r/JewsOfConscience • u/AutoModerator • Jul 10 '24

AAJ "Ask A Jew" Wednesday

It's everyone's favorite day of the week, "Ask A (Anti-Zionist) Jew" Wednesday! Ask whatever you want to know, within the sub rules, notably that this is not a debate sub and do not import drama from other subreddits. That aside, have fun! We love to dialogue with our non-Jewish siblings.

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u/GreenIguanaGaming Arab Muslim Ally Jul 10 '24

Thank you for outlining this. BTW my usage of the word lachrymose in quotation marks is because that's the word Prof. Avi Shleim used.

I do know that Jewish people were afforded more protection in some parts of Europe than others like Britain for example.

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u/DurianVisual3167 Jewish Jul 11 '24

England didn't really start affording Jews more protection until the late 18th century-1830s. Jews were banned from the country for centuries and the population that had lived there at one point was genocided (they've recently found mass graves of the victims in Norwich). Even when Jews were allowed to live there again they were considered foreigns regardless of if they had just arrived or their family had arrived generations before.

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u/GreenIguanaGaming Arab Muslim Ally Jul 11 '24

Horrific... I remember reading about the protections afforded to Jewish people by the British police and press in the past, such as protection from printing antisemitic articles and such.

I read Churchill's and Balfour's letters that called Jewish people a threat to western civilization. I don't know why I thought this wasn't connected to societal dynamics of the time.. And if it was this bad during the early 1900s then I imagine it was much worse before.

Thank you so much for enlightening me and correcting me. Another commenter mentioned that Jewish people were given protection in Poland, I think that would be a much better example.