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Cara Drook, Reclaiming La Belle Juive, (2022 –).
'"La belle Juive" translates to "the beautiful Jewess." It is an archetype of Jewish women that is repeatedly shown in paintings and media throughout history. "La belle Juive" is rooted in antisemitism and misogyny. My goal with this collection is to have Jewish women take control of their narrative and reclaim "La belle Juive." I want to return dignity to the subjects and show what truly makes Jewish women beautiful.'
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.
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.
According to Wikipedia the motive for that attack was “anti-Zionism”
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.)
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.
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)
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.
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.
Holocaust denier and all around ghoul Myron Gaines is pictured here too.
A Miami Beach nightclub drew swift condemnation after a video showing far-right influencers chanting Nazi slogans circulated online, prompti
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.
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
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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.
How a decent congressional nominee reached for the oldest accusation
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.
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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.
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.
They watch movies and read history books all their lives where the climax involves angry rioting civilians as villains and mobs marching to murder a person or group they find suspicious but who is not guilty of causing an upsetting situation/bad economic conditions and say to themselves "that could never be me i would never believe lies and propaganda i would never go after innocent people just to feel like i'm doing something productive with my anger over a situation i have no control over and resort to violence just to have someone to blame so i don't need to think too hard about my biases because I'm a Good Person™️" and then they, in their hubris, promptly join the mob
Harvey Yesno signed a statement accusing the rap trio of supporting terror groups, which they deny
Anti-Israel rap trio Kneecap have brought a defamation suit against a Canadian indigenous leader after he signed a letter objecting to their planned performances at venues on ancestral lands in the country.
Harvey Yesno of the Eabametoong First Nation was a signatory to a statement posted by the Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem, a pro-Israel group for indigenous communities globally.
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh, known by their respective stage names as Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí, claim that the statement contained false and defamatory claims.
In particular, their suit centres on the allegation that it accused them of expressing support for the Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups and condoning antisemitism, which they deny.
O hAnnaidh was previously charged in the UK with a terror offence after a video which appeared to show him displaying a Hezbollah flag at a gig at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, north London, on November 21 2024, circulated online.
However, that case collapsed last September, with chief magistrate Paul Goldspring ruling the proceedings were “instituted unlawfully” as prosecutors had brought charges outside the required six-month time frame from the date of the alleged offence.
That ruling was later affirmed by the High Court, which rejected an appeal by the Crown Prosecution Service.
On Wednesday, an Irish court granted Kneecap’s legal counsel permission to serve notice of the suit on Yesno, in both Irish and English, in Ontario, Canada.
The group is suing for financial damages, claiming that the statement Yesno signed caused material damage to their reputation after it was widely picked up by media outlets.
Judge Cian Ferriter ruled that the group had an arguable case that they had been defamed in Ireland, allowing them to bring the suit in that jurisdiction, rather than in Canada.
He added that the three men’s reputations, as well as their identity with Irish language and culture, were “bound up” with Irish jurisdiction due to their citizenship and status as Irish public figures.
However, he did state that he was open to a prospective application from Yesno’s legal team to challenge the jurisdictional ruling.
Yesno is yet to publicly comment on the case.
the comment is the most succinct explanation as to why this conflict has caused such an explosion of antisemitism in Ireland and how badly misinterpreted the history is.
the video in general saying, “every region has its own Israel. every region has an oppressor country like Israel” is a level of unfathomable ignorance in the context of the Middle East alone.
Francois Letexier’s entry on the online encyclopaedia was altered after he came in for criticism over a number of contentious calls during t
The Wikipedia page for the French referee who took charge of the Round of 16 match between Argentina and Egypt on Tuesday was changed this week to state that he is Jewish, leading Egyptian fans to blame Israel, Jews and Zionism for their team’s loss.
Francois Letexier has been subjected to a slew of online abuse from disgruntled viewers following a number of contentious calls during the game.
These included calling a foul, with the help of VAR, that ruled out an Egyptian goal and giving Argentina what would ultimately prove a decisive penalty.
