r/JewsOfConscience • u/ContentChecker Jewish Anti-Zionist • Oct 27 '24

Discussion Cultural exchange with /r/Arabs!

Hi everyone,

Today we will be having a cultural exchange with r/Arabs - beginning at 8AM EST, but extending for about 2 days so feel free to post your questions/comments over the course of that time-frame.

The exchange will work similarly to an AMA, except users from their sub will be asking us questions in this thread for anyone to answer, and users from our sub can go to a thread there to ask questions and get answers from their users!

To participate in the exchange, see the following thread in /r/Arabs:

https://old.reddit.com/r/arabs/comments/1gd9eb3/cultural_exchange_rjewsofconscience/

Big thanks to the mods over at /r/Arabs for reaching out to us with this awesome idea! Thanks to MoC for posting the original post.

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u/comix_corp Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24

One other question I had. From what I can gather most of this sub are left wing people, either secular or religiously. How do you assess the anti Zionism / non-Zionism of the ultra orthodox like the Hasidic groups? A lot of them are opposed to Zionism but for reasons that seem less to do with supporting Palestinians and more to do with obscure theological reasons. Are any of them (besides neturei karta) sympathetic to Palestinians?

Btw I wrote this comment on Jewish anti Zionism for r/arabs a few weeks ago, if you have any corrections or feedback I would be very appreciative.

https://www.reddit.com/r/arabs/s/RoEBGmUyAF

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u/ComradeTortoise Jewish Communist Oct 28 '24

It's both. Yes they are opposed to Israel for obscure religious reasons (namely, they believe that the return of Jews to Israel will be a Divine act, rather than a political project). But also they still have the long-standing Jewish respect for life and human dignity derived from the Torah, Talmud, and subsequent rabbinical commentary, and they take it seriously.