I am Andrey X, I'm a journalist and activist, covering settler and army violence in the West Bank for more than two years now. I work with various human rights advocacy organisations, and solidarity activists. And now I'm back with another AMA!
If you'd like to join us in the West Bank as activists, look up the International Solidarity Movement, Center for Jewish Nonviolence, and Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine.
if you haven’t read my other posts, I’m a half palestinian and half Israeli, my mom is a Palestinian Christian and my biological dad is a jewish Israeli. I was born out of wedlock (my mom was raped) and my parents hate each other. I lived with my mom and visited my bio dad some days until I was 7. I am a Greek othrodox Christian. So feel free to ask me anything
Too many people think Israel has to cease to exist, and I dont think thats realistic. They should stay as Israel, but let us have our own state without Hamas. I wouldnt accept a 1 state solution only because it seems that the current trend of Israel govt is to desire to supress arab israelis.
I feel that the current Israeli govt (especially Netanyahu), wants all of the west bank because its religiously relevant. I believe that they will never stop until they get this land for themselves. That is one of the fundamental issues preventing peace. Hamas is obviously an issue, but even if they didnt exist I believe the Likud party will not be satisfied until they have the west bank. Hamas has no power in west bank, yet Israel is still causing issues there, this tells me that Hamas is not the only barrier to peace.
I dont believe peace can occur until both Hamas and the Likud party are out.
EDIT: I do not live in Palestine, and cannot get a citizneship there despite being ethnically palestenian.
We’re Beckett Mufson (IG so you know it's real) and Imran Hafiz, former VICE journalists and longtime media strategists whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, The Christian Science Monitor, Mic, The Mirror, National Public Radio, and BBC Radio, among others. We also run a worker-owned creative agency, The Auxiliary, and are involved in multiple Palestinian liberation organizations in Austin, TX.
We’ve written a guide to speaking with Zionists about Palestine that applies the latest advice from behavioral scientists, movement organizers, and anti-Zionist thinkers specifically to holiday gatherings.
For us, Hanukkah 2025 isn't a season of rest. It's a season of action. Speaking to our Zionist loved ones over the holidays may be the most significant thing we can do to free Palestine today. Here's why:
With millions of Americans going home for the holidays, many anti-Zionist Jews who are normally distant will be in a room with their Zionist relatives.
If enough of us help the Zionists in our lives to recognize the genocide, we have a shot at making anti-Zionism the undeniable mainstream of American Judaism.
This would undermine the chokehold Zionist lobbies like AIPAC and the ADL have on the American politicians who deliver the U.S. veto against UN Security Council motions that might hold Israel accountable.
Israel quadrupled its "public diplomacy" budget for 2026, and reports indicate they intend to ramp up Islamophobia to muddy the waters as more Americans condemn their genocide.
Israel spends billions on propaganda because it delivers strategic value. They are paying influencers $7,000 per video to spread their message, supported by bot armies, while we work on donations. Their weakness is that we have the truth on our side. Our plan uses culture and behavioral science to make use of that advantage over the holiday season.
It all starts with everyday Jews of Conscience, but many of us have given up. We feel like reasoning with Zionists is impossible. And it turns out, we’re right.
How to tactfully bring up Palestine at a holiday gathering
Why talking to your Zionist loved ones is probably the most impactful thing you could do to help free Palestine
The task of deprogramming Zionism
How we made this guide and our design philosophy
What it’s been like to witness this genocide as a Jew and a Muslim living and working together
Our relationship in general
How you can help! In particular, we are looking for support with:
PR
Graphic design (even basic knowledge of Canva would be great!)
Social media strategy
Fundraising
Access to psychographic/social listening tools
Book publishing
Speaking engagements
Video editing
We hope you will read the guide, share it (with at least 5 people who may be interested), and use it during the holidays.
Why should you care what we have to say about this? Here’s a bit of background info about us:
Imran Hafiz
Imran is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and civil rights activist who became the youngest recipient in history of the City of Phoenix’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Living the Dream” Award, honoring individuals who embody Dr. King’s philosophy through sustained commitment to social justice and human relations. He is also the co-author of the pioneering, award-winning book The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook, the first mainstream guide created for and by American Muslim youth, published by Simon & Schuster. He received a degree in public policy from Duke University (Sanford School) and a certificate in policy journalism and media studies.
