r/JewsOfConscience • u/AutoModerator • Aug 28 '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/keenanandkel LGBTQ Jew Aug 28 '24

I am an antizionist Jew who could use some help when I’m asked this. When someone asks about my views on Hamas and how it fits in (both conceptually and pragmatically) with my push for a ceasefire…I don’t actually have an answer beyond that having a solution for peace in the Middle East isn’t a prerequisite for calling for an end of genocide.

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Aug 28 '24

"When was the last time the IRA bombed London?"

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u/Adept_Thanks_6993 Orthodox Aug 28 '24

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Provisional IRA disarm after Good Friday?

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u/PlinyToTrajan Non-Jewish Ally (Jewish ancestry & relatives) Aug 28 '24

Perhaps that is the point . . . it wasn't necessary to kill them all; there is a template for a peace process.

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Aug 29 '24

Basically, yes. The point is that Hamas is a resistance organization that believes God's intervention is required to deliver the Palestinians from the hand of the Zionist, and that will only happen if they build a virtuous society; it's not a Salafi group trying to bring back the Caliphate with flame and sword and death to the infidels.