Elders of Zionism

This episode of the Elders of Zionism Podcast, Protocol 47, opens with Judah, Guy, and Golan taking a victory lap on their episode 46 election call and pointing listeners to the new home of the show at eldersofzionism.com (00:00). Judah brings up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Grand Rapids remarks on Arab contributions to science and literature, and Golan adds the story of Ahmed Zewail and his Wolf Prize (02:14, 07:34). The panel turns to Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s in absentia prison sentence and the silence around the killings in Iran (08:32), with Guy on Mahsa Amini and the selective attention of celebrity activism (12:24). Guy shares his research on Israeli voting patterns and political tribalism (14:26), which leads into Israel’s Section 7A and whether America could ever have an equivalent (16:19), and Guy describes how voter ID works at Israeli polling places (18:59). The hosts then cover allegations of vote buying and foreign influence in the Israeli election, including a headline Golan calls misleading (20:31). Golan explains why the UK’s push to rejoin the EU matters, and Guy points to his 12 page investigation of Islamic entryism in Europe (28:40). Messaging failures on the American right, Ted Cruz on Abdul El-Sayed, and Democratic message discipline follow (33:33), along with Guy on collectivism versus individualism (39:59). The back half breaks down Israeli coalition math, Guy’s three paths forward, Golan’s four party scenario, and whether Netanyahu could ever name a departure date (42:08). The show closes with Guy on Islamist movements and Western education (1:00:24), Golan’s reading list (1:03:26), the Tucker Carlson foreword controversy (1:03:35), and Judah’s reminder that you can love both America and Israel (1:06:23).

This episode puts Israel’s election night under the microscope while the votes were still being counted, and the panel of Judah Friedman, Dr. Brian of London, Guy Goldstein, and Golan Ramraz has little patience for the experts who got it wrong. Judah starts with a blunt warning that the prediction markets are run by people who cannot read a parliamentary system, and Brian, Guy, and Golan back him up on why Israel’s 120-seat, no-constituency structure defeats outside bettors. The exit polls put Netanyahu back on top, turnout hit its highest point since 1999, and the Arab parties surged, which sets up a coalition puzzle that may end in yet another election. That leads straight into Section 7A, the Kahane precedent, and the question Israel has never answered about citizens who openly want the Jewish state gone. Underneath it all sits one dividing line, Rak Bibi or Rak Lo Bibi, and the hosts show how every policy fight, judicial reform included, collapses into that single question. Guy explains why the change bloc’s own promises make a majority mathematically impossible, Golan lays out how social media turns hatred of a man or a country into a social currency, and Judah closes by calling the unity and civility pitch the biggest lie in politics.

This episode of the Elders of Zionism Podcast, Protocol 45, opens with Judah, Dr. Brian of London and Guy Goldstein on the IDF’s killing of the last terrorist tied to Shani Louk’s abduction (01:00), Guy on Israel’s long memory toward the October 7 perpetrators (03:36), and Brian on Netanyahu’s new preemption doctrine (04:25). Judah contrasts Louk’s story with Macklemore’s planned concert (05:46) and says October 7 is not over for Israelis (07:32). Guy describes the isolation of three years of global hostility (08:01), Brian pushes back with a case for Israeli confidence, economic growth and rising birth rates (11:41, 16:54, 18:27), and Judah separates sadness from victimhood (16:25). Brian explains how the wire services filter out good news from Israel (20:16), and the panel takes on Brad Lander’s West Bank olive harvest trip and the silence around a Knesset candidate stoned in the same town (22:46, 26:27). The talk then turns to Europe, with Brian on the Yes Minister view of immigration and welfare (28:38), Guy on the red-green alliance (32:09), and both of them on the Fabian Society, where Guy traces its eugenicist history and argues it inspired Hitler’s death camps (33:48, 37:05). Judah raises Ilhan Omar and Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed (40:20, 47:38), Guy walks through the allegations about Omar’s immigration history (41:56), Brian points to her father’s past (44:52), and Guy tells the story of Nazi hunting on Long Island (47:02). The show closes on voting, AIPAC and foreign money in American politics (51:01, 56:28), a detour into British sitcoms (58:04), and JD Vance’s decision not to endorse Netanyahu (1:02:43).

This episode of the Elders of Zionism podcast, Protocol 44, finds Judah Friedman and Guy Goldstein opening at (00:01) with Guy's new Substack article, a love letter to the idea of France, and the unrest burning across the country. At (03:41) Guy argues that once the Palestinian flag appears at a protest, violence has been declared permissible, and at (09:05) he says the West is no longer watching protests or riots but a globalized intifada that no policy, police force or change of government can settle. At (11:10) they look at what October 7th tested and who failed, then turn at (12:48) to Trump's early read on protest movements and why the 2020 loss may have been a blessing. Trump's endorsement of Netanyahu is unpacked at (16:37), Judah corrects last week's Polymarket comment at (17:29), and the two argue at (18:44) that antisemitism will not end when Netanyahu leaves office. Guy gives the two minute guide to how Israeli elections work at (24:12), followed at (26:00) by a look at the Arab parties and Arab voters in the Knesset. At (28:34) they take up JD Vance's CBS town hall and his Tucker Carlson problem, and at (33:54) they split the American immigration debate into its southern border and Islamic immigration halves, with Guy crediting Marco Rubio and the H1B pushback at (36:22). The settler violence story and the refugee status loophole run from (37:39), the collapsing standards for disqualifying a candidate from (43:02), the Macklemore donation to a terrorist-linked group from (45:33), and the BBC calling the French riots mostly peaceful from (48:47). At (50:19) Guy surveys the rightward shift from Brazil to France, Britain, Germany and Spain, and closes at (52:59) on why civilization means planting trees whose shade you will never sit under.

This episode, Judah Friedman, Guy Goldstein and Golan Ramraz open with a handwritten thank-you card and a conversation about raising kids right (01:27), then turn to the Polymarket odds on the Israeli election, where Judah flags a nineteen-point swing in four days with no poll or news story to explain it (04:25). Golan points out that money is not votes and that betting on who will win is a different question from who you want to win (14:51), while Guy explains how question wording shapes poll results and how the Israeli electoral threshold turns polling into a demoralization tool (10:24). The Shane Gillis row becomes a case study in how propaganda propagates, and Guy argues that overusing words like “Nazi” and “far right” leaves no vocabulary for the real thing (06:42, 30:42). The conversation then moves to Islamist long-term strategy, with the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum and Yasir Qadi’s speech as open examples (19:36), the conversation then moves to the ICC and the ICJ and how few Americans know the difference, with Golan laying out Navi Pillay’s role in the genocide accusation against Israel (39:30). The hosts take on the claim that Jews secretly run global institutions, noting the Jews are conspicuously absent from the bodies being named, and discuss how Jews build institutions that others later seize (44:04, 47:02). They close by picking apart the Egyptian plane story and the claim that Netanyahu was warned about October 7th, then explain why landline polling misses the ultra-Orthodox, whom no pollster can reach (51:48, 58:41).