r/JewsOfConscience • u/NewVentures66 Anti-Zionist Ally • Oct 17 '24

History Forced displacement of Arab jews, Israeli ex-soldier talks about how Israel use Arab jews as human shields in buffer zones, and more

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Rabbi David Mivasair has a GoFundMe to help provide basis necessities for the Palestinians of Gaza. If it is within your means, this is the link:

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Rabbi Mivasair writes:

I want to add that the need is not only for money. There is a huge need for people there to simply have someone NOT there who expresses care toward them, who listens to them, who witnesses with compassion and empathy. I think of the people who scrawled on the walls of barracks in Nazi concentration camps "if only someone on the outside knew what they are doing to us here". I want to be the people who let them know that we do care, we are listening, we are trying to help, and they can tell us what is going on in their lives.

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u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ Jewish Anti-Zionist Oct 17 '24

Yigal Levy wrote a book about this called 'Israel’s Death Hierarchy: Casualty Aversion in a Militarized Democracy'.

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u/Conscientious_Jew Post-Zionist Oct 17 '24 edited Oct 19 '24

If someone is looking for the author his name is actually Yagil (יגיל) Levy. I met him a couple of times after his lectures, a really nice guy.

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u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ Jewish Anti-Zionist Oct 17 '24

Whoops. Thanks

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u/MooreThird Anti-Zionist Oct 17 '24

To paraphrase George Orwell, "all Jews are equal, but some are more equal than others".

Made even worse when those who swear to protect the Jews also either ignore, or even encouraged, these horrible actions by Israel towards the Jews.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24 edited Oct 17 '24

So obviously there are countless internal contradictions in Zionism. But one that always stood out to me, is the nature in which my community was historically treated by the Zionist state……

If Zionism is about some kind of Jewish essentialism, that the Jew in their most ‘natural’ state is based on their proximity to their ‘indigenous’ homeland- then why the f*ck were the indigenous Jews of the Levant/Middle East not placed at the top of the Zionist hierarchy??? It is perhaps one of best examples of the inherent colonialist and white supremacist nature of the whole Zionist project…

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u/nikiyaki Anti-Zionist Oct 17 '24

It continues to shock me how they sidelined the Yemeni Jews, who had such a rich and beautiful culture. Just the worst racism.

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u/carnivalist64 Oct 17 '24

Every Prime Minster of Israel, 14 of 17 Presidents/Acting Presidents of Israel, 17 of the 23 IDF Chiefs of the Defence Staff, 10 of 13 Mossad Directors & at least 12 of 15  Shabak/Shin Bet Directors have been white European Ashkenazi.

13 of the current 15 Supreme Court Justices of Israel are also Ashkenazi. In fact every Supreme Court Justice of Israel in history except six have been Ashkenazi, including the only 3 Arab Justices ever appointed, of whom the sole Muslim was only appointed in 2022. IIRC the first Mizrahi Justice was appointed not long before that. In the 1950s an Ashkenazi jurist asserted that Sephardi are not suited to be Supreme Court Justices.

Zionism is racism.

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u/valonianfool Anti-Zionist Oct 17 '24

A zionist on tumblr once stated that the USSR was white supremacist because "despite covering a territory that spans from moscow to Siberia" all leaders have been white men. But by the same logic Israel doesn't look better either, possibly worse because there are way more Jews of color than there are poc in Russia. 

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u/RightWingPeacenik Oct 18 '24

Someone tell the ghost of Benjamin Cardozo that Sephardim are ill suited to being judges.

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Oct 21 '24

Zionism is central european blood-and-soil nationalism -- which absolutely incorporated into its basic assumptions eugenics, social darwinism, and 19th century race science because these were the dominant ideas of the time and it is a virulently right-wing ideology in even its "left-wing" (read: Strasserist) mode -- for Ashkenazi atheists.

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u/Ancient-Watch-1191 Oct 17 '24

The comments in this thread give me hope for the future. A big hug for every single one of you!

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u/Roy4Pris Zionism is a waste of Judaism Oct 17 '24

I'd like to see this posted in r/Jewish or r/Israel

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u/Roy4Pris Zionism is a waste of Judaism Oct 18 '24

New comment: this guy is incredibly brave. I’d be very surprised if he lived in Israel now. He would be spat on, harassed and bullied everywhere he went.