The Godfather of Gaza and a hilltop with no name

I initially encountered Baruch Hasofer through appearances on Isaac Simpson’s The Carousel. Quite notably, he recorded with Isaac on October 8th, 2023, the day after Hamas’ famed October 7th attack on Israel. Baruch is a settler with seven children and many interesting perspectives. I’ve linked two pieces of writing from Baruch along with some of this recordings with Isaac below.

Baruch’s writing:

The Godfather of Gaza

The Deep Shtetl Takes An L

Podcasts with Isaac Simpson:

SPECIAL RELEASE 64. Israeli Settler Baruch Kogan

142. Baruch Kogan

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Topics discussed:

• Being born in the late USSR

• 80’s and 90’s Vietnam Action Films

• GWOT, US Military, Iraq, Afghanistan

• Having seven kids

• Women on Substack relitigating the household division of labor

• Fistfighting Jews

• A quick jaunt through Tajikistan

• Godspeed You? Black Emperor

• Getting divorced in your 60’s

• Becoming religious

• Being big and dumb

• Deliberately gentrifying a neighborhood

• The 3rd army division with the 284th Combat Engineers under General Patton

• Is the American airport the most depressing place on Earth?

• Are human rights discussions a lagging indicator of government mismanagement?

• Is Israel an ethnostate?

• What percent of explicitly antisemitic content is regularly read by Jews?

• Is the prison system in the U.S. too small?

• Why don’t you see gangs in prison populations below 700 people?

• Why are trad wives always getting glamour pics in cornfields?

• The American version of the social contract