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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.'

#GORGEOUS #jewish art #jewish women 🩷#la belle juive #am yisrael chai

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Leftists when they realize that unlearning colonial ideas means deconstructing their antisemitism as well:

#and that’s why none of them are doing it lol :/#antisemitism #colonialism #supersessionism #leftist hypocrisy

jewish-vents

“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

#egypt #world cup #popculturechat is awful. (though maybe slightly less awful than the nazi hive fauxmoi has become)

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:

skipping at the speed of light

#note her ‘cia in hollywood’ book. there is nothing this woman has to say that i want to hear lol #absolutely not #all due respect to michael for fighting the good fight in his comment though #antisemitism in fandom #friends

infiniteglitterfall

"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 💖

#hamza howidy #my heart hurts for people like him and ahmed fouad alkhatib. they deserve so much better #allies we love you 💙

primrosemoon11

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

#jewish joy #am yisrael chai #💙

thelawfulchaotic

jsyk the op of the post about jewish music you reblogged is a zionist

Okay, sure, let's have it out. I imagine I'll pretty much piss off everyone with this.

First: the only confidence I have in my understanding of the political situation of the Middle East is that I have no fucking understanding whatsoever of the political situation in the Middle East. Sure, I've read plenty. I have friends of many many stripes. But I'm not a victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect here, folks: I know enough to know how much I don't know, and how much I know is tons.

Second, you say that person is a "zionist." There are three things I find pretty annoying about this as a defense attorney. One is that the term is not defined, and the other is that there is a complete lack of evidence. The third is the implicit assumption that being a "zionist" is enough to wholeheartedly condemn anyone.

Let's tackle these one by one. And, once again, I am neither a scholar of Jewish history nor Middle Eastern history nor anything except American criminal law.

First: definition. There are many possible meanings of zionist that I see people use. One potential meaning of "zionist" seems to be "is Jewish, but fails to disavow Israel as fast and loud as I personally want them to." Sometimes the meaning of "zionist" is just "is Jewish." Sometimes it's "a Jewish person who wishes for a return to a very distant ancestral homeland." Sometimes it's "wholehearted supporter of Israel's war crimes." A lot of pointless arguing, it seems to me, is centered around someone saying they are zionist, i.e., they would like Jewish people to someday have a nice homeland where they don't feel like a strange political chunk in another country, and another person hears that they are zionist, i.e. they enjoy wholesale slaughter of civilians.

Second: No evidence. Self-explanatory. You are an anon. I don't know why I'm supposed to trust your word. I read police reports for a living and I am supposed to be able to trust them, and let me tell you how many lies they contain.

Third: the assumption of condemnation. I literally defend the human rights of sex criminals in court. I defend murderers. What we are talking about, right now, at best, is a human person expressing an opinion, however potentially damaging and offensive (depending on definition of zionism and truth of accusation). Do you think I'm gonna say that Jewish people who express an opinion are inhuman and deserve segregation from the rest of us?

Do you think I'm ever going to stop reaching out my hand to people who use violence? Do you think I'm ever going to lose the hope that someday they will lose the fear that makes them resort to violence?

Finally, now that I've spent some time listing my problems with your case, so what.

Let's use an example closer to home. I'm an American, and I do in fact believe that America is a nation and will continue to be so, and that tearing down all government to give it back to indigenous people (something that is, to be clear, to my understanding, not comparable with any kind of political situation in Israel) is not possible as things stand. And yet nobody's here interrogating me about Donald Trump and his bombing of Iran or whether I support ICE's jackbooted thuggery.

A little further from home? If I met a Russian person, my first ask would not be "Tell me in detail your thoughts on Ukraine and Putin."

And in those two examples, I myself and this hypothetical Russian person are actually members of the country in question that is doing the thing. A Jewish person who is not Israeli isn't even that.

Listen. I think there's a lot to be unpacked about how the insularity of Jewish culture and the separateness of it from the countries where it lives is both in the interest of continuing the Jewish ethnicity and in the interest of the people who want Jewish people exterminated, and how the double-pull of those two interests maintain a tension that otherwise might dissipate. I think there's something real to be analyzed about how modern anti-semitism isn't a recurrence of medieval anti-semitism but a different thing, a sign of fascist thinking.

I think there is a horrific tragedy for everyone involved that the group who was decimated beyond belief in the blackest events in human history now has a very loud and visible nation channeling their survival into rage and violence.

I think that there are lots of Arab nations around Israel that would gladly see every person in it subject to that same rage and violence, and I'm not down with that shit either.

I think the history of who colonized who and when and what pogroms did what and how violence and why are all too fucking complicated to untangle.

I think the only way truly forward for Israel and Palestine is some kind of truth and reconciliation type thing and that Israel as it stands is too scared to see all their atrocities come to light.

I was raised atheist with college professor parents, so you can bet Jewish people in academia were part of my life from an early age. I don't understand antisemitism literally at all. It's completely incomprehensible to me. I also think Arab culture is gorgeous and studied Arabic in college. I don't discount the idea that I have subconscious biases; I've done my best to unpick them, but it's lifelong work.

The whole goddamn clusterfuck is a great example of why violence begets violence begets violence. I reject the idea that One Final Ass-Kicking on anyone's part will solve any one of these problems. The only thing that ends violence is not choosing violence. And that can't happen until enough people in and out of power want the violence to stop. There. Not here. There. It can't be imposed from outside. It has to come from within.

