How do you maintain a sense of hope politically as a Jew at this time?
Hope? nu...
I don't know about Hope, it's never been my thing. I endure because I must endure.
I think a lot about all the people who fought harder, suffered more, didn't make it and I know I owe it to all the generations to keep putting one foot in front of the other and do my best
It is definitely a grim time to be a Jew, it for sure feels like antisemitism has gone mainstream in American politics, and that can be dispiriting for sure.
but we have to keep fighting and most importantly speaking the truth, yes the lie that Jewish money is behind EVERYthing people don't like, that its all a Jewish/Zionist/Israeli plot to whatever! is bad for us, of course, but the lies are bad for everyone it corrupts and destroys and poisons everything when the truth dies
I think it helps to have grown up gay at a time when that was a major political struggle and to have learned as a teen 1. Pride is the only answer to hate and 2. the personal is political. It is a political action to live out loud to live without fear or shame, of course its easier said then done to be without fear, but you fake it, by being an example you help others the louder you are the braver people feel they can be.
so I guess, you owe it to all the past generations of Jews who never got a chance, who went down fighting, who suffered for their whole lives and never got a shot at freedom, power, liberation, you own it to all the future generations of Jewish kids to fight for them to never know what we have known
and you owe it to you, to yourself, to fight to endure the unendurable, to repair the world, to fight each new battle as if you can win no matter what, and not to be bent by lies, for I think that is the ultimate corrupting power of the current antisemitic age, its demands endless demands that you make concessions to the big lie, that you meet it half way, don't, tell the truth.















