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Angie Alt's avatar

Incredibly well said. Of course you know I am 100% w/ you in this. I am waiting, impatiently at this point, for those around us who silenced our lament to come to the same conclusions.

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Janna Maria Fröhlich's avatar

Dear Lauren, as the grandchild of Jewish Zionists who emigrated from Poland and Ukraine to the USA, but myself a humanist UU, this writing resonates with me (I found you through K. W. Bogen on Instagram). Coincidentally, an an expressive therapist/music therapist, I have co-led so far one zoom grief circle for Palestine and other genocides/violence in the world, and I came up with the idea of improvising a sung lament with the participants. Singing, even softly, even reluctantly, even off key or unpracticed, is a very primal human way to heighten and validate emotion.

I had never thought of my incredible grief over the actions of my grandparents in promoting Zionism as a personal moral injury, but that makes so much sense. For I grieve that so many of my extended family think differently. Thank you again.

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