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Cara Drook, Reclaiming La Belle Juive, (2022 â).
'"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 think itâs kind of insane to think that blocking defensive aid like Iron Dome would mean that Israel would be *less incentivized* to engage in military offenses, or be more restrained in what it does.
It's born of a severe lack of understanding of what motivates Israel and Israelis.
They really do believe that if not for the iron dome and bomb shelters Israel would just steamroll all over the Middle East and create the grand judean empireâŠ
The only thing that will happen is that more innocents will die and Israel will be incentivised to more aggressively eliminate threats. The iron dome is what allows it to have MORE restraint.
But I guess itâs too much to ask AOC to actually understand geopolitics.
The amendment to block military assistance failed, but partisan split cemented the increasingly polarized view of the U.S. ally.
I left this as a comment but I wanted to add on. Without the Iron Dome Israel would need to be more aggressive not less. Israel would need to take out the governments trying to bomb them into oblivion. The Iron Dome allows them to be more moderate not less.
I keep thinking about this quote from the Politico article:
that's fine, I even agree, but it's not what's being done.
for example:
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Israel is not being treated like other countries, and not being held to a standard set for other nations, including for the United States itself. instead, it's being held to a much higher, much more exacting and demanding one, and the threats against it are minimized or legitimized as Israel itself becomes seen as a global pariah.
I don't absolve or excuse Netanyahu and his right wing government for their actions and contributions to that, but the problem is...even if he were a dovish prime minister, in the aftermath of 10/7, I believe what we've seen happen in the world would still be the response, no matter what Israel did. we saw this in the reactions beginning on 10/8. because it's not about Bibi, it's far more existential than that. if it weren't, these politicians would support defense apparatus (the Iron Dome isn't even a weapon, it's a shield. it just stops more civilians from being killed), and they wouldn't align themselves with virulent antisemites or support an isolationist's bill that would even negatively impact aid for the people they pretend to care about. the dignity and safety of Palestinians is not their driving motivation.
the symbolism here to appease the loudest of their constituents is not really about curtailing weapons or moral standards or a response to conduct in war or affordability (which foreign aid doesn't impact domestically at all) or whatever else they're pretending it is. they don't simply want Israel to "live up to standards" set for other countries, the problem they have is with Israel's existence.
âLet not your heart tremble in the heart of the sea, when you see mountains trembling and heaving, and sailorsâ hands as limp as rags, and soothsayers struck dumb. When they set their course, they were full of joy, but now they are beaten back in shame. The whole ocean is yours to escape in, but your only refuge is the snare of the deep. The sails quiver and quake, the beams creak and shudder. The hand of the wind toys with the waves, like reapers at the threshing: now it flattens them out, now it stacks them up.â
â Judah Halevi, from âThe Poet Imagines His Voyageâ, The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse
A trans girl I know from turkeye just posted "debunking zionist propaganda" and the "propaganda" it was debunking was Being Jewish with Jonah Platt. I'm so sad. I don't want to unfollow all my friends. My face feels hot. I don't know how to react. Do I unfollow her? I love Jonah Platt. How are we ever going to fight back if our best speakers are smeared as zionist propaganda
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âHow are we ever going to fight back if our best speakers are smeared as zionist propagandaâ this is the point, sadly. itâs the point of utilizing the word as a slur, itâs the point of degrading and dismissing any Jew that can be targeted with it. itâs a silencing and delegitimization tactic. if our best and most effective and educated speakers can be instantly dismissed with shorthand for evil, genocidal, fascist, inhuman (which is what the usage of âZionistâ has become), then of course thereâs no point in listening to them. in fact, paying them any attention at all, unless itâs to send them hate, is tantamount to a thought crime, and punishable by ostracization from the in-group as a traitor to the cause. itâs a very easy, very effective way to make sure Jewish creators will not be heard or taken seriously (unless, of course, theyâre the ones who can be tokenized). making sure that itâs widely accepted that anyone who can be called (((Zionist))) is discredited is the best way to make that a reality, and itâs why weâre seeing it happen across every spectrum - the arts, academia, publishing, medicine, politics, and so on. we are not supposed to be able to fight back.
