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).
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).