As a Jew, the most important healing work I can do for both myself and the world is to work with other Jews to move through our historical trauma, thus finding the strength to combat the Israeli occupation of Palestine. In doing this work, we are often literally creating a space to both love ourselves as Jews and protest what is being done in our names by the Israeli and U.S. governments. Centuries of persecution and genocide have left many Jews so fearful that we see ourselves always and forever as victims, which blinds us to our role in the current oppression of Palestinians. Our families have often passed on Jewish trauma to us through the notion that any criticism of the Israeli government is an attack that will lead to our imminent destruction and through the related feeling that we are always in danger.
Even as I...
