My biggest flex is that I knew immediately that my Jewish heritage meant that I needed to be fiercely anti Zionist. Like, I don’t even remember how I was introduced to the topic, sure as shit not through my family. But I learned of the situation and ofc saw it through the lens of my relationship to my ethnicity and there was never even a question- Zionism was antithetical to everything I had ever known about what being a jew meant. Hearing people I previously looked up to, or loved, use a large piece of my ethnic and religious identities as an excuse to cause so much hate and hurt is devastating. Even more so knowing that I grew up with so many middle eastern refugees, they were my classmates, my friends, my project partners, the ones to see and empathize with my situaution as a pagan and a Jew living in a very Christian country. We were in the same boat, still are, despite so many people deciding that folks who don’t vibe with genocide are apparently not human or smth
