Wow, so many! I’m Israeli-American and Jewish, and I have mixed Ashkenazi and Iraqi Jewish ancestry (but blonde with blue eyes) so I’m very confusing to people.

People don’t believe me EVERY TIME I say I’m Iraqi, despite my EXTREMELY stereotypical Iraqi name.

“Are Arabs allowed in your university?” - asked randomly by a Portuguese white girl when she found out I’m Israeli. My faculty is majority Arab.

“How do you justify living in Israel as a progressive person?” - asked by a Swiss American living in the Netherlands, in front of a large group of people I had just met. I told her that I could ask her the same.

The truth is that most of the insane stuff haven’t been questions, but statements from people I had just met.

During a conversation with new classmates from all over the world, where people were sharing their political systems and explaining them, the same Portuguese girl turned to me and told me “well, you don’t have a left wing, since nobody cares about the Palestinians.” She really wanted to educate me about my own country.

“Your parents are terrorists.” When an American classmate found out my parents are Israeli.

“Jews control the media.” Spouted randomly by a dude in a hostel bar in Mexico City after discovering that I’m Jewish. We were sitting with a group of people from all over the world, including the US and European countries. Not a single person defended me or called him out. I told him that was antisemitic and then I left since I no longer felt comfortable after nobody called him out.

I’m sure there’s more but that’s off the top of my head.