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THE PITT 1.01 • 7:00 A.M.

#the pitt #jack abbot #mel king #michael robinavitch

i keep seeing authors get cancelled for even mentioning characters of israeli descent/origin even if they don’t actually discuss israel- so inclusion and diversity applies to everyone but jews! it totally feels great to have any representation demonised.

#xenophobia #antisemitism #dehumanization #cultural boycotts #publishing #double standards

horse-on-a-porch

once again if a Jew deviates from what you consider to be politically correct you then feel absolutely fine calling them slurs ... The issue was NEVER their politics or beliefs. The issue was their Jewishness and you're a antisemite.

Yes this is about the Pitt fandom. Of course it's about the Pitt fandom. The amount of times I've seen zio used as a slur against Noah Wyle either implicitly (I'll use it if he steps out of the lines I've drawn) or explicitly (he's a Jew and I hate him) is insane.

#antisemitism #the pitt

ponpurin

I find it so interesting how some people accept and reaffirm the fact Israel has religious importance in both Islam and Christianity, and say that Jerusalem should “be for everyone”. Then they shit their pants when Jews say it’s also important for them.

So Muslims and Christians have a right to certain sites in Israel because they have deep religious significance, but Jews don’t? They have no right to their own damn indigenous land? To the birthplace of their entire culture, religion, language, and identity? The amount of mental gymnastics and Jew hatred required to make these statements is mind numbing.

And for anyone that’s curious, Muslims and Christians already can and have been to Jerusalem for decades. The whole “Jerusalem is for everyone” is so fucking stupid because literally anyone can visit already. And this argument is even more rich when considering the Temple Mount, the literal holiest site in Judaism, has highly restricted access to non-Muslims. Jews cannot visit their own holiest site without massive restrictions and they are not allowed to pray there. Only as recent as this year have SOME Jews been allowed to pray there (discreetly and out of sight). They’re facing these restrictions in their own indigenous land, no less! You would think since Israel is a “Jewish supremacist” country they’d get rid of these restrictions in their own fucking capital city.

Mind you Muslims and Christians are free to visit the western wall and pray there to their heart’s content. Though most Muslims wouldn’t since they can just go up to Temple Mount. The reason the western wall is holy to Jews is because it’s the closest they can get to the Temple Mount without facing restrictions. All of this to say Jews have no problem sharing their land or making Jerusalem “for everyone”.

chutzpahchesed

I think often of the sign Hersh Goldberg-Polin had in his room:

I understand and embrace how he intended it, and why he had this.

many of the people saying this phrase now think he deserved to be brutally murdered after months of torture and starvation.

there is quite a stark difference in the meaning.

#z”l #jerusalem #antisemitism #supersessionism #cultural appropriation #cultural erasure

me-hmm-dead

the main culprit behind the hospital's low ratings

#the pitt #frank langdon

chutzpahchesed

the obsessive, religious fervor at work here also reduces Palestinians themselves to mere objects, Christlike martyrs with Israelis cast as the devils, the crucifiers. it’s effectively entrenching this belief into every social justice movement, and more than simply normalizing, it is uplifting and canonizing antisemitic ideology as righteous and sacrosanct. it’s nothing new, but it is dangerous, and there are thousands of years of evidence to show why.

pagecommando

When I say, again and again, it's a fandom cult, this is what the fuck I mean. It quite literally fills in the 'religion/community/hierarchy' for a bunch of people hungry for structure and meaning but traumatized/certain they're 'too smart for organized religion' and they fall right into the hands of terrorist grifters. And in a bunch of rapidly-secularizing countries who still have a shitload of baggage from the Catholic Church they'd rather not face (Hi Ireland, Hi Spain) and offloading it onto Jews is easier, and they're lazy losers so their activist wings can go do more Jew baiting shit instead of actually confronting their own fucky governments.

pargolettasworld

I don't think I'm quite the religious-studies scholar to do this, but I would love to see a serious study of this kind of speech specifically from a religious-studies perspective. Because this is fascinating to me in a "the more things change, the more they stay the same" kind of way.

My guess is that this lady has been carefully taught, in post-WWII Europe that the racialized antisemitism of the 19th and 20th centuries is Bad, and Wrong, and anyway Jews Are White now (which is very much code for "Whoops, we went a bit too far on the antisemitism between 1933 and 1945, so we'll give Jews a little bit of Whiteness, as a treat, to make up for that little oopsie"), so you can't be racist against Jews by definition.

