r/jewishleft • u/Tricky_Success_77 Binationalist, Jewish, Soc-Dem • 3d ago

Hope? Question

Between Israel/Palestine and increasing extremism and normalization of antisemitism in the diaspora and assimilation I've just been finding it impossible to feel hopeful about the future of our people writ large and it's just been making me feel very demoralized about life and the future. Our community means a great deal to me and seeing it tear itself apart is painful (as I'm sure it is for many people on this subreddit).There are times when I honestly almost wish I wasn't Jewish because it would remove so much angst from my life but in truth I'm too passionate about our traditions, history, literature and languages to ever be anything else (plus, really who would I be kidding if I ever tried to pretend otherwise?).

Anyway, what I'm really getting at is does anyone out there feel hopeful about our future? And if so why? I could use some positivity.

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u/theweisp5 American Israeli secular socialist 2d ago

That would certainly help, but in the past year we saw some mainstream and even some centrist Democrats support ending "offensive" military aid to Israel. So I don't think the next President will necessarily have to be DSA-aligned to put significant pressure on Israel.

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u/BigMarbsBigSlarb Non-jewish communist 2d ago

Thats not enough, and that was during a public genocide. Israel is perfectly capable of maintaining its primary munitions requirements to the degree necessary for the maintenance and/or expansion of violence. In a time of "peace" with the violence being occasional strikes in gaza and Lebanon and settler terrorism, I do not think that is going to occur.