How do you show up to pray at a synagogue where every Saturday morning they say a prayer for not just the state of Israel,

not just in the sanctuary during the service, but they also say a prayer for the soldiers of the state of Israel.

They say a prayer for wishing safety upon people carrying out a genocide.

It would be the equivalent of entering a church in Germany in 1942

where they're praising Nazi soldiers wishing safety on them

as they send Jews off to the gas chambers.

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I'm All right. It is my pleasure to welcome to Bad Faith Podcast for the first time, Zachary Foster.

Zach is a historian of Palestine and the founder of Palestine Nexus and educational resource on Palestine.

And he is recently the author of an article that made quite a few waves on Twitter and social media called the Forgotten History of Jewish Anti-Zionism. Welcome to

Bad Faith podcast. Thank you so much for having me. I have an idea of why this particular

article made so many waves and got so many retweets, why people were eager to share it.

What's your sense of why this made an impact? For many decades now, the Jewish establishment in the United States is a validly Zionist.

I would describe their ideology not as Judaism, but as Israelism.

That is to say, the official religion of the American Jewish establishment is not Judaism, it's Israelism,

which is a philosophy that says, Israel as a Jewish

state is a sacred entity. And anyone who calls into question Israel as a Jewish state, it can no

longer be part of a Jewish institution, as a board member, as a staff member, as just a rank and

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