Elders of Zionism

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 t...

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 tha...

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 i...

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 (0...

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 ha...

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...

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 it...

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 sh...

Judah Friedman and Guy Goldstein open Protocol 31 breaking down the pressure campaign on Iran (0:54), where Trump's insistence that the midterms aren't driving his Iran timeline collides with growing signs the regime is cracking under economic strangulation, from IRGC loyalists getting attacked in the streets to a ramming incident at a pro-regime protest, with Guy pointing to pipeline projects sla...

Historian Richard Landes joins Judah and Guy for a conversation that reframes the last twenty five years of Western weakness in the face of jihad (00:13). Landes, a medievalist turned scholar of millennial movements, lays out the caliphater ideology driving the push to convert Dar al Harb into Dar al Islam, and the two hosts dig into why messaging on the right has failed to keep pace (02:39). The...

We revisit Mike Rogers’ uphill Michigan Senate fight and argue that candidates need a recognizable political identity and messages that actually speak to voters rather than merely attacking opponents’ labels (03:24). We dissect El-Sayed’s Jesse Watters interview, Hasan Piker’s extremism and the dishonest attempt to equate Sharia with Catholic canon law while recasting Jesus as a socialist (16:31)....

We dissect Abdul El-Sayed’s embrace of Sharia, the difference between private religious observance and coercive religious government and the disturbing history of educated professionals embracing radicalism (01:03). We warn that Michigan’s Senate race exposes the GOP’s chronic failure to recruit compelling candidates while El-Sayed packages Islamist politics inside a progressive platform tailor-ma...

We expose the Israeli media’s dramatic leftward bias, the collapse of public trust and the global market rewarding anti-Israel narratives (00:22). We ridicule Tucker Carlson’s claim about Israeli schools avoiding plus signs and the broader appetite for anti-Jewish nonsense dressed up as skepticism (05:12). We highlight the media blackout around a Muslim vandalizing a Jaffa church and the obvious d...

Sent from my We revisit why the left keeps overplaying its hand while conservatives keep failing to capitalize on the opportunity, and ask whether modern politics has become less left versus right than competing speeds toward the same destination (00:45). We dissect J.D. Vance’s economic populism, his resurfaced argument against the dollar’s reserve-currency status and the crucial difference betwe...

We expose why Jews are somehow always the last people to hear about the latest Jewish conspiracy, from Khazarians and Ashkenazi mafias to the ever-expanding Epstein class (00:43). We marvel at Tucker Carlson’s accelerating descent into conspiratorial madness and his remarkable ability to make everything eventually lead back to Israel or the Jews (05:14). We hammer JD Vance for publicly announcing...

We welcome the hate comments that feed the algorithm and marvel at an internet where outrage has become engagement currency (00:28). We question how Israeli intelligence uncovered a credible threat against President Trump while American agencies apparently missed it and condemn the insanity of treating Turkey as a trustworthy mediator (02:22). We roast Tucker Carlson’s ideological whiplash and the...

We sound the alarm over the Democratic Party's continued drift toward its anti-Israel fringe after El-Sayed's Michigan victory (00:37). We dissect the weaponization of AIPAC, antizionism and political dog whistles while arguing that hostility toward Israel has become a socially acceptable stand-in for hostility toward Jews (05:16). We expose how conspiracy theories, scapegoating and recycled antis...

We welcome activist and entrepreneur Lee Trink and discuss why the endless cycle of daily news had become unsustainable (00:12). We debate whether President Trump's unpredictable approach is strategic poker or dangerous confusion, arguing over deterrence, bluffing, allies and why credibility matters in a prolonged negotiation with Iran (02:13). We examine how Middle Eastern partners pursue their o...

We criticize the White House's messaging strategy during the conflict with Iran and argue that modern wars require a constant public narrative to counter online propaganda and keep Americans informed (02:20). We debate whether social media fragmentation or poor leadership is more responsible for the messaging vacuum and explore how daily briefings, clearer objectives and stronger communication cou...

We examine Iran's collapsing economy and argue that the regime's real strength lies not in money but in ideology, corruption and the IRGC's grip on power while explaining why economic warfare succeeds by destroying a regime's ability to sustain itself rather than simply cutting paychecks (00:12). We reject half-measures in war and argue that performative bombing, escalation management and messagin...

We kick off by arguing that invoking Iraq and the "forever war" narrative to oppose action against Iran is a manipulative distraction that derails moral and strategic decision-making (02:46). We warn that repeated hesitation has squandered multiple opportunities to decisively defeat Iran and only prolongs the conflict while empowering its proxies (04:17). We condemn growing threats against Israeli...

We dismantle Zohran Mamdani's victim narrative and argue that his anti-Israel rhetoric fuels the very climate of political violence he now condemns while distinguishing legitimate criticism from death threats (00:12). We expose the Islamist tactic of deflection, victimhood and accusations of Islamophobia or "psy ops" to silence critics and shift attention away from real wrongdoing (05:07). We comp...

We welcome author and commentator Karys Rhea to examine the growing divide between MAGA and the so-called "America First" (aka "America Only") movement, debate the future of Marco Rubio, JD Vance and the Republican coalition and warn that anecdotal narratives are distorting perceptions of the Right's internal battles (00:13). We dissect the collapse of Iran diplomacy, criticize Vance's handling of...

We dissect Joe Rogan’s scripted plunge into anti-Israel conspiracy and condemn JD Vance for blaming Israel and critics instead of Iran (00:36). We expose Vance’s Iranian talking points and refusal to own his collapsing MOU (05:55). We contrast Qatar’s vast influence machine with the obsessive scrutiny of Israel and AIPAC (09:07). We warn that Vance’s ignorance of the Ten Commandments, American his...

Judah Friedman and Guy Goldstein are back after a short break, and they open by taking apart the language people use to manufacture victimhood, from a congressman's claim of being "detained" in a West Bank military zone to the playbook behind staged sympathy (02:10), with Guy walking through what the term Pallywood actually describes and why coordination with the embassy, not activist groups, is t...