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How To Admit You Were Wrong About A Genocide
The subtle art of regaining your humanity.
July 27th, 2024. Richard Forer, a former member of AIPAC, describes what happened when he committed himself to “studying [the Israel/Palestine conflict] as objectively as [he] could”:
I only wrote down the names of books and the names of authors who were Jewish. I wasn’t going to trust that a non-Jewish author could be honest or not antisemitic, [and] at a certain point […] I was going through shock at what I was reading.
‘Oh my God. I’ve supported Israel all these years. This is what Israel’s doing? Oh my God!’ And then anger at Israel for misguiding me all my life […] then my anger turned in on itself, and I got angry at [myself] for being such a dupe and being so ignorant and never checking anything […] and then finally, a great sorrow for the Palestinian people for all that they had been through.
September 24th, 2024. Bina Greenspan, a Jewish pro-Palestinian advocate, describes the fallout from her discovery that Palestinians are sentient beings like her:
I’ve been protesting on behalf of Palestinian liberation for about a year now. I grew up very Zionist, and I didn’t really think of Palestinians as real sentient beings like you and I, and now I realise that I was so wrong, and I grew up very…
