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These photos of the Washington National Mall were taken on June 16, 2014, on a very hot day. Photos include the Jefferson Memorial, White House, Vietnam Women’s Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, World War II Memorial, and the United States Holocaust Memorial. My grandfather died during the Japanese invasion of Wake Island…
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#jefferson monument#korean war veterans memorial#Lincoln memorial#national mall#US Holocaust museum#vietnam memorial#vietnam womens memorial#washington national mall#world war ii memorial
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LOOK AT THAT SNOOT 👹👹👹👹👹
#also using holocaust pics in a dino museum is fucking wild what#will wood#paper boy doing his duties again#will wood ig story
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really wish people would stop throwing around the word n.azi to just describe anything/anyone they dont like.
#— always some kind of fucking temperature; ooc / misc.#i have studied n.azi germany. like. extensively.#i could fucking read the propaganda posters when we went to the holocaust museum and it was fucking with me so badly#i know people who’s family were in germany at the time - both nazi & jewish. ughhhhhh#it devalues the word & the history / acts associated and done.#during ww2. the events leading up to it. all the things done by splinter groups like the uštase#us americans reducing nazi to just mean ‘bad person’ is frustrating at the least & horrendous#i know that family of mine who never left europe were killed (unfortunately thats been confirmed.) like..#nazi mention tw
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#israel using the holocaust as a justification for zionism and its existence has long pissed me off#i dont think we can divorce israel’s long use of it and sites of holocaust martyrdom from actions taken on these places today#like someone threw red paint on a holocaust memorial today can’t just be called antisemitic#without a second thought#(which isn’t to say that it for sure isn’t antisemitic - i can’t read the mind of an unknown person who did it)#but israeli schoolchildren are taken each year by national schools to various sites of holocaust atrocities for a reason#yad vashem museum in jerusalem exists as a National museum of the holocaust for a reason#the permanent exhibit begins with a video of 1930s european jewish kids singing the song that became Israel’s national anthem for a reason#it ends with a large window view of the new city of jerusalem FOR A REASON#and this is state cooptation of the holocaust#the hijacking of the memories of 6 million jewish people who had their own beliefs and desires and lives#in the service of a settler colonial state project#so no i don’t think it’s beyond reasoning that people would take out their anger on israel by pointing out the hypocrisy of the state#that claims to be building the dream of the victims of the holocaust#is literally committing a genocide IN THEIR NAME today
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I do, in fact, hold the Jewish community collectively responsible for Zionists.
Individually? Of course not. Anti Zionist Jews exist as individuals. Many individuals are shut out of their own religious community, especially those of colour.
But as a community where Zionism is so socially and institutionally entrenched that the minority of dissenters are disowned and ostracized?
The global community of which only a handful of organisations openly advocate for Palestine, and even most of those paternalistic and co-opting Palestnian voices with liberal Zionist sympathies?
The western majority that institutionally benefits from white colonization and imperialism and silences its non-Jewish Black and brown critics?
The same majority that will never own their privilege or culpability or complicity in the colonial project before and after the Holocaust?
That helped the West exceptionalize it to cover up their exponentially larger and more enduring colonial crimes?
That distanced themselves from their white colonial privilege at the expense of BIPOC by insisting theirs was not a religious marginalization but a racial one, and continues to punish us for not treating them as racially oppressed?
Whose very demand to be automatically exonerated from the Palestinian genocide is reflective of their white and Western privilege?
That successfully broke the ties Jews of colour have to their own racial communities through Israeli ethnic cleansing and Zionist propaganda?
That uses JoC as shields, tokens and weapons against all the above charges?
The JoC that have purchased the privileges of Zionism and enfranchised themselves by betraying their own races?
The community that has used the charge of antisemitism to police Black and brown folks for decades, making it a knife against our necks?
I absolutely, 100% blame the global Jewish community.
The Global South will not forget. We will not forgive. All people with white skinned European descent are our oppressors. All people nourished on the teat of the imperial core are the foot soldiers of white supremacy, no matter what their race. We owe you no exoneration.
#this post is brought to you by the fucking bullshit going on at the holocaust museum today#i'm never going to give a shit about that after this. nothing to do with us#how tf do you terrorize black and brown people into recognizing your victimhood and not realize you arent the victim here if you can do tha#i am 1000% done with this colonizer bullshit#no wonder black intellectuals have been calling out white jews for decades#'antisemitism' only matters when it affects white jews lmao. JoC have to deal with it on their own#i trust JoC even less than white Jews after this because holy shit the zionist bootlicking#they aren't gonna fuck you bro#if you arent going to divest from white colonialism please get your asses the fuck out of our spaces#you should be expiring with shame and pain for what your people are doing#instead you're whinging because someone tagged Free Palestine on your wall after a 115 days of butchering babies#fuck you#knee of huss#anti zionist#zionazis#free palestine#racism#anti blackness#white supremacy#colonialism#western imperialism
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the ignorance about this is so weird coming from the cancel culture generation but sometimes your intentions don’t matter because what you did is SO BAD no good intention could justify it, and if you refuse to apply that to yourself when called out on prejudice and bigotry by the people affected by it, you’re only further tarnishing those “good intentions”. it doesn’t matter if you believe you’re a good person. everyone is capable of real harm.
