[jewish-vents]

Am I the only one who feels like it is a slap in the face for them to murder Anne Frank and less than 100 years later profit hard off of her face and her house? I'm in Amsterdam and her house is one of the most popular tourist spots. Her face is huge on a building. My heart breaks for her and I see myself in her and I would be furious. The world learned nothing and use her for tourism. I feel sick. I didn't bring my necklaces because it's still not safe in Europe. But dead jews are safe here, as a tourist attraction.

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[frontmansdefender]

I aspire to be as passionate about something as this guy and the orcas are passionate about hating the sunfish

In the sunfish’s defense!!!!!

[girlballs]

god it would be awesome if the human brain could just ignore an upsetting thing instead of constantly wandering back to it for no fucking reason

[katestewartt]

"This is a movie but this continues to happen every day. And how can we stop it?" - Sheryl Lee

[makingqueerhistory]

Instead of Leaving This Hate Comment You Could Read This Book!

People Without History Are Dust

Queerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors. People Without History Are Dust challenges this silence, weaving together compelling stories of German, Dutch, Czech, and Polish Jewish Holocaust victims and survivors - including Anne Frank, Molly Applebaum, Margot Heuman, and Gad Beck - whose experiences help illuminate the hidden history of queerness in a time of genocide.

Drawing on extensive archival research, this groundbreaking book uncovers the lives of those who were doubly marginalized, not only persecuted as Jews but also as queer individuals. In doing so, it confronts the ways in which history has excluded or minimized their experiences, urging us to question normative accounts of the Holocaust.

By shedding light on these long-overlooked stories, People Without History Are Dust deepens our understanding of identity, survival, and memory, reminding us why an inclusive and complex approach to history is essential - not just for the sake of the past, but in service to the present and the future as well.

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[shofarsogood]

@qelshapie I hope you don't mind me answering this question.

Imagine ID: #no but fr wtf is those tags in that screenshot

The tags in question are "#gee I wonder why Jewish victims didn't talk about being persecuted for being queer #maybe because being Jewish was the more pressing issue"

I am going to start assuming you're asking in good faith and not writing off Jews talking about the Holocaust.

Being Jewish was the more pressing issue. The Nazis were going after Jews and Roma. The reason gay people were targeted was because the Nazis believed Jews wanted to destroy the nuclear family and had created queers to destabilize families. Does that make a lick of sense? No, but nothing about Nazism does. Queer people died because of antisemitism.

Furthermore, queer people could hide. Hiding isn't a privilege, but it did allow people to survive the Holocaust without being put in a camp. There were plenty of closeted German men who never saw a death camp because they never dated a man. Hiding being Jewish, though, was a different matter.

It does not matter how observant you were. Your ethnicity, which was Jewish, was written on your birth certificate. You were listed as Jewish in census records. That's how Nazis knew who to round up. It's why the resistance blew up records offices. There were people who converted out of Judaism who were still marked because they had Jewish blood. They still lost rights. Your best bet to avoid this was to shed your identity and move to a different town but a) it's hard to leave your family behind, b) it looked suspicious if you move suddenly, and c) no one knew how bad it would get for Jews. So people didn't shed their birth identity, and they died. It doesn't matter if they were Orthodox or fully assimilated; they were murdered for having Jewish genes.

Being Jewish was seen as a genetic disease. The Nazis wiped out whole families because everyone has Jewish DNA. Meanwhile, being queer was a moral failing. If you were caught with another man, your wife and children weren't going to the camps. Just you.

I've spoken about the difference in how queer people and Jews were treated during the Holocaust here.

Ultimately, the deaths of queers was a side project. It was a fun little detour, rounding up people who might destabilize Germany, but it wasn't the goal. And to make that point, please consult this graph:

I don't know how to do an image ID for graphs. But the graph shows the Jewish death toll at 6 million, non-Jewish Polish death toll at 3 million, disabled and Romani deaths at least than a million each, and gay arrests are barely visible. There are no exact numbers given.

