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/noam99 May 07 '24 edited May 07 '24

I'd like to think that I speak for a lot of the Jews here when I say that your post really frustrates me. There's a genocide going on and this issue is completely pedantic. I've been seeing far too many of these lately. Just my two cents.

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u/Jche98 Jewish Anti-Zionist May 07 '24

I mean of course people being genocided blows everything else out of the water. But again, there are student protests, JVP events, hundreds of meaningful actions we are taking to do what we can to stop it. There are hundreds of subs on reddit which are talking about it. It's just that I feel THIS sub should serve a slightly different purpose: be a place where we antizionist jews can congregate to discuss the issues affecting us, trivial though they may be compared to the struggles of the Gazan people against the ethnofascists.

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u/noam99 May 07 '24

Well, in the spirit of discussing "the issues affecting us", seeing as the first requisite for being Jewish is being a person, than if you're a bad person (and jewish) you are a bad jew. Either way, we're splitting hairs here.