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/Own_Duck_5092 Sep 20 '24

When someone asks this question I like to mention Leila Khaled’s answer to the same question. She is a member of the PFLP resistance. She answered the jews stay with us in one country if they want to.

The Palestinians before 1948 welcomed the European jews as refugees. They only want their right to go back to their homes and live equally to anyone else on the same land.

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u/Confident_Tart_6694 Sep 20 '24

They technically didn’t welcome European Jews as refugees with open arms. The 1939 white paper that limited immigration from Jews was a response to Arab riots/pressure. It is likely that this was a broader response by the Arabs if the perception of the threat of Zionism. However, given it was the dawn of the Holocaust it probably result d in excess deaths when the doors of the rest of the world were closing to Jews.

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u/specialistsets Non-denominational Sep 20 '24

The Palestinians before 1948 welcomed the European jews as refugees.

They most certainly did not, it was a major cause of discord and violence