r/JewsOfConscience

Hey guys, I had an idea a while back, and I was wondering if you could put it under scrutiny for me?

I don't actually support the idea, I just accept that I'm not educated enough to make an informed opinion about it - which is why I bring it to you as I trust that you will better be able to assess the idea than I ever could.

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The idea is that instead of Palestine or Israel we simply have a single secular nation that is not founded on race or creed.

With that in mind...

Is a Single State Solution a good idea?

(Again - please don't assume I support the idea, I'm just trying to educate myself, thank you)

A good friend of mine invited me to Nablus. Right now I don't have the money to go anyways (I lost my job a few months ago and I'm trying to make my own business a success through Kickstarter funding. But currently I'm failing at that) but once I have the means, I'd like to evade Israel.

Has anyone gotten any experience going to occupied Palestine through Jordan? I'm a German passport holder.

>Likud Minister May Golan lashed out at Reform rabbi, MK Gilad Kariv of the opposition's Democrats, in the Knesset on Wednesday, accusing him of "marrying dogs in your delusional synagogues."

>Golan, Israel's minister of social equality, spoke at the Knesset plenum about Likud party activist and convicted felon Rafi Kedoshim: "he volunteers with drug addicts, in rehabilitation centers with at-risk youth, he visits homes and lectures and devotes his free time and life to this thing. You, Gilad Kariv, won't reach his level even in another two hundred reincarnations when you go with Women of the Wall or marry dogs in your delusional synagogues." Women of the Wall is a feminist prayer group advocating for egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

>Kariv said in response: "May Golan didn't choose to slander me with her antisemitic remarks - she chose to slander millions of Reform Jews in Israel and around the world. Soon we will be rid of this antisemitic, racist, and corrupt bunch."

>Last year, Kariv was targeted by another lawmaker in Benjamin Netanyahu's government, Galit Distel Atbaryan, who ordered him to be removed from a Knesset meetingafter a heated discussion, saying "The Jews here want to continue."

The violent abduction and subsequent humiliation of humanitarian flotilla activists was entirely driven by hubris. They could have followed their previous playbook, but they couldn't hold themselves back; they wanted to display their might against unarmed activists. Well, good job.

Except for the US and Germany, these actions have forced every Western government to start considering actual consequences. It has also triggered tensions within the Israeli government. They are trapped in a zero-sum scenario: firing Ben-Gvir will enrage the Kahanist lunatics within the coalition and society, but keeping him is not an option with the arrest warrants on the way. Let’s see what they choose to do.

Special thanks go to Germany, whose constant unconditional funding, support, and protection paved the way to this point. Are violently abducted and degraded European citizens part of your Staatsräson (reason of state)? Is it inherently anti-Semitic to ask a government to stop abusing activists?

Clearly, they don’t care. Priorities are elsewhere.

Every time there's an attack on the Jewish communities, the comments fill up with cries of "false flag", to the point that there are people out there who seem to not be able to except that Jewish people actually suffer attacks and hatred. Now, the issue with this is a lot of people who spread these aren't actually antisemitic - they just think that it always likely Mossad had something to do with it. I can't tell them it's antisemitic, because then we'll go down the "antisemitism isn't antizionism" rabbit hole.

How do you convince people not to spread conspiracies which are not openly antisemitic but have those underlying tensions - for instance, the Rothchilds? Again, people can just be convinced by spurious evidence that the Rothchilds do control the world, without ever thinking that the reason those conspiracies spread in the first place is because they are Jewish.

Any ways to counter this would be very helpful, thanks. The "false flag" nonsense is one of the things that makes me lose faith in the left occassionally.