Georges Fahmi
Palestine
Since October 7, 2023, solidarity movements with Palestine in western countries have witnessed remarkable activism by Jewish voices opposing the Israeli war on Gaza and condemning Israeli state’s attempts to use Jewish religious texts, as well as the history of persecution of Jews during World War II, to justify its war against the Palestinians. Jewish groups around the world demonstrated in large numbers to denounce Israel’s actions and narratives. While some of these Jewish groups limited themselves to rejecting Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands since June 1967, others went further, declaring their rejection of the very idea of Zionism and their opposition to the project to establish an Israeli state in Palestine, as it came at the expense of the Palestinian people, who were displaced from their land.
This research paper maps these different Jewish groups in different western countries, highlights the differences among these groups, and analyzes its relationship to the wider Jewish society in these countries. The paper seeks also to understand why Jewish youth decide to join these movements, and what impact this mobilization has on the way they define their identity, as well as their understanding of Jewish religious texts.
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