This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.

This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.

The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a schoolteacher, a college professor, a businessman, a politician,

a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host. These are the things you're not supposed to say

or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good citizen. Each week,

I'll interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a

journalist or a professor. They might be a porn star or a drug dealer. They might just be an

ordinary person with an ordinary job who doesn't care about the rules of polite society.

I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker. I'm interested

in people who break the rules of conventional thought and to expand the scope of what is possible

to say in our society. I'm interested in people who make me think.

Many people insist that history effectively began on October 7th and that the events of that day should be judged accordingly.

But it is simply impossible to understand why innocent civilians were shot to death or taken hostage on that day,

or why now there are hundreds of

children lying under rubble in Gaza, without understanding the history of a place that not

very long ago was called Palestine.

This is my interview with the historian Zach Foster.

I am joined from Mexico City by Zach Foster, who is a historian, who I recently became aware of

because he is a historian of Palestine, of all things.

Something you're really not supposed to do in

certain ways, I think. And I also found you, Zach, in my research into and discovery of Jewish anti-Zionists,

which I am finding is an extremely rich tradition, I guess, I would say.

...