• GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    The haredis are fascinating; how is it that you are so religious that you won't join the genocidal army, but not enough to move somewhere else?

    • mkultrawide [any]
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      5 months ago

      The government of Israel pays them welfare in order to do "demographic warfare".

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Aren't many of them descendants of Jews who lived peacefully in Palestine before Zionist settlement?

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        5 months ago

        the 'orthodox' movements emerged from the ashkenazi so the ones in palestine are zionist, but there's a variety of views on the state and violence---some don't like the state because its too secular, some actually oppose the violence on palestinians, some want to get all the benefits of being settlers without raising arms.

        • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
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          5 months ago

          Most Haredim are not zionist.

          Edit: and not all Haredim are Ashkenaz either... Especially in Israel. There's Sephardic and Mizrahi haredim as well.

          Edit 2: are you Jewish? This is just straight up false.

          • Dolores [love/loves]
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            5 months ago

            i don't know what you'd call groups that migrated to palestine and live in the zionist state other than zionist? just settlers? the great many orthodox outside israel it makes sense to not call zionist but it gives me some pause talking about groups inside israel. shrug-outta-hecks

            but i didn't mean to imply orthodox sects were exclusive to ashkenazi ancestry, just that it came from eastern europe so its presence in palestine is related to zionism, even though its more diverse now

              • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
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                5 months ago

                I don't have hard numbers for you, but there hasn't been large scale haredi migration to Israel since around the 50s, that is, 70-80 years ago. Most of the Haredi in Israel now were born there, we're talking about the kids and grandkids of settlers for the most part. Haredi tend to kinda stay in place, see New York.

            • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
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              5 months ago

              Zionists settling and colonizing Israel of course is pretty recent, but huge chunk of the haredi there were born there at this point as I mentioned in another comment. We're talking about the kids and grandkids of settlers for the most part. Most of the people going to Israel these days though are reform/conservative Jews.

              I'm from the USA. There's plenty of white people here descended from settlers that I wouldn't call settlers themselves, although settler culture is a still pervasive through the legacy of white supremacy. But yeah, it'd be disingenuous if I said oh every white person in the PSL believes in manifest destiny or something. For lack of a better analogy.

              What I mean to say by all this is I only commented because it was an overgeneralization, anti-zionism is a defining characteristic of haredi Jews so it was just a little jarring to read. Certainly they aren't anti-zionists for the same reasons as you or I, but still

              • Dolores [love/loves]
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                5 months ago

                For lack of a better analogy

                i actually think that is a pretty good analogy, embracing a genocidal ideology of manifest destiny/zionism is different from simply being in a settler state but articulating it takes more specificity.

            • Nationalgoatism [any]
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              5 months ago

              Ultra-Orthodox is a very broad and arguably very artificial term for a wide variety of Jewish groups with very different views.

        • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
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          5 months ago

          Haredi don't tend to migrate in large numbers, and the last big wave was in the 50s. Most of them were born there. Their parents + grandparents + great grandparents mostly moved there either during Mandatory Palestine or right after Israel was established as a state. Most of the Jews moving to Israel recently are American and European reform/conservative Jews.

          Most Haredi oppose Zionism as like a core principle. They think that only the Messiah can establish Israel, not humans.

          But some that are born there live there for the same reason your average Death To America left type broke white person still lives in America.