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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.'

[the-prince-of-tides]

As Shabbas comes in, I reflect this week that Democratic Party leadership has fully failed to understand the revolt that has happened among the activist petite bourgeoisie of the DSA against Democrats. Yes, Graham Platner is out of the race, but while there is a consensus of “Big Names,” and even other Progressives, that he should remain out, there is a genuine tidal wave of posts, tweets, discussions in short form by people that call themselves Progressives, that align with the DSA, explaining why Graham Platner is actually “not that bad,” and “we don’t know the whole story,” and “This is all Zionist propaganda.” And, for the depths of depravity as I have seen from some people, “Even if he were a rapist and had a Nazi tattoo, his victims and minorities by and large should still support him as a Progressive candidate.”

The Democratic Party simply isn’t equipped to handle this betrayal of basic liberal values. In a historically coherent sense, the dismissals and unique politics that this new wave brings to the table are clearly Right-Wing, and clearly represent the frustrations of the petite bourgeoisie that had formerly been restrained by good economics. Now that the USA is economically flagging, both parties suffer from tumors of petite bourgeois frustration—of elites trying to take over society, and accusing specific groups of minorities of being “The Real Problem” while insisting that that’s not what they’re doing.

The problem facing the Democrats is that this Right-Wing revolt by Democrats’ upper-classes is coming from people that simultaneously claim to be Left-Wing and may even mistakenly believe they are Left. Democrats don’t know how to excise rich “Left” people that support Far Right causes all over the world while claiming credit for all the Democratic Party’s liberal successes. The conflation of Left with liberal has tied the Party to these upper-class rebels. Until the Party can figure out how to untie themselves, this problem will only get worse.

- JF

[ketubahring]

Shabbat Shalom 🤍

So excited to be back making more art!!

Copyright © 2026 Ketubah Ring. No reproduction, printing, resale, or use without permission.

[mariacallous]

[darkladynyara]

Jews are also the second largest groups of hate crime victims in the US as a whole- at 2.4% of the population. They're the most frequently targeted group per capita and it's not even close.

[chutzpahchesed]

Former pro-Palestinian activist explains leaving movement | The Jerusalem Post

Thomas said that October 7 marked a turning point, not immediately because of what she saw in the media, but because of what she did not see

Festival exhibit turned Stanford activist Taryn Thomas to Israel

The Nova Music Festival Exhibition, which recently opened in London, convinced a pro-Palestinian student to change her view of the October 7

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/27/received-death-threats-abandoning-pro-palestine-movement/

It wasn’t long after Hamas carried out its attack on Israel in Oct 7, 2023, that Taryn Thomas found herself swept up in the chorus of pro-Palestine activists mobilising against the Jewish state.

Even before Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza following the Oct 7 massacre,“I was scrolling through social media, and I only saw support for Palestine,” she recalls. “People I know, whether it was activists or people I look up to, were already posting their thoughts.”

Then aged 19 and studying biomedical science at the elite Stanford University in northern California, Thomas, an African American, was first introduced to the anti-Israel movement at Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, where Palestinian flags were flown by some activists. “I never really understood why, but we were told that in order for us to be free, Palestine has to be free,” she says.

She subsequently helped lead large protests against Israel and, within two weeks of Oct 7 2023, had joined an encampment of activists on campus protesting against Israel’s invasion of Gaza. Like many others, she donned a keffiyeh, the headscarf worn to demonstrate solidarity with Palestinians. “I really loved it because of the sense of belonging and the sense of purpose,” she says of the encampment. “It was like an instant community.”

Besides fellow students, Thomas was encouraged by “faculty members like history professors” who “validated the movement”. “It seemed like everyone was a lot more educated than me and very certain and sure of themselves that this is a genocide,” says Thomas, who is now 21. “The only safe position was the more radical one in the encampment.”

‘I was confused by what our mission was’

Thomas grew up in Riverside County, one of the few Republican counties in the otherwise “very liberal California”. That, together with racist abuse at school, influenced her political outlook. “I thought going further to the Left would be the solution to the extremism I was seeing from the Right,” she says.

Huge demonstrations took place at universities across the US in the months that followed Oct 7, with protesters confronting the educational institutions with their demands – including to divest from Israel and cut ties with counterpart Israeli institutions.

While the movement was largely peaceful, some demonstrations turned violent and led to clashes with police. “One of our protests got out of hand, and that kind of made me take a step back,” says Thomas.

