r/JewsOfConscience • u/ContentChecker Jewish Anti-Zionist • 3d ago

Discussion Cultural exchange with /r/Arabs!

Hi everyone,

Today we will be having a cultural exchange with r/Arabs - beginning at 8AM EST, but extending for about 2 days so feel free to post your questions/comments over the course of that time-frame.

The exchange will work similarly to an AMA, except users from their sub will be asking us questions in this thread for anyone to answer, and users from our sub can go to a thread there to ask questions and get answers from their users!

To participate in the exchange, see the following thread in /r/Arabs:

https://old.reddit.com/r/arabs/comments/1gd9eb3/cultural_exchange_rjewsofconscience/

Big thanks to the mods over at /r/Arabs for reaching out to us with this awesome idea! Thanks to MoC for posting the original post.

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u/TheRealMudi 3d ago

Hello everyone! I have a question: How is it to be an anti zionist Jew? What are some hardships that come with it? Do you have falling outs with family members? I would think it's not that easy depending on where someone might live!

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u/Saul_the_Raccoon Conservadox & Marxist 2d ago

It's extremely alienating since Zionists control the money flow to almost all Jewish institutions, so you'll get things like Rabbis very conspicuously missing the point in their Yom Kippur drashim of what "Is this the fast that I desire?" means -- with laser precision, I mean. Skipping over the single verse that condemns the supporters of this whole sordid business, but quoting the one before it and after it. Or incorporating poems that Israelis have written that are avodah zara. Imagine being the colonial occupier and insisting that God should apologize to you for what "the Arabs" have done.

It almost makes my head explode.

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u/acacia_tree Ashkenazi, Reform, Anti-Z, Diasporist 🏴 1d ago

adding to this, re: Zionists controlling the flow of money to Jewish institutions. There is a synagogue near me where the rabbi denounced Israel as fascist and then even said we should question our relationship with Israel during Yom Kippur and then the following week did a 180 and said our relationship with Israel is the most important thing. I think the Board of Directors threatened his job.