Iâm going to say it actually. Itâs insane to call Israel genocidal for defending themselves against a terrorist group founded with the intent to kill Jews. Also insane to say youâre against genocide while advocating for the destruction of the country that houses half the Jews in the world.
Do you think the Jews in Israel will be allowed to stay in Palestine if Israel is dissolved? Youâd do well to learn the history of what happens to Jews in Muslim countries.
Remembrance, Marc Chagall, 1914.
can we stop with the "epstein class" bullshit. if you mean billionaires say billionaires. if you mean child predators say child predators. if you mean corrupt men in power say corrupt men in power. you sound like an edgy 13yo who just discovered communism trying to sound more politically educated than they actually are
if you mean jews, step off a cliff
The president of a Jewish student body tells antisemitism royal commission that he had a relatively untroubled childhood until he went to un
A Jewish physics professor at Melbourne University has described his fear after finding 20 masked people occupying his office.
A year later, a death threat against him was graffitied on a university noticeboard. Professor Steven Prawer today told the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion the University of Melbourne failed to adequately respond.
James Oaten reports.
Professor Prawer also told the commission a death threat had been graffitied on a university noticeboard, but he did not learn about it until weeks later. "They had removed the graffiti and didn't think it was appropriate to tell me that this had been posted," Professor Prawer said. He said he was "deeply disappointed in the university", and it was hard not to think management had tried to hide it from him.
The left are calling them "low info voters" again.
also Argentina's ties to Israel are that they refused to extradite Nazis after the holocaust so Mossad agents had to covertly capture and smuggle them out of Argentina to stand trial
Argentina. One of THE football countries. On the continent that dominates football. Three time winner of the world cup. Of course they won its what they do. I dont follow sports at all and I knew this! The fact that people are blaming the Jews for this is insane (although unfortunately expected)
Also I dont think Messi means anything in Hebrew anyways, the closest word I can think of is Masi (my tax) but also my Hebrew sucks so idk
The GOP candidates for governor offered conspiracy theories, unverified heroic stories and a prayer in their only appearance together.
Scott Bottoms being an unhinged antisemite, Victor Marx (the nominee) beingâŠunhinged as a whole. great choices happening in US politics right now. none of these candidates have a chance at winning in Colorado, but the fact that the men here were serious choices in any way is concerning.
Marine veteran Victor Marx, whose wild claims â including saying he was forced to kill a man at age 7 â have drawn widespread attention and
Marx, who has gained notice due to a claim he killed a man when he was a child, will advance to the general election against state Attorney
First-time political candidate Victor Marx pulled off a narrow win in the Republican primary for Colorado governor. Hereâs a look at the uno
I take antisemitism so personally and I canât stop. Idk how jews in the public eye do it
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I think itâs kind of insane to think that blocking defensive aid like Iron Dome would mean that Israel would be *less incentivized* to engage in military offenses, or be more restrained in what it does.
It's born of a severe lack of understanding of what motivates Israel and Israelis.
They really do believe that if not for the iron dome and bomb shelters Israel would just steamroll all over the Middle East and create the grand judean empireâŠ
The only thing that will happen is that more innocents will die and Israel will be incentivised to more aggressively eliminate threats. The iron dome is what allows it to have MORE restraint.
But I guess itâs too much to ask AOC to actually understand geopolitics.
The amendment to block military assistance failed, but partisan split cemented the increasingly polarized view of the U.S. ally.
saw this really horrible comment today about how âJewish women love to lie about rape,â and yesterday I saw whatâs basically the inverse, âJewish men love sexual assault, the majority of them are predators and rapistsâ along with the â61% of Israeli menâ disinformation, and none of this is new - both are actually very, very old, both Jewish women being portrayed as liars and âharlots,â and Jewish men being portrayed as innately predatory - but itâs so disturbing seeing the way itâs gaining traction, and knowing that quite a bit of it in these awful posts is stemming from denial of the atrocities of 10/7 and of what was inflicted on the hostages (and those crimes were perpetrated against Israeli victims regardless of gender).
