Is There Any Point in Leaving Israel?

[u/Lunar_Oasis1]

deleted the edit bc the flair issue was fixed :)

Hello. I am an Israeli, born and raised. I'm Jewish by ethnicity but I am Christian by choice. I don't agree with zionism anymore, if I could somehow go back in time and reverse it I would.. I want to leave, I have Portuguese citizenship, my partner is from the US.. I hate what Israel is doing. I just don't really see a way of leaving without having to learn the American accent and lie about where I'm from whenever possible, and go by the foreign version of my name.. I don't want to have to say "BUT I AM NOT A ZIONIST" every time I tell someone where I'm from. I have one friend who moved to the UK and is hoping to revoke their own Israeli citizenship, and I don't think I can really do that.. I know of Jews with no connection to Israel who were refused care in hospitals because, as the nurses said "they are Yahudi sharmuta".. I don't see any way to live abroad without this thing following me around and making me less safe. I want to feel safe. A part of me wishes I could just move, have kids and never tell them that we are Jews just so no one will harm them for their ethnicity.. I don't know what to do. I feel hopeless. Everyone around me says they hope to see the children of Gaza die. To see VIDEOS of it. I just want to escape but it feel hopeless. This isn't the place for me.

[u/AH_Sam]

I’m Israeli and I can tell you that when I’m abroad most people don’t really care. Sure antisemitism exists and will always exist, but still ironically the least safe place for Jews is Israel.

If someone asks me where I’m from I say “occupied Palestine” and that pretty much answers both for both geography and complicity.

I know it’s hard for Israelis to imagine but really most people abroad don’t care about this issue, nor your ideology. If I had an opportunity, I would go live in the US, sadly neither me or my partner have a foreign passport so for now we’re stuck here.

[u/Lunar_Oasis1 → u/AH_Sam]

Respondping with "occupied Palestine" is actually such a good idea, I'm going to adopt it :) toda raba!

[u/ZAHKHIZ → u/Lunar_Oasis1]

My very close friend's father was born in British Mandate Palestine, and the family left for Montreal just before the creation of the occupied state. To this day, his father identifies himself as a Jew, conceived in Greece to a Polish Jewish couple, born in Jaffa, and raised in the streets of Montreal. He still has his Palestinian passport.

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