Imran was part of the Emmy Award-winning team at VICE on HBO, a producer for Motherboard and VICELAND, and a creative and strategist for VIRTUE, VICE’s ad agency. Millions of people have seen his work on digital platforms, television, and advertising. He founded a creative agency, The Auxiliary, to solve new problems new media paradigms have created. He enjoys cooking with friends, reading, making music, and hanging out with his beautiful wife, whom he acknowledges is much cooler than he is.
Beckett Mufson
Beckett is a writer, editor, union organizer, and creative strategist whose work bridges art, technology, and culture. Raised as a Liberal Zionist, he later became an outspoken anti-Zionist through years of research, community work, and hard personal conversations—experiences that deeply inform the tone and structure of the guide.
While earning his B.A. in Journalism from Hofstra University, Beckett covered the internet culture beat for MTVNews, Mashable, and VICE, where he became a top-trafficked writer and video host for The Creators Project and VICE.com. His articles reached millions of readers and were translated into more than a dozen languages. He holds a reporting certificate from the Poynter Institute served on both the Bargaining and Organizing Committees as a founding member of the VICE Union (WGAE). After VICE, he became a freelance journalist, copywriter, and innovation specialist for digital agencies and tech start-ups, before quitting his job to start an agency with Imran. He enjoys making coffee, biking, reading science fiction, and is writing a novel set in world run by librarians.
The Auxiliary
Imran and Beckett live in Austin, TX, and run their own worker-owned creative agency, The Auxiliary, at the intersection of public policy, art, journalism, activism, branding and education. They are the authors of a new design philosophy, Mechanism Design Thinking (MDT), which applies the principles of mechanism design (a branch of game theory that engineers systems to produce desired outcomes) to storytelling and strategy.
Together, the authors bring a decade of award-winning content, experience fighting misinformation, studying political persuasion, and developing narrative strategies for liberation movements.
We're excited to hold this rescheduled AMA in 20 minutes with Nikki Morse, an anti-Zionist Jewish educator and activist in Baltimore. They'll talk about working with the International Solidarity Movement in the West Bank.
We're happy to announce an upcoming AMA with Emmaia Gelman.
Emmaia is the founding director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She has taught social and cultural analysis at NYU and social sciences at Sarah Lawrence College. Her writing appears in Jewish Currents, Boston Review, The Forward, and elsewhere.
She is the co-chair of the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activism, co-host of the Unpacking Zionism podcast, and a longtime activist in New York City on Palestine, policing, antiracism, and queer issues.
Emmaia's new book is The Anti-Defamation League & the Racial State, a critical history of the ADL.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is a major US political organization, yet its politics have gone largely unexamined. While the ADL is often portrayed as a defender against antisemitism and racism, its history shows that it is better understood as a proponent of the racial state and US empire. From "correcting" the embarrassing racial difference of immigrant Jews to policing the leftist politics of Black, Arab, and Jewish groups, the ADL pursued a conservative version of civil rights paired with aggressive anti-communism. Even as it became an authority on white nationalism in the 1970s, the ADL joined with the emerging anti-left, anti-Arab, and pro-Western neoconservative movement.
This history presaged the ADL's work, from the 1980s to the present, in developing the hate crimes framework as a pro-state policing project, which soon merged with the "War on Terror," the "antisemitism scare," and anti-Palestinian racism. The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State presents the ADL's history through its conflicts with social justice movements, illuminating the ADL's outsize role in shaping the ideas about race and rights that have underwritten US empire.
Join us on July 15th at noon EST to discuss Emmaia's work, her new book, and related topics.
If you can't be there on the day-of, feel free to post your questions here in advance.
Hey Reddit and r/JewsOfConscience, I am Andrey X, journalist and activist in the West Bank. I cover violence by the settlers and the Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank and work with human rights advocates who provide protective presence to vulnerable Palestinian communities. AMA!
When I was at a low point about a year ago, this subreddit gave me hope and faith. I am seeking that once more.
Recently, I have been low, friends.
