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Cara Drook, Reclaiming La Belle Juive, (2022 –).
'"La belle Juive" translates to "the beautiful Jewess." It is an archetype of Jewish women that is repeatedly shown in paintings and media throughout history. "La belle Juive" is rooted in antisemitism and misogyny. My goal with this collection is to have Jewish women take control of their narrative and reclaim "La belle Juive." I want to return dignity to the subjects and show what truly makes Jewish women beautiful.'
I don’t have the fortitude to check out the comments today, but the post is here.
Eliya Cohen thought his girlfriend, Ziv Abud, was dead when he was kidnapped at the Nova festival. Now they are looking forward to getting m
Eliya
I met Ziv in 2011 while growing up near Tel Aviv. We were both 14 and I saw her crying because her boyfriend had left her. Trying to help, I said, “Don’t cry. You are young, pretty and you will have a good life ahead of you.” She eventually messaged me on Instagram and we started hanging out together. I learnt quickly that she has the most beautiful soul and her love for me was like nothing I had ever experienced. Later we moved in together and we were together every day until October 7, 2023.
Part of my job was organising festivals and we spent many weekends with our friends, listening to music, drinking and having fun. The Nova festival, held in the Negev desert in southern Israel, was something we were all looking forward to. Even after we saw the missiles in the sky that day, we thought, “Ah, this is Israel. It is a normal day.” So we carried on dancing. It was only when I got a call from my aunt, who was also at the festival, that we realised something was not right. She was screaming, saying that someone in her car had been shot. I said to Ziv, “We should get out of here.”
We drove with Ziv’s nephew and his girlfriend, heading for the main road, but there was a police roadblock. We turned the car around and drove maybe five minutes until we saw a bomb shelter — a common sight near the border. More people joined us in the shelter, but we were all talking and joking. Although it was scary, we had seen it before.
Then suddenly the terrorists were outside the shelter and they were going to kill us. A grenade rolled into the shelter and exploded. Another grenade and we are fighting, picking up the grenades and throwing them out of the door. It was like this for 40 minutes until the terrorists fired a rocket-propelled grenade.
I don’t know how, but my mind was still working. Ziv fainted and I knew the only chance to save her was to bury her underneath the dead bodies. Two of those bodies were her nephew and his girlfriend.
The bullets were still coming into the shelter and I was shot in the leg, but then I was dragged out and loaded onto a truck. The last thing I saw was a terrorist pointing his gun into the shelter and firing a hundred bullets. I was sure Ziv was dead.
I was driven to Gaza and thousands of people were on the streets celebrating. I was more scared of these people than I was of the terrorists. The terrorists wanted to keep me alive, a hostage for negotiation. Those ordinary people wanted to kill me. They wanted the respect that would come from killing a Jew.
I was held for 505 days. In the tunnels was the worst — no light, no sleep, beatings, being stripped naked so they could laugh at us, no food, no water. There was a wonderful day when we realised we were so far underground that there was damp on the walls. We would lick the walls. At least we had a drop of water. I put my trust in God. I knew they would not break me.
The days blurred into one, but when we heard a rumour that Donald Trump had been elected it made my group of four hostages very excited. Two weeks later our captors told us three of us would be released. Just three, not four. I was lucky enough to be one of them but knowing one of us was still in captivity filled me with guilt. Alon Ohel was freed eight months later.
Then I saw my family. And Ziv. She was alive. It wasn’t real, but it was. Of course then I found out what had been happening in the world. The marches celebrating the murders and rapes, babies being slaughtered. The only reason people can mock is because we are Jewish. If it happened to other people they wouldn’t.
Even after I was released I didn’t allow myself to continue with life. How could I see a doctor or start my therapy when the other hostages weren’t free? The 20 remaining living hostages were released last October.
It has taken a long time but Ziv and I now try to think about the future. I bought an engagement ring before October 7 and have now had the chance to propose. We will marry this summer and build a family with many children in Israel, in the land where they tried to kill us. For me, that’s the biggest victory of all.
Ziv
The bomb shelter we were in on that day in 2023 — on Route 232 near the Kibbutz Re’im — is now known as the shelter of death. The first grenade exploded and the sound, the smell, the dead bodies… not even bodies, arms and legs and blood. I was scared like I have never been scared before. I peed myself three or four times.
The last thing I remember is holding Eliya’s hand and him covering me with dead bodies. I think I heard him scream, saying he’d been shot. Then one of the terrorists began shooting into the shelter — a machinegun. So many bullets. I could feel them hitting the bodies on top of me — thum-thum-thum — making the bodies shudder and move. And then nothing.
