been thinking about what it means to leave and stay places, as someone who spent most of my childhood moving around different countries w the privilege of a blue passport (and so much else.) what does it mean to have the right to return vs the right to leave, secure in the knowledge that your home will still be standing when you return? that you’ll be granted entry? what does it mean to have that home forcibly taken from you and from your family who have lived there for generations? what does it mean to say there’s “violence on both sides” when one side is trapped? no act of murder can be justified, ever. to kill one person is deemed impossible, unthinkable, in jewish law, something one should give their own life to prevent. that reverence for life, for survival, for endurance is in our dna as jews and (for many of us) descendants of survivors and victims of genocide. how can we not fight to make sure that violence is never perpetrated again, especially not in our names? free palestine and may the memories of all those lost be a blessing
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