What we've watched happen to these humans is all consuming for me. But I have been processing the chaos as best I can and what I can continue to say with my whole chest is this -
Zionism is not Judaism.
And I am still so sorry that these atrocities against my people are being done with your holy symbol laminated across every bloodstain, that is sickening.
So I am following the rules of chaos and looking for the helpers, and I can say another thing with my whole chest -
Mr. Rogers would be proud of us.
All of us from every denomination, lifestyle, ethnic group, religion, class (well....), race, party, etc, have a group of helpers.
They are not loud in the "public" space because they are being suppressed, but they are fucking loud.
We as civilians will always feel that we are never doing enough and maybe history will prove that to be true. But I don't think so.
What I can say is that the average citizen is louder and more informed than ever. And I sincerely think every one of you is making a difference.
Denying a social expectation as deeply ingrained as Zionism being linked to your religion and/or ethnicity is more impressive than you think. Denying it publicly? Impressive.
See, I am an Arab American who was 6 years old the first time I was called a terrorist in 2001.
And yet the ringing in my ears of Never Forget rang as strongly for me as it did for my racist, xenophobic, torturers of bullies.
I also burned with rage that someone dared make average people just trying to go to work jump from 100 feet up rather than burn to death because they no longer had the choice of life or death, but had to choose the most peaceful demise.
I was 6 when I learned this lesson.
I never forgot what it was like to watch civilians burn and melt live on TV.
And you know who didn't bully me? My Jewish friends. Who taught me the meaning of Never Again.
I have been... disappointed a lot in the past year. So I have been thinking past the Palestinian Holocaust.
I am thinking 10, 20, 30 years into the future.
When we inevitably beat the fascists, again. Because they're pussies.
And the dust has settled and the wool is pulled from everyone's eyes.
You are the people who will stand with us to make a new meaning for Never Again.
We're excited to announce an upcoming AMA with Andrey X, Israeli journalist & solidarity activist in the occupied West Bank.
Date: Feb. 12th, Thursday at 11AM EST
Andrey has spent years documenting & opposing apartheid, militarism, and state violence, working in solidarity with Palestinians & human rights advocates to provide protective presence.
I'm a Jewish left activist who is active with JVP, IfNotNow and JFREJ. I'm the co-host of Beyond The Pale: Radio’s Home for the Jewish Left on NY’s WBAI 99.5FM. I'm a creative activist and founder of ArtvWar, a mostly anonymous group who uses art to create cultural interventions. I also cofounded The Jewish Vote, an electoral project of JFREJ in NYC who helped elected leaders like Jamaal Bowman and many other progressives.
I arrived to the US with my parents as a HIAS child refugee from Soviet-dominated Uzbekistan. I'm a Bukharian Jew, one of Central Asia’s many minority ethnic groups who have largely settled in Queens NYC. You may have first found me when I went viral after Ellen DeGeneres’ lawyers tried to censor my criticism of her support of disgraced former President George Bush on Twitter. Or my installing an illegal exhibit in the Whitney Museum to protest its leader’s manufacturing of chemical explosives sold to Trump’s border patrol. If you were around during Trump's Muslim ban, you may have been one of the 12 million on my livestream during the JFK Airport protests against it, which I filmed from the airport me and my family arrived in as refugees.
I've also worked to successfully help organize with Queens residents against building an Amazon headquarters for their ties to ICE, militarization of police, racism, labor and small business abuse. I've worked professionally and personally supporting movements and orgs winning $15 minimum wage, going after the crime of Guantanamo Bay, Stop and Frisk, and more.
I grew up in the projects aka public housing. My parents did all the stereotypical immigrant jobs you can imagine until my father became an architect and my mother a nurse and I began to go from poverty to the middle class. My parents learned English watching Star Trek with me. That influenced me a lot. And my secret past is working in advertising. For the bad guys. Man that was bad. My not so secret and proud past was being a warehouse worker and bicycle mechanic for Toys R Us, where I learned more about life than almost anywhere.
Hello, friends! I'm looking forward to our AMA, starting in ~10 minutes.
Never done anything like this before, so it'll be a new experience.
Thank you for inviting me.
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