So long, Dave 🇮🇱

I don’t think I’ve ever changed in any year as much as this last year. October 7th really did open my eyes to a lot of things just had not been willing to see. Not just the issues with progressivism, and the rotting cancer of antisemitism at the heart of it. But the true threat that theocratic Islam poses to western values. Also, just being honest? There is an intellectually dishonest, hateful core to the entire political wing of anti-Israel advocacy that infects so many institutions. The Global Left. The UN. “Human rights” groups. The theocratic political project of Islam and the failed states that advocate it. At all of these roads and the money that flows into it, the cause of terrorism cannot help but meet. It’s been difficult seeing all of this. More difficult to speak on it and endure the broken friendships and harassment. But there’s also freedom. I will always be on the left, but I also now feel free to advocate for more honest version of the left. One that can admit some of the truths within conservatism and try to build bridges - especially on national security. Has it been heartbreaking? Absolutely. This has been one of the hardest years of my life. I often wake up at 3 AM in pain over friendships that have been broken. Is a life for you don’t consider difficult truths and speak on them really worth living? I don’t think it is.

“People of color” is a perfectly reasonable lens to see American politics through, given the legacy of slavery. But if you’re talking about Middle East, you’re literally being stupid. 400 million Arabs. 7 million Jews. And a decades long political project to genocide them.