In high school I had two Civics teachers. They were AWESOME! Both of them were Conservative Jews -- Mr. Levy and Mr. Levine. They had balls. They'd play actual WWII German film footage of the camps, naked Jewish bodies being bulldozed into mass graves, and didn't shield us one bit from the atrocities. Those films are seared into my brain. They didn't teach the textbook narrative of US history, either. They'd even say "This is what your book says, and this is what really happened." I remember a few students left their classes because their parents thought the material was "too real."
I loved both of those guys. That was 35 years ago. Their teaching would put hair on your nuts. I remember electricity shooting down my spine, it got so real sometimes. Watching them both break down when they ran those films was pretty chilling.
I'm no Jew, and I'm not close with any in my life, but when they become a target in this country, I'm standing with them. **** Erdogan and the crazy train he came in on.