Tag: Cried

We Should Have Cried For Freedom Way Earlier

I am ashamed and guilty that for a lot of my life, I was a Zionist Jew. I was a liberal Zionist, but my justification came from compartmentalizing inconvenient information and forming arguments around propaganda. My understanding of the Nakba was whitewashed. I mostly read western literature about t...

The Country Who Cried Wolf

Each day we see, or hear about, the polarization of people’s experiences. Our psyche’s get put into fight/flight mode; arguments of reason replaced by arguments of extremes. Or we disconnect, because choosing sides offers more stress than comfort. Humanity, it seems, has gotten to a plac...