Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“I’ve been lucky enough not to have anyone significant in my life who doesn’t get it, so this isn’t an issue that I personally have had to navigate. But I have seen a lot of people struggle with the question of how their interpersonal relationships should be affected by the position that their friends and loved ones take on Gaza. From where I’m sitting this doesn’t look like you’re an asshole, it just kind of looks like the natural effects playing out of learning that someone in your life is a shitty person. If you found out that one of your friends likes to torture small animals or drug women and rape them, or that someone in your family watched a child drown in a swimming pool without doing anything, that would naturally change your relationship with them in a permanent way.” (09/01/25)