Athens on a Sunday night. Street after street, Palestine flags spray-painted on the walls. Half a block from my hotel, I stumble into Palestina Meze Bar.

A corrugated shopfront reads: Zionist Not Welcome Here.

Zionist, singular? Just one? Guess they heard me coming.

Inside, a few patrons sit at wooden stools. Halloumi and hummus on the menu. I try to imagine eating with these slogans staring back at me in English, Arabic, Greek:

Freedom by Force By Any Means Necessary Reject Normalisation. Support the Resistance

Twenty-year-old me would have smirked in delight. Hell yeah! Power to the people!

I recognise the appeal, I do. These are saucy ideas. What clarity. What moral certainty.

All Israeli Soldiers are War........

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