r/JewsOfConscience • u/AutoModerator • 10d ago

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/valonianfool Anti-Zionist 9d ago

Would it be fair to say that all jewish ppl have privilege over Palestinians? I've seen a popular palestinian blogger state that jewish ppl whether Israeli or American or zionist or anti-zionist are immensely more privileged than Palestinians as a whole because their voices and perspectives are taken more seriously by mainstream media, and I think that makes sense. While western countries have come to view jewish ppl as Western, whether they count as white or not, Palestinians are still seen as racialized threats like the terrorist stereotype.

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u/sudo_apt-get_intrnet LGBTQ Jew 9d ago

Americans and Israelis, Jewish or not, are going to have privilege over Palestinians over not being actively having a large scale genocide being actively committed against their people.

In terms of how the mainstream media is treating Jewish and Palestinian perspectives, I think there's a mixing of cause and effect going on. The hypothesis seems to be that the media listens to Jews complain about antisemitism, which they often conflated with anti-zionism, which then spreads this conflation towards the rest of society. That in order to fight antisemitism, the media boosts things that are also, sometimes, antizionist.

Instead its the opposite: the reason you keep seeing obvious conflation of antisemitism and antizionism in the media is specifically because the media nearly ONLY pushes and calls out antisemitic instances when it can then use that to conflate antisemitism with antizionism. For example, look at Amsterdam; no one cared about antisemitism in Amsterdam's football scene until they could use that antisemitism to fight antizionism. No one cared about antisemitism on college campuses until it could be associated with anti-zionism, even when Trump supporters were actively engaging in violence against Jews in some of them.

In short, yes a lot of Jews are more privileged than Palestinians. But its not because our voices and perspectives are taken more seriously by the media, but its because the media finds it useful to find Jewish bodies to regurgitate the opinions it wants to curate.