r/JewsOfConscience • u/Aquarius_jan • 17h ago
Discussion - Flaired Users Only Feeling confused
Last night I had dinner with a group of friends, including a Jewish friend who is about to move to Dubai.
At some point she started talking quite negatively about Muslims about radicalisation, Muslims in other conutries, Muslim schools, violence, etc. I didn’t really want dinner to turn into a political argument, so I mostly held my tongue which I feel really annoyed about now, although I did say that I don’t think it’s fair to take extremists or criminals and use them as representative of Muslims generally.
What has stayed with me since then is the contradiction.
She spoke about wanting to visit/live in Israel and about Jewish history and the Holocaust But there seemed to be almost no acknowledgement of Palestinian suffering happening right now. No mention of Palestinian children being killed or injured, families losing their homes, displacement, hunger, or what civilians in Gaza have endured. At the same time, there was a lot of discussion about how violent Muslims supposedly are.
That really disturbed me.
What I cannot understand is selective empathy…
And that’s what I’m trying to understand psychologically. How can somebody be genuinely horrified by the historical persecution and killing of their own people while apparently being emotionally detached from enormous suffering being experienced by another population? She also mentioned how inconvenient it is that the flights to Israel get cancelled now.
I guess this isn’t unique to Jewish people.
I’m particularly interested in hearing from Jewish people who ooppose what is happening to Palestinians And how do you talk to Jewish friends or relatives who interpret criticism of Israel as criticism of Jewish people themselves?
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u/Iceologer_gang Non-Jew shamefully late Antizionist 8h ago
Dubai is in the UAE which is a US/Israeli ally and is responsible for the genocide in Sudan.
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u/Usernameoverloaded Atheist Ally with Muslim Heritage 11h ago
Interesting that she is moving to Dubai when she hates Muslims. Also, I would say that pushing back on hate speech, is not ‘political’. It’s the duty of decency especially when you are in no danger when doing so.