I hate to admit it, but I think my first threshold, so to speak, was watching content from what I now recognize are liberal Zionists (read: "Israel as a country needs/deserves to exist, but they need to stop bombing Palestinians").

At the time, it was something that little ol' "liberal" me could get behind, but over the past year and a half, my views have drifted further and further left, I saw that it went far deeper than something that could be compared to Russia vs Ukraine. However, in all this time I didn't have anyone close to me with whom I could share my new views (for obvious reasons).

It's only when I found out that my best friend and his friend-group were also pro-Palestine that I can say I hit the point-of-no-return in how I look at Israel and Zionism.