If you are Jewish, what stops you from moving to israel?

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The vast majority of American Jews were not born in Israel. Relally, OP?

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of American Jews were not born in Israel. Relally, OP?

Or even have Israeli ancestors. My DH’s family is from Poland but left around 1900 for the US.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate hot weather. I like living in a diverse society. I don’t agree with the Israeli government. And most of all, I’m American, not Israeli. Judaism is a religion and a culture, not a nationality.

The Jewish people are historically a distinct people.

Israel is quite a diverse country (and not only Jews of different origins, and Arabs, but now also Africans and south east Asians).

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of American Jews were not born in Israel. Relally, OP?

Or even have Israeli ancestors. My DH’s family is from Poland but left around 1900 for the US.

Are you at all curious about how Jews got to Poland?

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of American Jews were not born in Israel. Relally, OP?

Or even have Israeli ancestors. My DH’s family is from Poland but left around 1900 for the US.

Are you at all curious about how Jews got to Poland?

Kicked out of Israel by the Roman Empire to start?

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of American Jews were not born in Israel. Relally, OP?

Or even have Israeli ancestors. My DH’s family is from Poland but left around 1900 for the US.

Are you at all curious about how Jews got to Poland?

WTF is that question even supposed to mean?

Just WTF is this whole thread? I asked Jeff and I'll ask here - is this all flat out antisemitism or is this people who happened to stumble into antisemitic tropes? Jeff thinks the latter and I hope he's right - but JFC.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate hot weather. I like living in a diverse society. I don’t agree with the Israeli government. And most of all, I’m American, not Israeli. Judaism is a religion and a culture, not a nationality.

The Jewish people are historically a distinct people.

Israel is quite a diverse country (and not only Jews of different origins, and Arabs, but now also Africans and south east Asians).

Well, Judaism is STILL not a nationality.

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of American Jews were not born in Israel. Relally, OP?

Or even have Israeli ancestors. My DH’s family is from Poland but left around 1900 for the US.

Are you at all curious about how Jews got to Poland?

Are you curious about how the Celts got to Ireland?

[Anonymous]

Im Jewish and have been to Israel and have no desire to live there.

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of American Jews were not born in Israel. Relally, OP?

Or even have Israeli ancestors. My DH’s family is from Poland but left around 1900 for the US.

Are you at all curious about how Jews got to Poland?

Are you curious about how the Celts got to Ireland?

Is anyone curious how we all got to America? I’m one of the Jews whose non-Jewish half of the family has been here since the Mayflower and I have relatives killed in an Indian massacre. Lots of messy to stuff to go around.

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of American Jews were not born in Israel. Relally, OP?

Or even have Israeli ancestors. My DH’s family is from Poland but left around 1900 for the US.

Are you at all curious about how Jews got to Poland?

Are you curious about how the Celts got to Ireland?

Is anyone curious how we all got to America? I’m one of the Jews whose non-Jewish half of the family has been here since the Mayflower and I have relatives killed in an Indian massacre. Lots of messy to stuff to go around.

Yes, and I'm also curious about how the Siberians crossed the Bering Land Bridge to populate North America.

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of American Jews were not born in Israel. Relally, OP?

Or even have Israeli ancestors. My DH’s family is from Poland but left around 1900 for the US.

Are you at all curious about how Jews got to Poland?

Are you curious about how the Celts got to Ireland?

Is anyone curious how we all got to America? I’m one of the Jews whose non-Jewish half of the family has been here since the Mayflower and I have relatives killed in an Indian massacre. Lots of messy to stuff to go around.

Yes, and I'm also curious about how the Siberians crossed the Bering Land Bridge to populate North America.

Quite possibly, they didn't. The most current theory is they all came by boat.

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Anonymous wrote:OP is conflating Judaism with being Israeli. Not all Jews are Israeli, OP. There is a difference. I can support the idea of Israel and vehemently detest the human rights violations going on there. Also, I'm American. I'm not Israeli. Living in Israel sucks-- it's difficult, expensive, and people are generally aggressive and annoying. It's extraordinarily worrisome to me that many do not know the difference between American Jews and Israelis.

Right. But you could go there if you wanted to, unlike trying to move to other countries which wont allow it. The question was "what is stopping you?" which you answered quite well.

“What is stopping you?” sounds like it’s the default plan for all Jewish people.

I think if you phrased it “why haven’t you considered moving?” it would have been better received.

Are there many Jewish people in your home country?

Op here - I didn’t write the posts quoted above but to answer if there are many Jewish people in the country my parents are from, the answer is no.

But I wish there were - we have a large problem with a growing percentage of other minorities. I def understand where Bibi is coming from.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question. i'm not jewish but my family is clearly in the US because our home country isn't developed enough. If it was one of the twenty most developed countries in the world, we would leave. The US is an economy, not a home or a civilization.

I'm curious given the option that jewish people have, and israel's economic strength and development, that jewish people choose to stay in the US.

Wow.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a really odd question, Op. My ancestors are from Europe but I have never once had someone suggest that I move back to Europe. I was born in America, this is my country. I'm happy here, why would I want to leave and go live somewhere that I've never even been before?

You posters who keep saying this seem unfamiliar with Israel's Law of Return, or Right of return, which appears to be somewhat unique in all the world.

Not really. Americans could emigrate to many countries, especially DCUM types with professional jobs. Nobody every asks "why don't you emigrate" to everyone in gneral.

I think you are vastly overestimating the ease of immigration by Americans to other developed countries- even dcum types.

Secondly, people ask the latter question all the time - especially to liberals when republicans win elections