"Ask A Jew" Wednesday

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[u/ulixForReal]

How antisemitic is it, that upon learning someone is a Jew, my immediate thought is "they propbably support Israel"?

[u/CJIsABusta → u/ulixForReal]

It's fair and most likely correct, but you shouldn't treat them as if they support Israel unless you know for certain that they do.

[u/ulixForReal → u/CJIsABusta]

I would probably just try to completely avoid the topic.

[u/CJIsABusta → u/ulixForReal]

I don't think there's a problem in asking their stance.

[u/loselyconscious → u/CJIsABusta]

If it has nothing to do with anything, and you are just bringing it up because they are Jewish, yeah, that is definitely a problem.

[u/ulixForReal → u/CJIsABusta]

Me neither, at least not in principle. I'll try to avoid it to still be able to think they're good people. Weird and neurotic, I know.

[u/[deleted] → u/ulixForReal]

Hah us anti-Zionist Jews have the same thought 😂. But it’s better to criticize after they express their opinions, not before

[u/sudo_apt-get_intrnet → u/ulixForReal]

Its definitely antisemitic, even if its not that bad a microaggression. You should probably work on that.

No people-group is a monolith. It is just like assuming any American you meet supports Trump, any Mainland Chinese person supports all the actions of the CCP, or any Russian person supports Putin.

[u/ulixForReal → u/sudo_apt-get_intrnet]

I know all that obviously. I mean I'm on this sub after all and many of my personal heroes are Jewish people (most of whom had a very critical relationship with Israel). But I'm also German and a bit brainwashed in that regard. Generally I'd say German jewry is disproportianally supportive of Israel when compared to Jews in other countries, the only real exception being Israeli expats.

[u/cupcakefascism → u/ulixForReal]

lol I’m a Jew and I think this, because it’s overwhelmingly likely they do and I’m almost always right

People saying ‘no group is a monolith’, yeah they’re not but people aren’t stupid they can see the vast majority of Jews and Jewish political and religious orgs support Israel. It’s not like ISIS where Muslims and their institutions were bending over backwards to condemn them, and most people fighting them and getting killed by them were also Muslim.

[u/CarpeDiemMaybe → u/cupcakefascism]

For me it’s the sheer volume and unanimity of the institutions, religious leaders, public figures and social media accounts of loud and proud Jews who are fiercely zionist and pro genocide that makes me stop and think twice. It’s awful because I hate generalizing and especially hate talking about people in an essentialist way, but all of that makes it hard for me to not generalize

[u/cupcakefascism → u/CarpeDiemMaybe]

Yeah exactly, it’s not like assuming all Americans support Trump because you know about 50% of them don’t. That’s demonstrably not true about Jews and Israel, and it’s political gaslighting to pretend otherwise

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