12/5/25 Brandt Burleson on How He Helped Israel Propagandize American Christians

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🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Scott interviews Brandt Burleson about how he stumbled into his former job at an Israeli consulate, what they had him doing, why they were interested in him and what he thinks of all that now. Discussed on the show: Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA’s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government by William Van Wagenen “The Alawite women taken as sex slaves in Syria” (The Spectator) “Inside Syria’s state-backed cover-up of Alawite women’s kidnappings” (The Cradle) Brandt Burleson holds a MA in International Affairs from American University. He worked as the Strategic Outreach Director for the Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest United States for over eight years. Before that, he planned business and policy programs for Asia Society Texas Center. He now publishes regularly at The Libertarian Institute. Audio cleaned up with the Podsworth app: https://podsworth.com Use code HORTON50 for 50% off your first order at Podsworth.com to clean up your voice recordings, sound like a pro, and also support the Scott Horton Show! For more on Scott’s work: Check out The Libertarian Institute: https://www.libertarianinstitute.org Check out Scott’s other show, Provoked, with Darryl Cooper https://youtube.com/@Provoked_Show Read Scott’s books: Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/47jMtg7 (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com) Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/3tgMCdw Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/3HRufs0 Follow Scott on X @scotthortonshow And check out Scott’s full interview archives: https://scotthorton.org/all-interviews This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Incorporated https://rrbi.co Moon Does Artisan Coffee https://scotthorton.org/coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom https://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=1616 and Dissident Media https://dissidentmedia.com You can also support Scott’s work by making a one-time or recurring donation at https://scotthorton.org/donate/https://scotthortonshow.com or https://patreon.com/scotthortonshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen of the press have been less than honest, reporting to the American people, what's going on in this country?
0:11.0	Because the babies are making it.
0:13.0	We're dealing with Hitler Revisited.
0:15.0	This is the Scott Horton Show, Libertarian Foreign Policy, mostly. When when the president doesn't that means that it is
0:24.0	not only we're going to take out seven countries they're doing negotiate now end this war and
0:33.6	now here's your host, Scott Porton.
0:43.1	All right, you guys, introducing Brandt Berluson.
0:50.4	He is formerly the Strategic Outreach Director for the Israeli Consulate in Houston.
0:57.7	What an interesting former job to have, especially preceding his new job as a regular writer for the Libertarian Institute, where he has written a bunch of really great stuff.
1:02.9	And it's the only reason I put off interviewing you is because I wanted to get through a few
1:07.5	here so we can really talk about all of this. But you made a big splash here, Brent, with I helped Israel propagandize American Christians.
1:18.6	So, wow, what an incredible story that you tell here.
1:23.9	So first of all, who are you?
1:26.6	Where are you from?
1:29.6	How in the world did you get a job propagandizing Americans for the Israeli consulate in Houston, American Christians,
1:36.9	for the Israeli consulate in Houston? Yeah, that's a good question. So I grew up here in Texas.
1:43.6	My father was a pastor, but, you know, I was always kind of more interested in politics and things. So I went to college not trying to follow in those footsteps really at all, but, you know, majoring in international affairs. I went on to get my master's degree in international affairs.
2:03.2	And I had actually had a really hard time trying to find a position in that field.
2:08.6	And eventually I applied for a position at LinkedIn and didn't even say which
2:13.3	consulate was for.
2:14.9	It was just to be an administrative assistant at a consulate. And I was like,
2:18.6	okay, this might be a chance to get into that world. And then I realized it was with Israel when I
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