Please note that the other columns are deaths. That tiny orange blip? That's ARRESTS.

Being Jewish was far, far more pressing than being queer. The tags are absolutely correct.

[jadwigaspeaks]

Okay, I will admit that I am not as well-educated as I could be on the stories of individual Holocaust victims and survivors, so I can't speak about Molly Applebaum, Margot Heuman, and Gad Beck, but including Anne Frank there is a perfect demonstration of how disingenuous that original post is

Anne Frank was not persecuted for being Queer. She was persecuted - and murdered - for being Jewish

Anne Frank, by today's standards, may well be considered Queer, to the delight of everyone who thinks discussions of the Holocaust are a matter of representation, but she never got to determine that, because

Anne Frank was murdered for being Jewish

You could, if you don't think a child being murdered for being Jewish is tragic enough, argue that it's a tragedy that she never got to fully explore that part of herself, but that's about as far as you can go.

And this is in fact exactly what the tags in the screenshot seem to be talking about - Anne Frank did not talk about being persecuted for being Queer because being Jewish was the more pressing issue.

The book summary in the original post does not explicitly make the claim that Anne Frank was murdered for being Queer, but the wording (such as "the hidden history of Queerness in a time of genocide") certainly carries that suggestion, and that suggestion is an ahistorical one.

[dualight]

Preserving @jadwigaspeaks' tags:

#also ''question normative accounts of the Holocaust'' is a phrase that is not *inherently* a dogwhistle -#the idea that goyische civilians didn't participate in or know about the genocide happening around them is a normative account to question#- this is *already* a post that essentially accuses jews of lying about the holocaust for their own ends#so forgive me for withholding the benefit of the doubt#holocaust universalisation#holocaust tw#antisemitism#historical revisionism

[une-croquette]

Saying dni Israelis doesn't make you less antisemitic

okay i will change it to dni jews now if its the same thing

[jewishgay4il]

we appreciate the honesty and request back every single invention you have ever benefited from such as the internet, vaccines and more

[h4ganah]

"Ok I'll change it to dni jews then 🤪"

Yeah, man. Please, pretty please, do that. I will always respect honest antisemites so much more than cowards who can't even be honest with themselves about why they care so much about Israel in particular. Speaking from personal experinence, I promise you you're not as subtle as you think you are.

[berlinbabylon]

abraham goldstein beating up antisemites in babylon berlin 4x07

[thehmn]

I’m sure you’ll all be happy to hear that Hideo Kojima is living his best life after leaving Konami. Not only did he get to frolic around with Mads Mikkelsen, he also got himself a sub. You think I jest but...

Translation: Refn is a kinkster who use his movies to express his kinks. He knows Kojima is a kinkster too who also puts his kinks in his games and that he’s going to use Refn for something that turns Kojima on, and Refn thinks that’s hot. Their’s is a relationship you probably shouldn’t dig too much into.

+ Bonus: confused and scared Kojima fanboys

[thehmn]

I don’t know why this post is suddenly getting so much activity again, but I’ll use it as an excuse to tell you all that Hideo Kojima calls this grown ass man who’s a head taller than him Refn-chan

Japanese artists are almost always a lot more chill than their art makes them out to be. Kojima is one of the few who’s exactly what you’d expect him to be.

[thehmn]

It gets even better people!

Refn has described his and Kojima’s relationship as very intimate and highly erotic but not sexual (meaning they do something but they don’t fuck) and if you cross reference their interviews and the stuff they make each other do in their works it becomes abundantly clear that they’ve had long, in-depth conversations about their kinks and fetishes.

But they don’t speak the same language.

Refn can’t understand Japanese and Kojima’s English is very limited, so for all their conversations they need a translator.

Enter Saito.

Saito has been Kojima’s translator for years and years and Refn has joked that their arrangement is really a threesome because Saito has to translate every loving and dirty word between them, and Saito looks like the most resigned man in the universe.

He looked like this way before Refn even entered the picture. Nothing can shock this man anymore.

