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r/JewsOfConscience • u/kiyowo_potato • 2h ago
Zionist Terror The Israeli Occupation Forces denied water tanks from entering the besieged community of Ras el Ahmar in the north Jordan Valley, earlier today.
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The community had been cut off from the outside world for weeks due to the construction of the Crimson Thread barrier, and no water, food or medications are allowed in.
Activists tried to convince the soldiers to let us deliver water to the community, but to no avail.
SOURCE : https://x.com/ucpinpalestine/status/2110782068057665985
r/JewsOfConscience • u/Spirited-Exercise-31 • 3h ago
Vent Fear tactics in Jewish day schools
kids go to a MO Jewish day school ( hubby Zionist and MO) and it’s so scary what they teach these kids . In kindergarten the teacher comes in on October 7 and says Arabs want to k&ll all Jews. The brainwashing and fear instilling starts young, it’s disgusting. Any advice how I can counter MO zio school programming at home effectively?
r/JewsOfConscience • u/Screenwritersomeday • 4h ago
Activism I’m Facebook friends with DJ Swaruo, one of the headliners of the infamous Nova Festival. He met up with one of the leaders of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
r/JewsOfConscience • u/ForceHefty6945 • 4h ago
Discussion - Flaired Users Only In October 2024, Israeli IDF terrorist Naveh Leshem posted a photo on Instagram of a screen showing a murdered Palestinian in Gaza. Spoiler
He gave it a thumbs-up, indicating his "success".
In June 2025, the Resistance in Khan Younis successfuly eliminated Leshem. Nowadays, his war criminal buddies are still mourning him, posting photos from their "good times" together in Gaza, wearing displaced/murdered women's lingerie.
All of this is completely normal in Israel.
r/JewsOfConscience • u/TrackerOneA • 8h ago
Zionist Terror Rather than stop Israeli Jewish terrorism against Palestinians - the Israeli government plans to ban activists. Israel steals Palestinian land through the terrorism of its colonists & army.
r/JewsOfConscience • u/eh1234509876 • 8h ago
Religion / Spirituality podcast recs to learn about jewish religion?
hi there! I was raised Jewish, but I’ve never felt super connected to the religion. I’m super spiritual, but I’ve never felt like my spirituality was tied to one specific religion. I love the cultural practices and traditions, the food, and most Jewish people I meet.
I’m not politically aligned with my family, and they love to call me a “self-hating Jew” because of my stance on what’s happening in Palestine and my unwillingness to blindly praise Israel. It’s created a rift between me and my Judaism, and I’d really love to learn more about the religion in an attempt to reconnect with my Jewish roots in my own way and find new meaning in it for myself.
Does anyone have any podcast recs (or article recs) for where I can start? I realize I don’t even really know that much about what Judaism teaches or what its belief system is, and I’d love to learn more!
r/JewsOfConscience • u/sad_sapphic_sucker • 8h ago
News New York City comptroller drops plan to reinvest in Israel bonds
indonewyork.comr/JewsOfConscience • u/Sabotage_9 • 11h ago
History / Education Are Most Jews STILL Zionist? One Year Later
"Based on the latest polling evidence, little has fundamentally changed. While favorability toward Israel and approval of its conduct have shifted somewhat, overall support for Israel—particularly its status as a "Jewish state"—remains nearly unchanged, with the vast majority of Jews continuing to back the Zionist project, even as they express reservations about its current government.
So one must ask: given the facts presented here—nearly three years into a genocide carried out by the “Jewish state,” by Jews, for Jews, at the expense of non-Jews, with the overwhelming support of Jews worldwide—why does the Western “pro-Palestine” movement spend so much time and energy doing free PR for Jews? Why go so far as to lie on their behalf about what they actually believe? The Western left loves to talk about "centring voices." Well, this is what they've said. So why speak over them?"
r/JewsOfConscience • u/sky_shazad • 11h ago
News "Dirty Arab" A Palestinian driver on Jerusalem's Line 74 stopped the bus due to a mechanical fault
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"Dirty Arab"
A Palestinian driver on Jerusalem's Line 74 stopped the bus due to a mechanical fault, prioritising passenger safety while waiting for a replacement. During the delay, Israeli settlers directed racist slurs at him, accusing him of intentionally holding up the journey
r/JewsOfConscience • u/EnterTamed • 12h ago
News Why Hamas Really Attacked Israel on Oct. 7 | Episode 12
r/JewsOfConscience • u/TrackerOneA • 12h ago
News US Swing Voters Call Gaza Genocide, Back Aid Cut to Israel | AIPAC responds by crying on X
r/JewsOfConscience • u/Uere • 13h ago
Activism Between the river and the sea there is a single colonialist regime which is utterly and completely illegitimate.