This was in June 2024, when several militant students broke into the office of Stanford’s president, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. “They spray-painted disgusting things, such as ‘Pigs taste best when dead’, ‘Death to America’, ‘Death to Israel’, and ‘Kill cops’,” Thomas recalls.

“I was confused by what our mission was. At what point did the pro-Palestine movement turn into this anti-Israel, anti-America movement? We completely lost sight of the victims we were claiming to be supporting and fighting for.”

Yet those behind the vandalism “doubled down”, she says, and justified their actions, “even though Jewish students said they felt unsafe”. She explains: “They felt like they couldn’t go to their classes, they were getting harassed and doxxed [having personal information published online] and things like that. Essentially, we completely lost our minds.”

A drastic change of heart

Then, in October 2024, Thomas was one of many students who received an open invitation to the Nova Music Festival Exhibition in Los Angeles. Recently opened in London, the exhibition aims to recreate the festival site where 413 people were murdered by Hamas, and many more were injured or taken hostage.

Nova exhibition

“Initially, I laughed, thinking, ‘What’s this propaganda?’” Something piqued her interest, however, so she decided to go. “I’d heard about the festival and was curious, but I’d only really heard the reasoning, ‘Well, why would you have a festival next to a contested border? Essentially, they were asking for it.’

“I was hoping it was going to reaffirm my position, that I would find Zionist lies and whatever. I went with a very closed mind.” Three hours later, Thomas emerged feeling “so lost”.

“I experienced a lot of cognitive dissonance – what I was seeing versus what I’d been told. It was like I arrived a year too late to a funeral. I had so many questions, but I really had no one I could talk to about this. All of my friends were from the encampment. I’d never met an Israeli or talked to them about their experiences – I was fluent in the state’s sins, but I was illiterate in its people.”

Seeing pictures and footage of the young festival-goers hit home for Thomas. “They were kids my age, just dancing, and then fleeing for their lives the next moment. I could see myself in them. I could have been sending a last ‘I love you’ message to my mum. I felt so much empathy and sadness.”

One element in particular changed everything – an audio clip of a jubilant Hamas fighter phoning his father to let him know he’d killed 10 Jews. “My heart sank because these [were meant to be] our martyrs. [This was] the resistance we were claiming we wanted. When we called for any means necessary, I didn’t realise that’s what it meant.”

Months later, Thomas was invited on a trip to Israel organised by a group combatting anti-Semitism on campus. “I knew if I was going to continue to speak on this, I needed to see it for myself,” she says.

During the 10-day trip last March, she met with Israelis, Ethiopian Jews, Palestinians, Druze and Bedouin. “I was shocked at how much diversity I saw – I didn’t even know Israel had black people,” she said.

On the fourth day, the group had to take cover during a missile attack. “Our guide told us to get on the ground, and I put my hands over my neck and prayed. “I thought about the irony of how I’d called for the divestment of the very system I was praying for,” she says. “It [the missile] didn’t care about my politics or what I posted or any of that. I was a target, a body on the ground, and I felt utterly useless.”

Fortunately the missile was intercepted and the trip continued, but the experience left Thomas shaken. She says it made her realise “how cushy and comfortable a life” she had in America, and that she’d not realised the “real consequences” of what she’d been calling for.

‘It felt like being stoned publicly’

Back home, she posted a picture of her trip online – a decision that cost her dearly. “My best friend of three years asked, ‘Is this in Israel?’ I said, ‘Yeah, do you want to talk about it?’ She immediately blocked me. I hadn’t even expressed anything. I literally said I went. Period.”

Her post opened the floodgates. “I lost every single friend”, while her classmates “posted really disgusting things”, including labelling her a “genocidal apologist”. Thomas says she was doxxed, and received death threats and racist abuse – and that her family was also targeted. “It was like a crusade and felt like being stoned publicly.”

She now takes a dim view of the encampment atmosphere. “It completely insulates you in this echo chamber and indoctrinates you. If you had any questions, you’d lose your social belonging – the last thing you wanted to be called was a Zionist.”

She adds that the protesters’ “attention turned into this hatred” and there were constant calls for the “normalisation of violence”. Some activists, for example, celebrated the assassinations of Charlie Kirk, the Right-wing political activist, and Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare chief executive, she says.

The mental toll had become so heavy on Thomas that she stepped away from her studies late last year. What helped get her through this tough period is the new friendships she has formed, including some with Jewish students.

