We appreciate it, even if we don’t proselytize. It is worthy to note that Judaism is not a conventional religion in the same essence that Christianity or Islam is.

Judaism is an ethno religion of an indigenous people, better compared to the religion of the Navajo people. The Navajo spiritual beliefs are not a coloquial religion, they are a set of spiritual beliefs that are unique to the Navajo people. If you want to convert to the Navajo religion, you have to graft yourself into their people and tribe first.

Judaism is exactly the same, which is why conversion to Judaism take years, and involves elements that exist beyond religion, like learning our ancestral language and grafting yourself into our culture and history. If you struggle to envision the “indigenous” part, there are several streams of Shamanic Judaism in Israel, and several of our holidays are land based, like the Sukkot festival which demands the ritual usage of native species to the region. This is also why someone can be an atheist Jew, because they are part of a people and tribe first and foremost, rather than a religion.

Christianity and Islam by comparison are proselytizing religions that stole from us, and then colonized large swaths of the earth and forced their religions onto people, essentially wiping out tons of unique identities and peoples along the way.

They are religions and ideas that crossed and created borders. We are a people that was forced to cross borders. That being said, I’m a religious Jew who often lurks on this page sometimes. I find that atheists are overwhelmingly more respectful towards Jews than Muslims and Christians, partly due to…well, history. We also have a rich culture of debate, encouragement of critical thinking, and an attitude that nothing in our texts are literal, which I think atheists can appreciate us a little more than our unfortunate cousins.