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Jonatan Pollak co-founder of direct action group Anarchists Against the Wall, 2021, at the Leibowitz prize ceremony.
Source: ronron123
r/JewsOfConscience • u/Thisisme8719 • 13h ago
News Netanyahu, Smotrich to Send Activists to Poll Stations in Arab Communities
haaretz.comr/JewsOfConscience • u/TrackerOneA • 14h ago
News Pro-Israel restaurant owner Harman Kapoor posted a video asking Netanyahu to continue bombing Gaza. Now after widespread backlash, he's pleading for help, claiming financial pressure has left him with overdue rent.
r/JewsOfConscience • u/andores13 • 14h ago
Vent Diaspora and survival of our culture
First of all I’m stoked to finally find a forum for Jews of conscience. This post have been rejected on several Jewish forums.
I am of Jewish heritage, probably more so than many Israelis, but me and my family are Norwegian first and foremost. The only reason the Jewish culture and religion are still alive are due to the diaspora. If not for the diaspora our relative small culture would be assimilated or simply forced into the majority. Here in Norway we actually had several groups of people with their own language and culture, but because they were small and lived in small regions of the country they were forcibly assimilated.
No, I do not see a reason for us Jews to have our own country. I also had a great grandfather from Germany, do you think that it’s ok that I just got German citizenship and Germany placed 10 Germans in a camp to give me plenty of space?
That is what the nazis called « lebensraum».
r/JewsOfConscience • u/WaitForTheSkymall • 15h ago
News They want Jewish life without Zionism. Now they’re building the institutions to match (JTA)
I was one of the attendees at the JDM workshop day, and it was awesome to connect with leaders from across the country building the Jewish left.
r/JewsOfConscience • u/sad_sapphic_sucker • 16h ago
Discussion - Flaired Users Only The Crusades were colonial, just like Zionism is
web.archive.orgr/JewsOfConscience • u/Tiny-Conclusion560 • 17h ago
Religion / Spirituality Jewish online services that aren’t Zionist?
I’ve been a bit dislocated from my Judaism, as my family who were most practicing have passed and I moved to a place where there aren’t really synagogues or Jewish community.
I’m wondering if there are any online services or community spaces that anyone would recommend? Ideally reform spaces that are inclusive etc. can anyone recommend? Thanks in advance.
r/JewsOfConscience • u/INBloom58 • 18h ago
News Jewish leaders call for Fontaines D.C. gigs to be cancelled
r/JewsOfConscience • u/kiyowo_potato • 1d ago
Zionist Nonsense Naftali Bennett demands the immediate dismantling of the "anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox" sector to save the Zionist state. Demanding that observant Jews bow to militarism proves Zionism and Judaism are fundamentally opposed.
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r/JewsOfConscience • u/Mysterious-Quit2017 • 1d ago
Activism Mr. Netanyahu getting called out by a Jewish Rabbi over Mamdani remarks.
r/JewsOfConscience • u/hi_cholesterol24 • 1d ago
History / Education JC Live?
Did anyone else attend Jewish currents live in person or virtually? What did you think?
I attended 3 panels virtually and I found them all engaging.
r/JewsOfConscience • u/Minivampiretaco • 1d ago
Zionist Nonsense A vigil for the dead for some. ‘Subhuman ghouls’ to Murdoch’s goons
michaelwest.com.auA vigil for the dead for some. ‘Subhuman ghouls’ to Murdoch’s goons
Backed by their cheerleader-in-chief, Chris Minns, when you thought Murdoch writers couldn’t stoop any lower, they did. Andrew Brown was there.
On October 7, the Daily Telegraph told Sydney that “subhuman ghouls” were gathering again to celebrate a slaughter of innocents. I was at that gathering. It was a candlelight vigil at Town Hall, organised by Jews Against the Occupation ’48. About 200 people came, mostly older Australians.
They prayed for the Jewish and Palestinian dead.
Chris Minns called the vigil “heartless”. Four days later, last Sunday, October 11, thousands marched for Gaza, and Minns called them “disgraceful”. Alex Ryvchin of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry called the marchers “obsessive, extreme and hateful”.
