And you can see how the stories that we were told about this were entwined with that system of hasbara. And how when we are taking that courageous step—that deeply Jewish step—to look critically at what we’ve been taught, to ask why—we are given an opportunity not only to imagine another fundamental core of being Jewish in this world, but to look to our ancient and modern sages, our ancient and modern practices, the suppressed voices, our ancestors not just of blood and lineage but our ancestors of incorrigible refusenik punk-ass spirit, the queer and trans Jews, the anarchist Jews, the mystics, the witches, who have existed in every generation, whose legacy has been suppressed but has survived in our bones and blossoms through our lives. Because when we have been fed this poison for so long, been told we are unsafe and unwanted for so long, the antidote has to go to the root—the antidote has to be a real, embodied, solid sense of connection with community, with identity and tradition, with place, with ancestors, with the earth, and with the divine.
Andy Izenson, "The Invitation of Do’ikayt: Mystical anarchism and the Jewish Left"
