Elders of Zionism

Judah Friedman, Guy Goldstein, Golan Ramraz
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Elders of Zionism - hosted by writer Judah Friedman, political strategist Guy Goldstein and Hollywood producer Golan Ramraz - is a podcast of three Jews taking back the name. At a time when Zionism has become a dirty word, we're asking why. Because the ideas under attack didn't start in Washington, Philadelphia or with the Magna Carta. They started at Sinai. Each week, we explore the connections between Zionism, Americanism and the broader Judeo-Christian tradition in an unapologetic conversation about civilization, sovereignty and the future of the West.

  1. 1d ago

    Protocol 45: Musk, Fabians and Nazis on Long Island

    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).

    Protocol 45: Musk, Fabians and Nazis on Long Island

  2. 4d ago

    Protocol 44: How The Palestinian Flag Became The Battleflag Of The Anti-West Revolution

    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.

    Protocol 44: How The Palestinian Flag Became The Battleflag Of The Anti-West Revolution

  3. Oct 16

    Protocol 43: Qatar's Bribe-Blitz, Polymarket Hustle & The Shane Gillis Grift

    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).

    Protocol 43: Qatar's Bribe-Blitz, Polymarket Hustle & The Shane Gillis Grift

  4. Oct 13

    Protocol 42: Omar's Evict Notice, Trump's America First Diesel & The Fort Hood Firing Squad

    We open by revisiting our conversation with Brian of London and just how far London and Britain have fallen (00:00). We turn to the DOJ's search warrant on Ilhan Omar over the immigration-fraud questions that have followed her for more than a decade (03:59). We examine the growing concentration of Islamist-aligned political power across Michigan and Minnesota and the contested allegations trailing its candidates (09:00). We revisit Guy's Substack piece on everything the West let slip while its eyes were fixed on Gaza (12:23). We make the moral case for executing terrorists, arguing a crime committed in broad daylight needs no trial, as the Fort Hood murderer heads for a firing squad and America, Israel and the Emiratis all turn back toward the death penalty for terror (14:40). We break down the hollow Mecca defense pact and the Houthi ballistic strike that shut down Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, and we use it to show what Israel absorbs every single day behind the Iron Dome (25:04). We read aloud the words printed on the Houthi flag (33:16). We dissect why the most expensive army in the region cannot defend itself, and argue the Middle East is where reality always collects its bill (34:26). We track Europe's rightward shift in Spain and France and warn that waking up to immigration is not enough when the real problem is colonization (39:41). We tear into the hypocrisy of Europe bankrolling Russian fuel for years through a refining loophole while attacking President Trump's America First diesel deal to bring prices down at home (43:24). We work through the Ukraine elections question and why an unelected wartime leader governing years past his term complicates every call to end the war (45:01). We stop for the hardest story of the show, a teenage boy killed on a school hike near the Lebanon border by what the IDF says was likely a leftover Hezbollah cluster munition, and the sickness of a West that celebrated a dead child from Berkeley to New York to London (51:11). We honor Marco Rubio as the last voice of moral clarity on the world stage for dismantling the International Criminal Court over its war on Israel and American servicemen (56:17). We close on Golda Meir, the obscenity of Navi Pillay winning the Nobel Peace Prize after branding Israel genocidal, and Garry Kasparov's verdict on the whole farce (1:02:44).

    Protocol 42: Omar's Evict Notice, Trump's America First Diesel & The Fort Hood Firing Squad

  5. Oct 9

    Protocol 41: Rubio's Speech, Israel's Rise, Gaza Can Rebuild When Israel Says So

    This episode opens at (00:01) with Judah’s Google campaign and brings in Brian of London, the English-born Israeli who has lived outside Tel Aviv for seventeen years, at (01:11). The panel takes up Piers Morgan’s post about Israel’s sinking popularity at (03:01). Brian explains how little Israelis follow foreign opinion, Guy argues the polling shift measures a campaign aimed at the West itself, and Golan reminds everyone Israel was unpopular long before it had an army at (07:35). Brian traces how Soviet-era messaging flipped David and Goliath at (10:04). The conversation moves to the October 7th commemorations at (12:22), where Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries and Macron found words for the day while leaving out the Jews, and Guy ties that at (17:47) to the slow universalizing of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Brian asks at (20:41) what remorse from Gaza would look like and why rebuilding should wait for it, and the panel contrasts Germany’s shame with fighters who carried GoPros. The British consulate in Jerusalem and Britain’s letter to Israel get unpacked at (25:31), followed by Brian’s East Berlin point at (30:03) and Golan’s warning about the sovereignty precedent at (33:06). Brian explains why the BBC drove him out of the UK at (38:10). Rubio’s Athens speech gets a full read at (43:43), including the missing Jewish contribution at (46:27) and the Plutarch line at (54:02). Judah raises the Israeli election, Polymarket and why English matters for a prime minister at (55:42), and Brian closes at (1:01:40) with what it means to drive his son to IDF pre-army training.

    Protocol 41: Rubio's Speech, Israel's Rise, Gaza Can Rebuild When Israel Says So

  6. Oct 6

    Protocol 40: Zach Bryan, the Omani Pilot and the Gaza Grift.

    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).

    Protocol 40: Zach Bryan, the Omani Pilot and the Gaza Grift.

  7. Oct 1

    Protocol 39: 90 Seconds - 17,000FT And A Pride Of Lions

    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 39: 90 Seconds - 17,000FT And A Pride Of Lions

  8. Sep 29

    Protocol 38: History Hasn’t Been Kind To Those Who Have Betrayed The Jews. KAPOS Included.

    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 38: History Hasn’t Been Kind To Those Who Have Betrayed The Jews. KAPOS Included.
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Elders of Zionism - hosted by writer Judah Friedman, political strategist Guy Goldstein and Hollywood producer Golan Ramraz - is a podcast of three Jews taking back the name. At a time when Zionism has become a dirty word, we're asking why. Because the ideas under attack didn't start in Washington, Philadelphia or with the Magna Carta. They started at Sinai. Each week, we explore the connections between Zionism, Americanism and the broader Judeo-Christian tradition in an unapologetic conversation about civilization, sovereignty and the future of the West.

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  • Creator
    Judah Friedman, Guy Goldstein, Golan Ramraz
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    45
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © EldersofZionism
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