r/JewsOfConscience • u/AutoModerator • Oct 16 '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/DO_MD Palestinian Oct 16 '24

I have a question! How do you guys feel about your own personal connection to the country of (or land of) Israel?

My girlfriend is American and Jewish raised Zionist but is slowly changing her mind and her ways but has this almost unbreakable connection to Israel. Even when I criticize Israel she still can’t help but shut down and has trouble criticizing them as well. I’m curious how you all deal with this connection to the land, and if there’s a feasible conversation to have with her that may help her see this as just a country? (If that’s even the right way to go about it)

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u/rusaluchkaa Ashkenazi Oct 16 '24

if she likes reading, edward saïd's the question of palestine lays out all the ways israel is a colonial/settler state that cannot continue, while still being very empathetic to jews and our connection to that land. i have found that actual books and scholarly work in general are a lot better about that than random people's social media posts

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u/Forward-Analyst1758 Non-Jewish Ally/Agnostic Oct 16 '24

Thank you for the reading suggestion!