I thought I understood my feelings towards Israel and its significance to the Jewish People before... but Lani Mekeel broke my brain about it.

I always felt Jewish indigeneity to Eretz Israel on a deep level - that it went without saying (how could anyone deny this?) - I had no idea there were so many people out there seriously debating this obvious truth and actively working to convince the world otherwise.

Lani opened my eyes to the similarities between Jewish and Native struggles of assimilation and erasure, colonization and reconnection - and a crash course on indigeneity.