Feel completely disconnected

[u/PattonSmithWood]

How do fellow, non-religious, anti Zionist Jews in this sub reconcile their anti Zionist views with their Jewish identity when 80/90% of contemporary Jews across the world are staunch Zionists.

I feel at a complete loss in terms of my identity. Extended family and relatives are 90% Zionists, they take literal pleasure in any and all harm to Palestinians. They are gleeful and boastful of the current genocide (and they proudly label it as such). They marginalise, shut down, bad mouth any relative who believes in Palestinian dignity, self determination and sovereignty. They call us self hating Jews and turncoats.

My values and some close family are completely, polar, opposite. We are more in harmony with the views of some prominent Jewish scholars and identities such as Norman Finkelstein, Gabor Mate, Miko Peled, Noam Chomsky, Avi Shlaim, Gideon Levy etc

I'm proud to be a Jew with faith in universal values of humanity. Although I am not an observant Jew, and am pretty much secular and atheist, I find myself increasingly aligning with some teachings of Torah Jews, specially their teachings about diaspora being essential to Judaism and spiritual Israel only being reinstated by the mashiach and not a group of atheists.

I know this is a bit of a rant, but I feel so out of place amidst contemporary Jews.

Would love to hear any experiences navigating this identity crisis.

[u/CJIsABusta]

Zionism has been around for less than 150 years. Jews have existed for far, far longer without it, and will continue to exist after it.

We know our culture and history. Hanukkah is a holiday that commemorates resistance to oppression. And we know that it's the zionists who greatly dishonour it, and that it's the Palestinian resistance that honours it the most today, and we are honouring it too by rejecting zionism.

Zionists are traitors. They sold the Jewish people out to those who had oppressed us for centuries, to be their footsoldiers against the world's oppressed, and the Palestinians in particular, who were our natural allies against oppression, white supremacy and anti-semitism. The answer to anti-semitism has always been solidarity with the world's oppressed, and zionists ruined it. When the they stop being useful for imperialism and get discarded like all puppets end up, and when the imperialists show their true anti-semitic colours once again, maybe then they'll realize their mistake.

The real question is, what do we do about it?