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'I was an anti-Zionist. Then I actually started researching.'

JL;DR SUMMARY Kile B. Jones, formerly an anti-Zionist, shares his transformative journey to becoming an advocate for Israel and Jews in an interview with Neil Turitz. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Israel AdvocacyLeftist IdeologyAnti ZionismMedia BiasGenocide AccusationsJewish AcademiaOctober 7thNoam ChomskyBoston UniversityKile B. Jones

Places mentioned

Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"I ended up at Boston University, which has the largest amount of Jewish students of any college in the world."
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
"I took a couple courses at Hebrew College down the road in Newton."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"since the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is right down the road from Boston University, I went down there and we had a 30-minute conversation."

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