NYC voters elected a BDS mayor. Voters in my city went much farther.

NYC voters elected a BDS mayor. Voters in my city went much farther.

I first declared myself a Zionist when I was 10 years old in 1981, singing the song of Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake, which went like this: “We are Young Judaeans, we have a story to tell. Too young for Tel Yehudah, but Zionists just as well.” Tel Yehudah was the high school age camp of Young Judaea, the year-round, non-denominational Zionist “movement” founded in 1909. I was deeply involved in Young Judaea through my high school graduation in 1…