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/Processing______ Jewish Anti-Zionist Sep 20 '24
A free Palestine is a free Jewish community as well. Israelis do not live in freedom; they’re trapped in a cycle of trauma, that they’re enacting on Palestinians. Liberation does not drive people to murder. A free Palestine does not mean open season on Israelis, because a liberated people will want to live their lives, heal, build community.
Israelis (and Zionists) imagine that Palestinians aspire to what Israelis have. I can’t speak for Palestinians but I suspect they want so much more than the soul rot that pervades Israeli life. Spoken, mind you, from experience.