I remember the time I went on the March Against Antisemitism in
2023 on the streets of London. It was the first in my life that I went
on a protest march and connected with my Jewish friends and learned
about their suffering and isolation after the October 7 massacre in
Israel. It was a powerful display of unity and I felt really inspired by
the speeches and the resilience and spiritual power of the Jewish
people. I then spent the next 12 months making my own advocacy for the
Jewish people and standing up for the state of Israel by fusing it with a
touch of my own autism. This time around on 8th December 2024 I turned
up at the next protest rally carrying a banner openly declaring “Jews
must count or else autistic lives won’t survive or thrive”. My placard
was so striking that many of the Jewish and non-Jewish people on the
march were curious to know what my autism movement had to do with
Jewishness or Zionism.
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