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/Drakeytown Apr 23 '24

It's good to know that there are Jewish people who see the antisemitism inherent in the colonialist project--if there is one safe place in the world for Jews, then nobody's working on making the rest of the world safe for all marginalized people! If there's one place in the world where all Jews have a right to go, then that's where every antisemitic country in the world will send them!

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

“Go here because we don’t want you.” Doesn’t feel like safety.