Jewish man says couple backed out of accepting his sperm, citing his ‘identity’ after his pro-Israel posts about Oct. 7

A Jewish man in Australia says a couple who had agreed to accept his sperm donation withdrew from the process, citing his “identity” after he began posting pro-Israel material on social media amid the war in Gaza.

“After October 7, I started sharing a lot of pro-Israel material on social media and from what I understand, the couple didn’t like that,” Lazarus tells the Australian Jews.

They stressed that they are “about love and kindness,” but did not feel that they had “the capacity to navigate parts of your identity in this donor relationship so we are respectfully ending this now,” he writes in an Instagram story going public with the couple’s decision to reject him.

“Prejudice is still persuasive, even in progressive circles that champion ‘kindness and love,’” he writes. “Antisemitism is not just a relic of the past but a living, breathing prejudice that continues today.