I live in Israel. I have a very good friend, we grew up together and we share a lot of interests. We talk a lot about politics and philosophy and ethics and religion because she's the kind of person you can talk to about these stuff and I love it.

She has right-wing opinions, both on economics and the Palestinian thing. She's not an extremest at all and she's very reasonable but that's what she believes. I'm a bit more liberal and my opinions are very flexible. I don't care about stuff as much as her.

Lately I feel like she cares about people's political opinions too much. I show her youtubers I like (we're both youtube addicts) and she gets personally offended when they say something against Israel. She wouldn't forget it and it makes her think less of them. I lend her a book and the only thing she has to comment about is the teeny tiny mention of Israel. I bring up a musician in a conversation and the first she asks is if they are anti-Zionist. That really bothers me because I feel like we lose a lot of what we share because she focuses on one aspect of a person and I think it also sucks for her because she misses on amazing stuff.

I told her it she should let it go and she told me she can't control how she feels. I asked if she thinks less of me because I have different opinions than her and she said no because she knows I respect her opinions (to which I replied: I don't respect you opinion about John Green!). It's starting to really annoy me. Should I just avoid bringing up anything that might hurt her? Should I just live with it and let her have those feelings? 

I don't want this to grow into something that makes it not fun for me to hang out with her because she's great and I don't have many friends. Please help.
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My friend judges people by their political views and it bothers me. What do?
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I live in Israel. I have a very good friend, we grew up together and we share a lot of interests. We talk a lot about politics and philosophy and ethics and religion because she's the kind of person you can talk to about these stuff and I love it.

She has right-wing opinions, both on economics and the Palestinian thing. She's not an extremest at all and she's very reasonable but that's what she believes. I'm a bit more liberal and my opinions are very flexible. I don't care about stuff as much as her.

Lately I feel like she cares about people's political opinions too much. I show her youtubers I like (we're both youtube addicts) and she gets personally offended when they say something against Israel. She wouldn't forget it and it makes her think less of them. I lend her a book and the only thing she has to comment about is the teeny tiny mention of Israel. I bring up a musician in a conversation and the first she asks is if they are anti-Zionist. That really bothers me because I feel like we lose a lot of what we share because she focuses on one aspect of a person and I think it also sucks for her because she misses on amazing stuff.

I told her it she should let it go and she told me she can't control how she feels. I asked if she thinks less of me because I have different opinions than her and she said no because she knows I respect her opinions (to which I replied: I don't respect you opinion about John Green!). It's starting to really annoy me. Should I just avoid bringing up anything that might hurt her? Should I just live with it and let her have those feelings? 

I don't want this to grow into something that makes it not fun for me to hang out with her because she's great and I don't have many friends. Please help.
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Friend gets offended by anything that might be a criticism of Israel and it makes me feel like I'll have to compromise
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