#and honestly‚ participating in pro-palestinian action has made me feel closer to that.
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here's a thing about palestine/israel that i can't stop thinking about. supporting an ethnostate, apartheid, and/or genocide seems like just about the most un-jewish thing one could possibly do. i genuinely do not get it.
like. irl, i've been osmosizing jewish culture and scholarship for the past several years. the impression i’ve gotten is of a people who has undergone untold amounts of discrimination and violence over the past couple millennia, and who is proud of their resilience in the face of that oppression. i know that enduring oppression doesn’t necessarily make someone a good person. and obviously, no group is a monolith. but my impression has been that recognizing that harm and defending other downtrodden groups was a common principle of jewish culture. hell, that’s why my alma mater was founded — so i was living in that legacy for the past ~6 years.
even if you think jewish people have the sole right to the land that we call israel, the israeli state's treatment of palestinians flies in the face of all of that. to go "fuck you, i got mine"*, treat another ethnic group as second-class citizens, and concentrate, blockade, and slaughter them seems completely irreconcilable with what i have come to know and appreciate as jewish values. a complete betrayal.
like. am i missing something big here or
*or, more accurately, “i will fuck you over to get mine”
edit: obviously not every jewish person supposed israel/is zionist. but, as we’ve all seen jewish anti-zionists say recently, most jewish ppl in the imperial core are. and this genocidal ethnostate calls itself ~the jewish state~.
#i’m genuinely asking here.#in fact‚ i’m scheduling this post for sunday morning bc i know that some of the ppl who could answer this keep shabbat.#txt#i've been wanting to convert for a long time#and honestly‚ participating in pro-palestinian action has made me feel closer to that.#nothing makes me feel more in-tune with jewish values than fighting for the liberation of an oppressed group.#but i've realized that this is going to make it way way harder to find (a) rabbi(s) to help me convert.#because (1) i get the impression that anti-zionist rabbis are hard to come by‚ (2) obviously i want palestine freed‚ and#(3) for the reasons stated above‚ zionism strikes me as absurdly hypocritical for a scholar of judaism.#and it's incompatible with the jewish values that i want to embody.#ngl i’m crying a bit#edited slightly for words
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