I’d like to share a few things that I have personally experienced during the Biden Administration. In 2021, I was completely cancelled and blacklisted after a 13+ year incredible career as a music and film journalist in mainstream media for calling out antisemitism in social justice movements. Still in 2021, as the cancellation escalated during the Israel-Gaza conflict in May, I became an international meme and had a #2 trending hate name in the USA. Again, for calling out antisemitism in social justice movements. I was harassed and abused by the likes of Seth Rogen, and YouTuber Hasan Piker, who poured fuel on the fire of my cancellation. The ADL minimized what happened to me. In 2022, I fought the war of misogyny online during a public witch trial, and the most talked about court case of two decades. My hate name trended every day online for several months, and the public shaming multiplied once more, as I received more death threats than I have ever received in my life. I lost many more friendships, avenues for income, and many of YOU who have thankfully returned to follow me here. In 2023, on October 7, when the worst massacre to happen to Jewish people since the Holocaust took place, there was still not a single ally or apology among those who attempted to take away my power of speech by blacklisting me. Days after October 7, I was chased down by a car in my local neighborhood. Months after October 7, I could count on both hands the numbers of times I’d been physically accosted in the street, or in the gym, spat on, or screamed at. I slept with the lights on for months, changed my name on my travel and food delivery apps, and heightened my personal security. Online, I was further vilified, meme’d and trolled. We were ignored by the powers that be, gaslit to infinity and back, and lost even more friends and work opportunities. In 2024, despite a nervous breakdown and a complex PTSD diagnosis from these four years, I gained strength as a leading independent voice, and decided that my breath was not worth wasting over divisive politics but on uniting Jews and non-Jews who want to find solutions. I have accepted the election result because what other choice is there, and because I have no vote. And still today either way, my heart is in Israel and my feet directed towards the sands of Tel Aviv, never fully entrenched in the soil I stand in, because Jews know we are not fully safe in America. So after all of these events, I remain standing. I am stronger than ever. I have not killed myself or left the country, and I am a leader of thought. Every day, I get up with the best of intentions and live my life to the fullest. To everyone having a meltdown currently who couldn’t bring themselves to show up in a vocal full-throttled manner that would have helped both us and ultimately all of you, you are going to get through the next four years whatever happens to you. You have no idea what some of us have managed to survive while you were too busy overlooking our suffering. Maybe it will inspire you.
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