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[palominojacoby]

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.'

[chutzpahchesed]

Every Box but One

Barbara Butch survived a year of far-right death threats. Then she signed a letter against antisemitism, and a different crowd showed up.

On Saturday night in Grenoble, France, at a city festival that has run for twenty-five years, the DJ Barbara Butch got twenty minutes. She went on around 10:20. In front of the stage stood a crowd of hundreds of protesters, waving Palestinian flags, whistling, and shouting insults. The city of Grenoble says glass bottles and other projectiles were thrown, deliberately aimed at her, and that electrical installations were sabotaged. Citing threats against the artist and the safety of the crowd, the city suspended the concert. Butch left the stage while John Lennon’s “Imagine” played over the speakers.

If you know Barbara Butch, it might be from the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics in 2024. She was the DJ at the center of the “Festivity” tableau, the woman in the silver halo whom half the internet decided had blasphemed against a Renaissance painting. What followed was one of the ugliest harassment campaigns in recent French memory: tens of thousands of messages, including threats to kill her and to rape her. The abuse was antisemitic before it was anything else, with plenty left over for her body and her sexuality. She filed complaints. French prosecutors opened investigations, and some of the people who threatened her were charged and convicted. A month after the ceremony she carried the Paralympic torch through a Paris suburb and told an interviewer she had chosen not to be afraid to exist in public.

In March, Butch signed a letter in Le Point, alongside the philosopher Elisabeth Badinter and former prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve, supporting the proposition de loi Yadan, a bill whose stated purpose was to fight what its drafters called new forms of antisemitism. The case against that bill was real. Its critics, La France Insoumise loudest among them, argued that the drafting was vague and that it risked criminalizing legitimate criticism of Israel. The government withdrew the text in April. If the story ended there, it would be ordinary democratic politics: a contested bill and a government retreat. Protesting a law and supporting it are both speech. Both are legitimate.

The campaign against Butch began in May, a month after the bill died. There was no law left to oppose. What remained was the person. Allan Brunon, an LFI city councilor in Grenoble, posted a call to cancel her booking at the Cabaret Frappé festival, accusing her of supporting a colonial and genocidal regime. His evidence was the tribune, plus the claim that she had played Tel Aviv Pride in 2025, during the war. Tel Aviv Pride was canceled in 2025. What she actually played was a private event for the French Embassy in Israel. The full case against her, stripped of its phrasing, comes to this: she signed a letter against antisemitism, and she took a booking from her own country’s diplomats.

Grenoble’s mayor, Laurence Ruffin, refused to cancel the show, on the reasonable ground that city governments should not run ideological background checks on musicians. So the protesters came to the show instead. Afterward, Brunon, who attended, described the evening as a peaceful demonstration and said he was proud to have taken part. He denies that any projectiles were thrown, which puts his account in direct conflict with the city’s. He also offered a line worth quoting in full: “It is not Madame Butch who is being censored. It is everyone fighting the genocide in Gaza who is censored in our country today.” At the national level, LFI’s Manuel Bompard said he could understand a political position drawing protest, provided the protest stays peaceful. Given the city’s description of glass bottles aimed at her, that condition had already failed by the time he offered it.

The institutions, at least, were not confused. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez condemned the violence in the strongest terms, writing that antisemitism and intimidation have no place in the Republic and that preventing an artist from performing is an unacceptable attack on free expression. The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra), a French nonprofit, demanded an investigation and named what it saw: an antisemitic conflation that assigns Jewish people collective responsibility for the policies of the Israeli state. The mayor called the acts unacceptable and announced that the city will file a complaint.

Here is what makes Grenoble more than a local story. Barbara Butch is not a borderline case. She is a lesbian activist decorated by the Republic for services to culture, and the public face of the fight against fatphobia in France. In 2024 she absorbed a year of far-right hatred for representing inclusion at the most-watched event her country has staged this century. By every standard the progressive left claims to hold, she should be among its most protected people. None of it transferred. What disqualified her was the Jewish part, and one public statement: antisemitism in France is real, and it is present in the anti-Israel movement.

She never said anything about Israeli policy and has never defended the Israeli government. Her stated politics amount to fighting the hatreds she has personally received and warning against the conflation of Jews with a foreign state. That is the same conflation Licra denounced on Sunday. The crowd in Grenoble enforced it. To them, a French Jew who once played a party for French diplomats and French Jews, is an agent of Israel, answerable for its wars. The far right spent 2024 telling Butch she did not belong to France’s story. On Saturday, the left joined in.

In the video she posted afterward, she repeated what she has said for two years and warned once more against hating Jews because of the actions of a foreign government. The new note was darker. She said a society this divided is heading toward defeat. The city's complaint is expected within days. It will sit in a legal file. Files like hers are how this period of European Jewish life is going to be read later. Through all of it, her position has not moved: she stands for love.

[etz-ashashiyot]

Hi, I saw your post about Jewish indigeneity and as a non-Jewish, non-indigenous person, have a genuine question that I hope you will take in good faith. At what point of conflict and violence do we say that being indigenous to a region does not actually confer land rights? I understand that having land stolen is a travesty and a part of genocide, and I don't mean to be dismissive. But at some level of conflict and violence, is it not healthier for individals to learn to love the place they are at, the people around them, and the new culture they can build together? I think there are ways to do that which are not assimilationist. And I think the ongoing suffering in war cannot be justified by mere land claims. I am presenting this to you hoping you can help me understand your view better, especially if you disagree with me. What am I missing? Thank you for considering my questions.

I'm gonna be honest: the fact that this is coming from a blank blog makes me far less likely to want to answer it, especially because I haven't been on tumblr as much lately and thus don't know if this is a copypasta ask.

Who are you? Have you read my pinned post? Have you read the many, many sources in it?

