ive been expressing my support for zionism and going against what seth rogen said in the interview, but i also acknowledge that the way jewish institutions teach about israel is highly flawed. here’s a thread

jewish institutions need to do a better job teaching about the conflict. the reason that people don’t trust the pro-israel information they’ve learned is because it’s told in a one-sided way

so then when people who have been raised believing that israel is perfect hear about all of israel’s wrongdoings, they lose their belief in any and all of the information that they were told by their jewish zionist institutions

the alternative to this is that kids will grow up believing everything they’re told about israel and then reject anything else. that’s also not good because it’s not raising jewish kids to think critically about israel and the conflict

and obviously not every product of jewish and israel education goes down one of these two paths; i’ve found that a lot of jews (like myself) remain zionist and pro-israel while also understanding that the israeli government is corrupt and has done many bad things

so i think that educators should know that exposing jewish kids (or teens really) to multiple perspectives won’t automatically make them a hardcore anti-zionist

that happens when their information is biased to give them one side of the story: the side where israel is right all the time, which is not the case

we are capable of recognizing israel’s flaws while also striving to make it better so that our love for israel can grow exponentially

tbh when i entered progressive online spaces in middle school i would get so upset because everyone hated israel and i didn’t fully know why and i wasn’t given the tools and education to defend myself

so basically... teaching teens about israel from the lens of facts rather than support will make them even better pro-israel advocates because they’ll actually know what they’re talking about.