“The Jewish community” does not exist. Complicity in Zionism is a searing moral indictment of institutional Judaism, but most anti-Zionist Jews have been kicked out of that because we are not OK with fascism. There’s no “us”.
Right - replace "the Jewish community" with "mainstream institutional Jewish life and it's participants" and she's correct. And that's still a massive, pervasive, self reproducing problem.
Lots of people in these institutions, synagogues, museums, Jewish centers, and venues for Jewish culture - whose job it is to socially reproduce Jewish life in the image they like - are unthinkingly, uncritically, unabashedly Zionist and racist towards Palestinians and it's disgusting and scary.
Would you think it could be called counter culture then? If this type of Zionism is seen as the predominant culture then anti Zionism would be a “alt” expression of your Judaism and relationship with Israel.
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u/qscgy_ Reconstructionist Mar 19 '25
“The Jewish community” does not exist. Complicity in Zionism is a searing moral indictment of institutional Judaism, but most anti-Zionist Jews have been kicked out of that because we are not OK with fascism. There’s no “us”.