I am going to give you extremely truncated answers, but understand that you have a lot of reading to do that is not possible to summarize in an answer to a tumblr ask. (Edit: this got a lot longer than I expected, but I stand by my words that these are truncated, incomplete answers. You need to read several books to actually develop a reasonable understanding of this.)

At what point of conflict and violence do we say that being indigenous to a region does not actually confer land rights?

Never. What you are asking here conflates two separate concerns: (1) the rights of an indigenous group to the land they are indigenous to, and (2) the ethical responsibilities said indigenous group has towards other human beings, in particular those who also live on that land. People don't lose their indegeneity and thus their ties to the land by being bad people. "Indigenous" is not an indicator of moral purity or uprightness. It means that they have deep cultural, historical, and (often) religious roots in a particular land that cannot be severed without totally destroying the group as such.

Eretz Yisrael will always be the homeland of the Jewish people regardless of whether we have control over it or not, whether we have a sovereign nation there or not, whether we are permitted to live there or even visit there or not. All of our religious and cultural practices tie back to eretz Yisrael, even ones that have been adapted to the diaspora. Religiously observant Jews pray facing Jerusalem three times a day, our liturgy is infused with references to the land, the Temple in Jerusalem, the redemption (of the people to the land) and/or specific attributes of the land. Our sacred texts occur in and make constant reference to the land and our observance of the mitzvot and how that relates to the land. (A ton of the religious laws we are given are land-based because it developed as an agricultural religion, and a huge number of the rest are related to the Temple in Jerusalem.) We have three pilgrimage festivals that pre- forced diaspora, all Jews would make back to Jerusalem to make specific sacrifices. We still observe these festivals in ways adapted to the diaspora, but you need to understand that the essential condition of diasporic Jewry is one of constant longing to return to the land. We observe these things today to keep the knowledge alive so that someday, future generations of Jews can use that knowledge in eretz Yisrael. Jews are of that land and can never be severed from it without becoming something entirely different.

Now. Does that give us a right to act with total impunity? Absolutely not. We still have moral obligations to our fellow human beings that we have to observe no matter what. That is true of all peoples everywhere, indigenous or not.

But the idea that you can "punish" an indigenous group by severing their roots is to say that total cultural annihilation is a valid punishment ever, which is genocidal rhetoric.

I understand that having land stolen is a travesty and a part of genocide, and I don't mean to be dismissive.

You answered your own question here, don't you see? Reread what you wrote here, as many times as you need to, until you get it.

But at some level of conflict and violence, is it not healthier for individals to learn to love the place they are at, the people around them, and the new culture they can build together?

You need to read some Jewish history.

If you are asking this question about Israel, and in particular the Israel / Palestine conflict, you need to read more Jewish history.

"....to learn to love the place they are at" Jews in the diaspora tried this. Please read this list.

"...the people around them" Do you think that Jews were expelled, pogrommed, and genocided multiple times across numerous locations because we didn't "love the people around us" enough? For real? Read about the Kielce Pogrom and get back to me on that.

"...the new culture they can build together" Ah. I see. Yes this is the thing:

We don't fucking need a new culture. We have been fighting to practice the culture we already have in peace for thousands of years.

I think there are ways to do that which are not assimilationist.

Well. You're wrong. You are one in a long long long long long long long long long long long line of gentiles who think that "Jews can just..." and (1) you're wrong; read what the Nazis did to ethnic Jews who converted to Christianity, the history of "new Christians"/conversos/etc. but also even if that were guaranteed to work (2) why should we have to change our culture instead of other people not trying to kill us for it?

And I think the ongoing suffering in war cannot be justified by mere land claims.

This war is not about land claims though; not really. Hamas wants every Jew dead. That is why they started this war. They have promised a new October 7th every day until the whole land is entirely judenfrei. Of course there are reasonable Palestinians with legitimate policy objectives, but that's not who's driving this war, and the ones in Gaza who speak up about it tend to get abducted or have their families disappeared and are tortured until they escape, die, or are silenced.

Are there legitimate things to be discussed about Israel's approach in this war and/or in general? Sure. But this isn't "mere land claims." This is about the safety, lives, and self-determination of half the global Jewish population, the vast majority of whom are only there in the first place because they themselves or their parents/grandparents/great-grandparents fled (or were forcibly relocated) there as refugees of genocide. Israel is the only remaining place in the world for certain smaller Jewish sub-ethnicities. If Israel is destroyed, so much will be lost. And, we will be back to being subjects of the whims of hostile foreign powers who have proven again and again that they will just periodically expel or murder lots of us when it is politically useful for them to do so.

That is what is at stake for us.

The fact that you think that our connection to the land is "mere land claims" and not an existential part of our identity says volumes by itself, but the fact that you don't know what is actually at stake for us says even more. It tells me that you have a lot of reading to do.

What am I missing?

Empathy. History. Context.

Read People Love Dead Jews - I think it will help you understand more of these issues. There are other helpful sources in my pinned post too.

[etz-ashashiyot]

@spank-the-villain

That's so funny, because I felt like such a grouch answering this the way I did lol

I thought about not answering it at all tbh, but I ultimately decided to do so anyway because I think a lot of non-indigenous gentiles (especially culturally Christian folks) have this thought process because like. They didn't grow up with their identity and whole sense of self being tied to a particular land, and when that's your experience it's hard to fathom fighting for a specific parcel of land so intensely and at such a high human cost. I can't imagine fighting an actual war over, for example, the endless miles of cornfields I grew up with. If someone was willing to kill me and my friends and my whole family over us living there, I'd just fucking move. Nothing about living in my home state is worth dying or sacrificing other human lives for. To wit: I don't even live there anymore and have no plans to ever move back.

Similarly, when you don't grow up with a strong sense of culture and belonging to that group as an inherent fundamental aspect of who you are as a person, you just don't get why people would fight, kill, and die for it. There is nothing about my culture of origin worth risking my life for. I will simply just not if that's the alternative. As it is, I've already tried to leave as much of it behind as possible to become Jewish.