#g talks#literally so tired of the lack of nuance#but it seems the people most obsessed with canceling people#and refusing to accept apologies#have the worst time admitting to a fuck up#like#it’s one thing if it’s a mostly inconsequential act and you genuinely didn’t mean to do it#whatever#but not meaning to be an antisemite doesn’t matter when you’re using nazi rhetoric#and planning free palestine protests at HOLOCAUST MUSEUMS#there’s such a fucking difference oh my god#mine#/mobile#/okay to reblog
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I can’t wait to leave my racist, genocide-denying ass museum. I can’t believe I stayed for this long. I should’ve left sooner.
#how does a holocaust museum that claims to care about ‘genocide prevention’ actively participate in genocide denial?#oh right because all it’s used for is as a fucking lap dog for the fucking ADL#and all its used for is to uphold Zionist hegemony and legitimacy.
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Actually that isn't even the most insensitive thing a goy has said to me recently. One time a goy implied that Yad Vashem was Zionist propaganda lmfao
#he didn't *say* that but the implications were seriously not cool#he referred to yad vashem as. what was it. their justification for the existence of israel? smth like that#which he said wasn't meant to be an attack on yad vashem but it sure fucking sounded like one#something something 'jews use the holocaust as an excuse for everything' or whatever#for those unaware. yad vashem is the holocaust memorial museum in israel#so yeah that was fucked up. i fucking hate him and i fucking hate goyim#antisemitism tw#holocaust tw
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me explaining to my government professor that nazis were not socialists:
#beanposting#tw nazis#THIS MAN#SIR YOU HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE#YOU ARE TEACHING US GOVERNMENT#it’s not just the misconception that pisses me off#but what that misconception means#you have to have never read the famous ‘first they came for the communists’ poem#the poem that is the literal first thing you see walking in to the holocaust museum#it’s an automatic tell that you’ve never tried to learn about the holocaust in any meaningful way#aghhhh
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So, Sacha Baron Cohen recently endorsed Kamala Harris in a fittingly racist islamophobic manner, by bringing back his character Borat. Yes, it's 2024.
Anyway, here's a 2022 investigation of SBC's vile Zionism and connections to the USA and Israeli intelligence, as well as an insight into the role of the US-American cinema as a propaganda tool.
Article: https://www.mintpressnews.com/closer-scrutiny-reveals-close-state-power-sacha-baron-cohen-really/279355/
Archived link: https://archive.is/7dSTL
Some quotes:
When asked about the national security state’s role in shaping pop culture, the former intelligence officer [John Kiriakou] said that it is “far more cynical” than most people realize, explaining:
” There is a branch inside the CIA’s Office Of Public Affairs whose job is solely to work with Hollywood Studios. This is something that the FBI has been doing since the 1940s. They’ll cooperate and give the red carpet treatment to any Hollywood studio that’s willing to make the CIA look good. “ [...]
In the end, “Brüno’s” production company did interview someone they claimed was a terrorist (in the Letterman interview, Baron Cohen described the man as such eight times in the space of three minutes). However, the person in question – Palestinian grocer and NGO worker Ayman Abu Aita – vigorously denied he was a terrorist at all. He claimed that Baron Cohen had told him the interview would be about his peace activism and that his life and business had been destroyed as a result. Abu Aita sued for nearly $100 million. The case was settled for an undisclosed sum in 2012. [...]
Even from an early age, Sacha was reportedly obsessed with the Jewish state. “He was very Zionist, very involved in Habo,” recalled one friend, referring to Habonim Dror, a left-wing Zionist group of which he was a member. Others remembered him as “a very nerdy, very funny, Israel-oriented guy” who went to live on a kibbutz in his youth. He appears to idolize Shimon Peres, traveling to meet him in 2012 and sharing quotes from the former Israeli president on his social media accounts. Peres, of course, oversaw the genocide of Palestinians in 1948, attempted to sell nuclear weapons to Apartheid South Africa, and carried out the ethnic cleansing of the Galilee region. [...]
Unsurprisingly, Baron Cohen has also campaigned fiercely against the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, presenting it as viciously antisemitic. “Boycotting? Yeah, fantastic. As long as they are Jews, it is alright. I’m not a racist, but keep the Jews out,” he said, in an attempt to satirize their position. [...]