I was looking something up the other day and got a result from the 1930s subreddit, and there was a comment that had been removed by the moderators, but to which someone had replied (and that was still up) telling them they were an antisemite for saying that Jews are the cause of all the abuses in Hollywood and that theyâd never generalize like that about any other group of people. this doesnât mean there havenât been abusive Jewish men, especially in positions of power, there certainly have been, and we know who they are, and the Jewish community as a whole overwhelmingly condemns them, but their individual behavior is used to smear and demonize world Jewry in a particular way. itâs scary seeing the stereotypes and suspicions and vitriolic attitudes continue to grow.
Iâm not really going anywhere useful with this, but it occurred to me how often we mention that Jews are only 0.2% of the world population, and how few people ever really know or even interact with Jewish people. sometimes I wonder if it wouldnât be more useful to point out that the majority, 99.8% of the world is non-Jewish. of course itâs easy to believe such terrible things and to scapegoat such a small group, and of course itâs almost impossible to combat it or to remove it from centuriesâ worth of ingrained culture.
Has Free Palestine become reputation rehab?
On Saturday, my phone showed me Ro Khanna, standing in the West Bank, announcing that the IDF had detained him. I study attention for a living. The Tel Aviv Institute exists because my colleagues and I believe you can learn more about antisemitism from engagement data than from statements of concern. So when the Khanna story landed, I did what I always do. I scrolled back a week.
On Monday, Khanna was calling on Graham Platner to quit the Maine Senate race. He had rallied with Platner during the campaign. Platner is the candidate with a tattoo widely understood to be a Nazi symbol, which he says he never recognized as one and has since covered, and who was accused last week of rape by a former girlfriend. He calls the allegation categorically false. The Maine Democratic Partyâs executive director called it credible. By Wednesday, Platner had suspended his campaign, and Khanna was standing in Khirbet Zanuta. By Saturday, Khanna was posting that settlers with American-made rifles had held him and that soldiers had sided with them. A fundraising email went out shortly after the post. He told The New York Times it was unwise to detain long-shot presidential candidates, and told Reuters the trip had left him more resolved to consider running in 2028.
Parts of his account are contested. The IDF says its soldiers dispersed the settlers and reopened the road. Israeli police say the group had entered a closed military zone. But masked, armed men did block a congressmanâs bus; a New York Times photographer witnessed it. Settler violence in the West Bank is real and deserves condemnation from anyone who claims to care about Israelâs future. The incident happened. What interests me is the week that led up to it. Khanna began it tied to a collapsing campaign and ended it as a wronged man with a viral clip and a donation link.
Once you see the shape of that week, you see it everywhere.
I had never heard of Kneecap until footage surfaced of a band member holding a Hezbollah flag while, prosecutors said, chanting âup Hamas, up Hezbollah.â The terror charge collapsed before trial, thrown out because it was filed a day late and without the required sign-off. The career did the opposite of collapsing. Hundreds of fans stood outside a London courthouse for the hearings, and one woman told a reporter she took a day off work just to be there. In the week the charge was announced, the band advertised a surprise London club show with tickets they said would be gone in minutes. They were. A courtroom is an expensive thing to book as a promoter, and they got theirs free.
I did not know Bob Vylan existed until June 2025, when the duoâs frontman led a Glastonbury crowd in chants of âdeath, death to the IDF,â live on the BBC. The punishment arrived fast: dropped by their agency, US visas revoked, pulled from a festival, a police investigation. Then it evaporated. The investigation closed in December for insufficient evidence. The frontman said in October he would do it again tomorrow, âtwice on Sundays.â This week, the duo announced a defamation suit against the BBC, represented by the same Belfast solicitor who won a case for Kneecap. Eighteen months ago, they were a footnote. Today, they are an international free-speech cause with a High Court docket, and the scandal is the only reason anyone outside their scene knows their name.
Greta Thunberg owned 2019. By 2025, the climate movement had slipped out of the news cycle and taken its most famous face with it. Then she boarded a boat to Gaza, was intercepted by Israel, and was deported in front of the worldâs cameras. She has been in the headlines ever since. Susan Sarandonâs agency dropped her in November 2023 after she told a rally that Jews were getting âa taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country,â remarks she later called a terrible mistake. The apology drew a fraction of the coverage. The relevance stayed. Lizzo spent 2023 and 2024 fighting harassment lawsuits brought by her own dancers, allegations she denies. In March 2024, she posted that she quit, a statement she later softened. Six weeks after that post, she was back on camera thanking the activists working against what she called genocides in Palestine, Sudan, and the Congo, and crediting them with pulling her out of a depression. The redemption arc wrote itself, and the lawsuits fell out of the conversation.
