I spent the summer of 2017 in Palestine, living and teaching in Ramallah, traveling around the West Bank & Jerusalem, visiting my family in Akka. It was transformative for many reasons, one being seeing with my own eyes Israel's brutal oppression as an occupying power. This reality is also confirmed by the reports of prominent international human rights organizations. Now, after the latest massacre in Gaza that left 248 Palestinians dead, including 66 children, and over 1,900