r/JewsOfConscience • u/AutoModerator • Oct 09 '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/Launch_Zealot Arab/Armenian-American Ally Oct 09 '24

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.

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u/TurkeyFisher Jewish Anti-Zionist Oct 09 '24

I mean, while I get how it would bother you, would it be okay for someone to say they don't want to work with someone from Palestine? Not to say that what is Israel is doing is comparable to what Palestine has done, but on an individual level, a Palestinian is probably just as likely to hate Israelis as Israelis are to hate Palestinians. Personally in the interest of de-escalation I would do my best to push through the discomfort unless you hear them actual make discriminatory or hateful remarks, which wouldn't be acceptable in the workplace anyway.

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u/Launch_Zealot Arab/Armenian-American Ally Oct 09 '24

If the power dynamics, media bias, and dehumanization and misery indexes were flipped as well, I would at least understand. I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but I would understand some misgivings or concern.

For whatever it’s worth, I’ve never heard dehumanizing language from anyone in my family even in their most private moments, though it seems to be pretty widespread among Zionists.

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u/TurkeyFisher Jewish Anti-Zionist Oct 10 '24

Well that's why I said "on an individual level." Personally, I don't think people should be judged based on the context of what their nation or ethnicity is doing, or if the media is biased toward them. If he is an outspoken Zionist, that is different, but without knowing that I don't think it's right to make assumptions. I think it's the same if you were working with a Russian, for instance. You just don't know for sure what their views are, so you would be judging him based purely on his nationality and ethnicity. I get why it makes you uncomfortable, but I think you have to be the bigger person in this situation, because anything else will just give ammo to the people crying about antisemitism, and continue the cycle of hatred.