Hasidic travel blogger Shloime Zionce found himself in the middle of a social media storm this week after a picture he posted of himself went viral, garnering millions of views in just four days. Zionce took the selfie on board a flight to from Texas to Florida on December 19th. In the photo, Zionce is wearing a white sweatshirt showing a picture of a tefillin-wrapped arm and clenched fist. “I’m trying to look as Jewish as possible on my flight today, because no anti-Semite is gonna make me hide my Jewish Pride,” tweeted Zionce, surrounding his statement with a Jewish star emoji on one side and a flexed bicep muscle on the other. Within three days, Zionce’s post had received approximately 4,700 comments and over 12 million views, many of which crossed boundaries of decency.
