This morning I woke up to two pieces of news that were circulating on social media.

One was an article, a proclamation of sorts, by Peter Beinart, a Jewish-American columnist, journalist, and liberal political commentator.

It was causing a buzz and being touted as “groundbreaking”.

The other was a much more common incident, only notable because it had happened to an international super-model, Bella Hadid.

To me the two stories merged into one, as I explain below.

Writing for Jewish Currents, Beinart explores the wrenching angst so many other Jews typically testify to publicly.

First, he asks the question, what makes someone a Jew? He answers it referencing “the broad center of Jewish life — where power and respectability lie” as, above all “supporting the existence of a Jewish state.” Beinart then rejects this world view, a rejection that feels to him “akin to spitting in the face of people I love and betraying institutions that give my life meaning and joy.

Besides, Jewish statehood has long been precious to me, too.

So I’ve respected certain red lines.” Next he puts forth the rationale that caused him to cross “a red line”: As a result of the annexation plans, he has come to realize that Jewish statehood means permanent Israeli control of the West Bank, and so, for the first time in his life, he began to wonder “whether the price of a state that favors Jews over Palestinians is too high.” He announces: “It is time for liberal Zionists to abandon the goal of Jewish-Palestinian separation and embrace the goal of Jewish-Palestinian equality.” And then he says, “This doesn’t require abandoning Zionism … [Israel] is a Jewish home in the land of Israel.” What? That broke the spell for me — a Palestinian, listening in on a Jewish conversation.

I didn’t bother to read the rest (it’s a rather long article).

To me, it wasn’t going to feel “like the dam(n) wall is bursting”, as someone cleverly put it.

It felt like Palestine was still being falsely labeled as “the land of Israel”! Moving on to Bella Hadid’s story, it read: ‘On Tuesday, the model shared a photo of her father Mohamed Hadid’s passport on her Instagram Story, showing his place of birth listed as Palestine, with the caption, “I am proud to be Palestinian.” The Victoria’s Secret model, who is of Palestinian and Dutch descent, then asked, “Are we not allowed to be Palestinian on Instagram? This, to me, is bullying.”’ By the end of the day, Instagram apologized to Bella Hadid for removing the picture of her dad’s passport.

“A spokesperson for Facebook, Instagram’s parent company, told Page Six in response, “To protect the privacy of our community, we don’t allow people to post personal information, such as passport numbers, on Instagram.

In this case the passport number was blurred out, so this content shouldn’t have been removed.

We’ve restored the content and apologized to Bella for the mistake.” *(Top image: Peter Beinart (left); Bella Hadid (right)) *This article was originally published on the Medium.