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/publicpersuasion Apr 23 '24

Be anti revisionst zionist. I do t see why Israel and Palestine can't Co exist and both sides treat the past like Germany does the Holocaust. Anyone who steps out of line is punished harshly.

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u/Person306 Apr 23 '24

Why should Palestinians be confined to a state on 22% of their land? Palestinians should have the right to live freely in all of Historic Palestine. Israelis should have the same rights, to live freely in all of Historic Palestine as equal citizens - just as Yasser Arafat and the PLO proposed 50 years ago. One democratic, secular state for all.

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u/publicpersuasion Apr 23 '24

I do not see why you attributed this aspect to my comment. The problem is democracy is driven by numbers. The two religions will gang up voting to win and it'll destabilize both sides. The same way the duopoly of America is ruining America. You need to tie the economic success together, while keeping the beaurocratic things separate. Unfortunately, religion isn't peaceful, but money is. Make the economies Codependent and you'll see the extremist fall in line.