Much of the movie is actually spent “on location” in “Kazakhstan,” where Borat takes the viewer around an unimaginably poor-looking village, making fun of how backward “his people” are. There are no Western egos or ignorance being punctured here. In fact, it was shot in a gypsy encampment in Romania, where locals were paid around $3 each to be humiliated by a man who spoke to them in a language they did not understand. The villagers were told they were appearing in a sympathetic documentary highlighting their lives. “Borat” made over $262 million at the box office. [...]
The racism was further amplified with the 2020 release of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” Within the first two minutes of the sequel, Borat informs us that Kazakhstan has canceled their traditional event, “the running of the Jew,” but fortunately his country still has Holocaust Remembrance Day, “when we commemorate our heroic soldiers who ran the camps.” Borat also received an award, which he stated will be “put in our national museum along with other treasure we have confiscated from Jews.” [...]
In actual fact, as many have pointed out, Kazakhstan was a haven for Jewish people during the Holocaust, not a perpetrator of it, saving thousands of Jewish lives by taking in people from Eastern Europe and other states of the U.S.S.R. Today, the country is commended by Jewish groups as a model of tolerance. It is also, notably, not a helplessly sexist nation; Save The Children ranked it higher than the United States in its list of best countries to grow up female.
This is a rather inconvenient truth for the Israeli state-building project Baron Cohen supports. Ironically, perhaps the most shocking and newsworthy case of exposing bigotry Baron Cohen has documented has never been revealed. While in character as Brüno in Jerusalem, Baron Cohen was beaten nearly to death by an enraged crowd of homophobic Israelis, who, angered by his camp and sacrilegious attire, started stoning him, on camera. Baron Cohen was reportedly “nearly killed.” Kiriakou told MintPress that Baron Cohen told him that a rabbi even spat on him. It was the only time in his career that he broke character and desperately yelled that he was an Israeli Jew, not a homosexual foreigner. The comedian fled for his life and found refuge in a nearby store bathroom. This footage has never seen the light of day. Perhaps it sends the “wrong” message.
#celebrities#sacha baron cohen#racism#homophobia#zionism#usa#imperialism#politics#cinema#culture#films#propaganda#links#articles#my post
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Goldie Finkelstein was just 13 when she was sent to Wiener Graben, a work camp that later became a concentration camp. The youngster lost her entire family in the war, and among the things she never learned from them was how to cook. She had no family recipes and, according to her son, when she married Sol Finkelstein, also a Holocaust survivor, she didn’t know how to boil water or cook an egg.
Eventually, other survivors taught Goldie the necessary skills, and she was a quick learner. She soon became known for the copious amounts of baked goods she would provide for any occasion. Her recipes, some of which are included in the “Honey Cake and Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors” cookbook, include cake mixes and other ingredients that wouldn’t have been used in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe. Her whiskey cake, for example, calls for both yellow cake mix and vanilla pudding mix.
Goldie’s experience illustrates the ways in which recipes, including those we think of as quintessentially Ashkenazi Jewish, have changed over the years. Survivors lost the ancestors who passed along oral recipes. Families’ personal artifacts, such as handwritten recipes, were abandoned when Jews were forced to flee.
Most significantly, perhaps, after the war, survivors had access to different ingredients in their new homes. Sometimes that was due to seasonality, such as was the case for those who moved from Eastern Europe to Israel and had access to more fruits and vegetables year-round, including dates and pomegranates. Other times, it reflected changing tastes or newfound wealth — liver soup, pates with liver and offal were classic Eastern European dishes in the early 1900s, when there was an intention to use every part of the animal, but became increasingly uncommon. In other cases, like Goldie’s, packaged goods replaced homemade. Another survivor whose recipes appear in “Honey Cake and Latkes,”Lea Roth, detailed making noodles for Passover from the starch leftover at the bottom of a bowl after grating potatoes before the war. After the war, most people added “noodles” to the grocery list.
“Some of these recipes changed because of New World versus Old World,” explains Jeffrey Yoskowitz, author of “The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods.” Yoskowitz and his co-author Liz Alpern work not to replicate pre-war Ashkenazi Jewish recipes, but to reclaim and modernize them. To do that, they’ve had to examine the ways in which recipes have changed.
In the Old World, for instance, almost every recipe called for breadcrumbs. At Passover, the leftover crumbs from the matzah were used to make matzah balls, leaving nothing to waste. But when immigrants in the U.S. could use Manischewitz pre-made matzah meal, then recipes started calling for it to make matzah balls.Today’s recipes for kugels with cream cheese, cottage cheese and sour cream would not have been made in the Old World, where dairy products were expensive. Again, ubiquitous cows in the New World made that “celebration of dairy” possible, Yoskowitz says.
