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).
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).