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What people did Zionism ruin for you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by dilroopgill@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I was a big fan of Sarah Silverman before she dropped a huge rant about how genocide is okay because the kids would otherwise grow up to be terrorrirsts and then locked comments for a year on IG. I got my post deleted off her subreddit back then when I posted screenshots for not being relevant to her. Kinda bothered me that she said all that shit seriously and then just covered it up.

Her being friends with Jay Johnston makes sense.

I had already stopped watching h3 years ago but what hes become in the last few years has made me feel a lot better about that decision.

It's 2025, and mfs are still making land claims based off religion and bs from thousands of years ago. Feel like I'm living in crusader kings.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Every time that Trump said antisemitic things I donated to one of the local synagogues.

Every since the "we blow up children with fake pagers" I have not donated to a synagogue. It has ruined my ability to feel compassion for the members of synagogues.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

I'm partly repeating what others have replied, but when a nearby synagogue hosted a Zionist corporate event, some of the protesters alongside us were members who normally worshipped at that synagogue and felt disgusted.

And, for an extreme example of anti-Zionist Judaism, here's some Hasidic Jews over in London, including their Rabbi, publicly burning an Israeli flag: https://www.vice.com/en/article/anti-zionist-orthodox-jews-flag-burning-protest-109/

“The whole state of Israel is not legal from the Jewish viewpoint,” said the flag burning’s organizer, Rabbi Elhanan Beck, adding, “The Messiah will not be [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu.”

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I wouldn’t donate to houses of worship just on principle, but it’s important to remember that non-Zionist Jews and anti-Zionist Jews do exist, and not only secular ones. The Star of David on the Israeli flag is insidious propaganda, conflating a religion and a diasporic people with Zionist settler-colonism.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago

You hit the nail on the head with that one.

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Donate to Sikh kitchens. Core tenant of their religion is simple acts of kindness for the sake of being kind. They take everyone in at Sikh kitchens. Even cities in Texas and CA that like to ban feeding the homeless can't do shit about these kitchens because it is recognized as a part of their worship.

[–] small44@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Be careful, some of them support zionisms. There was two incidents of real estate events promoting property sales in the West Bank inside a synagogues