Maor Wolfsmith, an Israeli native, moved from Tel Aviv to London last August with his longtime partner, a British citizen, and their two young children. He is using a sabbatical from his job as a childhood clinical psychologist and researcher to take a time-out from Israel. But his use of the past tense when describing his life in Israel made me think he’ll probably stay away.

Wolfsmith, who is gay, grew up in Salit, a settlement in the occupied West Bank. He said he “always felt that I’m living in the margins of society,” and that the alienation grew more poignant when Netanyahu allied with right-wing forces hostile to queer people. That faction’s rise in power, he noted, made Judaism feel “tyrannical.”

Jesus christ. I notice throughout the article the massacre of women and children and destruction of an entire people doesn't crop up as a reason for their discomfort. It's all about them. Unreal.

Nice find, t.