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Lebanese Christian Carine Bassili sings Hurricane in Arabic.

Marlene Dietrich is detained at a train station in Paris in 1933 for violating the ban on women wearing trousers.

As with all german actors in the 30's, you always gotta check the World War II section of their Wikipedia page. Well im happy to report that Marlene Dietrich was in open opposition to the Nazi regime, and in 1937 donated her entire salary for a film (over 9 million dollars in todays money) to helping Jewish refugees :)

And she was bisexual

some people are so used to mostly consuming media where the women and people of color are static set dressing in stories about white men that they can't wrap their heads around the concept that female characters and characters of color can have arcs of their own. they'll see a character who's not a white man display a personality flaw that is clearly being set up to be overcome and they see it not as the setup of what promises to be an enticing character journey, but as an essential defining trait of their being, and proceed to demonize such characters for it. white men get to be dynamic and complex, women and people of color get essentialism and a pressure for likeability over good storytelling.

"I would suggest that we are well-trained to like "unappealing" male characters-- so much so that I would imagine anyone who wanted their male character to be truly and deeply unlikeable would face quite a challenge.... Conversely, we are not well-trained to like anyone other than the basically virtuous and proficient female protagonist." Rivka Galchen

Would You Want to Be Friends With Humbert Humbert?: A Forum on “Likeability,” The New Yorker, May 16th, 2023

An Unseemly Emotion: PW Talks With Claire Messud (the og interview)

“mrmichaeldickson and standwithus

WATCH: For the first time ever, Israel's Eurovision star, Eden Golan, sings the original lyrics to her song - with the title "October Rain" - live in Hostage Square, Tel Aviv at the rally to bring the hostages home.”

the fact that ציון “tziyon”/“zion” and ישראל “yisrael”/“israel”, words that have been in our language, liturgy, and holy texts since before islam existed and before the romans drove us off our land and renamed it “syria palaestina,” have been twisted around to be used against us just really. hurts. especially with the way online leftists call medinat yisrael things like “isnotreal” like that is not your word to rearrange to insult the very people it describes (not just citizens of the modern state of israel but every single jewish person i.e. klal yisrael)

To be jewish is to be angry and tired and defiant

To be jewish is to be proud and loyal and so so full of warmth and love

I hate how Jews here feel the need to give the "I'm pro-Palestine, pro-peace and donate to Palestinian aid" disclaimer before daring to call out 1930s grade antisemitism.

I have my disagreements with anti-Zionist Jews(NOT synonymous with the Jews Idiscussed above), but if they'll have me(BIG big if), I will not hesitate to jump to their side when it comes to calling out Protocols of the Elders of Zion tropes with swapped words.

I know why they do it - because that's the only way they have a faint chance of being taken seriously when they talk about receiving death threats, being doxxed and dismissed on the spot as "being hysterical".

Why is Jewish humanity conditional on centering everyone but ourselves?

Why can't Jews as a whole be seen and believed when we say "we experience antisemitism"?

Why do some Jewish opinions(ones that don't involve centering goyim, Palestinian or otherwise) make your stance on antisemitism invalid?

A lot of people are also disturbingly comfortable with piling on additional bigotry to the antisemitism with multiply marginalized Jews as well. I've seen people spit rape threats at Jewish women, specific insults or threats meant to trigger Jews with mental illness or other disabilities, actual racial slurs directed at Jews of color, and misgendering of trans Jews. And this is from people who would never be caught dead doing this shit to gentiles of those same groups.

Which tells me two things: (1) they really do see us as subhuman, huh; and (2) the people doing this clearly lack principles and only refrain from directing this bile at other women/people with disabilities/people of color and/or trans people because that's not accepted behavior within their group. It's pure groupthink and peer pressure, not a stable moral center. They might think they care about fighting misogyny, ableism, racism, and transphobia, but they absolutely do not if their opposition to it is conditional on the [perceived] moral goodness of the individuals in question.

And this tells me two further things:

Solidarity now or it will be too late.

We show up for everyone else. It's time to show up for us and stop asking us to put ourselves second when we're drowning in antisemitism.

people online will say things like “omg female character is stunning showstopping the character ever she’s mothering she’s a goddess a cuntress nobody has served like her I support women’s wrongs my beautiful gorgeous darling princess the entire world and male character is just some guy.” And then they’ll care about the some guy more

Hi, I'm here to boost the voices of Palestinians in Gaza?

