Prof Gil Troy

Gil Troy discusses the importance of Identity, the power of land and the power of journey. He asserts, ’We know that sometimes loving the land, holding the land, as we saw on October 7th just living on the land, can extract an unfathomable price...’ But from that experience he learned two fundamental things:

Zionism is a methodology that teaches us not only to get back to ourselves, to get back to our creativity but also to learn how to defend ourselves when necessary. And using this very powerful poem, the ‘Silver Platter’, we learn that I never promised you a rose garden, it’s not given to us on a silver platter, and sometimes that land is streaked with blood, but we don’t define it by blood and soil, we define it by tradition, we define it by history, we define it by creativity, we define it by community, we define it by identity.