By looking into an experience of fear and dissonance during fieldwork and that of my interlocutors, the presentation discusses the epistemological importance of fear as a key to understanding political action and political imagination. Although the Cartesian divide between body and mind has long been challenged, there is ongoing resistance to incorporating ethnographers' emotional experiences in their ethnographic works. More recently, following the "turn" in critical theory on affect, researchers have started emphasizing the methodological and epistemological importance of emotions and the futility of the divide between affect and rational thought. However, feminist scholars who critique the 'affective turn' point out that its emphasis on affect as transhuman and universal has a masculinizing effect. Furthermore, inspired by recent discoveries in neuroscience, the "turn" implies that there is something "new" there and thus discounts the contribution of feminist theory to the subject. Aligning with feminist anthropological scholarship and based on research done with left-wing Jewish women living in Palestinian localities in the West Bank, I demonstrate how the dissonance between fearing Palestinians despite left-wing stances can create reflexivity, resistance, and solidarity for both the researcher and interlocutors. I will also touch upon ethical issues the research brought up.