[thehmn]

You can actually see Saito in action as “the third guy” here (gif by fanhanlon)

While Kojima and Refn are hugging you can see Kojima tell Saito to whisper something to Refn.

Not gonna lie, even I was surprised by how close Saito has to get sometimes. I think I understand the look on his face a little bit better...

[thehmn]

This suddenly got a lot of new reblogs and likes. Is it because these two are at it again?

Something that’s super sweet btw is that Saito isn’t always around so Kojima and Refn have learned to just be comfortable in each other’s company without talking. Refn especially has talked at length about how amazed he is at having that sort of relationship with anyone where they can just chill in silence at a restaurant without it being weird.

Also, for some reason Kojima keeps giving Refn medication? Kojima has posted a fair few photos of Refn holding Japanese over the counter medication and Refn holding up pills and swallowing them as if to prove that he’s taking them? But hey, whatever works for them I suppose?

[dvandom]

Mind you, at the line, “Kojima has a sub,” I would also have been unsurprised to find that he has his own submarine and spends his spare time just tooling around and occasionally popping up to freak out fishermen at the docks.

[thehmn]

I wish I still had the clip but after an interview where everyone are walking around on stage and most of the microphones are turned off Kojima says something to Refn, Saito opens his mouth, close it, looks back at Kojima, sighs, turns to Refn and says “I can’t translate that right now” and Refn gets this curious look of “Oh?” on his face but Saito holds his hand up like “I mean it, not on fucking stage”

Why do they have such perfect comedic timing? This is way better than if Saito had just assumed his microphone was turned off and said whatever inappropriate thing Kojima was trying to tell Refn. I hope Saito is paid well because he isn’t just a translator, he’s trying so hard to save what little modesty these guys have left.

[thehmn]

When this post took off again I was kinda nervous about reading it because I worried I embellished too much for comedy but no this is literally just what they’ve told us about their relationship and done in public. So to the people who can’t tell if this is made up, no. They just be like that.

People also worry about their wives and while I can’t tell you what Kojima’s wife thinks because she’s very private I can tell you Liv Corfixen, Refn’s wife, is supportive and even had a scene with Kojima in Too Old to Die Young where she watch him torture/punish a businessman and she appears in Death Stranding 2 as Heartman’s new girlfriend who doesn’t mind sharing her boyfriend with another man.

We all know Kojima loves putting references to the real people the characters are based on in his games so it’s really sweet that Liv appears as a scientist who’s more knowledgeable about water and it’s connection to the afterlife than Heartman who’s otherwise the smartest person in the game and she keeps asking the guy she’s sharing her boyfriend with to look after him and be mindful of his health because Refn is pretty honest about his health being bad which is probably why Kojima is always feeding him meds, and Refn calls his movies/shows his own personal porn where he gets to film all the horny stuff that turns him on and apparently he really wanted to see Kojima cut a whimpering man with a katana while Liv looks all cool in the background.

They both have a ton of respect and love for her so I don’t think we have to worry about Liv in all of this. If you want to worry about anyone let it be Saito.

[thehmn]

I thought Kojima’s photos of Refn with the meds were lost to time because he only posts them to his instagram stories but luckily other people actually document their claims and took screenshots.

I remember thinking the carton was milk but yet again it was Kojima showing off that he’s giving Refn herbal medicine. This specific one is apparently for headaches, flu, colds, and allergies.

Two things; I don’t remember the tablets being that big. Please tell me they’re supposed to be dissolved in water because otherwise that’s adding sadism to the powerplay.

Second, it never occurred to me until Death Stranding 2 that Kojima isn’t just making Refn pose with the meds to show off but that Liv is probably on his ass about making sure Refn is doing okay. That might also explain why he post so many candid photos of Refn eating. He’s proving that he’s keeping him healthy and nourished.

The relationship is just way sweeter than I thought. Like I knew Refn is colorblind and can only really tell colors apart if they’re contrasting but I had no idea that’s why Heartman wears blue and orange. Not only are they contrasting but there’s no such thing as blue/orange colorblindness. Kojima made sure Refn could see his character properly.

