r/JewsOfConscience • u/AutoModerator • Sep 18 '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/valonianfool Anti-Zionist Sep 19 '24

I've seen a post on tumblr saying that a large reason for why there are so many "liberal fandom zionists" with horribly racist takes on Palestinians is because of philosemitism in online spaces-treating judaism as the "pure" religion which is inherently progressive, causing many exvangelical teenagers and young adults to convert because they think Judaism is queer-friendly while taking with them the racist and islamophobia they were raised with.

I want to ask for opinions on how accurate this take is.

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u/TurkeyFisher Jewish Anti-Zionist Sep 20 '24

Tumblr likes to take a few examples assume it's a widespread issue. I think overall this is a pretty minor impact. Just think about the numbers- there are very few Jewish converts every year compared to other religions. Of those, how many of them are converting because they see Judaism as queer friendly, and then of those people how many are islamaphobic? I doubt it has nearly as much impact as the many older liberal Zionist Jews.

There has been a big push in the last 70 years to popularize the idea of the Judeo-Christian tradition so that Christians can feel better about the holocaust and have an excuse to stop being antisemitic. I think that probably has more of an impact.