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/danmaster0 Atheist Aug 28 '24

How is racism(?) inside Israel? I'm not that informed of it, but i know there's different casts(?) of jew, at least in the eyes of some of them, and groups like beta jews are treated like a racial minority and oppressed. How is the experience in Israel and outside, with regards to that?

How is xenophobia in Israel? How is immigration viewed? If you're a newcomer jew, are you treated badly by jews that are there for generations? I know how immigration of non jews is viewed, it being an ethnic state is enough of an answer to that

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u/Pitiful_Meringue_57 Jewish Aug 30 '24

i’m not israeli so i’m speaking just from what i’ve heard and seen, but it doesn’t seem to me that xenophobia against non-israeli born jews is a problem at all. It’s almost the opposite, where jews are very much celebrated for leaving the places they were born to make aliyah. From my experience as a diaspora jew i very much feel like israeli jews look down us and often times are a lot more right leaning than the more liberal diaspora counterparts (atleast in the US). The israeli government very much encourages jewish immigration.

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Aug 30 '24

As long as you're not black.

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u/danmaster0 Atheist Aug 30 '24

Makes sense, thank you for the reply

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Sep 01 '24

They're intensely racist to black people, whether or not they're Jews.