Since the outbreak of the current war between Israel and Iran—much like during the previous one last summer—I have been sought after for interviews by foreign media. An Iranian-born pro-Palestinian Israeli political activist is, it seems, a highly desirable commodity. Some want me to explain the Israeli position, others the Iranian one, still others to hear about the attitudes of the Jewish Iranian community in Israel. I find myself repeating the same answers over and over. I cannot explain these positions, I say, since I find them difficult to understand myself. Nothing about this war makes much sense to me. During one interview I was asked whether I thought my parents had made a mistake when they left Iran following the 1979 revolution. The question astonished me, not because I found it offensive but because I have been asking it myself for so many years. Now, as I watch my homeland go up in flames, it echoes in my mind more loudly than ever. My family and I left Iran in January 1979, on the …