David O'Brien.

As an antzionist jew, I’m happy and had i lived in Michigan, i would have voted for El Sayed even though I’m not a progressive. I did vote for Mamdani and even though i’m not a democratic socialist, i have no regrets. I just hate seeing innocent Palestinians being slaughtered, any child being killed or having to suffer and knowing that the pain and suffering that Israel has caused to the Palestinian people started in the 1940s and my people are responsible for this. Why don’t you spend a couple of months at the library and learn the real history. You have to start with the 19th century zionist movement, the 1917 British Balfour Declaration, the 1937 British Peel Commission, the 1947-49 Nakba, make sure you do a timeline so you don’t fall for the jewish or Israeli propaganda, the Israeli occupation in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza that began in 1967, the Gaza Siege beginning in 2007 after Israrl withdrew their settlements from Gaza, the 2018-19 Gaza peaceful March of return protest, all the slaughters Istael conducted in Gaza mostly of innocent civilians and there is so much more including the unspeakable atrocities Israel has been commiting for iver 3 years in Gaza that i can’t even talk about and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. This is being funded and supported by jewish billionaires like Mirium Edelson and Larry Ellison and others. Perhaps then you would understand why more and more jews are voting and standing against this - because this is being done in our name. I would recommend you start with some Israeli movies like 2 Blue Lines on Amazon, Tantura on you tube, Deir Yassin 2017 on you tube, Naza in movie theaters purported to be released for streaming sometime in Nov (this is controversial and i would not start with that movie), Anerican Doctor in movie theaters. Then progress and listen to Palestinians talk about what happened to them on you tube about Deir Yassin, the Nakba, The Voice if Hind Rajab (on Amazon), ******testimonies (Gaza Podcast Middle East Eye (MEE), “the Gaza Podcast”. These are interviews lasting apprix 90 minutes each of real Gazans with no politics, no vitriol, no leading questions, just daily experience of 1 medical resident, 1 psychiatrist, 1 mother and a couple of others, all interviewed in perfect easy to understand English by interviewer Hussam Tannera. He conducts i think weekly interviews from a tent in Gaza. I urge you to listen to these podcasts on YOU TUBE. The only thing i can say in defense of jews, including Israeli jews, is that we were all lied to. The lies started a bit before the 1948 creation of the modern stare of Israel Somehow, i was one of the exceptions and did not hear these lies from my parents, at least. My father lived in the Soviet Union in what is today W Ukraine until he was 13, so you can guess that i am pretty old. He lived through multiple pogroms including the bloodiest 1919 pogrom. It is too late to ask him the questions i now have. I believe he was not a zionist since i never heard Israel mentioned in my home and when his older siblings criticized me for not having more jewish friends, he scolded them in Yiddish to maje them stop. I was raised that “never again” was meant for all people, not just jewish people. Most of what i learned, i had to learn from reading books since there was no internet, no social media, no you tube, no Ai and actually only a few teoevision channels. It’s much easier now even though there is more vitriol and propaganda which can make separating truth from propaganda challenging.