This episode examines the FIU Jewish-Muslim Dialogue Fellowship, a university programme designed to bridge deep social and religious divides during a period of intense geopolitical conflict. Through academic reflection of the student discussion, we highlight the challenges of maintaining empathy when personal and collective trauma foster mutual suspicion. Students identify algorithmic outrage and a lack of traditional religious grounding as factors that radicalise diaspora communities, often making those far from the conflict more extreme than those living within it. The students argue that genuine relationship-building requires individual security in one’s own identity rather than defensive political posturing. Ultimately, the sources present a cautiously optimistic vision where shared recognition of human suffering and collaborative action against prejudice might eventually overcome historical fractures. Such grassroots dialogue is framed as a moral refusal to allow present catastrophes to dictate the future of interfaith relations.