On June 30, 2024, 100,000 Jews protested in Jerusalem against Isr•el’s high court’s recent decision to draft Orthodox men into the Isr•eli army. Anti-Zionist Jews refuse to serve in the Isr•eli army and carry out its actions. According to Judaism, Jews are forbidden to occupy another land, have their own sovereign state, or wage wars against any nation.
Protest banners read: “Isr•el’s army is a brainwashing cult” and “The Zionist army does not serve the citizens; it serves Zionism.” Banners displayed on poles read: “We will not enlist in the enemy army!”
A banner on a building in the center of the protest read: “The Jewish nation is against the Zionist bloodshed committed in the name of the Jewish nation.” Other banners read: “I am a Jew, therefore I will not enlist in the Zionist army” and “Zionists use Jews as human shields.”
During the protest, Zionist police ruthlessly attacked protestors. Zionist police carelessly injured protestors with horses. Police used water cannons to spray chemical skunk water on protestors. Young boys confronted police harassment.
they want to get more land but not die for it, classic settlers
liberals will say they’re antisemitic
While the anti-Zionist Jews in Israel have my support, I feel they’re fighting a losing battle and always have been, and the smart choice is to get the hell out. Being used as meat shields for the genocidal settler regime, and for the other genocidal settler regimes (the Anglo-Americans) which imposed that regime (Israel) as their means of having a permanent chokehold on the region- was always their fate.
As for the Zionist Orthodox who wanted to have their cake and eat it too- this was always their fate as well (and good riddance). They joined the empire’s unsinkable aircraft carrier for the benefits or their own religious extremism, and thought they could be anything other than the meat shields they were always intended to be when the time came? L(Mao)… they entered the mousetrap- the western world’s way of destroying, enslaving, and exterminating Semites (Jews and Arabs, and Jewish Arabs alike)- now they get to reap the true rewards.
The internal contradictions will continue until moral improves.
There is a difference between a Jew and a Zionist, and these protestors prove that fact with every day of resistance against the genociders. May their god, and every god to cast eyes on this dirtball go with them, and gird them against Zionist action; every day of their struggle. but scratch that, do not uplift the warhawk-til-the-call-comes extremists; I am so disappointed.
Those are haredi. Sorry to burst your bubble, but those people are among some of the most extreme Zionists within the entity.
They’re protesting the draft bc for the longest time, they were allowed to advocate for their bloodlust without actually enlisting.
Just a collection of religious chicken hawks.
God fuckin dammit. I guess the only ones to uplift are Amerikan Orthodox… Even then I expect them to capitulate just on basis of being Amerikan
As I understand it, some of the Haredi are anti-zionist. Of those there are some that think only god can bring about zion and its heresy or something to attempt to do so politically, caring little or nothing for Palestinians themselves. There are some others which do see the occupation and treatment of Palestinians as immoral and an affront to their religious beliefs, some of those are even deeply committed to the Palestinian cause. I’ve seen cases of those Haredi waving the Palestine flag, swarming and harassing IOF out of Jerusalem and West Bank settlements.
But yeah, most of them enjoy the privilege of being a special class in Isn’treal society. They want the whole colonial project, but think the blood belongs on someone else’s hands.