At first, recipes may not seem like the most essential thing to recover from Holocaust survivors, but they paint a picture of what life was like before the war. It is essential to see the Jewish experience as one that is not solely as victims, and learning what people ate and cooked is part of that.
“Bringing back recipes can help bring people back to life,” says Edna Friedberg, a historian and senior curator with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. “In particular, it was women who were in the kitchen in this period, and so this is a way to make the lives of women very vivid and real for people.”
The idea is not to romanticize Eastern Europe, says Maria Zalewska, executive director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation, which published “Honey Cake and Latkes,” but to see the memories connected to togetherness, like picking fruit toward the end of the summer and using that fruit in a recipe, such as cold cherry soup with egg-white dumplings.
In addition, examining recipes gives us a sense of what role cooking and food played in trauma processing, Zalewska says. “Remembering the foods and the food traditions of their lives before imprisonment were some of the ways that survivors coped with starvation,” Zalewska adds. These are things that survivors say they are not often asked about, but when asked they report remembering dreaming about food during incarceration.
“We have quite a number of testimonies, where survivors talk about being in situations of starvation, and food deprivation and ghettos and camps and in hiding, and that dreaming about and remembering food from before gave them emotional sustenance,” explains Friedberg.
Exploring such memories have been meaningful for those survivors who were young when they lost their families.
New Orleans’ Chef Alon Shaya has been working for several years to recreate recipes from a book belonging to the family of Steven Fenves, a survivor and a volunteer for the museum. The book was rescued by the family cook, Maris, when the family was forced to flee their home on the Yugoslavia-Hungary border in 1944. The recipes are largely written without measurements, times or temperatures, and many of the ingredients are different from those used today. (Like the Fenves family, Goldie’s son, Joseph Finkelstein, says his mother wasn’t big on using measurements as we think of them in recipes today. She knew the quantity of an ingredient, for example, if it would fit in her palm.) Unlike Yoskowitz, who is looking to update recipes, Shaya has been working to replicate them as closely as possible — and has come across a few surprises.
Many of the desserts use a lot of walnuts, for example, which, of course, are also used in contemporary baking. But Shaya is using what he says are “copious amounts of walnuts” in various ways, such as grilled walnuts and toasted walnuts. The Fenves family walnut cream cake, which includes both walnuts ground in the batter and in a cream in-between the cake layers, has featured on the menu at one of Shaya’s restaurants, Safta, in Denver.
For all the recreation, and Shaya’s goal to bring the tastes of his youth back to Fenves, he says “it is impossible that a recipe in New Orleans would be the same as one in Bulgaria. The seasons are different, what animals are butchered are different, and the spices taste different.”
Indeed, place matters, Yoskowitz says. Ashkenazi food has a reputation of being terrible, he says. Take mushroom soup, for example. “There is no good mushroom soup in a deli. It is made with mushrooms that don’t have much flavor. But if you have it somewhere made with mushrooms grown in the forest, then that is going to be good soup.”
Many Holocaust survivors settled in new lands with new ingredients, and little memory of how things were made before the war. They knew they used to eat mushroom soup but didn’t specifically remember the forest-grown and harvested fungi. So, dishes morphed depending on what survivors had in their new home. In Eastern Europe, veal was plentiful, but in the U.S. and Israel, schnitzel began being made with chicken instead (a process Yoskowitz calls the “chickentization” of cuisine). And the beloved Jewish pastrami on rye? The pastrami would have traditionally been made with kosher goose or lamb. It wasn’t until Jews came to the U.S. that beef was easily accessible.
The same is true of what is likely the most iconic Jewish American dish. “Bagel and lox are what we think of as the most Jewish food. But the only thing that came over was the cured and smoked fish,” Yoskowitz says. “Cream cheese was a New York state invention. Capers were Italians. It was a completely new creation, and it became a taste associated with Jewish people.”
One of the most poignant recipes in the “Honey Cake and Latkes” book is a chocolate sandwich, a basic concoction of black bread, butter and shaved dark chocolate. Survivor Eugene Ginter remembers his mother making it for him in Germany after the war, to fatten him up after years of starvation.
Adds Shaya: “We have to continue to adapt, and I think that that is part of the beauty of it.”
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other things y'all may have missed from the twittersphere is the fact that elon musk is leaning into antisemitic conspiracy theories, but for twitter that just means it's another day ending in Y.
#*t#i've never hated a single human being this violently before#i'm giving him two weeks until he starts parroting outright holocaust denial#if that happens i'll make a $50 donation to the US holocaust museum and y'all can hold me to that promise
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Home, belonging, and the Holocaust.
Home, belonging, and the Holocaust
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