“They knew I came from the encampments and they engaged with me, intellectually argued with me, disagreed with me, but we still broke bread on Shabbat,” she says. “I learned from my [now] best friend that she was doxxed because of people within our movement. I know I have to repair some of those damages.”

‘Open your heart and put down those megaphones’

Thomas says her family are not politically engaged in the issue of Israel and Gaza and she has faced questions from her mother about her involvement. “She was just like, ‘Why are you doing this? It isn’t your burden to shoulder.’ She just wants her family to be safe and protected.”

But Thomas hopes that by sharing her story it will encourage others to experience the Nova exhibition. “I hope the people who are protesting will come – I just want them to go inside,” she says. “None of this is political. Just look and learn the stories – you don’t have to agree. Come in with an open heart and an open mind and put down those megaphones.”

As for Thomas, she hopes to return to university in September, but in the meantime, she is determined to do what she can to increase cross-community understanding. “A lot of us on the pro-Palestine side were recruited through empathy, so I think we can be reached through it too. Because of this unique perspective I have of what changed my heart, I think I can hopefully change other people’s.

“I’m not Jewish. I’m an African American woman. But a lot of our struggles are parallel,” she says. “We’re seeing an increase in anti-Semitism, we’re seeing an increase in extremism and political violence. There’s just no way that I can now sit back, kick my feet up and call it a day.”

[chutzpahchesed]

London mayor Sadiq Khan visits Nova festival exhibit, meets with survivors of Hamas massacre

Khan, whose visit comes after exhibit organizers criticized his absence, says public should stop by, as it transcends religion, highlights '

Sadiq Khan visits the Nova Exhibition in London

The London Mayor drew parallels between the music festival massacre and 2017’s Manchester Arena Bombing.

He said: "This is not about what religion you belong to, which God you worship, what your politics are, what your views are on any particular issues, it's about coming to see for yourself what happened on that day,” said Khan.

Sadiq Khan visits Nova Exhibition in London - The Jewish Chronicle

The London Mayor drew parallels between the music festival massacre and 2017’s Manchester Arena Bombing

London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan visited the Nova Exhibition on Thursday, meeting with bereaved families of October 7 victims visiting the capital.

Khan toured the exhibition alongside relatives of those killed at the Nova Music Festival, one of the key epicentres of Hamas’ attack on Israel in 2023.

The delegation was also accompanied by Andrea Simon, the victims’ commissioner for London, part of the UK’s independent agency dedicated to the welfare of victims of atrocities and public scandals and their families.

During the visit, the mayor urged others to visit the exhibition, which tells the story of the infamous massacre.

As well as featuring personal items salvaged from the festival grounds, the exhibition also includes first-hand witness phone footage from the day and in-person testimonies from survivors, returned hostages, and bereaved families – who will be present at the exhibition every day.

"This is not about what religion you belong to, which God you worship, what your politics are, what your views are on any particular issues, it's about coming to see for yourself what happened on that day,” said Khan.

"But if you're lucky, you’ll get the chance to meet a survivor and that experience will touch you, I promise.

“What's quite clear is that these are people who went to that concert with nothing but love and joy, wanted a good time, and lost their lives. Others have survived. Their lives are never going to be the same again. And there are bereaved families whose lives will never be the same again."

"A number of things won't leave me,” he added, specifically mentioning “the trainers of the kids, one of them 18 years old, the clothes, mobile phones”.

“It just reminds you these are people, and it's always worth remembering that you may see a video film, you may read an article, but these are just human beings,” he went on. “But also what people are capable of doing is just horrific. And so what will stay with me is the hope and the optimism, but also the horror of what happened.”

The mayor also drew parallels with the Manchester Arena Bombing, saying: “One of the things I noticed, when you look at the photographs of those who lost their lives, you'll see the diversity of ages - from kids as young as 18, in their 20s and their 30s and their 40s, even in their 50s, whose common theme was their love of trance music, their love of rave.

"And they left home, leaving their loved ones behind expecting to see them the next day, never to return and the same happened with traumatic incidents all across the world whether it's the tragedy of the Ariana Grande concert where those mums and dads never saw their kids again, or the survivors who will be changed forever, it's just a reminder of the things we've got in common.

"There are too many people around the world trying to divide people, divide communities and music, fun, congregation are the things we all share.”

