r/JewsOfConscience Jewish Anti-Zionist May 07 '24

Discussion Feeling tokenised on this sub

I've been getting the impression lately that so much of this sub is becoming posts like "as jews of conscience, what do you think of X?" or "as real jews who believe in real judaism, what do you think of Y?" These questions are from non-jews. I appreciate non-jewish allies taking part in this sub but lately it's feeling that it's just people trying to paint us as "the good jews". This sub is about being jewish and anti-Zionist and the struggles that come with that. It's not a sub for us to parade around claiming to be the "true jews" or for people to parade us around like that. We are jewish and we oppose Zionism but the Zionist jews are also jewish. We're no less or more jewish than they are. And we're not here to justify judaism in the face of Zionism. There are a million (very important) subs where there is general discussion about Palestine and the genocide in Gaza. But I feel like this sub should be something for us.

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u/proletergeist Jewish Anti-Zionist May 07 '24

Agree 💯. I'm tired of seeing posts that look like they're coming from an anthropological survey team, or posting some random photo with a joke about antisemitism that otherwise has nothing to do with Judaism or being Jewish.

Non-Jews posting in this sub need to ask themselves what about their post makes it good to post in this sub compared to any other pro-Palestine sub. And if they're asking survey questions, they need to ask themselves why they're asking. If it's just for their curiosity then they should think twice (or maybe three or four times) before posting it. 

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u/Pitiful_Meringue_57 Jewish May 07 '24

i rly don’t like when ppl decide to post the same clip in like 8 different subs at a time.

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u/yungsemite Jewish May 07 '24

Same, and there’s only a few users who do it regularly on this sub.