Rachel Wahba

When Israel is threatened, I, like any Jew who understands history should be, am threatened. I choose to remain a Jew in America, a Zionist in an anti-Semitic world, and a progressive in the San Francisco bay area. I grew up with no such “choice.” I was just a stateless Arab Jew stuck in Japan in Catholic missionary schools for too long. I was stateless because my parents had to leave their countries of origin. Iraq and Egypt are Jew-free today. We were already in Japan when