In its coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace’s Trump Tower protest, Fox News obscured the Jewish identity of protesters—while echoing antisemitic conspiracy theories and racist tropes.
In its coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace’s Trump Tower protest, Fox News obscured the Jewish identity of protesters—while echoing antisemitic conspiracy theories and racist tropes.
After visiting Israel a few times and knowing my family, foreign exchange students, members of my community, etc. I can assure you that Netanyahu is not the only problem. Granted, he’s certainly making things way worse. But Zionists are fucking terrifying with how thirsty they are to kill Palestinians.
I’ve got some cousins who absolutely see through all that bullshit and they are miserable because they nearly feel alone in a sea of hatred. It’s a really dangerous time to be an Israeli protestor. One of my cousins has already been arrested at least once for dissenting and refusing to kill peaceful protestors, and this was years before Oct. 7th.
Are Orthodox Jews mostly Zionist? I saw some videos coming out of Orthodox Jews harassing other Jews who were protesting in Jerusalem?
Mostly? I don’t know. Before Israel was founded as a state, many Orthodox complaints were about Jews seen as “less than” being allowed to live in the holy land, or people of any other religion for that matter. They also were incensed at the proposal of Hebrew becoming the official language because that’s the language of the Torah and the language of God, therefore it is sacrilegious for people who aren’t Jewish enough to sully the language by speaking it.
From the numerous conversations I’ve had with members of the Orthodox community, I’ve found such vast social distances that I can’t find enough political common ground to begin understanding their perspective. From my POV, they believe in such a tangled web of hypocrisy that I’m not even sure what their core belief is, beyond “I’m right.” And as best as I can tell, their perspective of me is that I’m an idiot with no credibility.
Orthodox members of the Texas community have been more approachable but less open about their beliefs on all Jews expressing ownership of Israel. Orthodox Jews in the American northeast would spit on me when I’d try to talk to them, so I stopped trying. And Orthodox Jews in Israel would throw rocks at me before I could even speak to them.
Without knowing what their definition of Zionism is, I couldn’t tell you what they believe.