Mallory Mosner
2 min readOct 13, 2021

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one other thing, it's best to listen to your instinct on this. Ask questions rather than tokenize Jews (who again, represent a tiny minority) whose opinions you agree with. It's a complicated issue and if you are indeed a newbie to the concept, you should be asking--you can ask questions critically without inserting your opinion by suggesting my point of view is "prosecuting or harming other Jewish people" --do I need to explain in detail how that is a nasty thing to say?

To be very clear, it's not anti-Zionist Jews who have been harmed by anti-Zionism. It's ALL Jews. It's not just all the Jews 75 years ago who were harmed by the inability to return to our homeland when we were being genocided in Europe (or across the Middle East and North Africa over the last few centuries and beyond), but it's all the Jews today who are afraid of being attacked, derided or killed for being publicly Jewish. I don't wear anything to identify myself as a Jew because I'm scared as hell. That's not something you can understand if you're not Jewish, full stop.

Anti-Zionism is one of the most recent mechanisms of how Jews are attempting to deny their Jewish roots or augment them in order to fit in and assimilate. Jews are not the only people who have done this. The social justice movement (of which I used to be a very active part) has taken it upon itself to completely erase Jewish history and identity in Israel, which is absolutely absurd. The "good Jews" who want to be accepted and seen by morally bankrupt strangers as "woke" have chosen to accept this revisionist history so as to save themselves from condemnation. THAT shit is nasty and causes harm to anyone Israeli, anyone who supports Israel (even if that's a conditional support that does NOT accept mistreatment of Palestinians), or anyone who continues to practice Judaism as it has been practiced since time immemorial--which is to say, in devotion to our homeland.

You need to trust that instinct when you think "I shouldn't be commenting" because that is your highest self, my friend.

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Mallory Mosner
Mallory Mosner

Written by Mallory Mosner

Queer non-binary (they/she) Jewish writer and Ayurvedic Health Counselor who loves puzzles, cats and meditation.

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