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/magavte_lanata Jewish Anti-Zionist Aug 28 '24 edited Aug 28 '24

All the men who wrote the original Hamas charter are dead. The current group is something new, and if you read their 2017 charter it's nothing like ISIS/Al Qaeda/other extremist groups.

Here are some really good English-language interviews which show that both Hamas an PIJ have no issue with Jews living in Palestine. PIJ interview

Jeremy Scahill: Do you believe that Jews who emigrated from Europe or the United States or Australia or South Africa have a right to live in that state?

Mohammed Al-Hindi: We don’t have a problem with them if they were not conspiring, engaging in aggression, inflicting injustice, controlling the region. We don’t have a problem otherwise.

Hamas interview

Edit: Israel also funded Hamas to destabilize the secular PLO. Source