And now that I am a Jew and have been to Israel, I get it. I could never be bothered to care about my culture of origin except to vaguely joke about it and the idea of defending it with my life is laughable. But being a Jew? You'd have to beat the Judaism out of me until I was dead, and even then I know my community would still try to recover my body for a traditional Jewish burial and say Kaddish for me. That is indeed a choice that many Jews have been forced to make throughout our history, and so many have, despite the consequences.

I think it's hard to understand what the point of all this suffering is when it's not something you have, but is hard to stomach not fighting for if you do.

So I felt it was worth answering even if it maybe was a bait ask, because most people are too afraid to ask the question, but it's an important context to have when considering these issues.

Bottom line: while a normal land dispute certainly isn't worth this metric of suffering, fighting for the right to peacefully exist as who you are is fundamentally a profound matter of human dignity.

[cycle-of-ending]

Thank you for answering my questions with patience. Sorry it came off as a bait ask. I am an educator who uses place-based education methods to build a sense of place-based identity into students. I have been having moral dilemmas about doing, because of some of the concerns I put into my original ask. so... I wanted an opinion from someone who comes from a culture where land is inherent to identity (you pinned me correctly as someone who does not originate from such a culture) and who is willing to give me pretty uncensored answers (tumblr user). I won't bother you again, but wanted to express my sincerity. Best to you.

[etz-ashashiyot]

Oh hey! Genuinely, thank you for circling back - I'm heartened to hear that this truly was coming from a place of seeking education rather than trolling. I wish you'd led with some of this follow up information or shot me a direct message or something, because the thing is that I love answering earnest questions about Jewish culture, identity, and religion.

Unfortunately, you are catching me at over 500 days of constant antisemitic harassment over these issues in particular (honestly way longer than that, but it has been truly relentless since October 7th, 2023.) Other people have asked similar questions in the rhetorical as a "gotcha!" to show that we don't care about the safety, lives, security, dignity, and self-determination of Palestinians, as though caring about our own is mutually exclusive rather than just complex. Answering these types of sealioning questions pretty much always results in targeted harassment, accusations that amount to blood libel, and people who show up to downplay, deny, or support the atrocities that have happened to our people.

And obviously I'm speaking for myself here, but I feel comfortable saying it's been like this for pretty much the whole Jewish community online. It has been exhausting, demeaning, and dehumanizing. I cannot explain in words whst it feels like to have to justify everything about one's own culture, people, right to life and a peaceful existence, and trauma to a world that then uses every answer it demands as a weapon to degrade you further.

So I read the ask, checked your blog, saw that there were two posts, and sighed deeply. But then I answered this because of the reasons I gave spank-the-villain. I'm sorry my original tone was so surly, but there is a context for that reaction.

However! If you have further questions, please do feel free to follow up. I sincerely do enjoy explaining to people who actually are interested in the answers for their own sake. I hope you are well and have a good rest of your day!

[gliklofhameln]

Bride and groom holding a kiddush cup under the chuppah, Geneva, Switzerland, 1960s. Photograph: Jean Mohr.

[federal-reserve-bonds-dog]

every

100 years

the ancient

hatred

changes into

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its scent

[therationaldispatch]

It's not merely that people falsely accuse the Jewish state of "genocide", but that the accusers enjoy doing it. It is a phenomenon known as "schadenfreude", a feeling of sadistic gratification that overrides rational thought.

The Delicious Accusation of Genocide

Only with Israel do people enjoy schadenfreude when talking about alleged war crimes

"Six days after October 7th, a genocide studies professor declared Israel's response "textbook genocide" — before a single independent casualty count existed and week before an IDF soldier entered Gaza. A year later Amnesty admitted, on page 101 of its own report, that it was rejecting the ICJ's actual legal standard because that standard "would effectively preclude a finding of genocide." Internal staff at Amnesty revealed the report was called "the genocide report" before the research even began. None of this happened to Myanmar, Syria, or Sudan — all more brutal, all with clearer evidence of intent, all treated with years of caution before anyone reached for the word. Only Israel gets convicted first and investigated after.

The article "The Delicious Accusation of Genocide," argues the missing variable is Schadenfreude — Richard Landes decade-old term for a Western appetite, rooted in real guilt over real complicity in the Holocaust, for pretending to discover that the survivors turned out to be no better than the people who nearly finished them off. It's not just that the accusation is false. It's that it's enjoyable — which is why it fills city squares and op-ed pages, and why no amount of counter-evidence ever gets it retracted."

[philosopherking1887]

Not just Schadenfreude (an ordinary German word we all know), but "moral Schadenfreude" -- that's the term Richard Landes uses for the glee with which the accusation of genocide is turned by the close descendants of its perpetrators on the close descendants of its victims.

[women-who-do-sci-fi-and-fantasy]

Carrie Fisher, London, June 1983, Celebrating Cary Grant with the Daily Mirror

[amervalk]

Someone at work: *makes ‘bad joke’ about my Israeli Keshet pride shirt arriving safely and says Israel is a terrorist state*

My literal ass: Israel is not a terrorist state but they are often attacked by terrorist states…

Them: *repeats joke*

Me: Actually, Israel does have LGBTQ+ people and they are widely accepted but often face discrimination like in the US.

The Jews are tired…

[jewish-vents]

im tired of the anxiety and the fear and the hyper vigilance. im tired of not being able to trust anyone. im tired of having things ruined for me on the daily because of how common antisemtism has gotten. im tired of being afraid to talk about any of this even to people who say they understand. im tired of being afraid to talk about being jewish in any capacity with anyone. im tired of people telling me im being paranoid. im tired of having to be this strong resistor thats constantly turning the other cheek and not letting things bother me and not caring that people hate me so much. the whiniest people ive ever met dont have to deal with anything like this but i cant vent more than once a year about antisemitism or i am considered annoying. im tired of not having anyone like me in my circle. im tired of not feeling "jewish enough" for the few jewish relatives i have left. i am just so so so sick of all of this and i wish i had people in my life who could really understand how this feels.

