I remember waking up one morning hearing the sound of a hammer striking nails. I opened my dorm room window to find Students for Justice in Palestine erecting their “apartheid wall.” For months, I was under the assumption that the administration and the senate would have successfully sent the message that its presence would not be admissible according to the student handbook. But they were persistent. They usually are. The rules do not apply to the unprincipled and arrogant.

I put on my “This is What a Zionist Looks Like” t-shirt and tied an Israeli flag around my wrist. Just before I walked outside, I took a long pause at my door. In that moment, I realized that it would be a long week and that I would have to confront these nefarious characters. I had waited over a year for this moment to occur and it stood in front of me like an obstacle. I just kept telling myself the following:

You know all the facts. You got the best training. This is your moment to speak truth to power.

Read the full article at Times of Israel.