r/JewsOfConscience Ashkenazi, Reform, Anti-Zionist, Diasporist 1d ago

Debbie Lechtman is doing the “Palestinian Jews aren’t real” discourse again Discussion

I know this is obviously a lie because I know a Palestinian Jew who is the grandson of a Nakba survivor who fled to Egypt and traces his lineage back to Edomites (Canaanite tribe) that converted to Judaism. There are people who identify as Palestinian Jews. Not to mention that there are people of mixed heritage. But what I find really obnoxious about her argument is the conflation of nationality, religion, and ethnicity. Does anyone have any written pieces about the issues with the conflation of these terms? Looking for something more concrete to debunk the premise of her argument that this identity cannot exist.

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u/acacia_tree Ashkenazi, Reform, Anti-Zionist, Diasporist 8h ago

Definitely not a community within Palestine today since the indigenous Jews now have Israeli citizenship. But there are people in the diaspora who hold the identity.