The author is an attorney and a community activist in Metro Detroit.

By Mark Jacobs

The photo is screenshot from a video from a Jewish Voice for Peace-Detroit rally in November 2023.

Amidst my shock and horror on October 7th, 2023 was seeing an Instagram post from a 20-year- old cousin that sent me and other family members reeling. He had posted a photo of a Palestinian flag with the words “Free Palestine” across the top - on October 7th, just hours after the slaughter of 1,200 Jews and the abduction of 250 Israeli hostages.

This is not an uncommon story. Many Jewish families - including religious ones – live with the awkward reality of an intractable family rift over the topic of Israel. Intra-family differences over politics are nothing new, but rifts over Israel in Jewish families -

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