He then announced that “the only attempt at racial extermination occurred on October 7 and was carried out by Palestinians”.
Arsen Ostrovsky of the Israel lobby AIJAC used the Telegraph to brand the rally a hate march and to blame such marches for the Bondi massacre.
Their evidence is a handful of placards. Against it stands a United Nations finding that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, more than 72,000 Palestinian dead, and an estimated 300,000 Australians who crossed the Harbour Bridge.
“Social cohesion?”
The mourners are not wrecking social cohesion. The men who call grief hatred are wrecking it, and they are pushing a narrative Israel spends $730 million a year to spread.
The Telegraph’s front page read SYDNEY’S DAY OF SHAME. Below, it said subhuman ghouls gathered in 2023 to celebrate a slaughter, and “they gather again”. Page four carried the headline “Vile rallies ‘celebrating the slaughter’ of Jews”. The paper went to print before a single candle was lit. It convicted us without waiting to see what we did.
Subhuman. A Sydney newspaper pinned that word on older Jewish Australians gathering to mourn. The word has a history, and every editor at Holt Street knows it.
Chris Minns has a word for candles. Heartless. He lit the Opera House for Israel’s dead within days. The sails have never been lit for Gaza’s. Hind Rajab was six. She begged rescuers for hours from a car full of her dead relatives until Israeli fire killed her too. Minns never called that heartless.
American Jewish surgeon Dr Mark Perlmutter treated Gaza’s children for sniper wounds. The United Nations inquiry on which Australian Chris Sidoti sits found Israeli forces deliberately targeted children. Children had limbs amputated without anaesthetic while a doctor sang them a lullaby. Minns never called that heartless either.
Then 200 people prayed for the dead of both peoples, and he found the word.
This is compassion rationed by nationality.
Minns is no peacekeeper. He is a partisan with a police force, and the Jewish group behind the vigil has taken him to the Supreme Court over his laws against protest. Were all 300,000 on the bridge ghouls too, Premier?
“Lewd gatherings”
Ryvchin called Sunday’s rallies “lewd gatherings”. He said the marchers cannot oppose war “because the war is over”. Then he blamed October 7 on Palestinians. Not on Hamas. On Palestinians.
That is collective guilt, the exact offence he accuses the marchers of committing against Jews. If a marcher said Jews carried out the destruction of Gaza, Ryvchin would call it antisemitism. He has done the same thing to another people.
In the same sentence, he denied the genocide a United Nations commission of inquiry found in September 2025.
Ryvchin looked at 72,000 graves and announced that nothing happened there.
I answered him in public. Declaring the war over does not resurrect a single child. Accountability does not expire when Alex Ryvchin decides the public should stop caring.
If a marcher promotes an antisemitic conspiracy, name the conduct and condemn it. Smearing an entire movement is lazy, and it poisons the cohesion he claims to defend. He offered contempt where evidence was needed and collective blame where precision was essential.
Blaming the blameless
Then Ostrovsky, who runs the Sydney office of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council. He wrote that marches like Sunday’s built the Bondi massacre one chant at a time.
Ostrovsky survived Bondi, and his grief is real, but his claim is a smear without evidence. He ties the gunmen to people who want children to stop dying, and he uses the Bondi dead to do it.
The Australian prints the line and Sharri Markson broadcasts it nightly.
News24 reported the backlash to our vigil before it began.
The hasbara campaign
None of this is spontaneous. Israel has budgeted $730 million this year for hasbara, its global campaign to shape foreign opinion. The narrative is designed there. Palestinians and all who stand with them are the enemy. Israel is the only victim.
Our Premier, the Israel lobby and the Murdoch machine push that narrative here. Whether by instruction or by instinct, they do its work.
The Telegraph has discovered that a day of mourning is sacred. Every January 26 First Nations people mourn invasion and dispossession, and every January 26 the Telegraph cheers the party on. Its columnist Anthony Dillon dismissed “attempts to shame us” for celebrating. At Holt Street,grief is sacred when it serves Israel and a nuisance when it belongs to Aboriginal people.
These men cheapen the word antisemitism at the very moment Jewish Australians need it to mean something.
I stood among the ghouls. They prayed for every child killed since that day, Israeli and Palestinian alike.
The Telegraph looked at that and saw something less than human. That tells you nothing about the vigil.
It tells you everything about the Telegraph and those who work there.