I remember a Danish interview with Mads Mikkelsen where he was asked about Kojima and said “Oh yeah, he’s a fan of me but he fucking loves Nicolas. They love each other. It’s kinda weird but like in a good way for them” You made Mads Mikkelsen uncomfortable. Good job guys.

I’m so fascinated by them because it’s the sort of male relationship people don’t think exists in real life yet here they are.

It’s like the relationship between Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who had to share a single-person bed for nine months when they were young which made them realize they love cuddling so they still share a bed when the mood comes over them to this day and they started holding hands when they were happy (they made up after a big fight and walked hand in hand through town while laughing and crying) or got scared (when they went ghost hunting in old ruins at night, and when Quentin Tarantino invited them to a strip club but it ended in a tense situation with a gang so Pegg and Frost held hands to calm each other) and when Frost’s mother died he collapsed on the hotel room’s floor and cried for Pegg to come hold him. All those stories come from Nick Frost’s own biography.

Kojima and Refn are a more eccentric and kinky version of that. I just love that Refn is this controversial kinky weirdo filmmaker and as he said himself “I didn’t know how to be anything else so I just leaned into it” and then he meets fellow kinky weirdo Kojima in London who sees this tall lanky white man who makes dark violent movies and went “Oh my god you’re adorable! I shall call you Refn-chan because you’re such a babygirl!” and instead of getting offended Refn liked it and they’ve been Saito’s problem ever since.

I see people in the tags call them the most public queerplatonic relationship though I’d argue Pegg and Frost came first, we just didn’t have a word for it yet. But yeah, I see why people are tagging it as story and/or character inspiration because sometimes real life is just more weird and wholesome than fiction.

[creativecupcake]

I swear, I hope we all find someone we click with on this level, romantic, sexual, or platonic. I’ll admit some of the details are a bit odd (rip poor Saito, that man best be paid to deal with these two), but they just seem to have such a deep and healthy relationship. They respect each others wives, they reference each other in their art, and they even they just seem to be on the same wave length. They just seem so open as people in a way.

But at the same time holy crap this is hilarious. Like I totally get the people saying this is character interaction. It’s so over the top and goofy in a way. I don’t know much about either guy but this 100000% feels in character tear based on what I do know.

[godtrauma]

i love kojima and his boy toys so much 🙏

[olvaheiner]

[girlactionfigure]

[yitzh0k-r3uven-hal3v1]

Whats your fav quote of Golda meir

Probably the “pessimism is a luxury which a Jew can never afford himself”. She made so many good quotes though.

[yitzh0k-r3uven-hal3v1]

“You cannot negotiate peace with someone who has come to kill you” - Golda Me’ir

[clove-pinks]

The Belarusian-Jewish klezmer musician Josef Gusikow (Gusikov), by Paul Gavarni, 1836.

[just-the-salt]

Didn't think that I'd have to post this exact comparison again, didn't even think I'd have to post it once, and yet I stand disappointed again.

On the left: a sign in German on a street in Bavaria, reading: "Jews are unwanted here." Photo taken by an American in 1937.

On the right: a message from a hotel in Bavaria, Zum Hirschen, sent to Israelis who tried to book a stay, reading: "Sorry, there are no Jews allowed in our hotel." June 2026.

Again, the incident has been "handled": Booking.com took the hotel off its platform and the hotel itself was contacted by the Israeli consulate in Munich. The hotel at first denied sending the message, but later stated that it was indeed one of its employees that sent it. It is yet unclear if the case will lead to formal proceedings.

Let me point out that one small detail. They didn't said Israelis weren't allowed, they didn't say Zionists weren't allowed. They said Jews. Now Bavarians aren't new at the scene of antisemitism, in fact they are very experienced, but nowadays, we don't say Jews when we're being discriminatory, no, we say something else. You're not supposed to say the quiet part out loud! (For those in my comments who don't understand sarcasm, that was it.)

