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Cara Drook, Reclaiming La Belle Juive, (2022 ā).
'"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.'
A very progressive group at my college just posted an infographic that states ā Zionists believe that Jewish people are indigenous to Israelā and I am losing my shit.
They said this in a post including that itās okay to kill Zionists and they explicitly support all armed resistance
This is quite something. This is really quite the situation.
wtf this is actually insane. this is... i dont even know what to say or how to describe it. its just... I cant quite believe this is what American colleges are coming to...
As a high schooler applying for colleges next year, this isn't making me too excited to go to college at all.
"Zionists believe in historical fact" is a fascinating new reason to hate Zionists
āThis is why these conversations are impossible. You keep retreating into facts.ā
They described it as āa safe space for difficult conversations.ā What they really wanted was an Israeli who would sit quietly and confess.
unfriendly reminder that antisemitism is always the antisemite's fault.
Kohal Beth Israel, New York, 1958, by James Van Der Zee (1886-1983).
James Van Der Zee lived and photographed in Harlem for many decades earning him his reputation as both the neighborhood's preeminent photographer and one of the first great African-American photographers of the Twentieth century. This photograph documents the congregants of one Harlem synagogue in the late 1950s.
I hate how Jews saying anti Israel stuff are treated as a completely unbiased source. I donāt care if a person is jewish or not if they are spreading Khazar theory they are wrong.
Is the UN antisemitic for insisting that refugees should be allowed to right of return?
No, they are antisemitic for decades of ignoring attacks on Israeli civilians , being extremely biased and literally supporting terrorists . And i think you know thatā¦ do a google search or I donāt know, listen to Jews.
Anyways, Here are a few reasons:
-calling out Israel more than any other country, while there are countries in their board that are actual dictatorships with apartheid & genocide .
Theyāre fixated on Israel.
-only holding Israel for agreements made while ignoring the fact that other parties have been violating the terms (aka harming Israeli civilians, amassing an army& weapons , moving past certain borders, etc).
*Aka whatās happening with Hezbollah& Hamas over the last 20 years ,,,
-ignoring the events of October 7th for almost a year: kidnapping of civilians, mass murder and torture , women being raped as a weapon of war , etc.
The UN has a long history of being antisemitic and anti- Israel.
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Instead of actually helping Palestinian refugees, the UN donated money and resources to literal terrorists. It perpetuates the narrative that they are refugees instead of actually resolving the issue.
Hell they let a terrorist organisation control the Gaza Strip for years. Said terrorists are higher ups in UNWRAā¦
Some reading:
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It is taken as fact by the overwhelming number of global Jewish organizations that the United Nations suffers from an antisemitic rot - Clic
I could go fully into explaining how the "it was promised to them 3,000 years ago" jokes fundamentally are based on a misunderstanding of the Torah because the "joke" would not work otherwise.
However at the end of the day its just calling jews greedy. Like people whip it out about everything and anything that it literally is just the socially acceptable way to call jews greedy. Ya know, a stereotype shoved on us for decades.
At least come up with something original instead of reheating the same nachos that nazi Germany reheated.
At least be original
The way so many prominent climate activists abandoned their original cause in favor of Israel hate gets even worse when you realize they did it with funds from Qatar, a country whose wealth entirely depends on the sales of fossil fuels. They hate us so much they shut off their brains.
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itās almost like this is disinformation.
"We are taught in Spain that the Jews are to blame for everything."
An open conversation between a Spanish student and Max Veifer.
Idk if this is a controversial opinion but just because Iām a pale Jew doesnāt make me white.
People love demonising Jews for being āwhite colonisersā and jump on any pale Jew to prove their point but being pale =/= white like sorry not sorry. Calling me white is like calling someone whoās a pale Asian white. I am not even Ashkenazi not that it should matter but skin color varies a lot in my family. Even my siblings and father are a lot darker than me but we have the exact same ancestry, so how am I white and theyāre not?? People just seem to forget how ethnicities work and just love to assume stuff about you based on your skin color and call it progressive. I have experienced so much antisemitism how am I exactly āa privileged white womanā?? Not to mention that I donāt look white at all, Iām just pale???
In the holocaust we were hated for not being white and now weāre hated because people are claiming weāre white like the antisemites canāt choose. Jews of any origin canāt be white.
