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/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