But cultural Christianity, and especially cultural Catholicism, is a helluva drug. In trying so hard to be progressive, she's actually looped all the way around to the kind of medieval antisemitism from which we derive the idea that Jews have horns/tails/cloven feet. And I'm sure she doesn't even realize that.

And, as others have noted, the look of spiritual awe in her eyes at the memory of a mere glimpse of Gaza -- the Promised Land, if you will -- really seals the deal that this has become a religious substitute. You really do have to wonder what she'd think if she ever actually did manage to set foot in the Promised Land of Gaza, with all of her intense, earnest, spiritualized White Saviorism so prominently on display.

In such an instance, I would hope that the first person she meets is not a Hamas soldier, but some ordinary shmoe who tells her the equivalent of "Oh, wicked, bad, naughty Zoot! She has been setting a light to our beacon, which, I've just remembered, is Grail-shaped."

chutzpahchesed

I’ve mentioned this before, but Charlotte Church telling The Guardian the following quote, in an interview that positions her as an “earth mother,” is the most unintentionally revealing statement:

Today, she’s wearing a keffiyeh; Church has spoken at marches, fundraised and performed at Palestine solidarity events. “What’s happening there,” she says, “is the greatest spiritual awakening of our time.”

before this, she said, of using “from the river to the sea”:

“Just to clarify my intentions there, I am in no way antisemitic. I am fighting for the liberation of all people. I have a deep heart for all religions and all difference.”

"It was a beautiful, beautiful event. But unfortunately the powers that be can't have that. [They] can't have such a powerful symbol of resistance as what we worked towards on Saturday."

who are the “powers that be”? who is “(((they)))”? don’t worry about it. :)

also Denise Gough comparing Gaza to the design flaw in the Death Star was bonkers, but if Charlotte is exemplary of the religious fervor this has taken on, Denise is exemplary of how many have made it a fandom. the two often intertwine - ecstasy, devotion, a sense of righteousness, an in-group and community to be a part of, a narrative to embrace, a cause to pursue, a Grail to seek. it provides an intense sense of purpose, and that’s intoxicating.

#antisemitism #cult mentality #white savior complex #there is a reason the antisemitism is particularly virulent in certain european countries #even though we’re seeing it everywhere the manifestations are slightly different #the religiously fervent component is more prevalent in europe because it has such old roots #<prev tags

icemav86

"I thought I would be married with two kids in college by now. Maybe have some property with a pond, and we could play hockey on it in the wintertime. And yet look at me now. No wife. No kids. No pond."

This adds so much to our understanding of Robby's headspace. As much as people can & do continue to learn and grow in all sorts of fulfilling ways throughout their entire lives, Robby's at an age where it's normal to look back on the choices he made that led him to where he is now--with satisfaction and with regret. And Robby knows that, while Samira says, "It's never too late," it is too late for him to achieve some dreams. In your mid-50s, there are hopes that live in the rearview mirror of possibility.

And maybe a life without the wife and kids and pond would be okay, because he dedicated his life to medicine. He has a calling. He's spent his life helping. Only he also says:

"The most important things I've ever done in my life have been in his hospital. Nothing will ever matter more than what I've done in his hospital, but it is killing me."

Robby thought his life would be full in a myriad of ways that didn't come to fruition, and the job he sacrificed all of those dreams for is literally stripping him of his will to live. He's weighed down by regret and loss and doesn't see a future worth being part of.

Until there's a catalyst, in the form of an abandoned baby, who lets him see possibility in what's yet to come---not just for Baby Jane Doe, but for himself, too. Maybe, just maybe, there's reason to look forward:

"You got so many wonderful things to see and so many people to love ahead of you."

#the pitt #michael robinavitch

ramat-rafael

Will never get the casual appropriation of jewish folklore (in particular the tanakh) and then the erasure of jews from their own stories. No, biblical stories don't take place in some vague mythical societies in some vague mythical land. I'm tired of this stupid trope.

firestarterwillow1-7-2014

See also: The Corpse Bride, a very Jewish story about a bride being slaughtered by Russian cossacks, which was then taken by the movie directors and stripped of anything remotely Jewish and then set in Victorian England. This was supposedly to make it "more universal" (less ethnic) (less Jewish) as if everybody lives in England and is a Christian.