The Nova will be available to visit until Wednesday, July 15, at 30 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3NZ. Tickets can be purchased at www.novaexhibition.com.

he also said: “As time goes on, the concern is that we’ll forget them, that they’ll be forgotten, and it’s really important that they’re not forgotten.”

[bobemajses]

A Jewish wedding in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, 2000

[chutzpahchesed]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/magazine/goy-antisemitic-youth-slang.html

Last week I interviewed a teenager about his use of the word “goyslop.” That’s a term for cruddy, low-quality food — as coined, or at least popularized, by far-right antisemites. This teenager was absolutely not a far-right antisemite; he just happened to attend a New Jersey high school where students, Jewish and Christian and otherwise, said “goyslop” all the time. “If your friend goes and gets McDonald’s, and gets two burgers and a shake,” he explained, “like, ‘Oh, my god, that’s so goyslop, that’s goy.’”

If you enjoy Philip Roth, you might be interested to hear that this school sits not far from where Alexander Portnoy, of “Portnoy’s Complaint,” was chastised by his mother for eating hamburgers and other chazerai — junk — while his constipated father drank “not whiskey like a goy, but mineral oil and milk of magnesia.” That’s one typical use of “goy,” or the plural “goyim”: to refer to those who aren’t Jewish. The Hebrew “goy” just means a people; Bibles routinely translate it as “nation.” But it also came, in Hebrew and Yiddish, to describe the peoples that Jews lived among — say, the ones Portnoy calls “goyim with golden hair and silver tongues,” the ones whose company will never actually promote his father, only treat him to the occasional weekend away in a “fancy goyischehotel.”

All of this is really normal. The world is full of names for “not us”: haole, gaijin, Englischer, allochtoon. They can be totally neutral, or deeply unkind, or just about anywhere in between. Many Jews would tell you “goy” is like, say, “foreigner” — neutral, but certainly capable of becoming an insult if the speaker wants it to.

The abnormal part, in this case, begins with the distressing number of people who imagine that the world is controlled by secretive Jewish cabals, and that the very existence of “goy” is airtight proof of their supremacist plot. For years now, antisemitic extremists have engaged in a trollish embrace of the word — creating, among other things, a neo-Nazi group called the Goyim Defense League and a fringe crowdfunding platform called GoyFundMe.

Some of these people felt vindicated by the release of documents concerning Jeffrey Epstein. Never mind the exploitation of children: Here in his inbox were wealthy Jewish men, writing one another sardonic emails about the goyim! The way Epstein used “goy” was often pretty similar to how gentiles might joke about WASPs, and his sourer uses just feel like a famously loathsome guy being loathsome, but still: Soon we had the far-right pundit Candace Owens treating this as proof of a bigotry fundamental to the faith. “This is, for them, a religious philosophy, a racist perspective that we are goyim, meaning cattle, that are meant to be herded and ruled over,” she told podcast listeners. That “cattle” idea traces back through literal Nazi propaganda to antisemitic sources like “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”; if Owens really believes it to be true, she differs from other Catholics in her understanding of Scripture, which would have God promising Abraham that “I will make of you a great cow.”

“Goyslop” has its roots in people who think this way starting to agree with Portnoy’s mother about the chazerai. But they imagine sinister Jewish elites purposefully feeding the masses cheap, enfeebling swill — a notion they express, for the most part, not on podcasts but in flippant internet postings about the pliant “goycattle” being herded to their troughs. And it’s that version of “goy” that ended up leaching into high school.

My source — 15, Jewish, a colleague’s son, resident of a racially and religiously diverse suburb — estimates that at least 70 percent of the students in his school would be familiar with “goyslop.” (Another student, who feels less firm on the exact meaning, puts the number at just under half.) He is fully aware that it arose via an “antisemitic thing about Jews trying to kind of poison the minds of the people through food and stuff.” But this is not, in his experience, remotely how it operates among his peers, who see it as criticizing, if anything, corporations. “It’s not really a thing like that anymore,” he says. “Like, everyone says it.”

This may be a wild journey for a word to take, but it’s not an unusual one. The internet is full of fringe jargon that breaks containment and seeps, mostly shorn of its original politics, into the way ordinary young people talk. How? One analogy might be the way that, in conversation, you can use a silly voice to playact as another type of speaker — say, pushing up your glasses and doing a “nerd” voice when correcting somebody. Online, people do this by parodying other posters’ vocabulary or typing habits — including, sometimes, the language the fringes are constantly bombarding everyone else with. It gets toyed with at an amused and dismissive arm’s length, then passes from arm’s length to arm’s length until it is miles from where it began, operating as a kind of 6-7ish in-joke that many young people will tell you is not nearly as deep or serious as whatever alarming origins you’re worried about.

