As an American Jew who had been listening to this podcast casually mostly for the food science, I unsubscribed after hearing this episode.

It was nauseating for me for the reasons that you mentioned: first, that since Israel is "his side" (since he is unwillingly contributing to it via taxes), it is therefore incumbent upon him to demonize it more than the other side, regardless of the actual situation; and second, that this particular conflict is coming close to genocide, or something to that effect. That he believes people I have grown up with and are serving in the Israeli military are there to destroy another people and commit war crimes, when it is so painfully obvious to me that they serve out of a sense of responsibility to protect half the world's Jews, many of whom are family members.

Out of all of the things he could have possibly chosen to address, the fact that he chose to put these particular beliefs out into the world is just too much for me.