Shalom Rabbi Ari, I want to thank you for your previous response to my initial question. My follow-up question is this: "Should I cut ties with some people when it comes to their Pro-Palestine views on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? I ask this as some people have blamed me personally as well as our people collectively for the conflict. Like I had stated in my initial question, my "acquaintance" has been trying to gaslight me into supporting his views while he says that he "respects me as a friend". I have even been personally blamed by someone on Facebook for the death of Rabbi Moshe and Jesus (which I know has no bearing on Judaism whatsoever but it still upsets me). So I guess my additional question is, "What would you recommend that I should do?" Have a blessed day or night, Josh

One of the big downsides of social media and the internet is that people become surrounded by those who think as they do. People are becoming more close-minded and debate often is superficial, offending and clearly not objective. I can't think of a better example than the Hamas-Israel conflict where seemingly intelligent & even liberal people can side with monsters who film themselves and brag about raping and decapitating the innocent. To defend barbaric people and deny that which they themselves filmed and show-off is both unintelligent and immoral. Judaism, & I think all ethical faiths, teach to stay away from such people, who may, even indirectly, influence you negatively. On the other hand, if someone is sincerely open-minded, of course it's commendable and moral to help "set him straight". Especially if that person is Jewish and is obviously just brainwashed by his media surroundings, I should hope that he is objective enough to see the other side, and even if he doesn't change his mind, should realize that his people are not stupid nor evil, and he should learn the objective facts & history before forming an opinion. Nevertheless, it's very hard to relate to a question when most of the factors are hidden. Is he your boss? Could he get you fired? Will these turn into shouting matches which will disrupt the work environment? How would your superiors see this debate?. In general, as long as a Jew lives outside of Israel, he has to usually keep a low profile, for you'll often be in the minority, where you just can't win (especially when the topic is anti-Semitism and often even rationale people on the right and left both simply stop thinking rationally, like in the issue of Hamas-Israel, where the "bad guy" is clear). Especially now, when Jews are the only minority which the liberals don't comes to defend. This is just one of the many reasons why I left America to make aliya and live in the Jewish State of Israel, where you can be yourself.