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[Serious] Jews of Lemmy, what are your family conversations about the war like? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've had multiple family members deployed to active warzones.

Whenever we talked about war, it was never about politics. It was always "X's tour is supposed to finish next month," or "I heard something happened near [town], wasn't X deployed near there?"

I know how everyone talks about it on the internet, but what is it like for you at home?

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[–] [email protected] 174 points 4 days ago (3 children)

My family still has pretty significant generational trauma from surviving the Holocaust, so the genocide going on in Palestine is quite black and white for us. It’s wrong, Israel’s behavior is monstrous and immoral, and it needs to stop. The Palestinians never deserved this. We talk about it constantly.

Your question kinda implies that we all must have family deployed in a war zone though (unless I misunderstood), and that’s not the case. I’m American. I do have some Israeli relatives who I won’t ever speak to again because they support the genocide, but they’ve all aged out of the army.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Your question kinda implies that we all must have family deployed in a war zone though

I didn't mean to come off that way.

All of the Jewish people I've met had some kind of on-purpose connection to Israel, like family members who lived there, or a community-sponsored coming-of-age trip, etc.

My having family deployed is the closest thing I have to that kind of personal connection to a place in the middle of a war, but I expected your experience to be different from mine.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago

Right on, that’s my bad. I read too far between the lines.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago

❤️ I'm sorry it's affecting you (all) in this way. I agree that the double standard of Israel is just utterly incomprehensible. How can they do unto others the same atrocities done unto them. I just do not understand.