#your Palestinian friends! like. it just showed what side you were on so blatantly and I got fed up and put a thing about it on my story

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#a person I knew last year and is currently doing a study abroad semester (thankfully) is very pro-israel #and follows me on instagram (although I unfollowed her) and posted some stuff about the current genocide happening in Gaza on my story #including a tweet(?) about how ‘i don’t need to check in on my Jewish friends right now because they’re not zionists’ because #I was so fed up with people talking about how you need to check in on your Jewish friends because they all have family and friends in Israel #and even if they don’t it’s the Jewish homeland and it’s under threat! so reach out to your Jewish friends! #and like. no. it sucks that there are people dying but also Israel is very much an apartheid state and is responsible for all of this #I don’t have a solution and I understand why a lot of Jews like the concept of a homeland because we’ve been kicked out of almost every #country and persecuted basically everywhere. having a country that you know won’t turn against you would be great #but that country is not Israel #I don’t support israel and I don’t stand with Israel. it is actively committing genocide and therefore I am not a zionist #I got tired of the narrative that Jews should be checked on especially because nowhere was anyone saying that you should be checking in on #your Palestinian friends! like. it just showed what side you were on so blatantly and I got fed up and put a thing about it on my story #this person sent me a message in response to that and asked ‘how would you define Zionism?’ #and like. she knows where I stand. she’s basically just asking for confirmation which I don’t feel like giving her because that’s just going #get into a debate that I don’t feel like having because she’s not going to change her mind