Episode three starts with a story. Julia’s first day working at a company with Palestinian colleagues. Being pulled aside and told not to mention that she was Jewish. Because of what “Jewish” has come to mean in a world where identity, state power, and violence have been fused together.

From there, we zoom out.

This episode is about origins. Zionism. The founding of Israel. The role of the United States. And the uncomfortable reality that what many of us were taught as a purely Jewish story is also deeply tied to Christian theology, British imperial strategy, and Cold War politics.

We talk about Theodor Herzl and the early vision of a Jewish state, not just as refuge, but as a project shaped through the logic of empire. We look at how that vision collided with people already living there, and how displacement was not an accident ...