Translation: "Many people attacked me in my previous tweets for criticizing Hamas and asked about the reasons for my criticism of it

"For those who do not know, I was arrested by Hamas twice because of my participation in the 'We Want to Live' demonstrations, in which I saw various types of torture. My house was destroyed because of them, and we lost a lot.

"The video is from the demonstrations in which I was arrested

"#Gaza_Alazza"

Translation: "This is how Hamas is dealing with the people of #Gaza now

"With live bullets and excessive force

"It's all because people say we want to live, we are hungry"

Translation: "One of the scenes of Hamas security suppression of peaceful demonstrators in Gaza, after they went out today in peaceful demonstrations to demand improvement of their living conditions.

#Gaza

#We_want_to_live"

Translation: "Hamas has withdrawn from the prisoner exchange negotiations and the people make no difference to it. It sacrifices them in order to continue in power and continues to plunder funds from countries supporting Palestine, stealing aid and starving the people. The Palestinian tribes of Rafah decided with the displaced people to fight Hamas and hold demonstrations against it after Hamas killed their children in the coming days."

Translation: "God suffices us, this is aid. We have seen people demanding aid and selling it on the black market. All of these are Hamas mercenaries and the like, and the photographer exposed them as looting and theft criminals who seize aid to sell it for their personal benefit."

Translation: "Did the Hamas leadership donate from its billions that came from plundering the citizen in Gaza over the course of 17 years? And its dollars that crossed the Israeli Erez crossing! And Iranian dollars! A kilo of rice or sugar for a citizen in Gaza! Or participated in sending one assistance truck like the one our Arab brothers sent to Gaza!"

Translation: "Most Hamas supporters are from outside Gaza. If they had lived through the injustice of 17 years, displacement and living in tents, they would have disbelieved in Hamas and after Hamas."

Translation: "The injustice of war ends and Hamas remains in power. We return to [Hamas] humiliation, hypocrisy, sucking the blood of the people, and suffering again."

(I think that was when Israel had announced a major troop withdrawal, and some people mistook that for meaning it was withdrawing all troops.)

This next one is part of a long rant about Hamas beating and killing Palestinians who steal the homes of displaced people, or raise their prices too high.

"The shooting of teenage children by a [Hamas] contractor in the Gaza Strip is terrorism... Who got them to steal? Do you think people have a lot of money?

"For 7 months, you did not think about providing them with food, drink, or safe housing, and now in the middle of the war, you shoot them because they stole?

"You will tell me that they are stealing solar energy and the homes of people who were displaced!

"Yes, because he can't find food to eat or money to take, so he can provide his family with food and drink."

Someone made a nonsensical argument about Fatah and Israel. OP retorted:

Translation: "This is Hamas, which brought the people to this stage, Hamas, which starved the people and made them become thieves. Enough of copying and pasting and memorizing and not understanding, expose your presentation."

Translation: "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was successful in condemning the Hamas movement, albeit belatedly, as Hamas bears full responsibility for the Gaza war, due to its heinous act that harmed the Palestinian cause."

I could do this all night long, but I need to sleep.

“Is fighting leftist antisemitism really the hill you want to die on?”

Not particularly. But, since that’s where you’re trying to kill me, I’d rather go down swinging.

Seems really odd for me that leftists aren't willing to fight the rising antisemitism in their communities, considering they were proudly reblogging this just a few years ago:

Weird how you change your mind on something when it no longer fits your narrative, huh?

If you are in a rally…and there’s a Hizb’allah flag…and the person holding the flag is not getting kicked out, well…you are in a Hizb’allah rally.

It’s less “this is the hill I want to die on” and more “this is the hill they’re going to kill me on, and my choices are let myself be killed or fight back.” No, I don’t want to die on this hill. There is nothing I want to be doing less than losing friends and getting shunned and attacked by my former communities.

But we don’t have a choice. That’s what most goyim don’t get; we don’t have a choice about defending ourselves from left wing antisemitism any more than right wing antisemitism. Because it’s all antisemitism, so it’s all dangerous. This isn’t a pet issue we can pick up and then drop when it suits us. They think it is because that’s what it is for them, and they’re projecting. They can’t fathom that this is something that affects our lives whether we like it or not. And they certainly can’t fathom that they are a threat and a danger to us in a very concrete way.