This joins many concerning cases across Europe and the UK (not to mention the US!) that reenact the nostalgic scenes of the 1930s and 1940s. (Again, sarcasm). I haven't yet made a post about the spa in Spain that refused a Jewish woman on entry on account of her Magen David necklace. And here Europe strikes again, in the very place the Nazi party rose to power. All those woke westerners that are so proud to chant about punching Nazis, and where are you now? Aren't you ashamed? Wouldn't even recognize one if it was saluting in your face.

[notyourlandlol]

Thoughts on this sign from the West Bank?

[just-the-salt]

I love you cherry picking nuanced images you know nothing about without proper context. Let me provide it since I'm sure you forgot.

As with everything that has to do with the West Bank, nothing is what it seems on the surface, and everything is complicated, tense, and intense. I like to joke that it's not the West Bank, it's the Wild West. The West Bank is decided as agreed upon in the Oslo Accords into three areas. Area A is assigned to the Palestinians and is governed by the Palestinian Authority, Area B is for both Israelis and Palestinians, and Area C is for Israelis alone and is governed by Israel. At the entrance to any Area A section is a sign that looks like this:

Looks familiar? Now doesn't that scream apartheid? In truth, it isn't. Not only Israelis are forbidden to enter by law, do you see the part where it says that the entrance for Israeli citizens is endangering their lives? That is there for a reason. Look up the Ramallah Lynching of 2000 (and use a RELIABLE source). That's what happens when Israelis enter Area A by accident. It is THAT dangerous. (Fun fact! The photo that would show up of Aziz Salha is the base for that oh so popular red hand pin. Actually that's a not so fun fact, because you virtue signaling good hearts are using a pin that idolizes the symbol of Israeli blood on Palestinian hands. Not so peaceful.)

Now let's look at the photo you shared. This sign was placed at the entrance to Yitzhar, an Israeli village on Area C, a bit south of Nablus, which is in Area A. The locals of this village are religious Jews, and it is unfortunately located in a VERY tense area of the West Bank. A lot of terror attack took place around there both by Palestinians and Jews. Here is a good example (out of a very long list of shootings, stabbings lootings and fire settings).

September 13th 2008. A 17yo Palestinian lit a family house in Yitzhar on fire, where young children lived, as well as stabbed a 9yo several times.

The next morning, a group from Yitzhar went to seek revenge in the Palestinian village of the 17yo. They destroyed property, and attacked and wounded a few Palestinian locals. The Israeli PM at the time, Ehud Olmart, condemned that reaction strongly.

That cycle of attacks and vengeance seems like it is neverending and runs very deep. That people at Yitzhar have a deep distrust of Palestinians and Arabs, as well as the security forces that enforce the area. Now, my personal opinion is that vengeance only adds fuel to an already scorching fire, and I expect Jews who are so close to the religion to act way more peacefully, but this is the Wild West, and I can honestly cannot speak for the people of Yitzhar, who suffered as much violence as they delivered.

On to the sign in the photo. During covid, in 2020, a health industry covid test administer seeked to enter the settlement and deliver the tests, and the people of Yitzhar blocked his entrance, per their illegal but unenforced "no entrance for Arabs" policy (he was an Arab Israeli citizen). IDF officials instructed the locals to change of the illegal policy and allow entrance for the covid checker.

In protest, the locals put up that sign in the entry road to the settlement. It is NOT an official Israeli policy, and it is NOT a legal policy. It is a protest.

Is it right? In my opinion, no. It is illegal. Do I understand the frustration of the people? Also no. It is nuanced and incredibly complex. Now, full picture, what are your thoughts?

[hhqqaasblog]

I missed TWO DAYS of antipsychotics

Brainz zaps are crazy nahuy sooka

[darcylightninglewis]

The “rightwingers and zionists” “I don’t take money from Israel” just say Jews. We know you mean Jews, you know you mean Jews. Just embrace your hatred, it’s kinda pathetic seeing y’all cling to “zionist”. A word you stole, redefined, set that definition in stone with your own footnotes and connotations in order to say Jews are worth hating.