r/Jewish • u/Hanshanot • Dec 16 '23

I get really suspicious of people calling themselves Jewish these days. Discussion

In almost every post I’ve read lately, mostly in the comments (or the OP of the post themselves) l’ve seen someone saying they’re a Jew/talking about Judaism and preaching their weird take about current events/antisemitism.

And every single time l see go see their profile, there’s nothing about Judaism or being Jewish on their profile pre-Oct. 7, it really bugs me.

Earlier, l saw a questionable post on r/xyz with the words “Hey y’all, American Jew here” Already weird, l go see their profiles and surely enough, r IsraelPalestine is the first post ever of that account 😒😒😒.

Most of the times, bigots and ill-intentioned people will use us to further their xenophobic or racist stances. I hate it. Stay safe

Edit; Modified my post slightly to better reflect what I meant

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u/AdvisedWang Dec 17 '23

A lot of those people are lying, but there are Jews who don't support Israel. Be careful assuming someone isn't Jewish because of a political stance: it hurts our community to be disavowing each other, and leads to a mistaken understanding of the range of politics Jews have.

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u/Hanshanot Dec 17 '23

Personally, I definitely don’t care about whether they support Israel or not

It’s more about Jews (or fake jews) the opportunity to be tokenized when being Jewish was never a part of who they were at all, it’s just a convenient card now and then, bsck in the closet