The man charged with fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in D.C. told police after his arrest, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza.”
Sorry. I’ve been advocating for Palestine since I first learned about the conflict truly as a young kid in 2015: as an ignorant college kid that visited my first major city of Chicago on an internship. Spoke with a Palestinian women and gave her a nod and an “ok” as she desperately tried to connect with me on what was being done to her family. She is was just holding a sign alone as I passed through the city. I was an ignorant idiot then. But even though I treated her like a random panhandler, what she said still stuck.
I’ll never know exactly what she said to me. But I know it’s when I started to care. I have definitely become cynical and frustrated, and tired since that time. But, I do really appreciate your reply.
I just only hope my own frustration or “snark” is heard in the same way.
Sorry. I’ve been advocating for Palestine since I first learned about the conflict truly as a young kid in 2015: as an ignorant college kid that visited my first major city of Chicago on an internship. Spoke with a Palestinian women and gave her a nod and an “ok” as she desperately tried to connect with me on what was being done to her family. She is was just holding a sign alone as I passed through the city. I was an ignorant idiot then. But even though I treated her like a random panhandler, what she said still stuck.
I’ll never know exactly what she said to me. But I know it’s when I started to care. I have definitely become cynical and frustrated, and tired since that time. But, I do really appreciate your reply.
I just only hope my own frustration or “snark” is heard in the same way.
Good luck to you in your cause. I hope you continue to articulate what it is you believe in a kind way, it will go a lot further, I believe.