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[jewish-vents]

Finally gave up and stopped following a mutual of mine who kept reblogging free palestine and death to israel posts. I really liked what they posted when it was fandom related and I had free palestine blocked and I thought I could just ignore everything else (it's a small fandom too) then they reblogged a post about how israel was buying patagonia and it's just. Like. I'm so tired man. I'm so fucking tired. Every time I see those posts on my dash about how people love their mutuals and mutuals are like soulmates I can't relate at all because I don't know if I can trust my mutuals. I try to ignore it when a blog I enjoy reblogs gaza scams because I know that so much of tumblr is antisemitic and that it's so hard to find a community within the fandom who can be normal about jews and israel, even in larger fandoms, but I'm so fucking tired. I don't want to argue with anyone I just want to be able to exist without people calling for my death and the death of the people I love.

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[notaplaceofhonour]

“My grandma is older than your country; Israel was only founded in 1948! Anyways, I love North Korea; the DPRK is so based!”

[notaplaceofhonour]

literally THE exact same year

[notaplaceofhonour]

“who says this?”

which part?

the “my grandma is old than your country” part?

[notaplaceofhonour]

or the Pro-Palestinian support for the DPRK part?

https://www.memri.org/reports/senior-hamas-official-ali-baraka-north-korea-part-our-alliance

https://www.memri.org/tv/nyc-korea-summit-palestinians-koreans-death-us-imperialism

[notaplaceofhonour]

I cannot emphasize enough how much this support for the North Korean regime is not a “random people who happen to be Pro-Palestine” thing.

ANSWER/PSL, PYM, and countless other groups that have been foundational in organizing the anti-Israel protest movement took part in the Pro-DPRK “People’s Summit for Korea”. Both Hamas & the PLO (which founded the PA) were materially supported by the North Korean dictatorship, and the so-called “Axis of Resistance” is allies with North Korea.

[whumpster-fire]

The Partition of India also happened in 1947, and the Republic of Ireland act in 1948. I can't help but notice the relative dearth of American leftists calling for Pakistan and Bangladesh to be dissolved and put under Indian control, or for Ireland to be given back to the UK, even though there are living people older than any of those countries by the same measure.

[ewfewgeg]

Algeria became a country in 1962, Nigeria in 1960, Angola in 1975, et cetera... Young countries are not valid isn't the decolonial position they believe it is...

[prismatic-bell]

South Sudan. 2011.

[indecisiveavocado]

States that gained independence after/at the same time as Israel:

And by the way yes that also by their lights includes Palestine, since we're not counting a claim of "interrupted governance". You lose it, you lose it.

For what it's worth here's the territorial history of Palestine as far back as I care to trace it:

2007-: Gaza strip becomes de facto different under Hamas

1995-: Oslo Accords!

1967-1995: Israeli control

1948-67: Gaza under Egyptian control, West Bank under Jordanian control

1922-1948: UK/Mandate. De facto British control from 1918.

1517-1918: Ottomans in control

1291-1517: Mamluks (Turkish/Circassian)

1100-1291: Kurdish Ayyubids and Crusaders trade back and forth

747-1100: Arabs from Saudi Arabia (Abbasids), Turks, Berbers. I think. Not sure. Lotsa hand-changing between different caliphates.

637-747: Rashidun and Umayyad, what we'd now call Saudi

313-634: Byzantine, brief Persian rule

66 BCE-66 CE, 70-132, 135-313: Roman rule

132-35, 66-70: Jewish rule!!

130s?-66 BCE: Hasmonean Jewish rule

332-130s? BCE: Greek/Macedonian rule

Beyond this honestly it feels like things rely a lot more on Biblical stuff.

Regardless, one could claim Israel is newer than Palestine, in that an independent Jewish state was intermittently around long after the Philistines were gone.

But unless these people have very, very old grandmothers, they are not in fact older than anything that could be reasonably referred to as Israel without being older than Palestine as well.

[afurioushawk]

[jewish-vents]

I never expect self-dignity from influencers to begin with, but there’s something genuinely nauseating seeing Jewish influencers perform backflips over Clavicular visiting Israel.

Not only is he a fucking rapist who serially harasses and pimps out women, but he was friends with multiple open neo-Nazis until recently.

Just for money and clout, you all piss in the face of our community/victims of misogyny, and are only rewarded with antisemitism from his dipshit fanbase. And I feel 0 fucking sympathy for any of you.

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[chutzpahchesed]

the most disturbing part of this debacle was the number of straight men (and a very few right-wing women influencers) willing to throw every scrap of integrity away, willing to betray their values, and willing to sacrifice every Jewish woman who was telling them why interacting with and promoting him was harmful. some of them defaulted to open misogyny, mocking sexual assault victims, tossing around slurs, denigrating “childless” women, and generally acting like a manosphere locker room for five minutes of clout with a 20 year old rapist, animal abuser, Nazi sympathizer, guy who has bashed his own face in with a hammer. some of these people built their platforms profiting off of 10/7 and acting like they cared about the sexual assaults committed that day and then willingly engaged with a serial predator who’s accused of drugging underage girls. Rom Braslavski called one of them a disgrace to Israel, and he’s right. luckily I saw far more people pushing back against it (and no one I follow platformed him, but seeing it second hand was bad enough), but it was infuriating, and the fact that a massive wave of antisemitism has followed in its wake from his fans is entirely predictable. can we not ask for even a modicum of dignity from people who pretend to “represent” our community just because they have thousands more followers online than other more credible accounts? influencer culture is such a drain on society…we all deserve better.

Clavicular drama :Have pro-Israel advocates gone too far in choosing allies? | The Jerusalem Post

I had never heard of Clavicular before Thursday, when several social media content creators said they were planning on collaborating with hi

I’m struggling to find the words to describe how difficult and upsetting the last couple of days have been as an Israeli woman.

