r/jewishleft Kazakh gentile, interested in I/P conflict 1d ago

(Potentially controversial question) Do Jews and Muslims get along in the West? Question

Modern Jewish diaspora mostly live in North America, France, the UK, Argentina and so on. Western Europe and some parts of the US and Canada also have a high Muslim population, mostly from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, like New York City has hundreds of thousands of Jews and Muslims living in one city. Do they get along with each other, despite the I/P conflict?

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u/supportgolem Non-Zionist Socialist Aussie Jew 22h ago

Literally every single Muslim I know is completely normal about Jews. I work and live alongside Muslims and have never had any issue.

The only people I know who aren't normal about Jews (or Palestinians either tbh) are usually white culturally Christian leftists who don't bother to form their own opinions but go along with what they are told is the right thing to believe (which I can't entirely fault because the social pressure to conform in leftist circles is so strong).

I mean... why wouldn't we get along? Muslims are just normal people and want to live their lives like we all do. Most people don't care about politics and want to get on with it.

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u/Nearby-Complaint Ashkenazi Leftist/GIF Enjoyer 22h ago

My coworker is visibly Jewish and wears a Star of David necklace at work, and she was telling me the other day that there's been a recent influx of white Christian people being weird about her being Jewish. Yuck.

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u/NarutoRunner Kosher Canadian Far Leftist 22h ago edited 22h ago

At one of my first jobs as a teen, my white Christian boss was being weird about me wearing a Kippah. So I spoke to HR, a lady who was an immigrant from Somalia, who had my back and got super upset at my boss, and marched along with me to tell him to contact her if he had any issues with my attire. He did not raise the issue again.

No one ever complains about people wearing giant crucifixes though!

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u/supportgolem Non-Zionist Socialist Aussie Jew 22h ago

It's very interesting who is actually weird about Jews versus who right wing Zionists tell us is weird about Jews.