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I Refuse to Apologize for Being Jewish

(National Post-Canada) Galit Solomon - I'm fed up. Fed up with being reduced to a political symbol every time I open my mouth. Fed up with being expected to apologize for my existence. Fed up with smart, progressive, educated people deciding that my grief, my culture, and my holidays are conditional. That my identity is only palatable if I denounce it first. Being Jewish right now means walking into rooms and wondering if your very presence will be treated as a provocation. It means watching people you once admired parrot slogans that erase your history. It means being expected to condemn Israel loudly and publicly before you're allowed to mourn the Oct. 7 massacre. I am exhausted by the ease with which antisemitism now dresses itself up in the language of justice. I'm angry that so many Jews are being made to feel like strangers in spaces they once called home: universities, activist circles, dinner tables. I'm writing it because I want you to feel what it's like to sit at a table where everyone's talking about human rights, and somehow, you're the only one who doesn't get any. Being Jewish in this moment is to constantly navigate suspicion, scrutiny, and erasure. May this year bring more truth. More courage. And a lot less silence. The writer is a former news journalist who currently works as the National Director of Ben-Gurion University Canada.
2025-09-30 00:00:00
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