I’ve created a Medium, and am starting things off with a bang, talking about Devin Grayson’s and Marv Wolfman’s runs on Nightwing. Warnings for sexual assault, suicide, and abuse.
So my Halloween costume this year is Icepick Joe from Goncharov. And I had to get the ice pick from a local hardware store. And I had to look a middle aged man in the eyes and tell him I was looking for an ice pick. He asked if I was planning on killing somebody. The shame I felt saying it was for a Halloween costume. From a movie he had never heard of. Never showing my face in there again.
The hero’s identity was accidentally revealed, but it turns out they are moderately poor, have no friends or family, and their civilian life is frankly…sad.
HEY NATIVES! heads up for those going to see Killers of the Flower Moon
haven’t seen it yet myself, but a friend just gave me the rundown:
-SUDDEN OWLS ON SCREEN, twice apparently? also appeared to be screech owls, no less.
-a very intense and violent rant by DiCaprio that features the S-slur.
definitely sounds like a tough movie for ndns to watch overall, but these two things stood out to me. might be good to know… if you have owl taboos or are very traumatized by the S-slur, please take care of yourself. maybe wait for it to hit streaming services next month so you can control your experience a bit better.
Those pictures of ultra-orthodox Jews with big beards, peyos (side curls), and black hats waving signs like “Real Torah Jews Against Israel” and “Real Jews Stand with Palestine”? The ones who are all over the news lately?
I am begging you to stop posting pictures of these people and tokenizing them into “good Jews” just because they’re more visibly Jewish than the rest of us. Stop giving this group attention.
Let’s get into the nitty gritty, shall we?
Neturei Karta (henceforth NK because I don’t feel like typing it out every time) does not believe in the current state of Israel. That’s fine. They believe Israel is an aberration because Israel can only be reformed by the Messiah. Without the Messiah, it’s a false state. They want it dissolved. Okay, fine. No problems so far. Lots of ultra-Orthodox people believe that, like the Satmars.
Neturei Karta are, like their compatriots, Holocaust deniers. Yes, that sounds weird coming from Jews, but here we are. They believe that G_d would not allow such a horrible thing to happen to Jews, so it didn’t happen. Occasionally, you’ll get one to admit that the Holocaust happened, but it’s always met with the caveat of “those weren’t real Jews. Real Jews wouldn’t have died. Real Jews would have been rescued by G_d,” or, even worse, “Jews deserved the Holocaust because they were trying to assimilate. If they hadn’t been sinful, it wouldn’t have happened. The Holocaust is G_d’s punishment for Jews.” I shouldn’t need to explain why that’s offensive.
That’s why they carry signs about being “real Jews.” They believe they really are the only Jews and everyone else is an imposter. Anyone who is not one of them is not considered Jewish. They actually chanted this at Netanyahu. That’s funny because Netanyahu is an evil dictator, but (as much as I loathe to admit it) he’s still Jewish.
Of course, since NK follow the Torah exactly (which isn’t possible but don’t tell them that), they don’t believe in gay marriage. They protested Israel acknowledging gay marriages that occurred in other countries and have declared all queer people abominations.
Will you see any of that on their English website? No. They do a very good job of creating a nice facade for non-Israelis to get them on board. I’m told you can find these beliefs on their Yiddish website, but I don’t speak it so I cannot verify that.
Neturei Karta is considered a terrorist group and has met with terrorists. They’re on the watchlist for Israel and the US, which doesn’t say much, but should give you an idea that this isn’t just protesting. They’re encouraging acts of terrorism by funding the Islamic Jihad and fueling radicals to hurt Israelis.
Let’s review:
Neturei Karta is a terrorist cult that hates women, gay people, and people of color. They hate other Jews and pretend that they’re the only Jews. They believe the Holocaust is the fault of Jews not being religious enough. They tokenize Palestinians and their struggle in an attempt to get rid of Israel but don’t actually see them as people.
These are not good people. These are very bad people who appear to be doing the right thing. They look like people trying to liberate Palestine, but they don’t care what happens to them. They believe all Muslims will be slaves in the next age, but for now, they’re useful for their goals. Honestly, this is what is so offensive to me. They are using a marginalized, at risk group for their own ends while still considering them subhuman. Frankly, it’s no different than Evangelical Christians funding Israel because they believe that if all Jews go to Israel, it will trigger the End Times, even though people who deny Jesus will go to hell.
Please stop posting pictures of these people. Stop furthering their message. Stop giving attention to people who do not care if you live or die. There are plenty of good Jewish organizations to support. There’s If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. Your local reform or reconstructionist synagogue will probably have more information. My congregation protested the sale of arms to Israel on Monday, and will return to protest today (October 18) at the Capitol. There are plenty of other ways to help Palestinians without tokenizing them.
@tributary also added Truah.org as another group advocating for peace that isn’t Neturei Karta.
Jewish Voice for Peace actually has a history of antisemitism
they have been known to perpetuate the blood libel and dual loyalty tropes
like they’ve posted illustrations of Israelis drinking the blood of Palestinian children and it’s been a trend for them to show Israelis drinking the blood of Palestinian children. They post so many blood libel pictures it’s actually crazy
They believe that any attack on Israeli citizens is justified and equate zionism with nazism (which is something that started with the Soviets cause the way they justified antisemitism was by saying all zionism=nazism and all jews are zionists). This is very ironic cause they’ve also made posts supporting Haj Amin Al-Husseini who was a literal nazi who met with Hitler in 1941 and offered to help with the Final Solution by restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine and also just encouraging pogroms.
They also do a lot of historical revisionism by denying that Jews were ever in Israel before zionism as a political movement started and saying that Jews have no attachment to the temple (it is literally the holiest place in Judaism)
this isn’t super surprising though cause most of their chapters are started by non-Jews.