Everything surrounding the debate over the online looksmaxxing streamer Clavicular’s visit to Israel, both publicly and privately within activist circles, has shown far too many women that there may be no line left that cannot be crossed.

When someone is politically useful, or their following can be leveraged, even allegations of sexual assault can suddenly become negotiable.

This has opened up an important conversation that we need to have within the Jewish and pro-Israel community. Are there lines that we simply should not cross? Have we reached such a low point that we will accept anyone as an ally?

Even a man who is friends with hateful groypers and who has been accused of sexually assaulting a minor? Are we really comfortable pimping out Jewish women to the manosphere for the sake of effective public diplomacy?

I had never heard of Clavicular before Thursday, when several social media content creators said they were planning on collaborating with him. Right away, it sparked a long and heated debate.

When his name was mentioned, the only thing I recognized him from was footage of the so-called “Miami Nazi Party,” where he appeared alongside some of the worst antisemites on the internet.

The group included Myron Gaines, Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, Clavicular, and Sneako, all proudly singing “Heil Hitler.”

Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Eric Peters, rose to prominence through “looksmaxxing” content promoting extreme cosmetic procedures, steroid use, and hypermasculine self-improvement.

He has openly said that, as a teenager, he repeatedly hit his own jaw with a hammer as part of a practice known as “bone smashing,” claiming he believed it would stimulate bone growth and create a more angular, masculine jawline.

Clavicular has no shortage of legal controversies. In March 2026, he was arrested in Broward County, Florida, on misdemeanor battery and criminal conspiracy charges related to an alleged altercation between two women.

In May 2026, he and another influencer pleaded no contest to unlawfully discharging a firearm after a livestream showed them shooting at an apparently dead alligator in the Florida Everglades.

Right now, Clavicular is the defendant in a civil lawsuit filed by a young woman who alleges that, after meeting him when she was 16, he provided her with alcohol while she was a minor, injected her with what she claims was a mixture containing meth and a fat-burning substance without her informed consent, and sexually assaulted her while she was incapacitated.

Clavicular has denied the allegations, which have not been proven in court.

To most women, this is where the debate should have ended.

Yet despite all of this, there were people who insisted that engaging with him was still the right move.

They argued that his large Gen Z following, an age group that has been so heavily influenced by anti-Israel narratives, presented an opportunity to reach people who are normally exposed to nothing but anti-Israel propaganda.

Views vs values

In my line of work, I have met and learned from many people who once held extremist and antisemitic views. There have been incredible cases where people fundamentally changed their beliefs, especially after visiting Israel and actually speaking with Israelis.

In almost every case, whether the issue was Israel or something else entirely, those individuals said they changed because people were still willing to engage with them patiently and respectfully.

That willingness to have difficult conversations is what ultimately helped pull them away from extremism.

This is why cancel culture is so dangerous and why I understand why certain people would want to engage with a figure like Clavicular.

But where is the line? When someone is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a minor, do we look the other way?

When someone’s entire online persona is built around demeaning and sexualizing women, do we still want them in our circle for the sake of views?

Even worse, do we put Israeli women in a position where they are encouraged to meet an alleged predator simply to show him how “hot” Israeli women are?

How is this any different from what happened with Graham Platner?

I criticized mainstream Democrats for ignoring his history of alleged sexual misconduct and his Nazi tattoo, and now people within my own community have shown me that they are willing to look the other way if they believe they can still benefit from the relationship.

Some people who are unfamiliar with the details have dismissed this as a simple disagreement over strategy, arguing that calling this out and creating internal conflict within the Jewish community is the wrong approach. I respectfully disagree.

When women’s safety is at risk, and the people enabling that risk are men who are our friends, men we warned and pleaded with not to do this – then we have a responsibility to speak out.

This goes beyond strategy. It forces us to ask what our community is willing to tolerate and who we are willing to embrace.

These past few days have been incredibly painful, particularly for many of my female colleagues who work in media and public diplomacy.

What we have witnessed is that, in a post-October 7 world, there are still people who are willing to look the other way when it comes to allegations of sexual assault if they believe there is something to gain from it.

That realization has been truly heartbreaking.

The Clavicular controversy exposes a culture of silence | The Jerusalem Post

He offends because he’s judged, correctly, that the community will protect its reputation before the girl in front of him.

I already know how this ends, because I’ve watched it play out my whole life.

Someone pulls the alarm on something rotten, a crime, an abuser, a man who should never have been welcomed in, and instead of putting out the fire, the community turns on the person who pulled it.

They don’t even have to doubt the fire is real. Saying it out loud, where outsiders might hear, is treated as the real offense, because the group’s reputation matters more than the wrong being done inside it.

Calm down. It’s not that deep. Don’t make us all look bad.

And more often than not, the one told to calm down is a woman, and the word for her is emotional, as if her reaction, not the crime, were the thing that needed managing.

So let me say it out loud anyway.

When speaking up becomes the real offense

I’ll start with the easy part, because he is the easy part. This week, American influencer Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Peters, flew to Tel Aviv.

In January, he was filmed in a Miami nightclub singing along to Kanye West’s “Heil Hitler” beside the white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and refused to apologize. He is being sued over the alleged rape of a minor. He came for content, and his content is the exploitation of women.

On livestream, in Tel Aviv, he told one of his Israeli hosts to tell the Israeli women he was offered that he was “looking to have sex in a bathroom for five seconds, 10 if they’re lucky.”

The criticism, though, is on his hosts, the Israeli and Jewish creators who were warned, clearly, who he was, and dismissed it because the warnings mostly came from “women,” too “emotional about sexual assault” to grasp the broader PR “strategy.”

The women were right; the weekend detonated exactly as they said it would, and now they’re told to stop making a big deal of it, for the sake of “unity,” or “lashon hara” (malicious gossip). The demand to stop talking always arrives right when there’s something someone would rather we didn’t talk about.

