Discussion on Israel and Palestine Conflict

I'm Jewish enough for a free trip to Israel, and in my early twenties I went to

Israel, and right when I got off the plane, people told me,

"You could become a

citizen within twenty-four hours. You're Jewish enough.

You should move here." What I didn't know is that when Israel became a

state, I thought that all the governments just gave Jewish

people money to buy houses. They bought out Palestinians,

and the neighborhoods

naturally segregated. Not that people were held by gunpoint, not

that people were

killed in the streets, not that people have the keys to their house

that they w-

can't even walk by anymore. I didn't understand

that it's just textbook

colonization that took place, with ending up in open air prison because

people can't even leave the neighborhood they're forced into.

That's equal to or worse than a concentration camp.

I didn't understand. I didn't understand, and they almost got me.

I'm ethical as fuck, and they almost got me.

Jews need to start talking about birthright trip.

Any American or European right now can go to Israel for free

on a trip off of whose money? And go

tour Israel to move there in stolen houses.

I apologize for my ignorance. Me and my Jewish friends have talks.

I'm not friends with people who believe in this ideology. It's racism.

I recently had a rabbi's wife call me over and over again 'cause she heard I was in

town. My husband speaks out against Palestine,

and she wanted to convert me

into her world. I told her I don't practice Judaism

and we won't be good friends,

but she wouldn't stop calling and texting me because she wanted to

convert me

because I have good blood. In which I say, "Fucking yuck."

I'm not friends with people based on their blood. We're not preserving a culture.

I don't practice that culture. That's just racial. It's just racist.

And what's happening in Gaza is worse than the Holocaust.

Concentration camps suck. Prison camps suck.

This open air prison that's multi-generational,

it's gotta go.