(Ynet News) Shahar Chai - As a child, Kasim Hafeez often heard his father praising Adolf Hitler, lamenting only the Nazi tyrant's failure to kill even more Jews during World War II. A son to a British family of Pakistani origin, he grew up in a fundamentalist Muslim community that called for the destruction of all Jews and taught him to believe that Israel is a terror state. But after years of taking part in anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic activity, Hafeez's beliefs took an unexpected 180-degree turn. He now calls himself "a proud Muslim Zionist" and arrived in Israel for a visit as part of his effort to battle misinformation about the Jewish state.
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