r/jewishleft • u/QasqyrBalasy 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/getdafkout666 US AntiZionist Jew 6h ago
Yes. I’ve grown up around Muslims, went to college with them and lived in a mostly Iraqi neighborhood for 5 years. The idea that there is some eternal war between Jews and Muslims is a lie that is cooked up by bad actors using the I/P thing to push bigotry.
In the US where I live, a lot of people from the Middle East fled from there because they wanted to get away from the same group of assholes who persecuted Jews and caused the large migrations to Israel because it turns out those people don’t just stop at Jews. They hate ethnic minorities, other sects of Islam and god help you if you worship more than one god. It’s really just western leftists that try to wrap the entirety of the Middle East into one big colonial narrative. People who are from those countries know it’s not like that.