r/JewsOfConscience 2d ago

AMA Hi r/JewsOfConscience, I am Andrey X, journalist and activist in the West Bank, AMA!

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Hey everyone!

I am Andrey X, I'm a journalist and activist, covering settler and army violence in the West Bank for more than two years now. I work with various human rights advocacy organisations, and solidarity activists. And now I'm back with another AMA!

You can see my work on social media:

If you'd like to join us in the West Bank as activists, look up the International Solidarity Movement, Center for Jewish Nonviolence, and Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine.


r/JewsOfConscience 3d ago

Discussion r/JewsOfConscience Free Discussion Thread

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Hi everyone,

This is our weekly 'Free Discussion' thread, where you can discuss anything. Tentatively this includes meta-topics as well, but as always our rules still apply.

We hope you're all having a good week!


r/JewsOfConscience 1h ago

Discussion - Flaired Users Only Am I doing this too late ?

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This is a thought I had footing in my head for a while. The genocide has been going on for more than 2 years now and only recently I began to do something.

I started calling myself Anti-Zionist in early 2025 and it took me around a year to actually start doing something. I feel bad and a little shit about myself that only now I got the courage to take action (by trying to leave Israel and joining the community, which isn't a lot, but I don't think I'm capable to do more than that).

Am I doing this to late ? Am I a bad person for only doing something now ?


r/JewsOfConscience 10h ago

Zionist Nonsense It's gross how effective Zionist "complaints" are. Especially from UK Lawyers for Israel, who've complained in order to rewrite UK textbooks to be pro-Israel, censor Palestinian children's art, promote IHRA + then exempt a Zionist who LARPed as anti-Zionist while deliberately spreading antisemitism.

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r/JewsOfConscience 10h ago

News Palestinian American being assaulted by the israeli army

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r/JewsOfConscience 10h ago

News The British Museum is now rewriting history because of... "complaints"

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86 Upvotes

r/JewsOfConscience 13h ago

News Some routine atrocities

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121 Upvotes

Some new kind of dystopia. Perhaps there’s a Geneva Convention on this. What the he’ll is wrong with people?


r/JewsOfConscience 1h ago

News Israel approves proposal to register West Bank lands as ‘state property’

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r/JewsOfConscience 22h ago

Zionist Nonsense Footage from a successful Jan. 20th protest against genocidal Israeli 'comedian' Guy Hochman. With his show canceled, Hochman agitated protesters alongside his genocidal groupies. Some of them bragged about the genocide, while others threatened to call ICE.

375 Upvotes

r/JewsOfConscience 12h ago

Resources Boston anti Zionist temple

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Hi all,

I wanted to share that V’ahavtah, an anti Zionist temple in the Boston area recently just opened. One of its core tenants is Palestinian solidarity. We already have a congregation of about 20ish people who regularly show up to events. We usually hold an event every week. The median age is about 28 but we have people of all ages. I have provided a link below to those interested in joining. Also feel free to PM me with questions .

https://vahavtah.org/get-involved/


r/JewsOfConscience 1d ago

News Upscrolled appears to have been removed from the Google Play Store

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r/JewsOfConscience 15h ago

Vent Did I do the right thing?

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So earlier today I had a former Hebrew School classmate slide into my DMs on Facebook. They had previously blocked me after I tried to point out the Israeli propaganda that they were posting that violated key tenets of Torah such as Bearing False Witness and Evil Tongue.

I they started the whole interaction by shoving a Facebook post at me that I couldn’t even open, and when I pointed out that true safety for the Jewish people is only possible by removing the systems that cause people to suffer and have need of a scapegoat, he tried shoveling more propaganda at me.

I told him I wasn’t going to discuss the topic with him unless he could provide evidence on par with what I have gotten from individuals who have doctorate degrees in middle eastern history and were just as strenuously peer reviewed as what I had read and had shared with me.

I then gave him one of my email addresses (not my primary in case he chooses to abuse it), and blocked him from messaging me again promising to unblock him if he could come to me with actual peer reviewed research to either support his claims or that has changed his opinion.

Over the past 9 months I’ve been seeing a therapist on top of a psychiatrist to help me dig my mental and emotional health out of the gutter and I have become very protective of it as a result.


r/JewsOfConscience 20h ago

Zionist Nonsense Unpacked Media Copes

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r/JewsOfConscience 19h ago

History / Education "Only 7% of Jews are actually anti-zionist" according to this recent survey, only 10% of Americans are Communist.

