Well said. If I'm honest, one of the reasons I no longer affiliate with a local synagogue is the constant push for solidarity with Israel. My family are Ashkenazis from what is now the Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland. They emigrated at the turn of the 20th century and have been Americans for ~ 120 years, longer than Israel has been a country. I've never understood this notion of a "homeland", particularly when the U.S. Jewish population is roughly equal to Israel's. It obviously had a purpose in the aftermath of the Holocaust, but that was 80 years ago. Why, exactly, should American Jews support ever more imperialist Zionism? Particularly now when those policies put the rest of us in danger?
I'm with you, Noah. "The Jewish Business", as my mother-in-law used to refer to all the American pro-Israel non-profits, is doing more harm than good by equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism. Those of us who don't condone Israel's warmongering have to get louder.
This has been fed in part by the fact that from the beginning anyone of Jewish heritage was welcome to emigrate thus creating a lumping and direct affiliation with Israel.
Well said. If I'm honest, one of the reasons I no longer affiliate with a local synagogue is the constant push for solidarity with Israel. My family are Ashkenazis from what is now the Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland. They emigrated at the turn of the 20th century and have been Americans for ~ 120 years, longer than Israel has been a country. I've never understood this notion of a "homeland", particularly when the U.S. Jewish population is roughly equal to Israel's. It obviously had a purpose in the aftermath of the Holocaust, but that was 80 years ago. Why, exactly, should American Jews support ever more imperialist Zionism? Particularly now when those policies put the rest of us in danger?
I'm with you, Noah. "The Jewish Business", as my mother-in-law used to refer to all the American pro-Israel non-profits, is doing more harm than good by equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism. Those of us who don't condone Israel's warmongering have to get louder.
Never Again didn’t mean just Never Again for us…it meant Never Again for anyone..Israel seems to have missed that point.
This has been fed in part by the fact that from the beginning anyone of Jewish heritage was welcome to emigrate thus creating a lumping and direct affiliation with Israel.