Happy Festivus to all who celebrate.

I had problems with my community for a lot of other reasons, but perhaps the most direct path to being terrorized in the slice of NYC I grew up in was to say anything critical of Israel whatsoever.

Why does this sound like the least wholesome and most wholesome thing at the same time.

Once you begin to humanize Palestinians, you can't go back to dehumanizing them. And it's a crisis mainstream Jewish institutions are simply unable, unprepared, and unwilling to handle.

If I hadn't had such a traumatic experience in Hebrew school already, I don't know if I would have been able to see another way of thinking.

Young Jews are up against so much Zionist propaganda that's hopeless intertwined with their understanding of what it means to be Jewish. So many Jews are turning away from institutions like Or Zarua precisely because of this cognitive dissonance.

It will do nothing to change their minds. Similar to how the Jewish supremacist letter by the Jewish Majority and Rabbi Cosgrove's sermon will do absolutely nothing to convince young Jews voting for Zohran to switch their vote.