I woke up at 11am and the attack had started at eight. There was me and six other survivors in the shelter, and we had no idea what was going to happen. Would the terrorists come back? We sat with our dead friends for seven hours until we were rescued and taken to a hospital. I tried to call my sisters and they said they had seen a picture of Eliya. I thought they were lying, trying to make me happy, but then I saw the picture on the news. He was alive but he was in Gaza — a hostage.
I cried myself to sleep every night but each morning I would tell myself that I would make sure Eliya came home. I was part of the delegations travelling around the world, telling people about October 7. When he was finally released and I saw him again, after 16 months, he was so thin, my Eliya, and like a ghost.
When I was a child I heard people talk about the Holocaust and how much people hated Jews, but I thought that people had changed. Then I saw marches all over Europe, defending what had happened. People would stop me in the street and say Hamas is not a terrorist group, they are fighting for human rights.
Of the people who were murdered, we knew 48 of them. [Official figures put the death toll of the October 7 attacks at 1,200.] My nephew and his girlfriend are gone. I suffer from PTSD and still have nightmares. When I tried on my wedding dress, there was nothing, no happy tears. October 7 changed us, it changed everything, but we have hope. Our wedding is going to be our moment. It is our present from God.
The Nova Exhibition London is open in Shoreditch until July 5. Tickets and information at novaexhibition.com. Proceeds will go towards supporting Nova Music Festival survivors and bereaved families
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Another part of people love dead Jews is that they love worshipping famous dead Jews who were critical of Israel but ultimately supported it existing in some form ( though they love leaving out that last part) while at the same time calling for the death of modern day famous Jews who have criticized Israel but ultimately support it existing in some form
Or Jews who supported Israel existing/were zionist and would have criticized it's mistakes while continuing to support its existence because that's basically what they did prior to it being a thing, but just have that part quietly brushed under the rug by their 'fans', like Emma Lazarus or Albert Einstein.
Jew haters really be like “Nobody actually hates Jews. you’re lying and exaggerating. Btw you’re to blame for every bad thing in this world. fuck you and die”
I think one of the saddest parts of the last few years is how much respect I’ve lost for librarians. The only way you promote authors like Khalidi, Masalha, Pappé, and Kern, is if you either don’t know anything or are genuinely trying to mislead people. There are excellent books at these same libraries that predate the political orthodoxy of 2023, but I’ve never seen a single one of them showcased, recommended, or read in book clubs. Every book club I was a part of chose to read the books that engaged in Holocaust denial, Temple denial, Khazar theory, the Protocols, and all manner of historical revisionism and conspiracy. I’m not upset that the library has these books; I would never have read them otherwise. I am upset that they’ve selected the narrative of these books as the only one worthy of conversation, and I’m disappointed by their dishonesty.
“They don’t hate you because they have reasons. They will make reasons to hate you.”
'The Chuts'. Dutch Cigar Makers’ Sabbath meal in London's East End, 19th century • Sandys Row Archive
From the 1840s onwards a small group of pioneering Dutch Jews (about 50 families), mainly from Amsterdam, settled in an area in West Spitalfields known as the Tenterground. Hugeunot silk weavers, erected homes and workshops there in the eighteenth century, later becoming occupied by this small tight-knit Dutch immigrant Jewish community, known as “the Chuts.” These little known Dutch Jewish immigrants pre-date the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jewish migrants who fled persecution in the Pale of Settlements and arrived in their thousands to the area from 1880s onwards. The Dutch immigrants who established Sandys Row Synagogue were economic migrants seeking a better life, rather than refugees fleeing persecution. They had their own practises and customs, which were different to other Ashkenazi Jewish groups and refused to join any of the existing synagogues. Most of the newly arrived Dutch Jews were skilled workers, predominately involved in the trades of cigar and cigarette making, diamond cutting and polishing, slipper and cap making. Skills were passed on from generation to generation, making this small community of about a thousand people extremely self sufficient.
If things related to Jewishness or Judaism immediately make you say Free Palestine you are an antisemite. If you cannot see a Star of David without thinking Free Palestine then you are an antisemite. That’s all there is to it. “But there’s no bad time to advocate for a free Palestine!” Yet you don’t say it on LGBTQ pride posts. You don’t say it to random Christian people. You don’t say it about random posts about disabled people. There is one and only one minority who’s existence elicits a flood of “free Palestine.”
Seriously tho, the Soviets and Nazis were more ideologically aligned given their love for totalitarianism.
