Almost everyone I know has lost, or reassessed, at least one friendship since October 2023, including me. Whether distant or close, from school or the office, our relationships with others have been tried, tested and in some cases burned like the skin of countless children we have seen injured in Gaza. Like almost every Arab in the world, I have been watching the unceasing bombardment of Gaza closely and have been impacted deeply. Those of us in the diaspora might be far removed from the physicality of bombardment, but having been assaulted with a barrage of unimaginably horrific images, it ha…