Taryn Thomas

I was genuinely scared, you know?

Yeah, it's just oftentimes that pressure to feel like you're one of the good ones and the –

that you wanna be like, I feel like nothing recruits more than wanting to be on the right side of history, like what you were mentioning about David Horowitz.

And so I just like, yeah, sorry.

So it's-

My friends, I knew that they were going to see this as a moral failure rather than me expanding my empathy beyond having a selective empathy of which certain deaths matter versus which don't.

That was the way that we were operating within the encampment.

Now I have a greater empathy.

And to mourn that publicly, I was genuinely scared.

And so I decided to withhold my beliefs and what I was thinking and my doubts to myself.

And the people that had went to that exhibit were invited by Hillel to go to Israel.

And I decided to go.

And to see for myself, like what's reality like on the ground.

And I think like once I went to Israel, it made me realize I need to start speaking up about this.