It’s a soundtrack I know by heart, played on repeat since the beginning of time.

It’s compounded by a second, more “respectable” instinct, the one used to justify the first: don’t air our dirty laundry. Don’t hand the antisemites ammunition. It’s the Three Weeks; we should be kind to one another.

Whether it comes from fear or from “holy” aspirations, silence is not neutral: it’s the exact condition an abuser needs. He offends because he’s judged, correctly, that the community will protect its reputation before the girl in front of him.

The cost of protecting reputations

Growing up, I watched it happen in my own community in Australia. I was about 12 years old when I first heard of the rampant institutional sexual abuse across the Melbourne and Sydney Chabad communities and saw that the first instinct was to bury it so we wouldn’t look bad.

Leaders treated going to the police and secular news outlets as a chilul Hashem (desecration of God’s name) and aimed their anger at the victims who spoke, like Manny Waks, whose family was hounded until his father left the country.

It was lashon hara, I was told, to speak badly of these men, who’d “probably done teshuva” (repentance), we assumed for men who never apologized, not stopped abusing. But more so, it’s a sin to shed a bad light on our community.

A rabbi later admitted to Australia’s Royal Commission that there exists “a culture of cover-up, often couched in religious terms,” which has “pervaded our thinking and our actions.”

In a neighboring community, Malka Leifer abused girls at Melbourne’s Adass Israel school; when it surfaced, the school flew her to safety in Israel, beyond the reach of Australian police.

Her victims were shunned, and she fought extradition for 13 years before her 2023 conviction on 18 counts, including rape, while parts of the community kept defending and funding her. One of the victims, Dassi Erlich, told Tablet that the community accused her of “throwing Adass under the bus.”

Years later, at Beis Rivkah seminary in New York, my school hosted a convicted predator as a speaker. When we confronted the school, they refused to apologize, claiming they “had no idea” (as if vetting weren’t their job).

They warned us against lashon hara about a man who “still has good qualities” and the importance of loving every Jew. They kept sending girls to his home for Shabbat meals.

It’s a decade later, and we’re still running the same machine. As people denounce Clavicular, many are worried first about our national reputation, about outsiders seeing us fight and “tear down our own” for hosting and cozying up to him.

Mostly American, male, self-appointed hasbara influencers are attacking Israeli women for being angry at the Jews who welcomed this predator into our home. Same priority as ever: protect the image, punish the one who spoke, let the predator keep his cover.

Lashon hara is not a shield for abuse

But lashon hara was never a gag order. The Chafetz Chaim, whose name is synonymous with this halacha, codified the exception himself: speech for a protective purpose, to’elet, is not just permitted; his laws of rechilut (gossip) oblige you to warn anyone about to be harmed.

He roots it in Leviticus 19:16, which opens with “do not go about as a gossip” and, in the same breath, commands: “Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor.” Two halves of one verse, set so no one could quote the first to bury the second.

Invoking the Three Weeks is the lowest move of all: the Temple fell not because people spoke up against injustice, but because of sinat chinam, baseless hatred. If anything brings the Messiah, it’s the courage of women (and righteous men) who risk everything for their values.

It doesn’t matter what the world thinks of us. The wrong is there whether or not anyone names it, and it always comes out. And when it does, the shame belongs to the man who did it and everyone who built him a shield, not to the woman who refused to look away.

So no, we won’t calm down, because the desecration of God’s name was never the exposure; it was the abuse, and the cover-up.

It is a community deciding, one more time, that the reputation of the powerful matters more than the safety of the girl in front of them, and then blaming her for the noise.

Clavicular in Israel: When influence overrides integrity among creators | The Jerusalem Post

The conversation became about why Israeli creators were choosing to embrace someone whose online ecosystem has long been associated with ant

The Blogs: Influence Without Integrity Is Not Advocacy

From the blog of Gabriella Pardo at The Times of Israel

(I’m not copying the text of these two just because it will make the post long, but please read them too if you can.)

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tumblr has the ability to give me the worst posts at the worst times possible.

i havent gotten hebrewphobia on my dash for ages up until today. thank you tumblr

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this is the post btw. the problem is mostly the notes. and the caption.

Post by @captain-price-returns · 1 image

💬 66  🔁 858  ❤️ 4799 · Americans need to begin delving into Hebrew language posts. They will be astonished, to say the least.

the person in the screenshot IS undescribably stupid. yet, do you have ANY idea how many INSANE claims i can find in english, yet you dont see anyone saying this about english do you.

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Oh no, a person who wrote a bad post in another language. Clearly all native speakers of this language agree with the statement and are evil. My reference point is the evil website where people say evil things btw.

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thinking about how I want to take all of our music and art back from people who hate us and want us dead, but also about this comment section I saw the other day where someone said “Jews shouldn’t be allowed to listen to Black music” and “they should go deaf because all they do is steal and leech from Black artists and then kill them and take more $$$,” and then there was a list of names we should be “banned” from hearing. you can guess who they were. Stevie Wonder and Beyoncé were on there too, even though they’re both, thankfully, alive?

it really was the canard that Jews are greedy predators, and what people don’t seem to get is that they’re basically reinventing Henry Ford’s extreme antisemitism and racism. they’re out here repeating stuff from the Protocols and The International Jew. Ford demonised Black and Jewish musicians and called jazz “Yiddish moron music.” he believed it was a Jewish conspiracy to corrupt American youth and destroy white Protestant values. this is a Nazi belief too, that Jews puppeteer Black people and push civil rights to destroy white society. I know that what’s being repeated now has been around for a long time too and that BHI and NOI are responsible for most of it, but it’s sad and fucked up seeing it. it’s like the same thing reversed, Jews are malicious thieves who prey on Black artists to destroy them, because we have no ability to create art on our own, as Hitler also said. we’re subhuman because we’re not white, now we’re subhuman because we’re ultra white. we’re destroying culture because we’re to blame for racial integration. no wait, we’re destroying culture because we’re the most powerful racists. it’s demoralizing and sick.

