https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq6J7Q6L0yw&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish

A personal and moving film by Simone Zimmerman and others
Worth watching

You may recall that our local food co-op here in my very progressive part of the us refused a request by members to de-shelve Israeli products. They claimed doing so would cause “trauma” and be antisemitic and make customers feel “unsafe.” We had a big zoom meeting in which the anti deshelving people actually said things like if they removed the sabra hummus it would be racial profiling and it would be like making Jews in the store wear yellow stars. It was insane. We were voted down in a vote that was sketchy. They sent out an email about how we can all move forward now, etc.

Well today people started posting on social media that the coop is taking further steps. As attached in the photo I am sharing. I live in a region with many many trans people , pro-union, leftist…. I cannot believe the co-op which has signs up about BLM and inclusion, is making this repressive move that puts the Zionists’ delusional narrative above everyone else’s needs and free speech.

Hey Reddit and r/JewsOfConscience, I am Andrey X, journalist and activist in the West Bank. I cover violence by the settlers and the Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank and work with human rights advocates who provide protective presence to vulnerable Palestinian communities. AMA!

My Instagram
My Twitter
My TikTok

Spending so much energy talking to other Jews about how being anti Zionist is not anti Semitism takes time away from combatting actual anti Semitism the flourishes on places like X. I would be curious how often the ADL spends on actual anti Semitism these days.

https://x.com/atrealben/status/1854562637667086570?s=46&t=HLcL5ulFrD8GgMonvRer1w

Watch it in Santa Monica starting November 15 (Director Q&As on Nov 15 & 16)

https://www.laemmle.com/film/bibi-files

Watch it in NYC starting Dec 11

https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-bibi-files/

Watch it on Jolt starting Dec 11 from North America

https://www.jolt.film/watch/the-bibi-files

Every now and then the discussion about the conflation of Judaism with Zionism comes up, and some anti-zionists point out the fact that the Jewish community is overwhelmingly zionist (a fact which I don't doubt).

However, how much of it is actually a Jewish problem rather than a general American problem?

I get the impression that the American mainstream isn't anti-zionist either, but rather ranging from 2 state solution liberal zionism to full blown uncritical support for everything Israel does (more common among conservatives and evangelicals).

In particular, how different are the attitudes towards the ongoing genocide?

One point that always comes up in those arguments is that almost all Jewish institutions are zionist, and indeed I'm well aware of how perverse zionist hegemony is within Jewish institutions globally.

But I'm interested in the views of the average Jewish individual.

In my mind, there have been three major movements in the last 10 years that have pushed the country in a positive direction: Bernie 2016, BLM protests in 2020, and anti-Dobbs sentiment in 2022. Most Americans are disengaged and don't care, but many cared during the periods where these were ascendent.

And the Democratic Party, led by the Clintons, Obama, and Biden did whatever they could to nullify the positive energy around each of them. They were in no way chastened by their catastrophic loss in 2016, and the Biden administration learned not a single lesson from it. (I don't lay much blame on Kamala. She was selected VP precisely because she was a weak politician who would live in Biden's shadow.)

Clinton essentially ran on what Biden did: unnecessary austerity, tepid support for workers, and neoconservative foreign policy. Obviously Biden's unhinged behavior re: Israel is a massive problem, but he also cut so many of the pandemic bill benefits that people liked so much. Case in point: cutting 25M people off Medicaid in 2023; he had the power via the health emergency to give health insurance to every uninsured person and he was so ideologically committed to austerity that he committed a massive (but under-reported) unforced error.

Biden and the rest of them didn't even learn anything from the disaster of 2010. People want jobs and like getting stimulus checks. They rejected Obama's half-size stimulus, they hated him for letting foreclosures run wild, and they didn't really care that Obamacare would kick in in 5 years. How self-destructive was it to turn the early-2021 stimulus checks from $1200 to $600?

Even the mini-movement we saw after Walz was picked was something the Dem establishment needed to snuff out. Nothing would change from a deeply-unpopular Biden administration to a Kamala one.

The American people in no way deserve what's coming, but this party deserved to lose. Yes, the Democratic Party nominally exists to make people's lives better, but they showed their commitment to making peoples' lives worse.

The sad irony is that there are people in the Democratic Party who wouldn't have fucked things up this badly. There are a slew of people not born in the 1940s who could have resonated with Americans in an open primary: Whitmer, Beshear, Roy Cooper, Mark Kelly. (I do not include Shapiro in this group, and any suggestion of Newsom is ludicrous.) They've all won races against Republicans in tough environments and they didn't do it by throwing trans people under the bus.

I doubt Biden has much time left, and I'm sure his funeral will be as unceremonious as Nixon's.

i struggle with feeling confident in calling myself jewish and proud. growing up i was very sheltered and never had the experience of being “othered” for being jewish because i went to jewish schools in my adult experience ive finally heard the perspective of outsiders opinions on jews and judaism. it was definitely a culture shock. i also have a hard time not internalizing some actual antisemetic beliefs, mostly because the lies i was raised with are finally revealing themselves and it’s hard to know what to believe about my own people! i’m agnostic and i don’t practice any rituals of judaism so it kind of feels like the identity evades me. post zionist judaism has me yearning for a past kind of judaism that may never return. i dislike that at this point the only jewish people i feel i can be in community with are overtly leftist jews, which are such a small group

My fiance and I are getting married next year. We are in discussions with several progressive rabbis. I’ve seen modern rewrites of the seven blessings, but I’m curious about any leftist ones—think along the lines of the Bundist Haggadah. Would love to know any resources or thoughts people have.

Hi everyone,

​

This is our weekly 'Free Discussion' thread, where you can discuss anything. Tentatively this includes meta-topics as well, but as always our rules still apply.

We hope you're all having a good week!

Firstly, I am so sorry about what happened during the Elections this year. I wish I can do more as a non-American beyond just consoling everyone here who's about to endure the new Trump 2.0. As of now, the world is about to brace itself for what Rotten Orange going to do next, while the genocide is ongoing.

For now, what can we do? What should well-meaning, reasonable Americans do protect women, LGBTQ & the oppressed peoples over there?

And what should we, the rest of the world, do to help?

For me, I wish more alliances & bridges should be made between Jewish & Muslims to stem the Orange tide, both in the West & everywhere else, while stopping this genocide.