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Please hold my hand. I need you to talk me 'down from the ledge' because as I finally see the horror in front of us, I am petrified. I'm reaching out because I don't know what to do and I hope that by explaining to you, how scary shifting your position on Israel is, I can help us establish a process for other Jews. I need help.
Like Alcoholics Anonymous we need a place where Jews can safely process the ramifications of Israel. This is not a well written article, I've edited it many times, but please identify the confused structure, panic and paranoia as the experience all Jews go through when we realise what is in front of us.
I am sure there is a clever word for people like me (a play on birthright, birthrefusal?) who were raised pro-Israel and now see that the only logical position, any sane person can take is that the USA was complicit in Israeli crimes against humanity. How can any normal person not be pro-Palestinian? How can any American not be outraged at what they funded, supported and received hatred for?
I live in London in the UK, my father is Israeli and I was raised to support Israel. Pure hasbara. The atmosphere in Europe towards Israel was bad but is now toxic. If the USA shared the European view, the Jews would be deported out of Israel. Europe used to hate Jews because of anti-semitism, now they have a reason to hate us.
Comment: Watch as Albuquerque cops, functioning effectively as a death squad, murder unarmed homeless camper James Boyd:
Caught on video or not, they'll let these cops go free, like they always do, because they were 'just doing their job, just following orders'...
Two Californian policemen walk free after beating and tasing unarmed homeless man to death