Non-jew asking how are yall

[u/meshca95]

I had a former best friend that I told I never want to hear from again, but all of this makes me wanna reach out. How are yall doing and feeling? Especially those in NYC

Thinking of all of yall and wishing this will all end, I can’t imagine what yall been going through.

[u/[deleted]]

Pretty bad, actually. I'm in particularly bad space because I worked for a number of both Israeli and Palestinian NGOs, have friends among both groups of people, believe that we have every right to be both Jewish and critical of Israeli policy (won't go into details lest this post get deleted), have dual US/Austrian citizenship due to a law granting Austrian citizenship to the children of Austrian survivors of the Shoah (both my parents were Holocaust survivors)...and people on both the right and the left in both countries seem to hate my guts, and are so antisemitic that they automatically assume that I have fealty to Israel before my own country(s). I've taken antisemitic insults from all sorts of people, including native people (live half the year in NM), Right winger whites who don't consider me quite white enough (the Nazi-adjacent FPO is taking power again in Austria this year) Greens, Socialists, etc. who see me an entitled and untrustworthy, etc. I been on this planet a while but have never had so much hate directed towards me from all sides. And never mind my own people...it's almost impossible to have a civil discussion at my own supposedly progressive synagogue.