r/JewsOfConscience • u/Welcomefriend2023 Post-Zionist • Jun 07 '24

Humor Amusing realization today

We are good friends with a Palestinian family that owns a supermarket here in the US, so we shop there regularly.

Today I noticed they had cheeses made in Monsey NY, with a hechsher of an antizionist rabbinical certification. I bought some for my daughter who keeps kosher.

I just find it cute that we buy antizionist Jewish products from Palestinians!😊

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u/Welcomefriend2023 Post-Zionist Jun 08 '24

There are many antizionist chareidim in the Holy Land. Their existence there as a group predates 1948.

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u/specialistsets Non-denominational Jun 08 '24

Yes but most are not anti-Zionist in the sense used here. They are theologically anti-Zionist (or non-Zionist) but actively benefit financially from the Israeli government, don't support Palestinian rights and would never choose to live under a government that didn't afford them the special treatment they get in Israel. The only Hasidic group that is truly pro-Palestinian is NK, but they have a ton of other baggage.

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u/uuq114 Jun 08 '24

By “baggage” do you mean problematic theology or politics?

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u/Bean_Enthusiast16 Non-Jewish Ally, Arab, Atheist Jun 09 '24

I'm pretty confident they view the holocaust as a punishment from God because Jews weren't religious enough