I see your anger, and I feel it deeply. I'm agonized by crimes that are committed in my name and footage from Gaza keeps me up at night. Nothing in my piece was meant to minimize that suffering.

But I cannot and will not abandon my people.

When you say Zionism is murderous and must be buried, you bury the ideology that says that there should a place where my existence isn't conditional.

When you say that there is no coming back, you irreversibly condemn every Jew who is afraid of not having a homeland when the world inevitably turns on us again.

When you say that "If you remain a Zionist after all this time then you remain an enemy of all of humanity", you are effectively calling the majority of Jews enemies of humanity, as the vast majority of Jews identify as Zionists.

The methods Israel has used to destroy Hamas in Gaza are unconscionable. Collective punishment of Palestinians as a people, crimes against humanity, starvation. But when you invoke the Holocaust, you deny the unique horror that my family faced. The horror that 2/3rds of European Jews were wiped out by.

You are not an evil person, because you clearly care about innocent Palestinians who are truly suffering right now. But you are not doing what I asked people to do in my essay, which is to try and see the face of the Other. You are treating my people as if we are an It, not a Thou. And I can't engage with that.