“Since publishing my letter, many have asked me how I was able to unlearn the Zionist propaganda. While I have always thought of myself as left-leaning, I was ignorant of much. My reeducation began after the New York Police Department’s Daniel Pantaleo killed Eric Garner, and I started attending Black Lives Matter protests. (1/3)
The Black friends I was in community with—and to whom I could never truly repay for their time and effort to educate me—taught me the foundational history of policing and racism in the U.S.
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An especially eye-opening moment was when I read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s book “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States” and saw the same myths I was taught in Israel reflected in the settler-colonialist ideology of the U.S.”
@aral Thanks for this. I'm in a similar position as the author and it was good to read.
Voicing such opinions in Israel subjected me to violence, denial of work and social ostracism.
It's a hard place to grow up in and I'm glad to have had the privilege to emigrate.
The saddest thing for me is hearing the same lines of proapaganda I was raised on parroted by Europeans in my adopting country. I do my best to set the record straight when I can. At least here I don't get beaten up for it.
@imsnif I’m so sorry you had to go through that, Aram. And thank you for fighting the good fight. Sending you lots of love and solidarity from the Emerald Isle 💕
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