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by Amadou
4678 days ago
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I don't know where you live, but in the USA it has long been normal for pro-Israel jews to claim a sort of ownership of judaism. Ariel Sharon once said, "Israel is not only an Israeli project. Israel is a Jewish, worldwide project." One of the most destructive stereotypes is the self-hating jew - that any jew who criticizes israel is incapable of making a principled argument, instead he's just internalized anti-semitism. So it isn't necessarily anti-semitism for people who have picked up on that cultural norm to assume that any random jew is in favor of israeli policies. The younger generations of American jews don't feel that sort of affinity with Israel, and the Israeli government's policies have played a big part in that disconnect. It is such a big deal that the Netanyahu government ran some tv ads a couple of years ago that basically amounted to telling israelis not to marry american jews because they weren't jewish enough. That went over like a lead balloon, even the ADL criticized the ads. All in all, I think that sort of response is important progress in decoupling judaism from zionism. And, fwiw, I'm a born athiest who married into a mixed family of secular muslims, secular jews and cultural catholics - my grand-niece is a mix of all three, although she's too young to know it. |
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