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9/10 times that comment section is š¬
thereās always someone willing to prove the point:
are you normal about Jews? have you ever been normal about Jews? will you ever be normal about Jews? when will you be normal about Jews?
Sotomayor allows a revived $655.5 million judgment against the Palestinian Authority and PLO to stand as appeals continue.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday declined to halt enforcement of a $655.5 million judgment against the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in a lawsuit brought on behalf of Americans killed or injured in terrorist attacks in Jerusalem in the early 2000s.
The case centers on attacks by various Palestinian groups and individuals between 2002 and 2004 that killed several people and wounded dozens during the Second Intifada. The plaintiffs sued the PA and PLO under the Anti-Terrorism Act, alleging responsibility for the attacks.
Attorneys for the PA and PLO filed an application to stay the judgment with the Supreme Court in late July, arguing that the judgment became a ānullityā and āabsolutely voidā after earlier court proceedings years ago.
Sotomayor denied the request on Monday without referring it to the full court or providing an explanation.
The legal setback comes as the PA faces mounting financial pressure amid the fallout from Hamas' October 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. Palestinian officials have warned that the suspension of tax revenues collected by Israel on the authority's behalf, coupled with worsening fiscal deficits and economic disruption, have deepened a financial crisis that is straining the PA's ability to fund government services in the West Bank.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs declined to comment. Newsweek has reached out to the defendants' legal representatives for comment via email on Tuesday.
The legal battle dates back more than a decade and stems from a series of shootings and bombings in and around Jerusalem between 2002 and 2004 during the Second Intifada. American victims and the families of those killed sued the PLO and PA.
The PLO was founded in 1964 with the backing of the Arab League and is internationally recognized as the representative of the Palestinian people. It is an umbrella organization composed of several Palestinian political factions and is responsible for conducting diplomacy and representing Palestinians in international affairs. The PLO signed the Oslo Accords with Israel in 1993.
The PA is a governing body established in 1994 under the Oslo Accords to administer parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Today, it exercises limited self-rule in parts of the West Bank and is responsible for functions such as education, healthcare, sanitation and civil administration while also coordinating on some security matters with Israel.
Following a seven-week trial in 2015, a federal court in New York issued a roughly $655.5 million judgment against the PA and PLO.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the verdict in 2016, ruling that U.S. courts lacked jurisdiction over the Palestinian entities. Two years later, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal.
In 2019, Congress passed the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act (PSJVTA), a law designed to make it easier for American victims of terrorism to sue the PA and PLO in U.S. courts.
The legal landscape shifted again in 2025 when the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the PSJVTA in a separate case, Fuld v. Palestine Liberation Organization. Following that ruling, the 2nd Circuit reinstated the original $655.5 million judgment, in March 2026, concluding that the new law provided a valid basis for jurisdiction and allowed the previously vacated judgment to be revived.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs said then that the families welcomed the decision, saying it would allow ājustice to be done," according to The Times of Israel.
The latest dispute reached Sotomayor in late July after the PA and PLO asked the justices to temporarily block enforcement of the judgment while they pursue appeals. In court documents reviewed by Newsweek, the attorneys argue that the appeals court decision to reinstate the judgment after the case was dismissed āwas the first time an American court has ever held that a money judgment made without jurisdiction may be resurrected years after all appeals were exhausted.ā
The Palestinian entities argue that the judgment should not have been resurrected years after it was overturned, while the plaintiffs contend that they are finally receiving justice after decades of litigation. The defendants note in the application for stay that āimmediate enforcement of such a large judgment will destabilize critical government services Petitioners provide in the West Bank, injure innocent citizens, and jeopardize regional security.ā
In court filings, the Palestinian organizations said: āThe security, sanitation, and school services provided by Petitioners in the West Bank are hanging by a thread,ā and warned that enforcing the judgment would further strain those services. A World Bank report described the PA as being in ādeep fiscal crisisā and that prior to this ruling, āthe total deficit [before grants] amounted to US$605 million in the first nine months of 2025.ā
The appeal filing stated: āRespondents plan to enforce the judgment against clearance revenues collected by Israel, which is the PAās primary source of income under the Oslo Accords.ā Israeli clearance revenues, taxes and customs duties collected by Israel on behalf of the PA, are a main source of funding for the Palestinian government. The suspension of those transfers since 2025 has worsened the PA's financial crisis.
