None of the options I can imagine sit well. But what a mirror to hold up to your group and us. We all grow up learning some lives are disposable, but somehow I find myself thinking we protect children by not telling them outright.
Your writing is so visceral. It's not academic or ideological. It describes your own engagement with this terrible suffering. There's more than enough suffering to go around and you've found powerful a way to inhabit what it's like to be a non-Zionist Jew in the diaspora. Thank you for that.
Thank you for showing up with Standing Together and facing the wrath of the parade. As a Jew completely opposed to what Israel is doing in Gaza with every fiber of my being, it is heartbreaking to see young people absorbing this narrative of violence. I have to believe that even if you were spat upon, you made people think and question and doubt their narrative - even if just for a split second.
Thank you. Really powerful and revealing. As a mother and a human, it’s so hard for me to understand how anyone could shout “despicable” at a person holding a picture of anyone’s dead children.
I recently saw coverage of the similar protests in Israel and was awed by the courage of it. It is an incredible thing to stand up when the majority of people around you are telling you that you are evil for doing so. Thank you for sharing this experience.
The schoolgirl kind of breaks my heart. Thank you.
Yes. I keep sitting with her question, too.
i was talking it over with the person next to me. We just couldn't fully parse her tone of voice as she walked away.
None of the options I can imagine sit well. But what a mirror to hold up to your group and us. We all grow up learning some lives are disposable, but somehow I find myself thinking we protect children by not telling them outright.
Thank you for being there, for writing this, for holding space for the pain of this moment.
thank you for reading, Carolyn!
Your writing is so visceral. It's not academic or ideological. It describes your own engagement with this terrible suffering. There's more than enough suffering to go around and you've found powerful a way to inhabit what it's like to be a non-Zionist Jew in the diaspora. Thank you for that.
Thank you for reading and keeping your heart open.
Thank you Anya, for participating and sharing.
Thank you for showing up with Standing Together and facing the wrath of the parade. As a Jew completely opposed to what Israel is doing in Gaza with every fiber of my being, it is heartbreaking to see young people absorbing this narrative of violence. I have to believe that even if you were spat upon, you made people think and question and doubt their narrative - even if just for a split second.
Thank you for reading. I do hope for that chink of doubt.
This is such a beautiful and important piece - thank you for doing this and writing about it ❤️
Thank you for reading Stephanie!
Thank you. Really powerful and revealing. As a mother and a human, it’s so hard for me to understand how anyone could shout “despicable” at a person holding a picture of anyone’s dead children.
Thank you. It is a very difficult moment.
This was really powerful. Thanks for showing up, doing a hard thing, and sharing your experience with us 💚
Thanks for reading!
Thanks for being there and for writing this.
Thank you for reading!
A reader helpfully pointed out that the killing of the two Israeli embassy workers happened outside the Capital Jewish Museum. I regret the error.
I recently saw coverage of the similar protests in Israel and was awed by the courage of it. It is an incredible thing to stand up when the majority of people around you are telling you that you are evil for doing so. Thank you for sharing this experience.