A Muslim American Responds to Your Absence at the Israel Day Parade

As a Muslim American, I am ashamed of your decision to skip New York City’s Israel Day Parade.

Not because attending would have required you to support every policy of the Israeli government. It would not.

What it would have required was the courage to stand publicly with New York’s Jewish community at a moment when antisemitism is reaching alarming levels across America.

Instead, you chose absence.

You chose to distance yourself from an event celebrating Jewish identity, Jewish history, Jewish survival, and the Jewish people’s connection to their ancestral homeland.

I marched alongside Holocaust........

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