Civic religion is a series of customs, some enshrined in law, not all, that a society, civilization, and its government observe. And it doesn't necessarily mean there's a God at the center of it. That's why it's a civic religion rather than a conventional religion.

When he says that Israelism is the civic religion, what he actually means is this he's arguing that the civic religion in the United States is a myth that was built around the Holocaust. Which probably wasn't as bad as everyone says it was.

Now, but there are certain things that are blasphemy. And at the very top of that list is something called anti Semitism.