Taryn Thomas

And there was no time that was spent to even grieve those that lost their lives.

And if you did grieve and mourn publicly...

you were immediately outcasted and you lost your social belonging.

And so I was very like, I felt like I wanted a two-state solution, but I was just very like, I never wanted to talk about it with anyone because everyone was anti-Zionist and it felt that you had to, like the safest position was the most radical one.

And so at one of our protests,

At one of our protests in June of 2024, they broke into the Stanford university's president's office and cost $700,000 in damages.

12 students received felonies and they spray painted like disgusting things such as death to Israel, death to America, hill cops, pigs taste best when dead.

And this is, I was just confused on like, where is Gaza in any of that, you know?

And I completely lost sight of like who we were claiming to be fighting for.

And at some point, our pro-Palestine movement became more of an anti-Israel, anti-American one.

And I no longer could recognize what we were what we were doing anymore.

And I think so once students got felonies, I like took a step back from the movement and said,

And it allowed me to receive an invitation to the Nova Music Festival exhibit that's right now being hosted in London.

Yeah.

And I went going in wanting to investigate because I thought I would find like Zionist propaganda and Zionist lies.

And I wanted to reaffirm my pro-Palestine position more than anything.

But that wasn't what I came across.

I found instead...

you know, half written, I love yous and last messages sent to parents and loved ones.

And I'm just, it was, it was a tragedy.