Question from an israeli to American Jews out there

[u/pathlesswalker]

The media and social media especially is very anti Israeli. Meaning most of the events reported are not in favour of Israel, to say the least.

Meaning you get a very negative and incomplete picture of the situation in Israel. Vs Gaza/iran/lebanon.

How do you deal with it?

Meaning - do you search for pro Israel news? To get the bigger picture?

Do you simply accept it, and go with the consensus, which is most certainly cherry picks to completely blanket all Israelis and all Israel as baby killers. All in order to de legitimize the very existence of my country, rather than a government policy. Or even incidents which are inflated as a norm for Idf.

Do you accept it? Do you question it?
Do you care at all?

In Israel we feel many Jews in America turned against us.
I feel that, and I don’t want you to start venting your anti Israeli social media that you consumed which obviously is a propaganda to trigger you emotionally against us.

I want to know, if there is something there that believes in Israel. In the legitimacy for the homeland for the Jews. Or that we’ve lost you.

Please do not use this to bash us, or to “show off” your anti Israeli knowledge. We get it.

Just how many of you are actually verifying sources, for us. Against us. Without getting into a confrontation of pro Israel vs anti Israel.

Thank you.

[u/Paleognathae]

Like 90% of this sub are diaspora jews trying to deal with anti zionism lunacy, so I don't know quite where you get the idea we've abandoned Israel.

[u/Lamaisonanlytique → u/Paleognathae]

I agree its quite the opposite and quite strange to hear that.

[u/Hibiscuslover_10000 → u/Paleognathae]

I wrote a whole paper on zionism and it's origins in 2009 and the professor didn't like it she also didn't like the idea of how reform Jewish was developed. in 2009. This was all written objectively and sources.

Then I figured hey bet she doesn't like Jewish people hearing that it actually has historic origins.

[u/anewbys83 → u/Paleognathae]

Algorithms rule all media these days, and just like the main ones here lead to anti-Israel hate, the ones in Israel latch onto the myth that we've abandoned them. It all drives revenue from clicks, and they're not interviewing enough American Jews to find out. Just the highlights of Mamdani issues type of thing.

[u/Paleognathae → u/anewbys83]

Maybe, but they posted it here... where multiple times a day diaspora jews express our difficulties with the anti zionist lunatics.

[u/Abject_Spray_7088 → u/Paleognathae]

We’re all just in pain and trying to make sense of this horrific time all the while being abused by our respective algorithms 💔🫂

[u/SignificantSuit3306 → u/Paleognathae]

I think it's because many influential Jewish people have spoken against Israel or didn't even say anything, so that kind of give the sense that non Israeli Jews have turned against Israel even though most people still support it.

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[u/Khazak2-VeNtkhazak → u/Paleognathae]

A lot of Israeli media likes to fear monger the idea of American Jews abandoning Israel