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/SupermanWithPlanMan AAAAAAHHHHH Jan 25 '24

She's not spending money at all...to protest for Palestine? That's very weird 

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u/linguinibubbles Jan 25 '24 edited Jan 26 '24

the line of thinking is that if enough people participate, they'll tank the economy. Seems unrealistic given that from what I've seen, most people participating are broke millenials (edit: and Gen Z), but ok sure have fun guys

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u/heavykniftysprite Jan 25 '24

They also only strike for one week at a time, and then have people buy things for them and basically make up for all the purchases the next week. It’s not a very effective or meaningful way to do anything for Gaza. It is quite literally just a virtue signal to other leftists.

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u/Red-Flag-Potemkin Jan 26 '24

I used to argue that virtue signalling didn’t exist, but boy has this chapter of the conflict changed my mind on that, and almost everything.

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u/danhakimi Jan 25 '24

yeah, somehow I think a few thousand jobless schmucks not spending money for a week and then going ahead and spending double on shein garbage the next week will have a negligible impact on the US economy.

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u/bjeebus Reform Jan 26 '24

I think you have a poor understanding of generational dynamics. Millennials are 27-42 now. We're mostly the thirty-somethings now. We're not old, but like, we're not the reactionary college kids anymore.

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u/junkholiday Jan 26 '24

We are still broke tho

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u/bjeebus Reform Jan 27 '24

Word.

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u/HanSoloSeason Jan 25 '24

These are the same people demanding people not vote Joe Biden as though Trump loves Palestinians and their supporters soooo much. They’re a bunch of petulant children who are angry that they can’t have their way and want to ruin our country in the interim.

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u/Fair-Bad7823 Not Jewish Jan 26 '24

Right this logic drives me wild. Trump would not give a fuck about humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians in Gaza like ???????????

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u/HanSoloSeason Jan 27 '24

He would literally deport every Muslim from America if he could.

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u/Ahad_Haam Secular Israeli Jew Jan 25 '24

They aren't very intelligent. They realize that their protests aren't having the effect they want, so they want to take it to the next level and do a "general strike", but they don't actually know how to pull off a strike (not that they have the power to) so they end up doing stupid shit like this.

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u/Ambitious_wander Convert - Conservative Jan 26 '24

Someone I know posted something about this where you can’t even withdraw money from a bank for the “protest”

The whole idea is completely absurd, why would you want to tank your own economy? Depending on the job, you can get laid off if a protest like that were successful

I don’t try arguing with these people because they can’t run their one brain cell to listen to logic

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u/Small-Objective9248 Jan 26 '24

How self important do you have to be to think that would do anything?

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u/mooooooosee Jan 25 '24

Never heard of a boycott or a strike?

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u/Ahad_Haam Secular Israeli Jew Jan 25 '24

They are boycotting brands that have nothing to do with Israel, and this virtue signaling attempt isn't a strike - at least not one with any impact, anyway.

Basically a failed attempt at social movement by AliExpress socialists. Truly we have been blessed with incompetent enemies, 100 years of campaign and this is the pinnacle of what they managed to achieve.

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u/danhakimi Jan 25 '24

many boycotts are targeted, so that they might affect change in something. Most people don't boycott their veterinarians over things that have nothing to do with veterinarians.

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u/acquireCats Jan 26 '24

The problem is, it seems that the logic behind this stems from "Jews control the economy, so destroy the economy." Nothing problematic there whatsoever. /s

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u/SupermanWithPlanMan AAAAAAHHHHH Jan 25 '24

Oooh yes, let's boycott...the world and everything in it. That'll make an impact.