Pro-Palestinian Stanford University Student Becomes Advocate for Israel

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JERUSALEM, Israel – Taryn Thomas is an African-American student at Stanford University in California. Before October 7th, 2023, she described herself as a "leftist." She told CBN News, 'I started my initial pro-Palestine advocacy way back in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter protests. I would see Palestinian flags at our protests, and I was very curious. I'm 16 years old, and I would ask our leaders like, ‘Why?’” Thomas recalled. “And they would say, ‘Our liberation is bound to theirs. No one is free until Palestine is free,’” Thomas related. “So, it felt like you needed to be a part of and support as a part of intersectionality.” When the October 7th Hamas massacre and kidnappings happened, her social media was so full of Palestinian flags, “I genuinely had thought that Palestine had gotten attacked by how much support I was seeing.” Read the full story from CBN Israel's Julie Stahl: Want more news from a Christian Perspective? Choose to support CBN: https://go.cbn.com/ugWBn CB

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