Eugene Kontorovich, a law professor and executive director of George Mason Universityās Center for the Middle East and International Law, told Newsweek in an email Tuesday: āThe next step would be enforcing the judgment, which would be difficult to do in the United States because the PLO maintains very limited assets here, specifically to avoid having them seized to satisfy judgments by terror victims.ā
However, he said that āa judgment in the United States can be taken abroad, including to Israel and enforced there.ā
What Was the Second Intifada?
The Second Intifada, or Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a period of Palestinian uprising and intensified Israeli-Palestinian violence that started in September 2000 and continued for years.
The uprising followed years of failed peace negotiations and growing tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. Many consider it to have been triggered by a September 2000 visit by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon, accompanied by hundreds of armed officers to the compound housing holy Islamic and Judaic sites. The visit was viewed by many Palestinians as a provocation, while Sharon and his supporters said it affirmed Israel's right of access to the site.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque and the surrounding Haram al-Sharif are among Islam's holiest sites, while Jews revere the same area as the Temple Mount, the location of the First and Second Holy Temples.
The period initially included protests, clashes and civil unrest, and then further evolved into a prolonged conflict marked by frequent violence on both sides. Israeli civilians were targeted in suicide bombings, shootings and other attacks carried out by Palestinian militant groups. Israeli military forces launched extensive operations in the West Bank and Gaza that Israel said were intended to combat terrorism and restore security.
More than 1,000 Israelis and 3,000 Palestinians were killed during the Second Intifada. It had lasting political and humanitarian consequences throughout the region. The 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh Summit produced a ceasefire agreement that is widely regarded as marking the end of the Second Intifada, although violence continued intermittently afterward.
Five Americans were killed in a 2002 bombing at Hebrew University in Jerusalem during the Second Intifada. Other attacks during the conflict, including suicide bombings and shootings, also killed and injured Americans.
Supreme Court Stay Process
When a party loses in a federal appeals court but wants to prevent the ruling from taking effect immediately, it can file an emergency application asking the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay, which temporarily freezes the decision while additional appeals move forward.
Such applications are initially directed to the justice responsible for the federal appeals court that heard the case. In this situation, as the case arose from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the request was assigned to Sotomayor, who handles emergency matters from that circuit.
Sotomayor's order addressed only the request to temporarily block enforcement of the judgment. It did not resolve the underlying legal dispute or indicate how the Supreme Court might rule if the justices later agree to hear the case.
yesterday, a book showed up in my recommendations called The Black Orchid, and what makes me sad is how this description is intriguing but also gave me anxiety:
itās cool to see Israeli representation, but given the current state of publishing, it worries me that this will be a stereotypical villainous character. I could be completely wrong though! thereās no way to know without reading it, but the above post gave me pause. we are seeing how dire it is for Jewish and Israeli authors right now. will publishers allow positive or even just neutral portrayals?
Americans all across the political spectrum are actually not normal about soooo many countries, it is insane.
Israel. This goes beyond saying but both left wingers and righ wingers are convinced that the country is some sort of demon incarnate, they are blaming it for anything ranging from ICE to the Spain migration crisis, to their own political polarization. Generally antisemetism has made people all across the spectrum very stupid. And even a lot of the American supporters of Israel are insane evangelicals that only support israel bcs of their bs fantasies of Armageddon. So yeah no one is normal abt that country
AMERICA ITSELF. I feel like a lot of the polarization in american politics is bcs american politics have become a reckoning abt the question ''is america good?''. And one side insists it is the best and most glorious country in the world that has been wronged by everyone while some (although not all and the problem isn't as big as it is on the american right) leftists insist that country is beyond redemption and has produced nothing good (Shocker: Saying a country is beyond redemption is literaly the most unhelpful thing if the goal is to make it better)
China. Sorry but we either have the Hasan Piker types that try to fetishize it, ignoring the oppresion of the Tibetans or the Uyghrus or the political repression in general, or we have people convinced of the fact that China is an evil hellhole ignoring the fact that in the last decades the standards of living for the averege chinese person have JUMPED. As much as I don't like the chinese government, ignoring that basic fact doesn;'t help anyone and it is just stupid. Similarly to how it is stupid for people to just rage abt how china wants to dominate over africa through economic programs while supporting the withdrawal of USAID that allows for US to compete with china. Gnerally, maybe treating a geopolitical rival as either a cartoon hero or a cartoon villain is a bad strategy.