For them, it simply means something else. Does that make “goy” an epic failure for antisemites, who feared the eye-rolling of a few million Jews and now have even gentiles using the word? There are times when a trip through this pipeline does seem to deflate extremist thinking; there are others when it feels as if incredibly unpleasant ideas are worming into the mainstream via glib, uninterrogated jokes. I cannot tell you which cases are which. Most everyone who says “goyslop” is, on some level, kidding. But given the history of the ideas behind it, you might be forgiven for worrying that the joke had spun out of control.

[chutzpahchesed]

Opinion: Jewish Redditors got an antisemitic video game taken down. It’s a drop in the bucket

'Goyslop' only lasted four days online—but other, equally harmful games remain.

On June 22, an independent video game developer (read: one person, perhaps in a dimly lit basement) published a PC game called Goyslop on the popular platform Steam. They described Goyslop as a “Nazi Souls-like game”—implying it resembled the seminal game Dark Souls, which Goyslop almost certainly did not—“filled with the biggest conspiracy theories about Jews.” 

Full disclosure: we have not played the game. Instead, we turned to reviews for a plot summary. Czech reviewer Párek8, who purchased the game for a few dollars and played it for less than an hour, called it “a completely unhinged internet fever dream where u basically help hitler fight jesus, communists and god knows what else in a wild shooter battle. story makes zero sense, the bosses look like actual sleep paralysis demons, and the dark humor is just straight up insane.”

A Jewish Redditor discovered the game a few days before its release and sounded the alarm to the main Jewish subreddit forum, leading to numerous complaints filed with Steam, none of which led anywhere. For those unfamiliar with the gaming giant, Steam enjoys approximately 147 million active monthly users, owning a full three-quarters of PC gaming market share. Almost anyone can upload and sell a game on Steam, whether it’s a AAA title or cheap “shovelware” garbage like Goyslop. While Steam is incredibly popular, Goyslop was not; data shows a handful of people actually played it. 

Yet despite the small numbers, Goyslop is a perfect crystallization of our society’s trouble with regulating harmful digital content. 

The game’s lack of popularity makes it all the more surprising that Steam actually removed Goyslop just four days after its release. A follow-up post on Reddit revealed one user escalated the complaint to Congresswoman Kim Schrier of Washington state, who is Jewish, and in whose district Steam’s parent company, Valve, operates. Within 24 hours of notifying the congresswoman, the user claims, Goyslop was gone. 

Indeed, on June 27, the creator of Goyslop posted an update to his small but enthusiastic community: “Yesterday I was working on a new update, and when I checked the game’s store page, it had been taken down. Steam only sent me a single line saying it was removed. I appreciate everyone who enjoyed the game, and I’m sorry to those who didn’t get the chance to play it. I’m asking Steam support whether there’s any way to bring it back, but honestly, it doesn’t look too good. I spent 7 months developing this game, so it really pains me to have it taken down after just 4 days—but life moves on.”

Quipped a user in response, “I don’t think this vibe-coded asset flip took 7 months to make. That being said it was still a funny delisting speedrun. Look forward to the sequel.”

The problem is, Goyslop isn’t the only game of its kind. 

These games are not coded messages found only in obscure corners of the internet—these are antisemitic tropes, disguised as edginess, openly listed on the world’s largest PC gaming platform, where young people can find them with a simple search. 

It is, if not easy, at least conceivable that young men will fall into this too-online rabbit hole so deep that denying the Holocaust in your high school yearbook seems based. This culture is more prevalent than you might think: the Anti-Defamation League has found more than a million such examples of extremist dogwhistles or symbols in user profiles and discussion boards across Steam.

So what’s the solution? Like every other tech giant, Valve must accept responsibility for its platform’s content, but appears repeatedly unwilling to do so—unless a congresswoman calls. Do we have to get the congresswoman to call about Bad Goys, too? What about all the weird Hitler sex games? 

The burden of responsibility should not fall on the end user, but this is the trend of big tech in the 2020s. Facebook and Xfamously decimated their content-moderation workforces, offloading those duties to users while throwing their hands up in defeat, saying their platforms are simply too big to manage. 