And that's a decision -- I must add -- that I seriously could not have less to do with. White Americans should not be making any of the related decisions.

Here endeth the essay, with one final note.

My Jewish friends are safe on this blog. My Arab friends are safe on this blog. That's all.

biglawbear

Thank you for standing up for Jews, OP.

The fact that Anon saw someone posting about Jewish and Israeli music and immediately saw Zionism and needed a Call Out... Really telling

#just broke down and cried real tears over this #thank you op #thank you for your rationality and compassion #thank you for centering humanity #responses like this are incredibly rare and very valued #allies we love you 💙#you are not obligated to complete the work but neither are you free to abandon it

chutzpahchesed

this is so bizarre (and also inaccurate) that I can’t even decipher what they’re trying to say by putting it up there.

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an explanation of why he did this…it’s uh. not great

Since it was placed earlier this week, community members have expressed anger about the Lake Theater and Cafe’s marquee advertising screenin

Since it was placed earlier this week, community members have expressed anger about the Lake Theater and Cafe’s marquee advertising screenings of Christopher Nolan’s new film “The Odyssey.”

The south-facing marquee reads “Before there were the Jews, there was… The Odyssey.”

The reference has concerned many in the local Jewish community, specifically because of the current political environment in which the Jewish community faces heightened criticism — and bigotry — following escalating violence in occupied Gaza, and many feel that the marquee is antisemetic and ahistorical.

Bob Horenstein, The Jewish Federation of Greater Portland chief community relations and public affairs officer, said the federation has received dozens of messages from concerned community members. The Review also received many emails expressing concerns and many people have posted on social media about it.

“There’s drawing attention, and then there’s being offensive … What I wrote to (Lake Theater) yesterday was, we’d received over three dozen (email and calls) at least that members of our community feel very unsettled by the sign and I said we do not know the reason behind the choice of language, nor are we suggesting that there is necessarily any ill intent,” he said. “But to understand that, given the current climate of rising anti-Semitism, any reference to ‘the Jews’ is immediately suspected, rightly or wrongly, of having nefarious intentions, and that we would respectfully urge you to remove the current language and simply promote the movie.”

Jordan Perry, the general manager of the Lake Theater, said the marquee text would be taken down.

In a text message, he said the point of the remark was to push back on what is constituted as antisemitism and said he was surprised by the negative reaction it has received.

“My intention is never to influence opinion or fan flames, but to say: it’s okay to raise eyebrows, though I hope my messages reflect a depth of understanding others find in themselves but not always in the world around them,” said Perry by text message. “Through the media I consume, I believe modern-day antisemitism is exaggerated, mostly as a defense for Israel’s actions in the Middle East and its involvement in our politics, and my intention in referencing Jewish people on the marquee was to prod at everything being seemingly antisemitic with a statement that couldn’t possibly be construed as antisemitic.”

He added: “My intention was not to offend anyone, but rather to push back culturally back on what constitutes antisemitism, to signal, in solidarity, that it’s not about ‘the Jews,’ that it’s about Israel, and Palestine, and Lebanon, and Iran, and AIPAC. This is my ‘humor,’ this was the point, intentionally subtle, of what I put on the marquee.”

Perry added that the marquees reflect his personal views, not those of the business, and are “meant to connect with open-minded members of the community on a personal level, not as a business, and anyone coming to the business should only expect good food and drink, a relaxing environment, friendly staff, with a sort-of cynical guy sometimes behind the register who also runs food and cleans toilets.”

Rabbi Eve Posen, of Congregation Nevah Shalom, connected the marquee with accusations by members of the U.S. Congress that Israel is committing genocide in Palestine and said that a member of the community’s car was recently vandalized with swastikas.

“None of the individual moments, taken on their own, would necessarily warrant a public reflection. We live in a world where people disagree. We debate policy. We challenge history. We confront acts of hatred. But when these moments come one after another, layering upon one another in the span of a single day, they tell a story that is impossible to ignore,” Posen wrote via social media.

She also felt that there was no good reason for the Lake Theater to bring up the Jewish community while advertising the new film.

“The statement is historically false. More importantly, it raises a painful question: why invoke Jews at all? A clever movie promotion could have celebrated one of the oldest stories ever told without unnecessarily positioning Judaism as an afterthought or a comparison. In a moment when antisemitism is already at historic levels, casually inserting Jews into a narrative where we do not belong doesn’t feel harmless. It feels like another reminder that our story is somehow expendable, that our history can be rewritten or diminished for the sake of a punchline,” she wrote.

The north-facing marquee also referenced the new movie with the message, “Do you watch TV w/ subtitles? We’ve got The Odyssey w/ subtitles! (Not always, but sometimes).”

Many people commented that the story of The Odyssey – Homer’s original Greek epic passed down through an oral tradition – isn’t definitively older than evidence of Israelite tribes in ancient Canaan.

“it’s not about the Jews,” says absolute jerk who put “the Jews” on his marquee. “I’m not antisemitic” says the fool denying modern antisemitism.

prismatic-bell

Happy to say the Portland community IS NOT HAVING IT.

#good #antisemitism #portland #oregon