Last year I did a tour of the Australian Jewish communities of both Sydney and Melbourne and came across the awesome team at ZFA.
Lo and behold, they asked me to appear on their broadcast yesterday to be interviewed by Tam Faraday. And so, if you’d like to hear me address absolutely everything possible about this current war, why we’re arriving at this point of global risen antisemitism, and what the hell we should do, here is a link to watch it:
I have to thank Tam for the questions and the platform. I am very proud of this piece, and feel as though I’m finally finding a through-line between all my various avenues of thought for the past ten years experiencing this slow-moving bullett.
At the end of this interview, Tam reminded me of something I wrote a year or two ago, in an essay called Ghosts. She quoted the piece and you should know that I never read my pieces back, but I could still relate to these words, and I still stand by them. The truth is that I stand by everything I have ever said.
I want to remind you of something important. Whether it's in work, in your relationships, in your family, whatever context, you may find yourself being punished for speaking out, and speaking freely. It's because the truth scares people. And if you're like me, you will go through every single period of your life, losing investments you made when you find out that friends or jobs or invitations dry up after you said what needed to be said. Know this: you'll survive. It's OK. Actually it's more than OK. The best relationships and the right opportunities handle the truth. The ones that can't were never reciprocal. They were never real. They were never honest.
Be honest. You won't ever regret it. And you’ll always get through another sunset and experience a new dawn.
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In other news, I’m wearing a blue ribbon right now in addition to displaying my magen david, and it’s not because I’m a student at Le Cordon Bleu! But maybe after the war…
Excellent interview. 1960 feminist here and I will never back down from supporting Israel.
I could listen to you all day, Eve. Thank you again for the brave, hard work that you are doing.