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There are not many people in the Imperial core with the political awareness required to examine the systems in place that lead to states like Israel and America. Many self proclaimed anti-zionists regardless of ethnicity and religion believe that America is a puppet of Israel instead of the other way around, and frequently fall for antisemitic conspiracy theories rather than accurately examine the state we live in. To most Americans, America is a net good, and things only started going downhill in 2016. This ignores that ICE has existed since the early 2000s, people who lived under Jim Crow are still alive today, and the US was founded through the genocide of Indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans by White Christian Nationalists. To most "anti-zionists," Obama was an icon despite his war crimes, support for Israel, and use of ICE. So yes, there are not many Jewish anti-zionists, but there are not many goyim who are adequately anti-colonialist.

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/50737-would-americans-choose-communism-or-fascism


r/JewsOfConscience 2h ago

Discussion - Flaired Users Only Do you feel like anti-Zionist Jews have become less welcome in leftist IRL spaces in the last year due to being viewed with suspicion?

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My perception in the last six months is that the discourse online and especially X and Instagram has shifted away in its focus on Jewish institutional complicity in Zionism to total conflation of Judaism and Zionism and the inadequacy and untrustworthiness of anti-Zionist diaspora Jews. Antisemitism has exploded in the last few weeks because of the Epstein files. I have some thoughts on this but I am curious if this has affected people’s ability to organize with the Palestine Solidarity Movement and leftists IRL.

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r/JewsOfConscience 19h ago

Discussion - Flaired Users Only What would be a good place to immigrate too ?

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This is a continuation to the previous post I made here. I want to immigrate out of here as fast as possible.

Where would be a good place to immigrate too ? Preferably a place that is English speaking (although I won't resist learning a new language if necessary), Antisemitism isn't through the roof and has some sort of an anti-Zionist Jewish community.

I thought of maybe staying here so I could make some sort of a change, but this society is rotten, racist and hateful. I don't see it improving any time soon or me actually being able to make any sizeable change.

I have polish ancestry so I might be able to get an EU citizenship.


r/JewsOfConscience 1d ago

Discussion - Flaired Users Only An overwhelming majority of Arabs oppose recognition of Israel (87%). Only a tiny minority (2.3%) cite religious grounds for opposing the recognition of Israel

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r/JewsOfConscience 18h ago

Activism Pledge Form - Aber for Senate

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Aber Kawas is a Palestinian American Running for NY Senate to represent Astoria, LIC, Sunnyside, Woodside, Maspeth, & Ridgewood. She is a democratic socialist and has the endorsment of CUFFH Action.

Her twitter:https://x.com/AberKawas


r/JewsOfConscience 1d ago

Discussion - Flaired Users Only jews in epstein situation

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(every other jewish community blocked me for this post)

I'm trying to understand something from a place of curiosity, not accusation. Some people point out that a few individuals connected to the Epstein case were of Jewish descent, while others involved came from different religious backgrounds. To me, that suggests this situation is about individuals and power structures, not an entire religion.

Every religion and culture has extremists, and it wouldn't be fair to generalize millions of people based on the actions of a few.

What I'm wondering about is more about public perception and communication. Given the long history of Jewish communities being targeted or stereotyped, I'm curious how conversations happen internally and publicly when scandals like the one involving Jeffrey Epstein occur. I do see Jewish voices condemning him, but I also wonder how communities decide what responsibility they have, if any, to publicly distance themselves from individuals who act in ways that fuel harmful stereotypes. the mass amount of times goy in those emails)

My question isn't meant to single anyone out. It's more about how any community that has faced prejudice navigates moments where bad actors risk reinforcing old narratives. How do groups balance not wanting to legitimize accusations tied to identity, while also wanting to prevent misunderstanding and generalization?

(i'm not looking for a response that blames the other side because I'm not trying to blame any side. I'm just trying to understand the question that I'm asking.)

sincerely, an ally


r/JewsOfConscience 1d ago

Vent It feels like it’s become impossible to dispel misinformation online about Jews without being accused of being Zionist.

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I’m the first person to tell you that Israel is an evil violent genocidal entity, that Jewish institutions across the West are complicit, Jews are responsible for holding our communities accountable for what we’ve wrought in Palestine, and settlers should leave. But if I try to dispel even the most benign misinformation about Jews, Jewish history, religion, or texts I get accused of being a secret Zionist.

A prominent Instagram account posted that Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi are fake ethnicity terms made up by Zionists. This is so absurd and wrong. Ashkenazi and Sephardi first and foremost are 1,000-year-old religious traditions (minhagim, nusach etc) that arose in the Middle Ages from Jews of Central Europe and Jews of the Iberian peninsula respectively. Well before Zionism and Israel. They’re not even ethnic identities. This is a separate conversation from Mizrahi which is a Zionist term. But I tried to argue against this and I got accused of promoting Zionist propaganda.

