Last weekend, Ally was kicked out of a family Shabbat dinner. Ally is 21 years old and from New York.

"My dad is a staunch Zionist. He said, 'You better not f*ing have gone to that protest.’ "

Ally has gone to many protests.

"He was like, ‘I don’t want to have you in my house right now. You are not welcome at this dinner table,’ " Ally said.

Ally, who requested anonymity due to ongoing harassment, has family in Israel. Some are currently in the Israel Defense Forces.

Since the Israel-Hamas war began, there have been protests demanding a cease-fire. Many Jewish Americans have joined in. Some say they’ve been met with hostility from within their own communities. Ally is a student at Columbia University, and is part of Jewish Voice For Peace, which is vocally demanding a cease-fire in Gaza.

What Ally wants, beyond a cease-fire, is to address the human rights violations Palestinians have endured over the years.

“My position as a Jew is that it [has] always been our responsibility, according to our religion, to stand up for all those who are targeted, all those who are oppressed, all those who are facing violence. Because as a people, we’ve been persecuted for so long.”

Rabbi Ari-Lev Fornari, also with Jewish Voice for Peace, says lately, he’s been hearing about a lot of arguments like the one at Ally’s Shabbat dinner table.

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