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my jewish mom is forcing me to go to israel, and i don’t want to.

I’m a Muslim guy from Saudi but my mom is Yemenite Jewish. She’s always been open about her background but it’s never been a big deal. We’re not religious, neither in Islam nor Judaism, so the little traditions she kept like singing songs from her childhood or lighting candles on Fridays or celebrating shabat (it’s part of the weekend in here) all of these were just quirks to me. She was always respected here and fit into our community easily living like everyone else while raising me but Now though she’s pushing hard for us to move to Israel. She says it’s her lifelong dream and wants to reconnect with some family there (i know them they’re good people). She’s even started talking about aliyah and other stuff i have 0% knowledge about and i honestly don’t want to go, My whole life, my identity and my community are here and I don’t feel connected to Judaism or Israel at all, I don’t speak Hebrew, I don’t feel Jewish and I worry how I’d even be accepted there as a Saudi man

She keeps saying it’s our heritage and that I’ll regret it if I don’t go. It’s causing a lot of tension between us, i mean shes proud of her roots but for me this feels like a world I don’t belong to and i am really confused and clueless and feeling super lost…

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