Much of the ire centred around claims that football’s governing body, Fifa, is biased in favour of Argentina and its star player, Lionel Messi, which have been prevalent on social media during the World Cup.
However, an Egyptian YouTuber with around 300,000 followers made a video the day after the match claiming that Egypt had “lost to Zionism”, citing Argentine President Javier Milei’s staunch support for Israel and suggesting a Zionist conspiracy is active within Fifa to advance the South American nation’s prospects in the tournament.
Subsequently, the “early life” section on Letexier’s Wikipedia page was altered to suggest he was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Brittany and that his grandfather was an active member of the French Resistance during the Second World War.
The edit was made by a Bangladesh-based user, who later removed it citing lack of evidence, while another editor under the username “thepharoah17” added Letexier to the topic page for prominent French Jews.
In the wake of the change, several Egyptian fans shared screenshots of the page claiming that the referee’s now-debunked Jewishness played a role in his alleged bias against their team.
It was also shared by a number of prominent pro-Palestine accounts, including Rahmeh Aladwan, a British doctor currently charged with four counts of inviting support for Hamas.
The claim was even “confirmed” as factual by X, formerly Twitter’s, built-in AI chatbot, Grok, in response to users’ questions, though it later reversed its position.
The Wikipedia entry was subsequently reverted to remove the false reference to Letexier’s Jewish upbringing, with editors stating that there was no evidence to support the claim and no reliable sourcing confirming where it originated.
“only the most evil people would go to Israel” interesting because the people most likely to go to Israel for religious, cultural, or historical reasons, or because they have family and friends there, or for weddings and funerals, or to visit the Kotel or Yad Vashem, or to make aliyah, are Jews. I never see “only the most evil people would go” to any other country on earth that has even worse human rights violations and inequality. I’ve never seen celebrities who play in Saudi Arabia (since the NY mayor pulled this comparison) get cancelled for it. I’ve never seen people who want to explore their heritages in troubled nations get called demons and Nazis and colonizers. “only the most evil people” only one group of people is irredeemable to you, and it’s Jewish people.
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Yiddish advertisement for Professor Abraham Hochman’s Clairvoyancy services. Reprinted in ‘Der shlisl tsu der nevu’e’, 1909. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
What makes me really, really angry is how people on the left completely dismissed Lyndsey Fifield (Republican ex, was physically abused and held against her will) but are taking Jenny Racicot seriously (Democrat ex, was raped). Because there are two implications here: 1. Domestic violence is not a big deal as long as there's no sexual abuse, and 2. Domestic violence is not a big deal if it happens to The Enemy. And both are equally horrific.
Unfortunately for us, we've known 2 was true since at least October 8, 2023.
Something I think that a lot of leftists and progressives fail to understand, is that the push against normalization with Israel and for the complete dissolution of the state, actively makes the situation worse for Palestinians. It actively makes the conflict worse, and I would argue is one of the direct causes for the war getting as bad as it did.
You are directly harming your own cause.
Refusing to acknowledge the existence of the State of Israel doesn’t materially change the reality that Israel is a sovereign nation with over ten million citizens. When leftists in the west chant “from the river to the sea” and “we don’t want no two states”, regardless of the intention, what do you think Israelis hear? What do you think a people that has faced genocide in living memory, from which our population still has not recovered, gets from that? We don’t hear it and consider your points, we hear it and remember all of the times Israel has been attacked with genocidal intent, and only survived through our own defense.
And what does this ultimately result it? It results in Israelis who no longer believe in the peace process. It results in Israelis who feel a visceral sense of fear which leads to doubling down on national security. It leads to diaspora Jews feeling unsafe in their communities and immigrating to Israel.
It leads to the total dissolution of the peace process, and what happens if there is no chance for peace? If there’s no hope for any type of solution then the only answer is endless war, and this war doesn’t just hurt Israelis, you know that.
They're not harming their own cause, because their cause is not about helping Palestinians, it's about destroying Israel
It's not even about Destroying Israel--it's about harming and killing Jews.
Some great additions from the comments.
