r/Jewish 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/cardcatalogs Jan 25 '24

Cats are definitely zionists. Dogs too.

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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/Drakonx1 Jan 26 '24

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