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I don't want this buried in replies or reblogs, so I'm going with this:
Hannah being Jewish is not why her writing choices for Armand are being questioned. It's the matter of her past Zionist sympathies. And having seen the false conflation between Judaism and Zionism used to justify and obscure some of the worst modern crimes against humanity, I'm not accepting it. No one should.
Similarly, Rolin Jones' previous work on Weeds is being used to contextualise his portrayals of Armand, Louis, & Claudia. Salient critiques of that program include racist stereotyping & Zionist propaganda. There's no public information on whether Jones is Jewish, and it's irrelevant.
Why do people believe that Hannah may have residual Zionist sympathies?
Hannah Moscovitch, whose play East of Berlin examines the Holocaustās legacy and is coming to Dublin, is not against gender quotas
East of Berlin, which opens at Project Arts Centre in a new production by Brinkmanship Theatre, was inspired by the time Moscovitch spent at a kibbutz in Israel when she was 18. "There were 30 young people, English and American Jews, and one [young man] whose grandfather had murdered Jews during the war. He was doing penance for his family's history, and his presence really stuck in my mind."
What's the problem with a kibbutz?
A major reason why Bernie Sanders' resistance to Zionismāor rather the 'Netanyahu government'āmeans little when confronting the settler colonial occupation, is his continued idealisation of the kibbutzim movement. This colonial practiceāwith its basis in Prussian expansionāand land theft movement operates under the guise of a communal utopia, because it offered a greater chance of assimilating newcomers & dispossessing Indigenous Palestinians. And in Hannah's kibbutz's case, native Syrians near the illegally occupied Golan Heights.
Labor Zionists tried to build a communal utopia. They created an oppressive form of ethnic nationalism instead.
The most prominent Jewish Human Rights body in Occupied Palestine, B'Tselem, has long documented the systemic land theft, going right back to the kibbutzim movement. Much like Birthright and the IDF, these collectives of Indigenous elimination are maintained by western foreigners' participation & settlement.
Why is it irresponsible to frame a brown, Muslim-coded character as a Nazi in the third year of a live-streamed genocide against Palestine's majority Muslim population?
Because likening Palestinians and the broader 'Muslim world' to the Nazis is one of the most enduring justifications for indiscriminate violence against them. Every genocidal society frames their victims as both their lessers and existential, inhuman threats that can only be handled through brute forceāexpulsion & extermination. It's why the Nazis utilised biological racism & called for 'racial hygiene.' It's how the international human rights ecosystem came to appropriate Slobodan Milosevic's idea of 'ethnic cleansing,' which he used to justify the genocide of Bosnian Muslims.
The Jewish far right has been calling Palestinians "Nazis" for almost 80 years, casting them as an irredeemable enemy in an eternal war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stresses he never meant to claim an Islamic leader persuaded Adolf Hitler to adopt the Final Solut
There are ongoing genocides whose perpetrators relish images like this:
Storytelling comes with responsibilities. Moscovitch has publicly used her body to further Zionism, with no documented remorse over that act. As we're in the third year of the Palestinian genocide, Moscovitch's public stance is still one of unchallenged support. If she's not ready to change that, despite the United Nations finally labelling the Zionist-led genocide in Gaza, she at least needs to be more careful. That includes finding other mad scientists to reference when villainising brown Muslim characters; Mengele won't fly. It means ensuring that any story bearing your name & authority doesn't present a brown South Asian man as somehow untouched by Paris' Nazi occupation. How would he have achieved that besides either hiding or collaborating? And with that skin tone, no amount of collaboration would've saved him. If he thrived under such oppression, what would that make him?
I've waffled on, but Moscovitch is key to creating a product with reach. Whether deliberate or not, her position and power over this series' Muslim representation is cause for public scrutiny. We're all watching the same world events unfold. Her promotion gives her even less room for harm, deliberate or otherwise.
so many scenes this season feel like they were placed intentionally for meme fodder to me. and almost every line is a reference to pop culture or twitter lingo
i knowwww the memes and fanservice were such a massive waste of screentime
did they really think a coerced acknowledgement of armand having been sex trafficked at age 12 by someone actively being tortured BY ARMAND was likeā¦ enough to balance out the previous 6 episodes of the main character and unquestioned narrative voice using this very fact to degrade and humiliate him? like i actually want to know if they could be that stupid
having this problem where i really wanna dissect some parts of the finale with the framework of edward saidās orientalism and here i am knee deep in the pdf but i. i donāt want to rewatch the finale
having this problem where i really wanna dissect some parts of the finale with the framework of edward saidās orientalism and here i am knee deep in the pdf but i. i donāt want to rewatch the finale
Rolin saying he doesnāt think Claudia actually screamed for Louis when he was being dragged away during the trialā¦ā¦ Rolin hates LouClaudia so much. If he had his way, Claudia wouldāve been behind the lynching herself. Lestat was actually saving Louis from her clutchesā¦..
honestly idk at this point. probably not if itās the same writing team but i could see myself seeing gifsets and being tempted. i certainly wonāt pay for it though and iām definitely not going to get excited and participate in the anticipationā¦.. i canāt put myself through this shit again lol
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