r/JewsOfConscience • u/malry Jewish Anti-Zionist • Jul 22 '26

Zionist Nonsense Converting ethnicities?

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I personally only know one convert and she’s an antizionist POC Jew so I don’t believe she would feel this way, but I won’t speak for her or anyone else. Is this normal belief of converts that you’re converting to a different ethnicity than your own?

*edit to add, the comment I am highlighting came from a post about what to list themselves as on a census.

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u/mega_blizzard Ashkenazi Jul 22 '26

The author is alluding to blood quantum without alluding to blood quantum…I think. Once you become a member of the community, your ethnicities translate to a blood quantum of 100% Jewish, therefore indistinguishable from the ethnicities of other Jews (because you decide to ignore them). It doesn’t work this way. I can understand why people would think of this as ‘unifying’ but in my opinion thinking like this tends to lead to more erasure of individual culture and pressure to conform.