In the gaming industry, the responsibility of content moderation cannot reasonably fall to children—so instead it falls on parents. David Baszucki, the CEO of Roblox, once said of his popular gaming platform—whose struggles with pedophilia, financial exploitation and child harm are so well-documented that they’ve earned their own Wikipedia page—that if parents are “not comfortable, don’t let your kids be on Roblox.”

This argument is, frankly, dumb. It assumes parents are, a) always aware of what their children are doing online; b) up-to-date with sometimes convoluted, quietly insidious online subculture slang and references; and c) cognizant of the dangers inherent to the platform before their children become addicted to it.

It is clear that the tech giants require comprehensive, enforceable regulations to keep harmful content away from impressionable young people, either at the hardware or software level. Given that such international regulations are unlikely in the near future, Canada has taken it upon itself to propose legislation that would restrict anyone under 16 from using social media. Notwithstanding the fact that teenagers could easily bypass this block with a VPN, it is unclear whether gaming platforms like Steam and Roblox would even be affected. Could a 13-year-old still download Bad Goys? Could a seven-year-old still be sexually exploited on a Roblox forum? Would Steam still publish Goyslop 2, should that ever exist, and sell it in broad daylight?

And even if the answer is “no” to all of those within Canada, what about the rest of the world? 

Last week, the New York Times Magazine published a piece about “goyslop”—not the game, but the term. In the piece, a 15-year-old Jewish high schooler from New Jersey explains that his friends all use “goyslop” to refer to junk food. They are not antisemites. They vaguely understand, and don’t care about, the hateful origins of the phrase, which stems from the notion that Jewish elites are feeding the world’s goyim cheap, unhealthy garbage to keep them subservient and oblivious. “If your friend goes and gets McDonald’s, and gets two burgers and a shake,” the teenager explains, that’s “so goyslop.” 

The damage has been done. The culture has shifted. In a world where nobody wants to take responsibility for what young people consume online, extremism seeps in through the margins—and eventually into the real world. 

forgive me for editorializing, but we’ve been telling everyone that the widespread usage of “slop” and its derivation online from “goyslop” was bad, and have been met with skepticism and derision for calling it out, and lo and behold, it’s a pipeline to normalizing antisemitic extremism.

[jewish-vents]

can we talk about how little it actually costs an artist, particularly a musician, to boycott israel? let's say an artist was unhappy with the behavior of the government of the People's Republic of China. let's say they actually gave a damn about the well-being of Uygurs and Tibetans et al. let's say they decided the best way to show that was to make it so the average chinese fan was unable to listen to their music. an aside: that would be stupid on the face of it, but let's say they decided to do it anyway. you could pick any number of countries for this thought experiment. there is a lot of guilt to go around. maybe they could decide they want to stick it to Trump and the american political establishment in the least possible effective way and stop doing business in the US. why might it be that they don't? because that would actually interfere meaningfully with cashflow. the israeli consumer market is not big. it is, in real terms, a very small and not terribly populous country. israel is, in the eyes of the average soulless music mogul, expendable. you can shit on it all you like and there are too few people there to make much difference. and it's probably offset considerably by increased sales to anti-zionists, because some precious little morons will see "anti-zionist" and immediately vomit up their paychecks without checking ANYTHING else. i wouldn't be surprised if it actively makes MORE money to boycott israeli. it probably does. you don't see these artists boycotting the PRC or the US or Russia or Pakistan or France or Brazil or the UK or the UAE because there is no percentage in doing that. nobody is going to buy your music because you boycotted pakistan over debt slavery because nobody gives a damn about just how many people are enslaved via debt in pakistan. (it's estimated at millions. MILLIONS.) again, it would be just as stupid and ineffectual as anything, but they're not even trying and the REASON they're not even trying is because antisemitism is where the real money is. there's always a market for that.

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[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

I’ve noticed a thing recently (well, I’m sure people have been doing it for a while, but it only occurred to me recently) wherein people will deny the antisemitism of the committing a crime against Jews in the diaspora as a way of expressing anger at Israel, then when they’re called on it they’ll go “hey, I never said it wasn’t a crime, I just said it wasn’t *antisemitic*” and bitch, you’re not as cute as you think you are.

[amaditalks]

It's worth noting that this particular gambit has been attempted by the Democratic nominee for the US House race in Colorado 1, Melat Kiros, who refuses to use the word antisemitism in connection with last year's firebombing attack on a group of Jews at a Jewish event in Boulder, which is in the district she will almost certainly be elected to represent.

