“Real life conspiracies pose a certain challenge for political analysis,” wrote Jewish Currents contributors Noah Kulwin and Ari Brostoff in their <a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/the-right-kind-of-continuity" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2019 piece</a> on Jeffrey Epstein, the child sex trafficker, financier, and international rainmaker. As recently reported in a <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/s/epstein-and-israel" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">series of articles</a> at Drop Site News, Epstein had close ties to the Israeli intelligence community, and frequently brokered meetings for former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, including meetings that resulted in the establishment of <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-ehud-barak-leaked-emails-mongolia-security-deal" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">security ties</a> with Mongolia and the sale of mass <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-israel-surveillance-state-cote-d-ivoire-ehud-barak-leaked-emails" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">surveillance infrastructure</a> to Cote d’Ivoire’s authoritarian government. What do these revelations tell us about the flows of power and money across the billionaire class? And what do we do with the extent to which Epstein’s story reads like an antisemitic conspiracy come to life? To explore these questions, Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel spoke with Kulwin, a co-host of Blowback, a podcast about US empire and interventionism, and Ryan Grim, co-founder of Drop Site News and the co-author of multiple recent reports about Epstein.Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”Articles and Media Mentioned and Further ReadingDrop Site reporting on “<a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/s/epstein-and-israel" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Epstein and Israel</a>” by Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussein“<a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/the-right-kind-of-continuity" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Right Kind of Continuity</a>,” Ari Brostoff and Noah Kulwin, Jewish Currents“<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/19/davos-masters-of-the-universe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The worst thing about Davos? The Masters of the Universe think they are do-gooders</a>,” Hamilton Nolan, The GuardianSpyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence by James BamfordThe Power Elite by C. Wright MillsDoppleganger by Naomi KleinThe art of <a href="https://whitney.org/artists/7340" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Lombardi</a>“<a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/11/epstein-barak-israel-elections-netanyahu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jeffrey Epstein Claimed to Have Meddled in Israel’s Elections</a>,” Branko Marcetic, Jacobin“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/business/jpmorgan-jeffrey-epstein.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">JPMorgan Alerted U.S. to Epstein Transfers Involving Wall St. Figures</a>,” Matthew Goldstein, David Enrich, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, and Steve Eder, The New York Times“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz-4rlFlwVQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Book of Epstein</a>,” Chapo Trap HouseSupermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers by Gus Russo&nbsp;Transcript forthcoming.

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