Any country in Subsaharan africa. In which conservatives and right wingers will assume people there are stupid and backwards ignoring both colonialism and other objective geographical conditions that led to the underdevelopment and have nothing to do with their racist bs theories. And then left wingers will soooo often push some noble savage bullshit and be like ''ohhh it is so wholesome these people are in touch with nature and traditions'' ignoring the fact people in Kenya or Tanzania WANT to industrialize, WANT to become richer and that doesn't make them greedy. Neither is their poverty some sort of mroal virtue to be upkept.
BOTTOM LINE: PLS DON'T TREAT COUNTRIES LIKE CARTOONS I BEG YOU I BEG YOU .
Gotta be honest, I feel like jumblr has a really big ableism problem and it makes me really sad to see it. The r slur is never acceptable and Iāve seen it used and excused several times.
It also really feels like itās just become a really hateful and miserable place in general. I completely understand why everyone is so jaded. I am also jaded and exhausted and I feel like every day Iām hit with new antisemitism somewhere completely randomly. I donāt feel like I have anyone to talk to about it. It fucking sucks. I get it. But thatās not an excuse or a reason to be hateful back, start name calling, be racist, or ableist.
I love being Jewish. I am so proud to be Jewish. But one of the things I loved most was our kindness, and Iām not seeing that in the community right now. It makes me so sad. I donāt feel safe in queer spaces anymore. I donāt feel safe in disabled spaces anymore. I used to feel safe here, but I donāt know if I do anymore, and Iām just sad.
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this is semi-adjacent, but it's not a jumblr only problem, it's a current social media problem. creators using the r word, and relying on other horrible ableism, is rising everywhere. it's disheartening.
I literally just unfollowed a queer, Black, Jewish creator on IG because she posted the most heinously callous video laughing at a girl who was explaining how hard applying for disability is and how it made her want to give up. like that was all she was doing, sitting there laughing at this young woman describing how she was suffering, no commentary, just being cruel for the sake of it. being disabled and chronically ill and in extreme constant pain, I know the disability process is hell on earth, designed to exhaust you and work against you, and made to shut people in need out. the process took me years only for a denial. it was dehumanizing. if some stranger on the internet was making fun of me sharing how awful it was, it would break me even further. I couldn't believe I had to see that happening to someone this morning.
there is no excuse for things like this. there is no excuse for slurs, there is no excuse for ableism, just like there isn't for racism or any other type of discrimination. the fact that the Jewish community has suffered and been through a repeated cycle of horrors should make us more caring, not less.
anon, I haven't been feeling particularly safe either (a worse feeling after every other space has basically been closed to us), and I'm so sorry. I hope you're okay and am sending you encouragement. š¤
big contribution to this issue is the causal adding of ātardā to the end of words to make new insults, and people somehow think thatās socially acceptable even if theyāre anti r-slur, which Iāve seen way too much of recently. all it does is desensitize people to saying the actual word, but we all know what that means and itās still part of a slur. Iāve gotten into actual arguments on jumblr with grown adults about the r-slur use and itās just mind-boggling. āwell why canāt I call them that if thatās what they are? they probably call us worse!ā is stuff Iāve actually been told. like way to miss the point there, bucko. thereās just no excuse for using slurs no matter what the slur is. at the end of the day, it just says a lot about your character, thatās for sure.
yes, and this is one of many reasons to reject 4chan language like that. this includes ā-oid,ā NPC, itās all so degrading and numbs people to the effects of that cruelty and the impact it has on others. itās unacceptable to respond, āwell, they probably say terrible things about us,ā thatās not a defense. if someoneās excuse is other peopleās bad behavior, then theyāre admitting that theyāre fine with sinking to that level with them. weāre witnessing in real time the detriment of slurs and hatred weaponized against us and how itās normalizing antisemitism. weāve seen allies attacked with racist, homophobic, and ableist slurs as well. this actually is that serious, we have a responsibility to consider this and to not add to oppressive stereotypes and discrimination.
