Here is a heavier question: how do you deal with feeling hate? Ever since visiting the West Bank in Palestine I have struggled with it from a spiritual and mental health perspective. I know that Hashem wants us not to hate, and that hate and anger are bad for my mental health. But when I see what Israel is doing in Gaza, when Israeli soldiers pointed guns at my Arab friends, those feelings rise up.
And they lead to a third emotion: guilt. Guilt that I can’t do more, guilt that I can’t be there, guilt that I am (relatively) safe and comfortable in the USA.
So I would love to hear your perspective on how you try to handle these emotions.
My parents and family always speak fondly of Jews in Morocco. We come from a city which had a sizable community. So we know they are human like us and not all of them are similar even tho many are zionist.
As for hate towards the IOF, the state of Israel and their supports it is roaring. But hate fixes nothing and only backfires we are better then them.
But guilt is the hardest especially when we are the first to unite against Israel but our leaders do NOTHING. But all of them will be judged by Allah and those killed are martyrs who will stand as witnesses to their lack of actions.
The crazy thing is that our grandparents and great-grandparents literally used to be neighbors and colleagues and good friends. It seems like that was ancient history, but it was only ~70 years ago!
1 word "colonialism" divide and conquer. France in particular and together with their Ashkenazi Jewish institutions used the Jews as an easy minority to make use of across their colonial empire. They educated them in French and made them more so Ashkenazi even allowing them to hold citizenship.
This led to Jews in Algeria been kicked out for being traitors to the French and many Moroccan Jews having to leave for France and later Israel
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u/conscience_journey Oct 27 '24
Here is a heavier question: how do you deal with feeling hate? Ever since visiting the West Bank in Palestine I have struggled with it from a spiritual and mental health perspective. I know that Hashem wants us not to hate, and that hate and anger are bad for my mental health. But when I see what Israel is doing in Gaza, when Israeli soldiers pointed guns at my Arab friends, those feelings rise up.
And they lead to a third emotion: guilt. Guilt that I can’t do more, guilt that I can’t be there, guilt that I am (relatively) safe and comfortable in the USA.
So I would love to hear your perspective on how you try to handle these emotions.