"I was passionately pro-Israel, I never questioned" | AJ #shorts

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Once firmly pro-Israel, Jewish activist Simone Zimmerman was confronted with difficult truths while listening to Palestinian …

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@aljazeeraenglish March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

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@chakshin March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

SHE’S REAL 😭

@RickyB349 March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

What other side?. .. The other side that paints a paradise built upon oppression and land grabbing from a defenseless native population? Come on man, shooting women and children and denying their right to water, electricity, and freedom of movement in their own land… You must be really disingenuous to sell your propaganda when the truth is out there for all to see…

@AsifHannan-v1k March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

Free Free Palestine🇵🇸

@onlythetruthnothingbutthet8602 March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

I was also passionate pro Israël!!!
I teached my childeren to love Israël. But now our love for the Zionist regime is over!!!!
Committing genocide and playing the victim!!!
If you dare to critizise Israël, no matter how fair your points are, they accuse you to be antisimetic!
Gues what,I am Semite but nor Jew nor Arab!!!
Can we please live in peace and respect for each other???
In the sake of our childeren!!!
ENOUGH!!!!

@aq2463 March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

Justice will prevail at the end

@AProudIndianVeteran-le8ti March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

Why can’t she see the Israeli ground realities on the ground – We do not wish 7/10 on even our worst enemies- Why can’t she see what is written about non believers in the holy scriptures

@FactStorm March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

I appreciate her seeking honesty and truth

@SimulacronX March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

"I was brainwashed"

@robertjohnson4401 March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

If it was true that there is apartheid and ethnic against the Palestinians, they are free to leave the Palestinian territories. Why don't they leave for a better life somewhere else? No one is forcing them to stay under those alleged conditions.

@kimbetbaby3583 March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

Jews who stand against Zionism, deserves our support!

@kobe51 March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

And that's sad

@DSGLA March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

Pro Israel to pro radical terrorist? Disgraceful

@VICTOROBINGO March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

Israel is not an occupation because the jews are indigenous people of the LAND with their ancestors born in the LAND, lived on the LAND and have their tombs their. The jews had a right of ownership of the LAND even before 1948 when it was Palestine and many jews lived with arabs together! The palestinians believe that jews are Europeans which is not true at all and they attack the jews with stabbing, kidnapping, suicide vests and guns which forces the Isreal government to create checkpoints and counter this criminals and so they say this is an apartheid state! The truth is palestinian resistence against the jews is the root cause of all their problems from the begin and if they had loved and accepted the jews then the jews would not even have need for the IDF! Blessed be the Holy God of Isreal who brought the jews back to the LAND He promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and blessed be Jesus the son of God who must come and reign on the throne of David in Jerusalem as the eternal King of Isreal and the LORD of all the earth, AMEN.

@MarioGonzalez-cf5cp March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

Hopefully women like you will rise to leadership positions amongst Palestinimans and help them appreciate Jewish culture. Wish you well.

@murtadah6327 March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

Simone Zimmerman has turned Simone de Beauvoir a tad, so to say- I mean she allowed herself to engage in independent thinking.

@michellenorris8471 March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

Nurit Peled-Elhanan, an Israeli Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has given some educational interviews on YouTube regarding the lies and racist brainwashing inherent in Jewish education in Israel.

@ZiaUtmankhel March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

Apartheid is normally used for all British crimes committed in its former colonies

@emmanuelalviola4112 March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

Genocide? Israel controls the skies, if they wanted genocide it would have been over a long time ago. I can’t fathom the ignorance of people who supports terrorist org.

@Daahma March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

I wish all American citizens could hear these testimonies. I wish all my fellow Americans could hear the testimony of all these j.ews who denounce z.ionism, to rise up and force our US government to stop the shameful support for the z.ionist regime.

@Adamsys471 March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

So she's not mad at Islamists?

@wadegoodwin6773 March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

Welcome to the light sister

@abxeee473 March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

I was too but now regretting, you might embrace your enemy without knowing, I'm now pro humanity and by Implication pro palestine

@marksvenson1886 March 17, 2025 - 5:43 pm

Similar to the Germans who were shielded from the genocide of Jews. Israelis are robbed of the truth, through blocking web sites and Al Jazeera, sensoring media, and isolating Israelis from the facts of Palestinian lives (and deaths) in the West Bank and Gaza, and Lebanon.