[majestic-deers]

According to Wikipedia the motive for that attack was “anti-Zionism”

[darkladynyara]

Okay, so they're admitting that ~antizionism~ just means attacking and murdering random jews. (Yes, I know that's not a deliberate admission. I know they're just trying to minimize and excuse their racist violence. Fuckers.)

[the-great-duck]

EGYPT DESERVED TO WIN THIS IS SUCH BULLSHIT.

I never watch football, once every four years I watch football. The only thing I know about football is when a game is boring.

This game did not bore me for a second. I was on the edge of my seat. I mean I went in thinking, 'oh, for sure Argentina is gonna win'. But man Egypt was insane, they played so well, their goalkeeper was so good.

This game was so rigged it makes no sense how obvious they made it. Like I've always thought that people were making up conspiracy theories cuz their favourite team lost, but this was so clearly biased.

I rarely watch games so I might be wrong, but I've been so angry since the match.

Like right after the match I was writing emails in a bad mood. I should never write emails in a bad mood.

[infiniteglitterfall]

buddy I have some bad news for you about who's being racist here (and it's not just about Egypt not letting indigenous Copts or any other non-Muslims on the team)

[moggiepillar]

[pagecommando]

The central thesis is right here and no one will admit it

Admitting it means they and the GOP have agency and have fucked up. They cannot do this because they are the Good Side of Small Uwu Little Guys in a Caring Community, you Insert Blindingly Racist Pejorative Borrowed from Actual Nazis Here.

[chutzpahchesed]

this is desperate and embarrassing, and another example of the current Israeli government not understanding (or not caring) that not all “support” is acceptable or is even genuine support. he won’t be the first toxic personality to visit Israel for exploitative purposes and then to return right back to the antisemitic, racist, misogynistic poison that is his livelihood and base online. would they let in Hasan? would they let in Nick Fuentes? because that’s the type of guy Clavicular is.

(no judgement whatsoever regarding the religious commentary and no judgement to anyone with a secular outlook either: Cindy’s assessment about the opportunism is spot on.)

I’m all for forgiveness and people doing the real work to make amends, to learn and change, to offer their allyship. there have been amazing people who have done that sincerely and have spoken about the journey it’s taken them. that’s a great thing. however, it should be obvious when someone is making a real effort versus when someone is being cynical and engaging in bait. there is no reason to believe that a bigoted influencer like this, a guy who has encouraged others to bash their own faces with hammers among other gross and abusive behavior, has anything but the worst motives, and platforming or legitimizing him is harmful and void of integrity.

[chutzpahchesed]

Holocaust denier and all around ghoul Myron Gaines is pictured here too.

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These are the right-wing extremists we're watching out for in 2026

Antisemitism, Holocaust denial and neo-Nazi ideology are all the rage among the rising stars of the new right

and if I say this clownery is about a certain strain of pathetic misogynistic, prejudiced solidarity, and those who rally together like this will always sell out if they think they can win the approval and clout of other noxious individuals…which we literally just saw here in the US with the Platner debacle too. humiliating, déclassé behavior, and in the end, the incel antisemites still aren’t going to spare them.

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Gotta love that thing when you’re reading a book and it’s really good and then all of a sudden WHAM the author drops a cute lil crumb of antisemitism and moves on like it didn’t just completely upend the entire book despite being barely plot-relevant

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

@jewishgay4il

Well lots of things, let's be real, but in this specific case this is Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim.

The concept of the book is that it's an alternate universe where when a person crosses a border (it seems like this mostly means country borders although there are certain references to other types of borders), if they are not planning on coming back (consciously or not), they "instance," which is to say, they physically duplicate into 2 identical people, one of whom remains in the original country and the other of whom continues on to the destination. Both instances start with the same set of experiences/memories but from that point their experiences are entirely separate - they can't read each other's minds or anything. In this universe it is also possible for instances to "reintegrate" by coming into physical contact (the reintegrated person has all memories/experiences of both instances simultaneously).

