TIMES OF ISRAEL
You are the racist, actually, not me
by Rachel Moore
December 30, 2016

I am an Orthodox Jewish settler raising seven children in the West Bank. I’m also an American citizen and I voted for Donald Trump. Yeah, I’m that lady. I opened a local business here, and I did so on purpose — to respond to BDS anti-settler activities by encouraging Jewish West Bank residents to work in the West Bank and keep their own businesses local in the West Bank. I believe in annexation and I do not support a two-state solution. And that makes me a peace-loving, Palestinian-respecting individual. I’m not the racist. You are. You, my liberal, anti-settler, anti-Trump friends who hate my views — if not me (yet) — are the racists…As for being an Israeli settler? I live and work with and among Palestinians. They are my neighbors, my colleagues, my friends, and yes, my threat. They, their dignity, pain, reality and families are in my face and consciousness daily.  READ MORE