u/BertramDitore

Yeah honestly this has been one of my takeaways too, after hearing about these awful things a while back.

You never know what’s going on in the life of a stranger on the other end of a phone call, so respect and politeness is the best we can offer.

It must be pretty intimidating for these fools to have to contend with a sane, principled, Jewish, Mexican woman. They don’t like _any_ of those attributes.

As an American Jew who has spent significant time in Israel _and_ the occupied territories in Palestine, this piece is awesome and accurately reflects my experiences there.

Anyone who thinks Israel operates in good faith needs to read this, to quickly have that misconception torn to shreds. Many American Jews have gone through this kind of transformation, and it makes perfect sense when you see what actually happens to the normal human beings living there—that happen to be Palestinian—on a daily basis.

And his descriptions of interacting and living with Palestinians (and how Israelis only ever refer to all Palestinians as Arabs), match my experiences to the tee.