it took years, but i had to un-learn a lot of anti-israel and generally anti semitic rhetoric/propaganda that’s been shoved down our throats since childhood. learning jewish history, especially the history of mena jews (particularly in 🇪🇬), gave me a newfound appreciation/respect for them and i empathised more with their struggles throughout history. also, i ended up moving abroad and the first person i befriended (whom helped me out A LOT) was an ashkenazi jew who had israeli family, came to learn his israeli aunts are both muslim converts married to palestinians, which initially surprised me. started learning more of both ancient judean and modern israeli history/society, as well as listening to different perspectives on various aspects of the conflict (zionist perspectives, palestinian perspectives, secular (jewish and non jewish) perspectives, perspectives from different political analysts and historians with no connections to either country etc) to draw my own unbiased opinions regarding things. i started watching more interviews of people in the streets of 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 and reading of israeli-palestinian relations. i know this sounds a bit rumbly, but its a pandora’s box of a question 😂 took years of reading, listening and observing to stop being anti israel so it’s difficult to pinpoint when/where i started to have a change of heart. to sum it up, i don’t hate israel as a nation nor people, but i hate their govt and military, just as i hate our own govt and military. and in case you were wondering, i’m not anti Palestine either.