Taryn Thomas

Like what you're, what you were mentioning, 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.

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

And so now I have like a greater empathy to mourn that publicly.

I was genuinely scared.

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

And the people that had 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.

Like I, so, okay.

Yeah, it was a 10-day trip.

And we visited Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

And in Jerusalem, being within this old city, you would hear church bells, Hebrew prayer, the call to prayer.

And you would just have so many different communities overlapping each other.

And there is coexistence and peace there.

you know, to the day to day life of people trading and like eating together and breaking bread.

And every conversation that I had there complicated the last and they didn't fit in my little neat boxes that I made for them at Stanford.