I wanna talk a little bit vulnerably about this path I've taken this year that led me to this place.
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While there, I toured the Jewish museums with my then-partner, who is Jewish. We saw Pinkasova Synagogue and the Old Jewish Cemetary.pic.twitter.com/ZzYeJ4mhrJ
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This was during the height of the immigration ban, when fears of Muslim registries were very real. It was soul-shaking.
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I saw Václavské Náměstí, where the Czech people rebelled against the state. And visited the spot where Jan Palach self-immolated.pic.twitter.com/F1OfP14bSx
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Later, I'd visit Berlin, seeing memorials to the people lost in the Holocaust, people persecuted by Nazis.pic.twitter.com/wFDAg8vXty
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I was in Berlin when the first torch rally happened in Charlottesville. I knew then I couldn't be on the sidelines if it happened again.
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I brought my activism to my community because I walked some of the places in the world where deep evil planted its seeds.
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And I didn't want some future generation to walk through UVA like I walked through Bebelplatz. This is why I act.
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I will visit these sites again, to hold that space in my heart again, to connect with those souls, and hope they know that we fought back.
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