To my Jewish friends who defend the occupation and the attacks on Gaza,

Consider for a moment that you may be wrong. I wake up with this thought every morning and it stays with me through the entire day. It’s more like a wish. Can you imagine the pain that so many of us feel protesting against our own people, fighting against a state which promises us protection and national self-realization? Do you understand what it means when the beautiful myths of your childhood shatter in the face of brutality and violence committed in our name? I do not love our heritage any less than you. What I cannot do, however, is to place a value on it greater than the welfare of other groups or the lives of fellow humans. I speak out against the occupation (and political nationalism of all kinds) precisely because it stains our history and our culture. It also threatens our future. Please, if I am wrong, educate me. Show me the error of my ways so that I can once again stand proudly by your side in advocacy for our people. Explain to me why others must suffer endlessly for us to build our own society. Bring me back into your fold, so that I can feel the joy of belonging as I did in my youth. But consider for the moment as well that you may be wrong, because you are asking for me, not to mention Palestinians, to pay a heavy price for the pride of infallibility and the guarantees of destiny.