"Ask A Jew" Wednesday

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[u/Launch_Zealot]

I’m sorry if this is a dumb question: How do you deal with it when you find you need to work with someone with an Israeli accent for a bit? I’d rather not go into details, but I’m in that situation now and I feel like I should have found a way out because I’m extremely ill at ease about the whole thing. It’s something I could put out of my mind in the past, but now it weighs very heavily.

[u/BolesCW → u/Launch_Zealot]

Sounds to me like you're struggling with the contradiction or tension of workplace solidarity (which is fundamentally internationalist) versus anti-imperialist prejudice. While there is a good chance this particular Israeli (your guess based on accent) is a staunch ethnosupremacist, you don't actually know that, do you? Substitute any other nationality/accent for Israeli and look at how problematic your statement is.

Here you go: "how do you deal with it when you find you need to work with someone with a redneck accent?"

Or "how do you deal with it when you find you need to work with someone with a South African accent?"

Or "how do you deal with it when you find you need to work with someone with a Cuban accent?"

[u/Launch_Zealot → u/BolesCW]

These examples were very relevant two years ago. I don’t think they’re quite on point today in the midst of a genocide. That said, it’s true that I don’t actually know his politics. Thank you for your time and sincerity.

[u/BolesCW → u/Launch_Zealot]

Thanks for illustrating my point.

[u/lilleff512 → u/Launch_Zealot]

In the midst of a genocide... that this person has nothing to do with because they're not even in Israel right now?

How would you "deal with" someone with a German accent in America in the 1940s?

[u/Launch_Zealot → u/lilleff512]

I think I could empathize with a Jewish person who had misgivings about working with someone with a German accent during the 1940s.

All the same, points made about not knowing the person’s politics and the possibility that someone is here and not there precisely because of political differences with the prevailing zeitgeist from the old country are well taken.

[u/lilleff512 → u/Launch_Zealot]

Are you Palestinian?