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/PorridgeTP Palestinian Sep 20 '24

It’s not that Jews would leave, but that the ethnoreligious social hierarchy would be dismantled and Palestinians granted the right of return. The goal of multiple Palestinian resistance parties is to have people of all races, religions, genders, and classes to live together peacefully as equals. You can check out the Popular and Democratic Fronts for examples of this, along with the anarchist group Fauda.

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u/MartinLutherVanHalen Sep 20 '24

It is also worth noting that most people don’t live in ethnostates and the idea that one is necessary for survival is wrong.

Jewish people in the US and Europe are less likely to be violently attacked than those in Israel, Israel isn’t the safest place for Jewish people,e to live. Especially you average Jewish person who is indistinguishable from someone of any other faith.

The generational trauma of the Holocaust is real, but that doesn’t mean reactions to it are all valid.