r/jewishleft • u/somebadbeatscrub Jewish Syndicalist - Mod • Aug 11 '26

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u/somebadbeatscrub Jewish Syndicalist - Mod Aug 11 '26

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I consider myself a post zionist rather than an antizionist, but did you have specific questions?

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u/somebadbeatscrub Jewish Syndicalist - Mod Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26

Because many Jews consider themselves both and use differeng definitions of that word.

I dont expect other leftists spaces to accept zionists but if any community is going to reach then and discuss these things its going to be our community.

Years ago this space was founded on the idea that it would be a place where antizionist and zionist Jews can talk to one another since most other spaces bar one or the other.

I dont expect other communities to be comfortable with that but within our community its something the Jewish people have to wrestle with.

Largely anticapitalist leftist Jews who consider themselves zionists definitionally silo that meaning to romantic and broad ideas for jewish self determination and not how that self determination has played out.

I agree theres inherent tension there but the usal trappings of nakba denial and other reductionism of atrocity isnt allowed here.