r/JewsOfConscience • u/Oborozuki1917 Jewish Communist • Oct 11 '24

Celebration I'm a teacher, earlier this week a parent (student in a different class) aggressively confronted me for wearing a shirt with a small Palestinian flag. One of my students saw the interaction and how I explained my reasoning and stood up for my beliefs. Today she gave me this note.

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Rabbi David Mivasair has a GoFundMe to help provide basis necessities for the Palestinians of Gaza. If it is within your means, this is the link:

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Rabbi Mivasair writes:

I want to add that the need is not only for money. There is a huge need for people there to simply have someone NOT there who expresses care toward them, who listens to them, who witnesses with compassion and empathy. I think of the people who scrawled on the walls of barracks in Nazi concentration camps "if only someone on the outside knew what they are doing to us here". I want to be the people who let them know that we do care, we are listening, we are trying to help, and they can tell us what is going on in their lives.

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We know that in order to achieve a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the U.S. must stop arming Israel’s war and occupation against Palestinians. That’s why we are calling for an immediate embargo on US arms to Israel. Join us in calling on presidential candidate Kamala Harris to distance herself from Biden’s disastrous policy of arming Israel’s ongoing genocide and occupation in Palestine.

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u/angelwild327 Palestinian Oct 11 '24

Thank you, SO MUCH... you showed a student something special and so important. Who knows in what way you've made a difference in that person's life, but if it were me, a person of Palestinian descent, it would've made a world of difference.

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u/Srinema Non-Jewish Ally Oct 11 '24

THIS is leadership. You have materially improved this child’s life by showing them how to stand up against injustice with dignity. Much love.

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u/hornyemergency Oct 11 '24

Rare heartwarming story these days, Mazel tov ❤️

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u/Launch_Zealot Arab/Armenian-American Ally Oct 11 '24

Well done. Your students are lucky to have you as an example of how to stand against the tide with reason and respect.

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u/yozatchu2 Anti-Zionist Ally Oct 11 '24

The time they would have taken making that and thinking positively of you the entire time… you can’t get a purer blessing

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u/ContentChecker Jewish Anti-Zionist Oct 11 '24

That is so sweet. Good on you for setting an example, OP.

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u/brkonthru Oct 11 '24

You are. Thank you

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u/Redish_VP Oct 11 '24

I always think how it's ironically funny that sometimes children are smarter than adults like in this case

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u/lycogenesis Anti-Zionist Oct 13 '24

The child didn't go through indoctrination. I think it's important to consider that when dealing with Zionist sympathizers

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u/RichState3474 Oct 13 '24

Well done sir!! I'm sure that student learned a lesson that day that will be with him for the rest of his life!!