The October Turn
Stories from people who changed their minds about Israel after October 7.
Did your views of Israel change after October 7?
Mine did.
Before that tragic day, I was an anti-Zionist. In the months that followed, I began reexamining what I thought I knew about Israel, Zionism, the conflict, and the sources I had trusted. Eventually, many of my views changed.
Since then, I’ve met others with similar stories: former anti-Zionists and activists, or people who simply started paying attention for the first time.
What struck me is that these stories are rarely collected or documented. We hear constantly from people who became more critical of Israel after October 7. We hear much less from people who moved in the opposite direction.
To my knowledge, no major project has documented those experiences.
I’m starting one.
If your views about Israel changed after October 7—whether dramatically or gradually—I would like to hear your story.
The goal is simple: create a public record of a phenomenon that may be larger than many people realize.
And to create a community of those who have changed, to remind them:
They Are Not Alone.
Please help me share this around to get as many of these voices heard as possible!
Survey link: Click here.
Or here: https://forms.gle/1EMXxFG3M5VpjDUYA
Thank you for doing this, Kile. It’s so important to hear voices like yours.
What is valuable here is the attempt to document underrepresented shifts in perspective. In polarized environments, narrative visibility is often asymmetrical,certain experiences are amplified while others remain largely unrecorded. Creating a space for people to articulate changes in their understanding, regardless of direction, is an important contribution to intellectual honesty and public discourse. It shifts the conversation from assumption to lived experience, which is often where the most meaningful insights emerge.