect a Haaretz report claiming Netanyahu was warned by the UAE before October 7, the evidence undermining it, the rush by his political opponents to embrace it and the danger of anonymous sourcing becoming a vehicle for propaganda (01:27). We assess Iran’s escalating provocations, its collapsing economy and the possibility that a desperate regime actually wants an American attack to rally its population and manipulate Western opinion (11:08). We condemn European and Canadian moves to sanction Israel and applaud Israel finally answering hostility with consequences, from expelling diplomats to potentially withholding intelligence (15:22). We expose how boycotts supposedly designed to help Palestinians instead destroy Palestinian jobs and examine the Palestinian Authority’s continuing pay-to-slay program (19:49). We celebrate the deeper bond between America and Israel, rooted not merely in strategic interests but in a shared belief in liberty and the biblical foundations of Western freedom (25:17). We mourn how badly America has preserved the memory and lessons of 9/11 and how quickly unity against jihad gave way to excuses, historical amnesia and fear of confronting Islamic ideology (32:07). We argue that the deeper problem is not ignorance but maleducation, with young people deliberately taught a distorted history that leaves them unable to recognize threats their parents understood (39:25). We prescribe the only lasting response: teach the real history, fight for honest curricula, engage locally and make sure our children understand what happened on 9/11 and why it still matters (40:55). Finally, we remember the terror of being unable to reach family on 9/11 and October 7 and resolve to pass those memories forward so future generations are better prepared to fight the battles history keeps returning to them (43:51).

Karis Reyes returns to Elders of Zionism (00:41) Six million is the number everyone knows. Sixty-seven is not, and a hundred and seventeen is not, and that's exactly the point Guy Goldstein makes on this episode of Elders of Zionism when he walks through the pogroms at Hebron and Kishinev that most people, including most Jews, have never been taught (28:00-30:48). Judah opens with something the show rarely admits on air: the three hosts don't come from the same place, religiously or politically, and neither do most of their guests (03:49-04:44). Karis lays out her own path first, Bay Area secular household, two grandparent Holocaust survivors, a father obsessed enough with the history to fill the home with documentaries (06:06), and a political conversion that started quietly around 9/11 and didn't fully surface until she was voted Republican co-chair of her high school mock senate without meaning to be one (09:42-12:31). Guy's version is heavier. His grandparents fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance, and he grew up understanding the Holocaust the way American film taught it, Jews as scenery and Schindler as the hero (13:39). That framing becomes the engine of the episode. Judah cites Bush 41's collapse to eleven percent of the Jewish vote after telling Israel to stand down in the Gulf War (17:59); Karis makes the case that one in three Jews on earth were wiped out and the Germans documented it too meticulously for denial to hold (19:38-21:47); and Guy extends the argument backward into a century of pogroms nobody remembers and forward into the Farhud, the massacre that ended twenty-five hundred years of Jewish life in Baghdad in one week (30:xx). Karis connects that history directly to modern Jewish political liberalism, arguing the instinct to assimilate and soften Jewish identity was a survival response to exactly this pattern (31:26), and Guy closes the historical arc with a hard argument about why AI models keep producing antisemitic output, two thousand years of Shylock and Fagin don't get erased by a system prompt (33:14-35:31). From there the show turns present-tense. Guy argues Charlie Kirk's death removed the one gatekeeper holding the Groyper faction out of the mainstream right, and traces a straight line from that vacuum to Tucker Carlson's interview with Fuentes weeks later (38:24-45:53), while Karis complicates the story by insisting the rot was already spreading before Kirk died. Karis closes with a quiet trip bringing health-freedom leaders to Israel, careful to clarify it was not an official MAHA operation (46:42), a long Pop Tarts tangent involving Marco Rubio's wife that derails the panel for several minutes (47:13-49:44), and a final message about turning toward family and community when the political fight gets too heavy to hold alone (51:55-53:39). Find Karis at X @ReaKaris.

Karis Reyes returns to Elders of Zionism (00:41) Six million is the number everyone knows. Sixty-seven is not, and a hundred and seventeen is not, and that's exactly the point Guy Goldstein makes on this episode of Elders of Zionism when he walks through the pogroms at Hebron and Kishinev that most people, including most Jews, have never been taught (28:00-30:48). Judah opens with something the show rarely admits on air: the three hosts don't come from the same place, religiously or politically, and neither do most of their guests (03:49-04:44). Karis lays out her own path first, Bay Area secular household, two grandparent Holocaust survivors, a father obsessed enough with the history to fill the home with documentaries (06:06), and a political conversion that started quietly around 9/11 and didn't fully surface until she was voted Republican co-chair of her high school mock senate without meaning to be one (09:42-12:31). Guy's version is heavier. His grandparents fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance, and he grew up understanding the Holocaust the way American film taught it, Jews as scenery and Schindler as the hero (13:39). That framing becomes the engine of the episode. Judah cites Bush 41's collapse to eleven percent of the Jewish vote after telling Israel to stand down in the Gulf War (17:59); Karis makes the case that one in three Jews on earth were wiped out and the Germans documented it too meticulously for denial to hold (19:38-21:47); and Guy extends the argument backward into a century of pogroms nobody remembers and forward into the Farhud, the massacre that ended twenty-five hundred years of Jewish life in Baghdad in one week (30:xx). Karis connects that history directly to modern Jewish political liberalism, arguing the instinct to assimilate and soften Jewish identity was a survival response to exactly this pattern (31:26), and Guy closes the historical arc with a hard argument about why AI models keep producing antisemitic output, two thousand years of Shylock and Fagin don't get erased by a system prompt (33:14-35:31). From there the show turns present-tense. Guy argues Charlie Kirk's death removed the one gatekeeper holding the Groyper faction out of the mainstream right, and traces a straight line from that vacuum to Tucker Carlson's interview with Fuentes weeks later (38:24-45:53), while Karis complicates the story by insisting the rot was already spreading before Kirk died. Karis closes with a quiet trip bringing health-freedom leaders to Israel, careful to clarify it was not an official MAHA operation (46:42), a long Pop Tarts tangent involving Marco Rubio's wife that derails the panel for several minutes (47:13-49:44), and a final message about turning toward family and community when the political fight gets too heavy to hold alone (51:55-53:39). Find Karis at X @ReaKaris.