r/JewsOfConscience • u/Doctormouri • Oct 09 '24
Celebration 🕊️
Hello Jewish friends,
I’m a Palestinian-American Muslim. As I was researching, I came across this sub and joined because I genuinely want to learn more about the our Jewish allies & even the struggles they maybe facing.
Although I should be studying, I spent 2-3 hours just scrolling through posts and comments. I didn’t except to be this emotionally moved by some of what gets posted 🥺😓.
But wow 😮💨
I don't know how much of a difference this will make, but I want to say that as a Palestinian, I hear you. I stand by you and appreciate your courageous voice as you speak up on this madness. I know this may have caused some serious relationship strains. Which may affect you emotionally and mentally esp with everything else going on in the world.
It’s been a rough past year, it felt like 10 days but also 10 years all at once.
However, when I think of human beings and human systems, the older I get the more I think there is only one ingredient. Love.
I wish, I could go on longer, or wax philosophical like they say. But like many, I’m exhausted. & I sense that many of you are as well.
So with that, I send you all love with every (tired) ounce of me. & just wanted to express that I am deeply moved by your stance.
Take care of yourselves. 🕊️❤️
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u/Various_Ad_1759 Oct 09 '24
Hear,hear..I am also a Palestinian who has not only enjoyed the safety of this sub,but it has given me the room to be able to also be honest with myself.
As human beings, we color our outlooks by our experiences and we sometimes find ourselves in dangerous waters.The fool who supports Palestinian rights but denies the holocaust or the gravity of Jewish suffering throughout the ages is no ally of mine.I felt trapped and disgusted by the conflicted emotions such interactions took on me and I didn't know how to reconcile my thoughts and emotions. Here in this sub, you will find many,many empathetic human beings who are willing and open to having a frank discussion with no hostility or malice.People who will also not shy away from calling our hate no matter who says it and do not pretend to be something other than who they truly are.
Welcome to the club, and I wish your experience will be as enjoyable and hasbara/propaganda free as mine has been.
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u/crossingguardcrush Jewish Oct 09 '24
I am sure you touched a lot of people with this post. I send all love back--and the most intense hopes and wishes that this madness ends soon. Thank you so much for taking time out of a busy day during a traumatic year to reach out. ❤️
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u/SchrodingersSlug LGBTQ Jew Oct 09 '24
I love this! Thank you for your allyship! We are stronger together 💜
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u/eitzhaimHi Jewish Oct 09 '24
Thank you so much. It's been such a hard year, for the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank most of all. We do what we can.
Actually, friend, there is a question I've been wanting to ask and maybe you are a person to answer: How to you/your Palestinian friends feel about non-Palestinians wearing kaffiyah? Do you feel support by that? Or is it appropriative? Just felt I should ask.
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u/K-Machine Palestinian Oct 09 '24
We love it. It's completely appropriate we all think it's a sign of solidarity.
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u/eitzhaimHi Jewish Oct 10 '24
Thanks! I was getting concerned that it might be seen as white people stealing one more thing.
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u/K-Machine Palestinian Oct 10 '24
I never heard a palestinian say that about people wearing them and most of family and friends are palestinian. The only thing I heard about that is that it warms their hearts to see it.
I guess it would be one thing if people just wear it as a fashion statement but I don't think that's the case for most people.
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u/Momosufusu Oct 09 '24
Thank you for taking the time and energy to post this when you owe us nothing and we owe you everything. It shouldn’t take courage to stand up against genocide and apartheid just because it’s people with our shared history doing the bad things.
Zionism is a cancerous cult that has corrupted huge parts of the Jewish community. And some people are too deeply brainwashed to see reality. When I think of my former friends and family members who are Zionists, I mourn them like I would anyone lost to a murderous cult. Young anti-Zionists give me hope for the future.
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u/tryingtokeepthefaith Middle Eastern Muslim Oct 09 '24
Fellow Middle Eastern Muslim here, and I wholeheartedly agree with you. This is hands down one of my favourite subs on Reddit.
It’s incredibly wholesome, and there are so many insightful, and touching, posts on here.
Much love to everyone here, and, tho this really feels like empty words right now, don’t lose all hope. We will see a free Palestine in our lifetimes insha’ Allah. ♥️
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u/Katyamuffin Israeli Oct 09 '24
Hang in there❤️ and if you have family/friends in Palestine I hope to god they're doing ok.
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Oct 09 '24
Really grateful that you posted this when you are under no obligation to do so. It’s depressing, heartbreaking, stressful and maddening. Most of all it’s lonely. So I really appreciate your post. With you 100% ❤️🩹
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u/deadlift215 Jewish Anti-Zionist Oct 09 '24
Thank you so much for your post. I feel happy if we are able to give you some small amount of solace during this horrific time. You are our cousins and I hope we will see a free Palestine at long last, in this lifetime.
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u/RichState3474 Oct 09 '24
Wonderful post! I love this group!! I am neither Jewish nor Palestinian, I am simply an American who has been seeing the suffering of Palestinians for many years, turned into a humanitarian crisis. It hurts my heart. But I won't let it turn me into an Antisemite when there are so many Jewish people who don't believe the mass murder of Palestinians is the answer to problems in Isreal. This group reminds me of that every single day. The folks here are beautiful people. I truly hope a time comes, soon, where the people in Gaza can feel the love the world has for them. ❤️
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u/springsomnia Christian with Jewish heritage and family Oct 09 '24
Bless you 💜 Please hang in there and you can always chat on here if you want support! I am not Jewish but my family is and I have Jewish heritage and my Jewish family have found a lot of support with their Arab and Muslim friends over the past year. Their own community sadly has been more hostile.
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u/Baby_Needles Oct 09 '24
Pacifism knows no creed nor only one truth. Sad humanity cannot agree on just this one principle.
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u/YouKnowNothingJonS Oct 09 '24
It is not a relationship worth keeping if the other person is in support of genocide; no strains here. Humanity is beautiful when we have the capacity for community and love and protection. What we are witnessing is the worst of humanity and no identity will ever keep me from pointing that out.
Thank you for your words and your solidarity ❤️🩹 We love you simply because you exist.
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u/twig_zeppelin Jewish Anti-Zionist Oct 10 '24
Thank you for sharing your experience on this sub and processing the Genocide of your people this past year. I am speaking as an English French Indigenous Inupiaq, with some Jewish Heritage 💜🕊
Freedom Safety comes from freedom from all peoples. Palestinian freedom has been horrendously ignored for these last 76 years, and now the World is waking up to that.
🕎4️⃣🆓🇵🇸
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u/sandwishqueen Oct 10 '24
Thank you for your kind words. 💖 What a brutally painful and at times very alienating and frightening year it has been. I pray for an immediate end to the violence and suffering and for a future in which all humans are free and love & kindness reigns. 🙏
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u/roboticoxen Oct 09 '24
Thank you for sharing. You will always find solidarity here.