‘My Birthright trip was super radicalizing’

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An informative article from the Forward, chronicling Max Berger’s development from growing up in the mainstream liberal Jewish Reform tradition in the US to becoming a major radical activist today.

His opposition to human-rights abuses in Israel, dating from before his barmitzvah, has moved him constantly to more radical ways of thinking – and of intervening in the political struggle.

The decisive question for us now, he says, is this: “ Do you care more about there being a Jewish majority state or about people of this region having equal rights and democracy?”

This article was originally published by Foward on Wed 3 Feb 2021. Read the original here.