r/JewsOfConscience • u/AutoModerator • Feb 25 '26

AAJ "Ask A Jew" Wednesday

It's everyone's favorite day of the week, "Ask A (Anti-Zionist) Jew" Wednesday!

Ask whatever you want to know, within the sub rules, notably that this is not a debate sub and do not import drama from other subreddits. That aside, have fun! We love to dialogue with our non-Jewish siblings.

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u/loselyconscious Traditionally Radical Feb 25 '26

He is not just offering a critique, he is saying that we should be subjects of violence and terroristic attacks becouse we have not become martyrs.

He also implied that Jews should not have foughtout against the Nazis

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u/Enough_Comparison816 Arab Jew, Shomer Masoret, ex-Israeli Feb 25 '26

Right, I’m just saying that it’s totally legitimate for us to be critiqued around the ways we hold privileged relationships to western power structures and material connections with the existence of the Zionist state. For example, my entire immediate and extended family all live in the Zionist state, and I think it’s fair to question how that might impact my support for the resistance and the cause.

I object to the specific critiques Laith is making for the reasons you just listed

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u/loselyconscious Traditionally Radical Feb 25 '26

But he doesn't say any of that, so I don't really know what this response is about.

You might as well respond to an anti-vax video and say "they have a point about the pharmaceutical industry."

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u/Enough_Comparison816 Arab Jew, Shomer Masoret, ex-Israeli Feb 25 '26

Sorry, I think my comment was intended to address past experiences with anti-Zionist Jews who react negatively to any substantive criticism, just as an aside to your comment. You didn’t express anything like that.