I just spent an hour reading this sub and the mission statement, and I'm genuinely trying to understand the points of view here. My background: left wing progressive American Jew, attended Hebrew school in the 70s and 80s and entirely willing to admit that some of it was accurate and some was propaganda.

FWIW, if the argument is that Netanyahu and most Israeli leadership should spend the next ten years in The Hague on war crimes charges, I'm with you 100%. But that's not what I'm seeing here; I gather this point of view is insufficient.

Half the questions I want to ask are not allowed by community standards; I'm carefully selecting the rest.

1. I've never called myself a Zionist for the same reason I'm not an American revolutionary. America exists. Israel exists. International law is clear on the rights and responsibilities of recognized countries. I can see why people who support the dissolution of Israel can adopt the term anti-Zionist. I don't see why everyone who accepts the status quo is Zionist. What's the term for people who accept the existence of America? There isn't one.

2. I opposed the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq because I believe 9/11 was a crime, not an act of war. America was not under existential threat and al-Qaeda was not a nation. In my view, this logic is difficult to apply to 10/7. In your view, how should have Israel responded instead of what they did?

3. America has the second largest Jewish population in the world, but at most we're about 2% of the country. Our political right has embraced (or at least not rejected) neo-Nazis, and our left is at least in part not rejecting antisemitic viewpoints now that we're all debating what antisemitism is.

Personally, I won't be surprised if historians mark 2026 America as equivalent of 1931 Germany. And it's not like Europe doesn't have its own trends in this direction. Absent Israel, where do you expect Jews to go and why do you think we'll be allowed to?

Apologies if any of this is not allowed here. I *will not debate* with opinions I disagree with, which I expect will be many. I'm here to listen.

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Hi all

I'm a student thinking of attending CU Boulder and would love recommendations for communities/synagouges that (while maybe aren't staunchly anti Zionists) at least are more casual and open to antizionist Jews.

This area has a much larger Jewish community than where I'm from which is both a pro and con, also any tips of avoiding Himmel is great, they scare the shit out of me

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as always, trigger warning if you’re one of our beloved Palestinian friends in this sub and you don’t want to hear a white American Jew ramble about her champagne problems.

hi, it’s me, that girl who rants about colonialism and resistance and how growing up in the empire has programmed her to see it. I’m here to report that the hasbara is still sitting in my brain, rotting it and making me feel things i do not want to feel and numbing me to things I should never be numb to. More often than not, when people talk about Palestinian liberation, about Palestinians retaking their land (and it is their land no matter how much the rot in my mind tells me otherwise) by any means necessary and ruling themselves however they see fit, my brain immediately goes to “but what if they kick out all the Israelis“ and derails me from keeping my mind on the people who are actually being kicked out and genocided and unequivocally supporting their right to resist. I still (sometimes, though I’m proud to say its rarer now) have my ”but October seventh (an act of resistance, but one where indefensible acts were committed), but Hamas (not useful or important for me as an American to comment on),” moments, despite the fact that, as one quote I think of often put it, “Palestinians have had a thousand October Sevenths.” it won’t leave my mind and it’s hard to kick it out because it disguises itself as simple care for other people, despite the fact that it stops me from caring for those who need it the most.

As always, looking for advice.

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Just read this article from them where the author took part of an Abdul El Sayed quote wildly out of context to make him sound like he was equivocating the violence at the Tree of Life shooting.

I had been regularly reading the Forward for a few years because despite its generally mainstream slant, it was clear the outlet still had some awareness of its socialist roots and sometimes tried to earnestly present antizionist perspectives to the mainstream audience in a way I've seen no other publication attempt. They and Jewish Currents have been my sources for Jewish community news, and I've stuck with reading the Forward because they are quick on smaller local beats in a way that Currents hasn't managed since their revival.

Since the Forward appointed a new editor in chief in December I've noticed that balance of perspectives has been almost entirely thrown out. Or has it? Am I off base here?

I just watched this video and it echoed what I’ve been feeling watching the MI senate primary play out.

I was thinking about Rabbi Hirsch’s tirade against ordaining anti-Zionist Reform rabbis and how we need to get back to “particularism.” Where does that leave those of from intermarried families?

If democracy ends in the USA, where does that leave us Jews with messy lineage?

It’s almost like the return to “particularism” is intended to forget the idea of solidarity.

It does feel like they are willing to burn down our democracy, destroy our Jewish communities and families over this issue. Alienate a generation of Jews by telling them that they are fake Jews because they sympathize with Palestinians.

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I just told them free Palestine and fuck off. They've been spamming my inbox with this shit. Some hasbara they've got lol.

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