Every one of these stories turns on the same hinge word: until. A career was over, or a name meant nothing, until. And what sits on the far side of that hinge is never an album or a film. It is Israel.
Anecdotes can be cherry-picked, so here is the case where someone counted. Jackson Hinkle, a commentator who has been thrown off YouTube, Twitch, and Instagram, had 417,000 followers on X on the morning of October 7, 2023. Six months later, he had 2.5 million. The New York Times documented the surge. An Israeli research firm that sampled his new followers found he gained 1.2 million of them in the first nineteen days of the war, and that roughly 40 percent were inauthentic accounts. The Anti-Defamation League tracked five influencers in his orbit and found their combined engagement rose more than 1,070 percent in the six months after the massacre. Hinkle had already explained the business model himself, on a livestream, before any of it happened: âI do everything for the clout,â he said, adding that no one would ever see him do anything without that motive.
Or take an even more unlikely musical comeback. Macklemore had not placed a solo song on the Hot 100 since 2017. In May 2024, he released Hindâs Hall, a protest track against Israel, and within a week reached new solo career peaks on three Billboard sales charts. Forbes covered it as a comeback, in those words. He donated the proceeds to Palestinian refugees. The donation does not change the market data. Attacking Israel was the first thing in seven years that returned him to the charts.
The honest objection is sincerity. Greta may believe every word. Lizzo may be sincere, and Khanna may have been genuinely shaken. I will grant all of it, because it changes nothing. A market never asks whether the seller believes in the product. It asks whether the product sells. What the last three years have demonstrated, in the follower counts and the chart positions, is that anti-Israel positioning is the most reliable comeback vehicle in Western public life. The same vehicle carried a MAGA communist, a progressive congressman, a punk act nobody had heard of, and a pop star everyone had forgotten. Its passengers share no ideology and no audience. The one thing they share is a need for the spotlight.
I will not accuse Ro Khanna of sitting in a minibus calculating engagement. He did not need to. The calculation was finished long before he landed, and every public figure in decline can read the results. The exit from irrelevance runs through Israel, and it stays open because it keeps paying. Platforms reward the rage with reach. Institutions fold after a single news cycle, and audiences keep accepting each conveniently timed awakening as conversion rather than commerce. At the Tel Aviv Institute, we have started logging these comebacks, with dates, follower counts, and revenue. Somewhere out there is a fading name none of us could guess today, someone about to discover the Palestinian cause at the exact moment a career requires it. When that awakening is announced, it will land in our log as one more entry, right on schedule.
According to a source for the New York Post, Ro Khanna was invited to meet freed hostages and survivors of October 7th. Khanna's team didn'
According to a source for the New York Post, Ro Khanna was invited to meet freed hostages and survivors of October 7th.
Khanna's team didn't even bother to respond.
His team was also offered an opportunity to meet with Druze civilians in the Golan Heights and a briefing on how aid is currently getting into Gaza. They didn't take it.
Now, if Ro Khanna genuinely believes that aid is not properly getting into Gaza, why not go to the briefing? If he thinks Israel is lying, wouldn't that be the perfect time to get proof?
But he didn't go, because those aren't his intentions. He didn't want to meet with victims of Hamas or those trying to get as much aid into Gaza as they can because they contradict his narrative.
And the narrative is all that matters.
Netanyahu Says It's 150 Delinquents. Ok. Arrest Them.
I canât read this whole piece because he has it locked, but here is his video addressing it and talking about settler violence:
poster from Spain that definitely should have gotten more criticism as one of the most egregious examples of modern day blood libel. I donât know whatâs worse, the mobile above the crib with bombs dangling from the Magen David, or the Nazi style armband with the Israeli flag on the Grim Reaper. the fact that these types of posters have made such a comeback with zero pushback or sense of recognition that theyâre echoing literal Nazi and Soviet genocidal antisemitic imagery/propaganda is surreal to witness.
this is so bizarre (and also inaccurate) that I canât even decipher what theyâre trying to say by putting it up there.
