On the road from Damascus (Gate)

JVL Introduction

Here is a remarkable account by a young American Jew, Shlomo Yitzhak, telling of his awakening from a lifetime of fear-filled myths.

Unlike many Jewish people who take years to gradually shed their adherence to the settler colonial project, Shlomo describes a sudden conversion, as a student in an all-male nationalist seminary in Jerusalem enlightened by an encounter with a Palestinian who invited him to Ramallah.

“The first though that rose in my minds [was] if I go you will kill me, because that was the way I was conditioned growing up. For me Palestinians were terrorists…”

But a second voice said go…

And Shlomo went and has never looked back as he recounts in the TikTok video below

NWI/RK

Powerful video by Shlomo Yitzchak about how/why he escaped Zionism.

Zionism is a violent settler-colonial + supremacist ideology. It is not Judaism.

There’s an anti-Zionist earthquake happening among young Jews who are reclaiming their common humanity👇pic.twitter.com/ZeIfrsc9n0

— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) March 11, 2024