Sophie Edelhart says that for the longest time, she didn’t want to go anywhere near the topic of Israel and Palestine.
As a young Jewish woman growing up in
San Francisco, her education was a curious mix of religious Jewish
education and the liberal politics of California.
Much of the discussion about Israel as a
consequence focused on “diplomacy”, careful talk of “both sides”, and
the idea that a “two-state solution” would bring peace to
Palestine-Israel. The conflict, she says, was always described to her as
“complicated” and never by the naked truth: Israel was an occupying
state.
