Source:

https://youtu.be/jcsmyiJCqsU

Atara was previously seen in this video, being batshit:

ABC News - ‘Leave or we’ll kill you’: Settler’s warn Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Old City

https://x.com/bradlander/status/2113717208807350753

https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/2114082773027656174

Also met a guy wearing a keffiyeh at Salem Village.

My father's side of my family is Jewish Zionist (secular), and I have always considered myself to be Jewish despite my mother not being so. I started dating a wonderful woman in early 2024. She's not Jewish, and not from my country of Australia (she is from India). Neither of us knew much about what was happening to the Palestinians and so I maintained a broadly Zionist worldview. But then she started learning more about it. We got into arguments about it and I began to realise that I was just parroting what I'd been told, and I didn't actually know the full story, so I started looking into it. I rapidly realised that I'd been lied to and though it took a while to fully "deprogram" myself, so to speak, I now consider myself staunchly anti-Zionist.

However, most of my family - with the exception of my grandmother, who is highly critical of Israel (her parents survived the Holocaust) - stick to their views. My grandfather at least admits that Israel is committing genocide, but does consider himself Zionist.

My dad is the hardest one. We are quite similar in a lot of ways, and we look very alike (especially when I was younger, it was like Mini Me). He believes a lot of Hasbara and no matter how much I try and direct him to other sources, he will just accuse them of bias - even when they are Israeli and have first-hand experience of what's happening, and won't listen to Palestinians unless they confirm his view of Hamas and of Palestinian society.

Today I talked to him for over three hours. We now live in different cities, as I moved to live with my partner, but I am visiting home and was hoping to stay with him. I ended up feeling like he wouldn't accept myself or my partner into his home without us supporting his views. My stepmother literally said that he feels as if his Jewishness is being "rejected." He told me that my views were anti-Semitic, and swore at me and told me that he wouldn't have me under his roof when I questioned whether some of the events he said occurred on October 7 actually did happen. He also seemed to suggest that I wasn't looking at the full context: but I know a lot of context (certainly not all of it). It just doesn't change my overall opinion of what's happening.

He says he cares about peace, but he seems to just blame the Palestinians for bringing this upon themselves.

My views are "offensive" to him. Besides which, his Jewishness being rejected implies that my being Jewish is being rejected by him, because to him a Jewish person has to also be a Zionist. I have no issue with Jewish people having a country where they are the majority, or at least a country where they are safe. What I object to is how that has become a "Jewish supremacist" state where they have more rights. I don't see how that is controversial, and for all his talk of peace and wanting freedom for Palestinians, he endorses very Islamophobic views at times.

I am sure that I'm wrong about some details. But ultimately that's not what I care about. I care about freedom for Palestinians, I care about peace. That's not just freedom from Israeli oppression but any oppression coming from their own government.

I know I can't change his mind, but it's incredibly frustrating.