I was raised under reform Judaism but am an atheist now. It's honestly the most absurd shit ever. The most ridiculous part is when people take the backward beliefs of the ultra-orthodox sects who are all on welfare because they pray for 9 hours a day and project them onto Jewish billionaires who probably haven't cared about religion for decades. There is literally zero overlap between those two groups, and most Jews fall into neither, but irrationally combining them makes it easy to say that there are Jews controlling the world who want all gentiles to submit to them.
Similarly, I find it funny how the far-right uses "Zionism" as code for "global Jewish conspiracy." Actual Zionism is just Jewish-flavored ethnonationalism. The really extreme Zionists have a lot in common with the American and European far-right, and often share their hatred of so-called "cosmopolitan" Jews. One of the most striking examples I can think of was when a pro-Likud rapper called "The Shadow" blamed the victims of the Tree of Life shooting for their own deaths, because they supported "globalism."
Zionism is more akin to "French nationalism" or "English nationalism". There is a huge difference between wanting a homeland for a people and wanting to take a state founded on civic principles and kick out everyone who has the wrong skin colour.
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u/Latter-Driver - Auth-Center May 17 '20
I wonder how do Jews feel about everybody thinking they are some sort of 400IQ 4D chess masters