• BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Would you only accept them if they were willing to denounce an integral part of their religious or ethnic identity?

    If an integral part of their religion was committing genocide, yes I would absolutely not accept them. I’d probably say barbara-pit with them. Fortunately a lot of Jewish people have figured out how to be Jewish without the whole genocide thing. Wild how that works.

      • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]@hexbear.net
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        7 months ago

        i’m not very up on my differences between the torah and the christianized old testament, but i’m pretty sure there’s some “god said kill all these people” in there.

        of course I haven’t heard of anyone saying palestinians are actually amalekites, and we’ve all seen the video of the israeli cops shoving an old hasidic man protesting the genocide

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        7 months ago

        Strictly, Zionism is opposed to religious Judaism, which is very clear on the Jews not being allowed to have a Jewish state in Eretz Yisrael until the Messiah comes (it’s why most orthodox Jews are against it by default).

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      7 months ago

      The argument that apartheid and genocide are vital aspects of Jewish identity is obviously trash, but if we take it seriously, doesn’t it contain an implicit argument that the Nazis conducted the holocaust in self-defense?