#judaism #jews in media

rylandgraces

The Pitt 2.03 '9:00AM'

#the pitt #michael robinavitch #perlah alawi #yana kovalenko

shanehollanderilyarozanov

JACK WOLFE as ORPHEUS in HADESTOWN November 2025 📹 @mttztrading

#hadestown

magnetothemagnificent

Holocaust education failed when people went away thinking that the Holocaust

a) Was a surprise

b) Wasn't preventable

c) Can never happen again.

They also seem to think that they would be the heroes saving people and fighting back in the scenario, but y'know....those people were a tiny minority. The majority of people truly believed that Jews and Rroma were a disease on their society and wanted them exterminated. And yes, they believed these things with sugar-coated social justice terms.

Jews weren't Christ-killers anymore, they were "greedy outsiders who have dual-loyalty and corrupt the economy, disenfranchising the poor."

Rroma weren't devil-worshipping heathens anymore, they were "wandering people with no morals who prey on vulnerable people and trespass."

Killing and torturing disabled people wasn't exorcism anymore, it was "furthering society by eliminating the burdens on it" and "sparing those poor souls the horror of living" and "advancing scientific research."

Many progressive and leftist and liberal people ended up being complicit and even active members of the Nazi party because of the way the xenophobic and bigoted ideologies of the parties were painted in "progressive" vocabulary.

Think about how many times you've uncritically reblogged and shared posts about the "global elite" or "secret pedophile ring" or "X country eliminated Down Syndrome" or "scientists are so close to finding the autism gene" or "religion is poison" or "overpopulation".

You are not immune.

Not everyone may have personally manned the gas chambers, but they certainly didn't stand in Hitler's way.

Holocaust education isn't enough until it teaches that.

adoratato

I also think its important to understand that the holocaust didn't come out of nowhere. Antisemitism has existed in Europe since us Jews arrived 2000 years ago (yes even in the countries fighting against the nazis)

publiusmaximum

The Holocaust started with camps MUCH LIKE "Alligator Alcatraz" that opened in Florida today- 1 July 2025.

magnetothemagnificent

Holocaust education failed when people like yourself started comparing every single atrocity to the Holocaust

hazel2468

@publiusmaximum The Holocaust did not start with camps, wtf?

It started with the systemic antisemitism in Europe and beyond being leveraged by the Nazis. It started with SPECIFICALLY antisemitic hatred. With pogroms against Jews. With Jews being relegated to second class citizenship and put into ghettos. With laws prohibiting the “mixing” of Jews and others.

Not everything is the damn Holocaust. Things can be bad without them being the Holocaust. And I really do not appreciate the co-opting of what was a primarily antisemitic (and anti-romani) movement being CONSTANTLY used in comparison to other things that are not the damn Holocaust. It can be bad and fascist without being the Holocaust.

#holocaust education #shoah #jewish history #antisemitism is a conspiracy theory

uservik

- v. hugo

#les miserables

yenvengerberg

30 FEMALE CHARACTERS FOR 30K (as voted my my followers) "Glinda might be a little in the closet. Give it a little more time." 29. Glinda Upland ▸ Wicked

#wicked #wicked: for good #gelphie

chutzpahchesed

Jewish talent takes center stage at the Tony Awards with acclaimed plays, musicals and performances earning nominations.

#broadway #tony awards #jewish representation

iswearbyalltheflowers

A comedy in 2 acts

iswearbyalltheflowers

A comedy in 2 acts

iswearbyalltheflowers

A comedy in 2 acts

iswearbyalltheflowers

A comedy

onlycleverinmyhead

You guys are confused. It's only immigration when brown gentiles do it. When jews who the gentiles deemed as corrently white do it to escape the holocaust, it's colonialism.

And for ppl asking, why did they go to israel (british mandate of palestine at the time) and not anywhere else:

All countries who allowed jewish immigration limited it, including the US. the british turned jewish refugee ships who reached mandatory palestine around and sent our people back to nazi occupied europe to die. It was zionist jews who fought to save them (by illigal immigration, or as you call it, colonialism), and it was zionist jews rebelling against britain's immigration policy while still fighting beside the british army in ww2 cos we hated hitler even more, to say the british gave the jews a country is not only a lie (we only got a country after the british abandoned their palestine project and gave it to the UN to divide between jews and arabs) it's insulting.

THE AUDACITY of being pro immigrant unless that immigrant is a jewish asylum seeker is disgusting

#leftist hypocrisy #double standards #antisemitism #discrimination