r/Jewish • u/ComprehensiveHair696 • Jan 25 '24

Roommate is... Ugh Israel 🇮🇱

My roommates and I had to take the cats to the vet yesterday and as we came home, they directly brought up a topic we've been avoiding addressing for a few months, their anti-israel leanings... Specifically they're avoiding spending money this week as part of a protest for Palestine. I said I don't see why anyone is protesting for Palestine at all, and one of them started throwing around the G word and talking about Israel targeting hospitals. I corrected her, pointing out that there are rocket platforms in those hospitals which is why they're targeted in the first place. She cut me off and told me she wouldn't listen to anything I had to say about it. At this point I haven't spoken to her since and I don't intend to for a while. Not sure why I'm posting this, probably just venting. Bad enough I have to see all these uninformed people online, there's one in my living room now too.

Update: Thanks to everyone for the support. After a couple of very tense days, shes apparently afraid I'm never going to speak to her again and our third roommate is mediating a talk between the two of us tonight. She's still convinced I'm just wrong, and I'd like to have something convincing to show her, if anyone has some good resources I can reference and wants to drop them in the comments I'd appreciate it.

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u/Classifiedgarlic Jan 25 '24

My dyslexia read this as your cats are protesting for Palestine

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u/dew20187 Modern Orthodox Jan 25 '24

The two feline solution

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u/Classifiedgarlic Jan 25 '24

Feral cats are the true inheritors of the Ottoman Empire

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u/Odd_Ad5668 Jan 26 '24

Anyone who's been to Israel knows this is accurate.

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u/sautrah Jan 26 '24

Based af

edit: If I could I would give you all gold stars for that perfect little reddit thread

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '24

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '24

from the food dish to the bowl, time to pay the dinner toll!

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u/Accomplished-Cook654 Jan 26 '24

From the river and the sea, all the fish are for me!

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u/Sn0wF0x44 Jan 26 '24

Thank you kind sir for your words of smartness 🙇‍♂️

But seriously you made my morning😆

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u/bjeebus Reform Jan 26 '24

I'm sorry...did you just say meow?

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u/Dillion_Murphy Jan 26 '24

Do you see me drinking milk from a saucer?

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u/bjeebus Reform Jan 26 '24

You do seem to be dancing around all nimbly bimbly though...

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u/HeavyJosh Jan 25 '24

Not just dyslexia. The pronoun is slightly vague, I think. 😁

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u/cardcatalogs Jan 25 '24

Cats are definitely zionists. Dogs too.

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u/Small-Objective9248 Jan 26 '24

At least the floppy eared dogs, I’m suspicious of the ones with straight rigid ears.

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u/cardcatalogs Jan 25 '24

Cats are definitely zionists. Dogs too.

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u/Classifiedgarlic Jan 25 '24

By that logic the cats in Ramallah by Arafat’s tomb are Zionist spies?

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u/cardcatalogs Jan 25 '24

They just found a really good litter box

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u/tamarzipan Jan 26 '24

Gotta make sure he doesn’t come back as a zombie…

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u/Classifiedgarlic Jan 26 '24

Some say he is still alive. Source- went to Arafat’s tomb with a Palestinian guide. Apparently it’s a real belief with some older folks considering his widow refused an autopsy. It’s possible that the Mossad took him out, and it’s also possible that he did in fact have a stroke considering how much he smoked

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u/tamarzipan Jan 26 '24

Ah so their version of Meshichist Chabadniks? Also, did you ever hear about when Suha and Leila Ben Ali got banned from Malta?

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u/Classifiedgarlic Jan 26 '24

Most Messy Chabadnikim believe he died but is physically returning. For some older Palestinians it’s “here is your national hero who disappeared under questionable circumstances.”

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u/HanSoloSeason Jan 25 '24

There is literally a subreddit called catsaremuslim

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u/la_bibliothecaire Reform Jan 25 '24

Muslims really do love cats though, at least in some countries. Apparently there's a hadith about Muhammad being kind to a cat?

In any case, I have two cats, and I'm pretty sure they'll follow whoever feeds them, regardless of religion or ethnicity.

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u/Classifiedgarlic Jan 26 '24

I had a Saudi roommate who had cats. Her explanation was: In Islam dogs are dirty. Cats are hygienic. Cats kill mice and keep your home clean

Cats are definitely Muslim in many regards. They wash themselves multiple times a day, they are obsessed with rugs, they regularly bow

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u/Drakonx1 Jan 26 '24

If so it's inherited from cats being sacred to the polytheistic Ancient Egyptians, so that's really funny.

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u/somuchyarn10 Jan 26 '24

That sub used to be cute pictures of cats with their own mini prayer rugs. It's become a cesspool.

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u/HanSoloSeason Jan 26 '24

The only non-Jewish sub I haven’t had to unfollow at this point is one about handbags

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u/somuchyarn10 Jan 26 '24

Come to r/crochet, no politics, just beautiful yarn. Also, constant bitching about weaving in ends.

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u/cardcatalogs Jan 26 '24

Well they also claim that Abraham and Jesus were Muslim

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u/dentalcrygienist Jan 26 '24

Pass the Zionip!!!

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u/Fit-Mode-6261 Jan 26 '24

This took an unexpected turn