Unfortunately, leftists would hound you for saying that
Example in this essay: https://www.reddit.com/r/ussr/wiki/controversial-topics/molotov-ribbentrop-pact
(also seriously it sometimes boggles the mind that analysts at the time didn't expect the Nazis and Soviets would sign a pact. Like, both were dictatorships, just on opposite ends of the political spectrum. And given the fervent rise of antisemitism in the left and the right-wing also supporting them, horseshoe theory is very much real)
100%. Extremism on either side very quickly starts appealing to the same psychopathic people. There's a reason Nazi Germany had such a common phenomenon of 'beefsteaks', former members of the KPD who joined the NSDAP, the joke being that they were brown on the outside (brownshirts) and red on the inside.
I don't blame analysts at the time for being so shocked, because both the Nazis and Soviets openly had imperial designs on the same territories, and also both fascism and communism were totally new to being in control of a state. The first fascist state was Italy in 1922, which was structurally very different to Nazi Germany anyway, and the first communist state was the RSFSR in 1917 (later USSR). The pact came into being in 1939, so it's not that weird to me that analysts struggled to predict or understand the behavior of states' whose ideologies had only been put into practice some 20 years before.
But you're right about antisemitism being a unifying factor between the two. Lots of people tend to dismiss left wing antisemites as still being 'less dangerous' or 'less powerful' than Neo Nazis, and tbh, idk what the fuck they're talking about. If someone's threatening to kill Jews, it's a little academic to debate if they wanna kill us in the name of the white race or in the name of Palestine. I say fuck all of them and long live the sane center, center left, and center right. There's a reason extremists are also unanimous in their hate for moderates, more so than in their hate for the other extremists.
In more Australia News... Vile Antisemitism. G-d I hate it here.
The victim of an antisemitic attack says he doesn't want to clean up offensive graffiti sprayed on his Adelaide property, because he wants t
"I am Jewish; I have seven kids... we never cover up that we are Jewish"
"I want everyone to see because... it's a fierce target to family, not public Jewish institutions... they want to come to... families and kids."
Leftists when they realize that unlearning colonial ideas means deconstructing their antisemitism as well:
“Egypt Manager Hossam Hassan Raises Palestinian Flag After Historic World Cup Win (3 July 2026)” 37K upvotes on this in popculturechat but nobody will talk about the fence between Egypt and Gaza and how Egyptians treat Palestinians.
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Egypt is building a massive miles-wide buffer zone and wall along its border with southern Gaza, new satellite images show, as fears grow ov
Fixers with alleged links to Egyptian intelligence are making a fortune in ‘fees’ from people hoping to exit through the Rafah crossing
Egypt's empty Sinai Peninsula would offer safety for Palestinian civilians. But Egypt fears refugees might never be allowed back, citing the
do you ever see something and immediately think, “no, you could not pay me to even waste one minute and thirty seconds on this, it’s not worth the level of frustration the stupidity will cause me”? because that was my reaction to this:
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"I just finished reading a disturbing article on the rise of antisemitism in Europe and how more than half of the Jews in Europe are considering leaving as a result.
"I saw several situations here when some of my Jewish friends had to hide their identities to avoid being harassed, if not attacked, and I always told them not to hide it, not to be intimidated by those antisemites, and to constantly confront them so that these crimes do not become commonplace.
"I tried doing my part to combat this problem by volunteering on some university campuses, at public events, and sometimes with my writings here.
'If anyone is aware of such a thing in a specific university or a public space in Europe, I'm willing to volunteer and help our brothers and sisters in the Jewish community here.
"If anyone is aware of such a thing in a specific university or a public space in Europe, I'm willing to volunteer and help our brothers and sisters in the Jewish community here; you shouldn't be intimidated by those people, and if someone should leave Europe, it's them."
Hamza Howidy is such a mensch 💖
i love being jewish i love how loud family dinners get i love playing jewish geography i love feeling songs and prayers in my bones i love our resilience i love our food across all parts of the diaspora i love our inventions and contributions to the world and that we make up twenty-two percent of all nobel prize winners from 1901 to 2025 i love the love and comfort and safety i feel within the community i love learning a dance and singing "hava nagila" under my breath when a move is quite literally the hora i love sitting in the ocean and saying the Shema and feeling the world still just for a moment i love yiddish expressions and saying oy vey ist mir i love harmonizing with my family when we light the candles on shabbat and sitting in a field at camp with my leds to do a service away from home without proper candles i love us i love us i love us