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this is always nasty recycled Protocols garbage, but the comparison to Henry Ford is terribly apt.

I guess it’s time to revisit Ford’s despicable antisemitism, so in addition to this post, here’s some specificity:

The Attack on Jewish Hollywood: A Chapter in the History of Modern American Anti-Semitism

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this piece is from 26 years ago. only an introductory excerpt is available, but it’s unfortunately relevant.

As the United States became a magnet for mass Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe, the imprecation was born: "New York is not America." A continent away, with the advent of the movies a few decades later, the coda was added: "Neither is Hollywood." In tandem with the entry of emancipated Jews into the mainstream of modernity, traditional anti-Semitic images of Jews as economic parasites and moral polluters were complemented by a new image of Jews as corrupters of popular culture. First, in the nineteenth century, the new popular journalism was anointed as what Sander Gilman calls the "the secret language of the Jews." Then, in the twentieth century, the cinema supplanted the newspaper in the popular imagination as the magical source of the Jews' insidious power over culture. The Nazi purge of the Weimar film industry, deemed corrupted by "Jewish-Syrian influence"; Stalin's persecution of Yiddish filmmakers, pilloried for "the bourgeois cosmopolitanism in the motion picture arts," and Jewish performers, whose "Semitic features are blatantly obvious in close-ups"; and the more recent Muslim Fundamentalist assault on "satanic" American moviemakers, who are viewed as modern-day, secular "Crusaders" out to destroy Islamic culture as well as to promote Zionism--all are variations on the same theme. So, too, is America's own attack on "Jewish Hollywood."

A vituperative ethnocultural critique of alleged Jewish domination and degradation of the entertainment industry has been a constant on the modern American scene. As we shall see, however, this attack on Jewish Hollywood has ebbed and flowed and evolved significantly over time. It began predominantly among old-stock white Protestants as a right-wing reflex that targeted African Americans as well as Jews. But in recent decades it has mutated increasingly among white leftists and black radicals into an enthusiasm that symptomizes deepening Black-Jewish estrangement.

The first of three waves of anti-Semitic-tinged animus against the film industry peaked in the 1920s. Virtually all European observers have viewed the Hollywood "dream factory" as quintessentially American since its inception. But this is not the way it looked early in this century to culturally conservative Americans. They saw instead a nightmarish undermining of Victorian religious, racial, and sexual hierarchies. In their vision of American decline, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants were victims of typically Jewish popular-cultural entrepreneurs. Not least among the perceived sins of these Jewish entertainment merchants was their responsibility for unleashing libidinal impulses imagined as synonymous with African Americans. After World War I, former Progressives fearful that the movies were corrupting American youth shared anxieties with Ku Klux Klansmen who equated Jewish producers with big-city brothel owners. Ironically, American Catholics demonized by the Klan shared some of its concerns over moviedom's decadence. When in 1922 the New York Civic League's William Sheafe Chase asked, "What ground is there for thinking that the motion picture industry is in the despotic control of four or five Hebrews, such as Messrs. Lasky, Loew, Fox, Zukor and Laemmle?" his question answered itself in the minds of millions of anxious Americans.

Characterizing Prohibition-era whiskey as "(n word) gin" and jazz as "Yiddish moron music," Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent fused, crudely but effectively, the racism and anti-Semitism animating this antimodern critique. "As soon as the Jews gained control of the 'movies'," Ford observed, "we had a problem . . . . It is the peculiar genius of that race to create problems of a moral character in whatever business they achieve a majority." About producers "of Semitic origin," Ford's newspaper also observed that "many . . . don't know how filthy their stuff is--it is so natural to them." The movies deployed Jewish "cleverness" to "camouflage the moral filth" of "the monkey talk, jungle squeals, grunts and squeaks and gasps" of African American popular culture.

read his words for yourself and the origins of things being said now are quite clear:

The International Jew Chapter 11

Many people have wondered whence come the waves upon waves of musical slush that invade decent homes and set the young people of this generation imitating the drivel of morons. Popular music is a Jewish monopoly. Jazz is a Jewish creation. The mush, slush, the sly suggestion, the abandoned sensuousness of sliding notes, are of Jewish origin.

Monkey talk, jungle squeals, grunts and squeaks and gasps suggestive of calf love are camouflaged by a few feverish notes and admitted in homes where the thing itself, unaided by "canned music," would be stamped out in horror. The fluttering music sheets disclose expressions taken directly from the cesspools of modern capitals, to be made the daily slang, the thoughtlessly hummed remarks of school boys and girls. /Is it surprising that whichever way you turn to trace the harmful streams of influence that flow through society, you come upon a group of Jews? In baseball corruption – a group of Jews. In exploitative finance – a group of Jews. In theatrical degeneracy – a group of Jews. In liquor propaganda – a group of Jews. In control of national war policies – a group of Jews. In control of the Press through business and financial pressure – a group of Jews. War profiteers, 80 per cent of them – Jews. Organizers of active opposition to Christian laws and customs – Jews.

In this miasma of so-called popular music, which combines weak-mindedness with every suggestion of lewdness – again Jews.

The Jewish influences on American music is without doubt regarded as serious by those who know anything about it. Not only is there a growing protest against the Judaization of our few great orchestras, but there is a strong reaction from the racial collusion which fills the concert stage and popular platform with Jewish artists to the exclusion of all others. If they were superior artists, nothing against it could be said; they are only better known and racially favored in Jewish musical circles.

“Let me make a nation’s songs and I care not who makes the laws." said one; in this country the Jews have had a very large hand in making both. It is the purpose of this article to put people in possession of the truth concerning the moron music which they habitually hum and sing and shout day and night, and if possible to help them to see the invisible Jewish baton which is waved above them for financial and propaganda purposes. Just as the American stage and motion picture have fallen under the control of Jews and their art-destroying commercialism, so the business of handling "popular songs" has become a Yiddish industry.

