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I have always been proud to be Jewish. But at the age of 14, I had to reckon with the fact that my Jewishness could be stripped away from me if I announced an opinion deemed wrong by other Jewish people. In 2021, I learned about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the first time. I…

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On Feb. 25, 25-year-old active duty U.S Airman, Aaron Bushnell, set himself on fire ultimately killing himself in an act of self-immolation in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C, in an act of protest of the ongoing Israeli invasion of Gaza. His last words were, “Free Palestine.” Before the act, Bushnell set…

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On Saturday, Oct. 7, 2,500 elite troops from the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas and militant group that has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007, stormed across the border between Gaza and Israel. Using bulldozers and paragliders, they were able to break through Israel’s formidable border defenses, and immediately begin attacking Israel’s…