This is why I was so totally shocked particularly by those who[m] I know have gone through the same themselves, repeating it on […] another people.

I take as an extreme example one of my cousins, late cousin, […] who was a young girl taken to Auschwitz from Transylvania. Because she was young and strong, she was put to work, and she worked in a warehouse sorting clothes. And one day she was sorting her parents’ clothes, meaning that they had already been taken to the gas chamber.

I think [that] it’s difficult to understand the emotional experience of doing or being in that situation. Yet she came […] to Israel […] and she was as racist as the rest of them against the Palestinians.

Now how—it’s beyond understanding how you can do that and […] with the background that she had, I think [that] this has to do with the extreme propaganda and the dehumanization.

Zionism was a very unfortunate and sad development for the Jewish people. It broke a much longer tradition of always being on the side of the oppressed not the oppressor, and […] the charitable nature of the Judaism and the humanity that they advocate into a kind of exceptionalism and nationalism.

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Quite a number of my family from Romania ended up in Israel, so when I visited them that was my first brush with Zionism. I was completely shocked how despite their experiences during the Holocaust, they were racist, basically, against the Palestinians, and couldn’t understand it and I can’t understand it to this day, fully, how that could happen.