It's about the immigrant experience really, specifically the Korean-American immigrant experience but immigration in general. And because that's its focus, I feel like in a lot of ways it doesn't delve completely into the full horror that this universe promises. The main characters are a woman who instanced at age 9 when her mother moved her from Korea to New Jersey (both instances of her) and a man who instanced in college when he was studying abroad in NYC and made a subconscious decision that he wasn't coming back when he headed from Korea to NYC after winter break (both instances of him). So, like, immigrant experience, alienation, who you left behind in your home country and your relationship with them, etc. etc. but both of these individuals are really pretty privileged people. There are background references to scary things like people instancing while being trafficked. But they aren't particularly front and center to the story being told because it's meant to be about the general immigrant experience, not a horror novel.

Anyway, the only Jew to appear thus far (228 out of 358 pages into a novel set partly in NYC) is in 1 very brief scene that one of the characters remembers. Here is what we know about her from that brief blip of an appearance: she is a startup founder for a tech company working on an advanced wearable that can prevent reintegration of instances in the event of physical contact for those who don't want to reintegrate, and she is "independently wealthy," and she is Jewish.

This character decided to get into this industry and create this product due to her genuinely horrifying family history related to instancing. Her grandparents just barely made it out of Europe before the Holocaust...but they instanced at the border. The instances who came out were fine. The instances who got left behind survived, barely. After the war they came to find the instances who escaped and wanted to reintegrate. This woman's grandfather (the one who escaped Europe) murdered his instance (the one who survived the camps) rather than reintegrate and have to live with the survivor instance's memories.

Again, this is deeply horrifying! These are the kind of implications of the universe I'm talking about when I say that the author doesn't fully delve into them. This is a really logical and meaningful reason for a person to want to create a product that could prevent reintegration - what if her non-survivor grandfather could've felt he was safely able to prevent an unwanted reintegration without literally murdering another version of himself that had already gone through hell?

...or so I think. The implication of the way it's written is very clearly that this startup founder is just in it for the money and using her sob story background for marketing or clout or something. This scene is a meeting between her and a character working for a company that wants to acquire her company, about which she is highly skeptical (and doesn't end up agreeing to it):

It had been an awkward meeting in a too-fancy coffee shop, which trailed into an awkward silence upon which you cast the weak conversational lifeboat of: Why an instancing start-up? Hannah had punctured your lifeboat by telling you, with a vicious smile, about her grandparents, and the Holocaust. How they got out right before it was impossible to get out and how there was a second version of her grandparents, who had survived the camps, who had come and found them again when Hannah's grandparents were visiting family. And how her grandfather, the instance, had pushed his other self off a roof rather than live with the knowledge in his own brain. You hadn't known what to say to that [...] To hell with people who use their family trauma as their conversational nuclear weapon.

[mariacallous]

The Ease of Antisemitism

How a decent congressional nominee reached for the oldest accusation

[knight-of-skyloft]

Let me grant him everything a fair reader should. The suffering in Gaza is vast and a person of conscience watching it has every reason to be sickened; I take Leonard’s horror to be sincere. None of that is in dispute, and none of it is the point. Genuine horror at human suffering does not license the one comparison that turns Jews into Nazis to express it. That a man feels the suffering sincerely is how the oldest structure finds his mouth — not despite his conscience, but through it.

And

Set aside whether this costs you Jewish voters. Ask the simpler thing: is this who you want to be — the kind of person who takes the comparison that turns Jews into Nazis because the room is nodding? Because here is what history actually teaches: There were very few Righteous Gentiles, and the reason there were few is that it was never easy. To see the structure for what it is while everyone around you calls it something else, and then to refuse it at a cost to yourself has always been the hard thing, the thing almost no one does.

[chutzpahchesed]

this is desperate and embarrassing, and another example of the current Israeli government not understanding (or not caring) that not all “support” is acceptable or is even genuine support. he won’t be the first toxic personality to visit Israel for exploitative purposes and then to return right back to the antisemitic, racist, misogynistic poison that is his livelihood and base online. would they let in Hasan? would they let in Nick Fuentes? because that’s the type of guy Clavicular is.

(no judgement whatsoever regarding the religious commentary and no judgement to anyone with a secular outlook either: Cindy’s assessment about the opportunism is spot on.)

I’m all for forgiveness and people doing the real work to make amends, to learn and change, to offer their allyship. there have been amazing people who have done that sincerely and have spoken about the journey it’s taken them. that’s a great thing. however, it should be obvious when someone is making a real effort versus when someone is being cynical and engaging in bait. there is no reason to believe that a bigoted influencer like this, a guy who has encouraged others to bash their own faces with hammers among other gross and abusive behavior, has anything but the worst motives, and platforming or legitimizing him is harmful and void of integrity.