[…] Jews did not create the popular song; they debased it. The time of the entry of Jews into control of the popular song is the exact time when the morality of popular songs began to decline. The "popular" song, before it became a Jewish industry, was really popular. The people sang it and had no reason to conceal it. The popular song today is often so questionable a composition that performers with a vestige of decency must appraise their audience before they sing.

[…] The general directors of the whole downward trend have been Jews. It needed just their touch of cleverness to camouflage the moral filth and raise it half a degree above that natural stage where it begets nothing but disgust.

[…] In this business of making the people’s songs the Jews have shown as usual, no originality but much adaptability – which is a charitable term used to cover plagiarism, which in its turn politely covers the crime of mental pocket-picking The Jews do not create; they take what others have done, give it a clever twist, and exploit it. Plagiarism is the result of mediocre artists being spurred on by non-artistic promoters to produce something that can be dressed up with sufficient attractiveness to draw the public’s money.

The Jews bought up all the old song books, opera scores, collections of folk songs, and, if you stop to analyze some of the biggest "hits" of the early days of the Yiddish song manufacturing Trust, you will find they are woven on the motif and melody of the clean songs of the pre-swamp era. The music jazzed and swung out of recognition, the sentiment sensualized very much, and pushed upon their smutty road across the world. Because of absolute Jewish control of the song market, both in publishing and in theatrical performance, it is next to impossible for anything but a Jewish song to be published in the United States, or if published, to get a hearing. The proof of this is in the fact that the Yiddish trust owns all the business and the so-called "song-hits" all bear Jewish names.

The insidiousness of the Jewish menace to our artistic integrity is due partly to the speciousness, the superficial charm and oriental persuasiveness of Hebrew art, its glitter, its violently juxtaposed extremes of passion, its poignant eroticism and pessimism, and partly to the fact that the strain in us which might make head against it, the deepest, most fundamental strain in our nature is diluted and confused by a hundred other tendencies of the Jewish age.

[…] The diabolical cunning with which an unclean atmosphere is created and sustained through all classes of society and by the same influence, will not be overlooked by any observer. There is something Satanic about it, something calculated with demonic shrewdness.

And the stream flows on and on, growing worse and worse, to the degradation of the non-Jewish public and the increase of Jewish fortunes.

[…] Two facts about the "popular" song are known to all: first, that for the most part it is indecent and the most active agent of moral miasma in the country, or if not the most active, then neck and neck with the "movies"; second, that the "popular" song industry is an exclusive Jewish industry.

There is work here for the Anti-Defamation League! That League knows how to put the screws on anyone who disparages the Jews! From important publishers down to inconsequential country newspapers, the Anti-Defamation League makes itself felt. There is work for it in the movies and the theater and popular song industries. Why does not the League put the screws on those Jews who have degenerated the movies and debauched the people in their "arts," sports, and entertainments? /On those who have brought shame on the racial name? Why not?

Is the answer that only non-Jews are to be controlled, and Jews let to run loose? Is the answer that the gentle Gentiles can be curbed as by bridle and bit and the Jews cannot? American Jewry is desperately afraid of opening a single seam in its armour by means of a single investigation or reform. They are afraid of how far the fire of correction may spread!

How square dancing became a weapon of white supremacy against an anti-Semitic jazz dance conspiracy

“Jazz is a Jewish creation,” automative tycoon Henry Ford wrote in his anti-Semitic publication, The International Jew. “The mush, slush, th

Hitler’s belief that Jews were incapable of creating art or anything of beauty echoed Ford’s racist ranting.

pardon me, but everyone aligning themselves with Nazi sympathizing white supremacists is a disgrace. dividing us is serving no one’s purpose but theirs.

The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere

April Rosenblum The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere Making resistance to antisemitism part of all of our movements 24th April 2007

Antisemitism’s job is to make ruling classes invisible. It protects ruling class power structures, diverting anger at injustice toward Jews instead. But it doesn’t have to be planned out at the top. It serves the same ends, whether enshrined in law or institutionalized only in our minds; whether it’s state policy, popular ‘common sense,’ or acts of grassroots movements like our own.

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from here

Hitler considered Henry Ford an inspiration. nice to see the Jew haters returning to the classics.

Ford's Anti-Semitism | American Experience | PBS

Ford lent authority to the anti-Semitic fears and assumptions of many Americans.

A close friend recalled a camping trip in 1919 during which Ford lectured a group around the campfire. He "attributes all evil to Jews or to the Jewish capitalists," the friend wrote in his diary. "The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy…"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/the-dark-legacy-of-henry-fords-anti-semitism-commentary/2014/10/10/c95b7df2-509d-11e4-877c-335b53ffe736_story.html

Ford and his publication attracted attention throughout the world, including from Adolf Hitler. In fact, Ford is the only American mentioned by name in Hitler’s notorious “Mein Kampf,” published in 1925. Anti-Semitic Independent articles translated into German and other languages during the 1920s were used to “prove” Nazis were not alone in their pathological hatred of Jews and Judaism.

“You can tell Herr Ford that I am a great admirer of his,” Hitler said. “I shall do my best to put his theories into practice in Germany. ... I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration.”

Anti-Semitism in the United States: Henry Ford Invents a Jewish Conspiracy

Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories promoted by Henry Ford.

Antisemitism and Henry Ford’s “The International Jew” | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Henry Ford was the founder of Ford Motor Company. Ford used his position and wealth to promote hatred of Jews. Learn more about Ford and his

The Poison Pen: Henry Ford and "The International Jew" - American Jewish Historical Society

Throughout the 1920s, business magnate Henry Ford spread antisemitic vitriol through his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, which reached

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more normal posts from instagram

this is a malicious, false conspiracy about the 10/7 massacre. curious how they say it was “resistance” and yet at the same time say Israel did it themselves.