r/JewsOfConscience • u/ray-the-they Ashkenazi • Apr 23 '24

Discussion Being a Jewish Anti-Zionist feels exhausting.

First off, I’m an American and I am aware of exactly how much privilege that affords me.

But at the same time I feel like I’m fighting on all fronts - I’m fighting my own people, sometimes my own family, who cannot even bring themselves to acknowledge the crimes against humanity being committed. Heck even if I censor myself and my true feelings about Israel (that it was made as a monument to antisemitism, not a place to fight it) I’m a “traitor”

And then when there is actual antisemitism if I call it out, I get attacked for it and called a zionazi.

I am just so tired and worn out emotionally from all this. It feels like the group of people I can rely on or trust is very small.

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u/BlackBey Apr 23 '24

I’m your Arab Muslim cousin, and I just want to say I sincerely appreciate and love you. Through our efforts, one day Zionism will disappear from the world and we will all live together in harmony and peace. This is what keeps me going.

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u/ray-the-they Ashkenazi Apr 23 '24

We have so much more in common than what we have that divides us.