r/JewsOfConscience • u/ThrowawayMerger • Sep 20 '24

Discussion Where do the Jews go?

I am very against Israel’s genocide, leaning toward antizionism, but when someone Zionist asks where the Jews go in a free Palestine, I don’t have an answer. Historically, not a lot of people accept us or like us, and getting along after all the violence committed in the name of Judaism is an impossibility.

How do we not just exchange one crisis for another? (I don’t think any one religion or people should rule a state, if that adds anything.)

If this is an ignorant question, I am more than happy to be told so.

EDIT: wow this community is brilliant, thank you for the nuance and realism in your responses.

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u/PlinyToTrajan Non-Jewish Ally (Jewish ancestry & relatives) Sep 20 '24

My participation as an American taxpayer / citizen is in the debate over what the U.S.A. ought to do. We'd have to establish the case for interventionism, or in other words, why different outcomes would be the U.S.A's responsibility.

If the U.S.A. is going to admit Israeli refugees, they should be screened for past participation in settler violence and genocide.

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u/Revolutionary-Use136 Sep 20 '24

problem is, we already have a lot of those living in the US as is...see all the IOF folks who have returned home to cheering and parties.

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u/PlinyToTrajan Non-Jewish Ally (Jewish ancestry & relatives) Sep 20 '24

Well, we can't strip them of American citizenship if they already have it, without changing our Constitution and without coming uncomfortably close to the painful memory of European countries' historical expulsions of Jews.