r/JewsOfConscience • u/AutoModerator • Aug 07 '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/IWantFries21 Non-Jewish Ally Aug 07 '24
I saw a video recently where an Israeli guy goes around interviewing other Israelis asking them about their heritage, and one guy says his family's from Jerusalem, and something about how far they can trace his lineage back so "they've always been here." That had me wondering though - wouldn't his family have technically been considered Palestinian then? Wouldn't his family have been Palestinian Jews? FTR I'm aware of some of the nuances and reasoning for why Arab Jews are often staunch Zionists, and I read somewhere that Palestinian Jews were automatically offered Israeli citizenship in 1948 but I never looked too much into that. I know a little about the Jewish settlements in the late 1800s but I don't think that's what the guy was referencing with regards to his family.
Something I've noticed from watching local efforts for divestment and seeing online discussion is that a lot of Jewish Zionists have a very real fear that current events are going to turn into another Holocaust. They're genuinely afraid when they see keffiyehs, they believe From The River To The Sea is calling for genocide (rather than dismantling a colonial state). Considering how sensitive that fear is, how do you talk to them about Palestine, if at all?