They’ve also platformed terrorists like Leila Khaled, who hijacked two flights and was part of Black September, and Rasmea Odeh, who was convicted taking part in two terrorist bombings, her conviction is disputed but they found explosives and bomb-making materials in her room. And they endorsed the Mapping Project which claimed to map all zionist organizations in Massachusetts but they ended up mapping all the Jewish organizations in Massachusetts and was used by white supremacists to hate crime Jews more easily
Anyway, these other sources are great but JVP is antisemitic
Going to reblog THIS version because I want people to stop spreading pics of NK and tokenizing the hell out of them as “uwu see THESE Jews agree with us!”.
But also JVP is shit and I wasn’t comfortable reblogging with them there so. This is a good refutation of their bullshit. Jewish Voice for Peace is not a Voice for Peace, and it isn’t even that Jewish.
NAMES PROJECT AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT: fucks me up bc so many people died and so many people suffered and their partners didn’t have legal rights as next of kin and so many had been disowned by their parents and had to be held by a stranger while they were dying and if i could resurrect anyone in the world i’d dig up either reagan or thatcher and kill them again (jaskierx) The sheer size and it’s meaning make me cry every time. (artemistakenidentity)
UNFINISHED PAINTING: A self-portrait left intentionally “incomplete”. I’m roughly the same age as Haring was when AIDS ended his life and I can only begin to imagine how it must feel to know that your life has been cut short a third of the way through. I get such a lump in my throat each time I look at this. (louisianna)
(The “NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt” is an ongoing community art project honoring people who passed away due to AIDS-related causes. It consists of approximately 50,000 panels of 3 by 6 feet (0.91 m × 1.83 m) panels, which is an estimated 54 tons of material. It is currently housed in San Francisco, but is often displayed in various places in the United States.
“Unfinished Painting” is an acrylic on canvas painting by Keith Haring. It measures 39 x 39 in (99 x 99 cm) and some information on it can be found on the National Portrait Gallery’s website. It is currently on display at The Broad in Los Angeles. This was Haring’s last painting and it was intentionally left incomplete.)
this was a really, really difficult choice, but I have to go with the Quilt..
Unfinished Painting is, in its own way, finished - it was intended to be “unfinished”, and so it is. Its pain is in the finality, and the loneliness, the death of an individual.
The Quilt, on the other hand, is the opposite. Its pain is the pain of community and continuous suffering. The quilt is never done, and our work as a community, as activists, is never done. There’s something about the way the Quilt manages to convey both the scale of thousands of dead as well as the individual that no other art has done for me.
CAN’T HELP MYSELF: It’s better to watch a video of it in action. It’s a large robot arm that’s only programmed to repeatedly sweep a pool of red liquid around it. But its task is never done, the liquid eventually oozes back out onto the floor. It just makes me so sad, the futility of its work. Brilliantly, the artists even programmed it to do little gestures during its work. Sometimes the arm will shake or almost wave at the audience. So it feels less mechanical, like it has a personality. People have interpreted it to symbolize many ideas. Like the futility of violence, and those who are tasked with the endless recovery and clean up. It could be about worker exploitation, the dehumanization of victims of violence, policing borders. Regardless of what it means, I feel pity whenever I see it. (nicolaleecallahan)
TWO EARTHLINGS: When I first saw this painting and then it’s title it was like getting punched in the gut. In a good way. It’s super contextualized by it’s title, of course, and it really gets me in the heart!! There’s lots of artwork around that juxtaposes our modern lives with humans of the past in ways that make you feel connected to them and feel a sense of kinship for them, but this one stretches that feeling back millions of years beyond humans back to earlier eras of earth, and makes you feel that sense of connection with ancestors so old and different we aren’t recognizable as each other unless put into perspective in the way this painting and it’s title do, all because we share the same planet. It really really makes me emotional and I think at the very least more people deserve to see it and think about it. (reactorc0re)
(“Can’t Help Myself” is a Kuka industrial robot made of stainless steel and rubber mopping up cellulose ether in coloured water made by two Chinese artists, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu. This installation was displayed in Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York but was removed from display.
“Two Earthlings” is an oil on canvas piece by John Brosio. It measures 48 x 48 in (122 x122 cm).)
Vote Two Earthlings. Or three Earthlings. Or four Earthlings. The third one is the artist painting the two; the fourth one is you looking at your screen, and isn’t it lovely how we move through time and space in order to be remembered and seen?
the venetian jews invented carrot cake sorry america
this is what happens when you combine the ingenuity of Italian cuisine with the Jewish preference for desserts that can be made as savory instead of just sweet.
Sephardi and Mizrahi (post-Iberian and Middle Eastern Jews respectively) cuisine has a lot of those characteristics too.
thinking about what weird little thirteen year old Bruce would have as his bar mitzvah theme…
POV you got invited to prince of Gotham Bruce Wayne’s Bar Mitzvah
tfw you spent over a year coordinating your adopted son’s bar mitzvah and chasing after him when he ran away from Hebrew school and trying to explain why his mitzvah project was solving GCPD cold cases and you’re not even Jewish and then on the day of the bar mitzvah your adopted son doesn’t even show up and you’re left standing there like a fool in front of hundreds of people
Bruce is hiding in the bathroom from the Loud Noises
I know I post too many pictures of Tribble in the water, but I cannot get over how his fur doesn’t get wet but floats around him. He’s been in the creek for 10 minutes now.
We don’t talk enough about how fucking apocalyptic the mass expulsion of Mizrahim was. Hundreds of thousands of people. Entire communities. Societies that dated back to second temple times. Thousands of years of history stolen, burned, eradicated and destroyed.
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