Anti-Zionists are forever relegating universal Torah truths to the safely-distant future of the Mikdash (Ha! They need to follow the news…) to evade their force in the present.
In a recent video Rabbi Aviad Neiger argues the famous Chazal in the title applies only during Temple times. To prove this, he quotes Rashi on the verse (לך עבוד אלוהים אחרים, היוצא מארץ ישראל לחוץ לארץ בזמן הבית, כאלו עובד עבודה זרה. ויונתן תרגם: איזיל דוד ביני עממיא פלחי טעותא).
Of course, this is strange; where would Rashi derive this surprising limitation? And did David Hamelech have the Mikdash in his day? In truth, Rashi is simply supplying a likely situation when Jews have sovereignty over the land. (I think he has the beginning of gemara Rosh Hashana in mind; a Jewish king would build the Temple pronto.)
For example, see Rashi Brachos 58b; ברוך מציב גבול אלמנה, כגון בישוב בית שני. The halacha, as the Mishna Brurah says (224:14), is to recite the bracha whenever Jews have control over the area.
Rabbi David bar Chaim once pointed this out in another connection.