Gonna be so real

Emily Prentiss is bad at talking to women.

She's only smooth with men because she doesn't care about them. But like... every convo with a pretty woman she ends up awkward! Look at her and Jordan Todd!

She's a dork ass dork who can't flirt with women for shit and women love her because she's really sweet and earnest

Despite Hamas bombing the construction site.

Hi hello everyone this will save Gazan lives.

A friend linked me to this article about the Jewish presence in Medieval England and anyway (a) it’s a fascinating picture of a genuinely vibrant Jewish Community and (b) EDWARD I IT IS ON SIGHT FUCKER

i really wish…i can share the warmth i feel when i’m at synagogue with other people at the least i want non-jews to hear our worship and how beautiful it is i think it would change a lot

if you’ve never heard a jewish prayer please just take a little time out of your day to listen:

sephardi 

sephardi (ladino) 

ashkenazi 

moroccan

juhuri/kavkazi

ethiopian

yemenite

bukharian

persian

non-jews you are encouraged to listen and reblog this!

Famous Jewish royalty and nobility as Disney Princesses:

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Growing up, I loved Disney Princesses, but I never saw any representation of Jewish princesses. Which was a shame, because I grew up with stories of strong Jewish women, I just never got to see their stories in mainstream media. I have two younger sisters, and I wish they could grow up seeing just one Disney Princess from our culture and heritage. So, being an artist, I decided to take the five classic white princesses, and redesign them to be five strong Jewish royalty and nobility. I decided to represent a large swath of time periods and locations, just like Disney Princess stories cover different time periods and locations, and to celebrate the diversity of Jewish history. So, let’s go!

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Queen Esther

For Cinderella, I chose to depict Queen Esther, because they both share themes of concealing one’s identity. Esther is the heroine of Megillat Esther, a book in the Tanakh. She was forced to become the wife of the Persian king Achashverosh, but because of it she was able to save the Jewish people from genocide at the hands of Haman. Queen Esther might be a “typical” choice, but I think that not many people truly appreciate her and her story, despite how well-known it is.

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Qasmuna

For Belle, I chose the poet Qasmuna, because Belle is a studious woman, and Qasmuna was a scholar and a poet. Qasmuna was an Arabic-language Andalusian poet during the middle ages. Not much is known about her, but she is one of the very few recorded Jewish Arabic-language poets of her time. Some sources attribute her to having been the vizier Shmuel HaNagid (Samuel Ibn Nagrillah)’s daughter, making her the closest to royalty as was possible for a Dhimmi at the time. I depicted her wearing lavish clothing, but also wearing a yellow shawl and a gold calf necklace to signify her Dhimmitude.

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Licoricia of Winchester

For Aurora, I chose to depict Licoricia of Winchester since Disney’s Sleeping Beauty takes place in England. Licoricia was a 13th century English businesswoman and community leader. She funded and lent money to prominent gentile figures at the time, including King Henry III. She is considered one of the most influencial Jewish women in her time. She was murdured, possibly in a robbery, but her murderer had never been found or held accountable. I based her outfit off of the recently unvailed statue of her in Winchester, England.

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Queen of Sheba

For Ariel, I chose to depict the Queen of Sheba, since they both traveled long ways to a different place. The Queen of Sheba is mentioned in the Tanakh and Apocrypha, as well as folktales. She traveled to the Kingdom of Israel to meet King Shlomo and test his wisdom. Many have attributed her to being the woman voice in Shlomo’s Song of Songs. She was a powerful and wealthy leader, and almost managed to best Shlomo in knowledge. According to tradition, she converted to Judaism and travled back to Ethiopia and led her people towards Judaism.

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Queen Shelmazion

For Snow White, I chose to depict Queen Shelamzion. Queen Shelamzion was one of the last independent Jewish rulers of Judea before the total Roman takeover. Roman sources absolutely smeared her name, likely because Shelamzion was a powerful Jewish woman who opposed the Roman occupation. However, Shelamzion was a good rular, who attempted to make peace among her people, and is credited with saving seventy sages from Roman slaughter. It is said that because of her righteousness, during her rule, it rained only on Shabbat so that farmers would not miss out on needed worktime due to the rain, since they weren’t working on Shabbat anyway, and that the harvest in Judea were always bountiful.

I hope you learned something and appreciate my depictions of Jewish Disney Princesses :)

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