I am not your Jew.

I am not your Jew.

I am not your Bernie Sanders. I am not your Woody Allen. I am not your Sigmund Freud. I’m not your Jesus.

I am not your “Jewish friend.”

I am not here to make you feel better about all the anti-Semitism you’ve internalized. I am not here for you to gloss over your history or how your people have marginalized mine. I am not here to help you forget. I am not here to give you the forgiveness you seek.

Just because I am proud of my Jewish identity doesn’t mean you get to be prejudiced against Palestinians in my name. Just because I am an anti-Zionist doesn’t mean you get to throw around all the same tired anti-Semitic canards to criticize the State of Israel.

I am not here for you to have a feel-good Jewish experience. I am not here to be your Jewish guilt trip.

I am not your Nice Jewish Boy. I am not your Kike.

I am not your Judas. I am not your Shylock. I am not your Fagan. I am not your Svengali.

I am not your Christ killer. I am not your Protocols of the Elders of Zion. I am not your Rothschild. I am not your Globalist.

I am not here to play nice.

I am not your token.

I am not your excuse.

I am not your Jew.