r/JewsOfConscience 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/xGentian_violet Non-Jewish Atheist, Anti-Zionist Apr 23 '24

it's tiring to any kind of committed anti-zionist tbh, in october i made a post where i said i had to a short break from the one sided coverage because i felt like my head was going to crack open

but im sure getting abandoned by your community like if your entire family and community are zionist i.e. genocide supporters adds another element of trauma to it.

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

I’m lucky that it’s not my immediate family - but I have cousins who are Israeli and now live in the states and it’s just impossible to talk to them.

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u/xGentian_violet Non-Jewish Atheist, Anti-Zionist Apr 23 '24

i have ustashe sympatising family members (croatian fascists, did the Holocaust), so i relate. Being a gay leftist woman i dont even talk to them, maybe once every few years