We all have to make sacrifices, and none of us are free until we all are. Blessings on you all until we meet again. 💖🇮🇱🕊️🇵🇸🎗️

We have a right to our country in our ancestral homeland AND they have a right to theirs. The hostages need to come home AND we must end the war in Gaza. Jews must let go of Judea and Samaria AND Palestinians must give up the obsession with right of relocation.

Bottom line: the freedom and sovereignty of Jews and Palestinians are bound up together.

I’m not sure what all this means for my future on this platform, so for now I’ll leave you with a few photos of the antisemitism popping up daily on the streets of supposedly bleeding heart, liberal, intersectional, lovey-dovey Seattle.

Palestinians have faced intolerable disrespect from the entire region and they deserve so much better. From now on, I’ll be discussing this with my fellow Zionists in person.

I also need a break from online arguments about the human and national rights of Palestinians with my fellow Zionists.

I get why folks are angry but that doesn’t excuse the dehumanization I’ve heard from some of you.

I need to focus on the ongoing, block-by-block fight against antisemitic posters, stickers, and graffiti alongside my fellow progressive Jews.

I’ve had too many arguments that require me to re-educate well-meaning people who cannot see the antisemitism in the decades of propaganda they’ve consumed, and it’s exacerbating my depression.

A few years ago, a friend of mine (who is Black) told me that, for her mental health, she would no longer discuss race with white people.

I’m taking a page from her book and stepping back from discussing Israel with gentiles and antizionist Jews.

Antisemites have been weaponizing the language of humanitarian concern for millennia.

This includes:
- Allegations that we killed Jesus.
- Claims that we consume the blood of non-Jewish babies.
- Disproportionate censure of Israel, the “global Jew,” for human rights abuses.

Every time I see a white person in a keffiyeh, I put an Iron Front Zionist sticker up in the vicinity.

The three downward arrows signify opposition to tyranny and extremism across the political spectrum, which is exactly how we must approach our support for Israel.

Seattle pretends to be a liberal city, but the amount of toxic whiteness, wealth privilege, and unhinged lefty antisemitism here is out of control.

Everywhere I go, I see watermelons, white people in keffiyeh, and other antisemitic messaging masquerading as humanitarian concern for Palestinians.

Learning to draw has been a balm for my mental health and a new avenue for my creativity.

Here’s my rendering of Anne and Diana from Anne of Green Gables. (Pencil and wax pastel on paper.)

#ShabbatShalom