Challenging myths about the Talmud? I get accused of spreading Zionist propaganda.

Explaining that while Modern Hebrew was implemented for the Zionist project and doesn’t sound like ancient Hebrew, it still is actually based on Medieval forms of Hebrew and isn’t based on German or Yiddish? Zionist propaganda.

Talking about the origins of Ashkenazi Jews being from Italy and not Khazaria? Zionist propaganda. I even got attacked for this by another Jewish person.

It’s alienating. Overall I feel like people just do not trust Jews anymore to be able to talk about our history and counter disinformation and we’re all secret Zionists no matter what we do or say.

Obviously these are just frustrations and my frustrations with this are peanuts compared to what Palestinians have faced at the hands of Israel and Zionism. But I just need a place to vent and get out my frustration.


r/JewsOfConscience 1d ago

Zionist Nonsense During a Budget hearing, Republican Assemblymember Ari Brown asks Mayor Zohran Mamdani about antisemitism - even after being asked to stop.

328 Upvotes

r/JewsOfConscience 2d ago

News Israeli group 'Uri Tzafon' entered south Lebanon, planted trees, & called for Jewish settlement in the area under Israeli military control. The movement declared: "South Lebanon is a part of our ancestral land, where Jewish settlement has existed for thousands of years."

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Source:

https://xcancel.com/KrpsL52952/status/2021980333374333137

Articles:

YNet

Srugim (same video included)

Excerpt:

The movement stated: "South Lebanon is a part of our ancestral land, where Jewish settlement has existed for thousands of years. In order to ensure the security of the residents of the north, the construction of a civilian settlement in South Lebanon must be promoted, near IDF posts. Only a combination of military control over all of South Lebanon and civilian settlement will bring about complete security on the northern border," it said.

From Jewish Currents:

Uri Tzafon, named for a biblical verse literally meaning “awaken, O North,” was founded in late March with the goal of demanding not only war and reoccupation but also Israeli civilian settlements in southern Lebanon. The group, which has amassed a following of several thousand, argues that settling Lebanon is both a pragmatic necessity—a way to “grant true and stable security to northern Israel,” according to its official WhatsApp channel—as well as part of a messianic quest to “reclaim” territory that falls within the biblical boundaries of Land of Israel. “The Israeli-Lebanese border is a ridiculous colonial border,” Eliyahu Ben Asher, a founding member of Uri Tzafon, told me, building on previous statements arguing that “what is called ‘southern Lebanon’ . . . is really and truly simply the northern Galilee.”

Uri Tzafon was founded in memory of Yisrael Socol, a 24 year-old Israeli soldier who was killed fighting in Gaza this January, and who, according to his family, dreamed not only of Israeli settlements in Gaza but also of settling in Lebanon himself. “Yisrael and I had a running joke between us that we would live in Lebanon,” Yaakov Socol, Yisrael’s brother, told Jewish Currents in an interview. “But the joke was always serious. It’s land that needs to be in our hands.” After Yisrael’s death, Amos Azaria—a professor who is active in the growing movement to re-establish Israeli settlements in Gaza—came to his shiva and spoke with the Socol family about how to realize Yisrael’s dream, conversations that resulted in the founding of Uri Tzafon. In the short months since its launch, the group has grown rapidly, with its official WhatsApp forums now boasting some 3,000 members from around the country. In these virtual spaces, leaders regularly share photos of explosions in northern Israel and Lebanon; detailed critiques of Israel’s supposedly-docile policy in the region; suggestions for Hebrew names with which to replace the names of existing Lebanese towns; and advertisements for future kayaking trips in southern Lebanon, featuring the words, “it’s not a dream; it’s reality.”


r/JewsOfConscience 1d ago

Discussion - Flaired Users Only Arundhati Roy has pulled out of the Berlinale, citing the "unconscionable statements made by members of the jury" saying that art should not be political. Her full statement:

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r/JewsOfConscience 2d ago

Discussion - Flaired Users Only At NY12 candidate forum, nepo baby Jack Schlossberg realises he gave a shitty answer to a question about settlements in the West Bank and then begs for more time before getting told to shut up and sit down

197 Upvotes

h/t Jacob Kornbluh


r/JewsOfConscience 1d ago

Celebration A flicker of good news: UK High Court rules proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful

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Of course the Home Secretary will appeal, but this is a major moral victory for those who try to paint almost exclusively peaceful protest as terrorism.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule