I read the 7/10 Sexual Violence piece in the Times today. Much of this was known not too long after the atrocities were committed. What’s new will be the testimonies from the former hostages. It takes years for many sexual violence survivors to open up. I think the scariest thing since 7/10 is how fast Jew hatred has spread and become normalised throughout the mainstream society. I read a piece by Jonathan Sacrerdoti in the Jewish Chronicle about Jewish opera singer Ilona Domnich and how she has lost work since being vocal post 7/10. I bought her version of Hatikvah on iTunes which was released last Jan. This tsunami of Jew hate has spread throughout the fields of music, books, film and the art world. A place that’s supposed to unite us, and inspire us. Now it’s been politicised and weaponised with jihadi, death cult progressive ideology. We’re in a dark place at present, but as Jews we have survived these movements and empires over millennia. We are still standing and will be standing while these Jew haters will be regulated to the trash bins of history. Eve, you really need to gather a collection of your best essays out into book form. PLEASE! Am Yisrael Chai!🐺💪🎗️🇮🇱
I used to be a political artist because I wanted to break down the barriers between Us and Them, between Man and Nature, between Men and Women, between races, between everything. I just wanted people to treat the world with respect. Over time I got the memo that I was only preaching to the choir. Over time I got more and more subtle, I obfuscated; I had this idea that if you can get past your viewer's defenses by avoiding their red flags, you *might* be able to open them up a crack emotionally, and that crack might allow some sense in, as from a journalist.
I kept that up for decades, and over time I came to the conclusion that the world likes itself just as it is, it doesn't *want* tikkun olam, it doesn't *want* to be its best self, it likes to be evil and narrow-minded and self-important and cruel. But still I kept it up.
On 10/7/23, I stopped. That was the day I realized the left wanted peace and love for everybody but the Jews, who had to die. That was the day I realized that tikkun olam doesn't work. That Orwell was right, when you help people they hate you for it because it shames them, and they will get you for it. That no good deed goes unpunished.
And then I spent two years reading about the death cult that's taking over the world. We are Not The Same, and some people are never going to respect anything.
As an artist, it cut me off at the knees. I'm not talking to people anymore when I paint. I'm just talking with God.
Your affirmations, is there any truth in them? There is, if people want them. Some people will want them. Most won't.
I've been saying for years and years and years that the American Jewish singular emphasis on "social justice" in the guise of tikkun olam was creating martyrs to everyone else's causes while ignoring our own needs, and teaching others that we don't count or matter. But now it's so baked in that even today, most non-orthodox synagogues still have it in their mission statements.
Re preaching to the choir. Don't underestimate the importance of this. We need the encouragement, the knowledge that we aren't alone. That's the candle. And - I'm sure your paintings achieve this even more, become the candles, precisely *because* you are focused on conversation with the Divine, instead of with people. One of those artistic paradoxes.
It’s a very sad situation where the world, particularly the West is at. Narcissistic self hatred. I watched Netflix’s documentary on the London 7/7 bombings as it was the 20th anniversary. I was disappointed the documentary seemed to make the Muslims into victims. They refuse to see the Elephant in the Room. There’s this pathetic attitude of ‘don’t look back in anger’ rubbish. Morrissey, one of my favourite artists isn’t buying it. He wrote a song about the Manchester Arena bombing of 2017 and no record label will bring his album out unless he drops the song which he refuses to do. This were we at now. Can’t say anything against radical Islam but it’s the ‘in’ thing to shout ‘death to the IDF’ and weaponise Jew hatred and mainstream it everywhere. The world is completely upside down. As Jew we are living in a perpetual Purim where evil is good and good is evil. But as Eve wrote yesterday, this to shall pass. We’ve outlived all our enemies and will do so again. Am Yisrael Chai!🦁💪🎗️🇮🇱
You may have lost your old world, Eve, but in this dystopian reality in which we now live, there are thousands of us who consider you to be a hero and would love to buy you a drink.
The ugliness of that flag hurts my eyes. I'm tired of hearing about their genitalia, their mythical missing rights, their need to brainwash and mutilate children, their hatred for women, and now their hatred for Jews. I don't promote violence, but I don't care what happens to the screaming activists, the snot-nosed Rachel Zeglers of the world and the rest of the Jihadis.
As little as I care for Oasis, their concerts this weekend seem to have been a politics-free zone (except for one insensitive slur Liam used in a text, but he’s Liam - you don’t expect sensitivity). That had to have been a relief.
I saw this early on. Did I want to? Of course not it’s so unpleasant. That’s why so many people are in denial .
The flag, yup
Maybe it’s because I teach in a community college and I have a lot of experience with these brainwashed brain, dead youth. Honestly, I think it’s turning around a little bit now.
I had a student that identified as A a few years ago and she said “trans is cancer”
Because they didn’t accept asexual. Why the need to identify as such?
A grown-up adult woman came out to everyone, especially her students that she’s now non-binary and polyamorous so they know her, excuse me I mean their sex life. It’s very important.
Years ago, I asked my gay friends a male couple who’ve been together for decades, dear friends, what do you think of this trans thing in the T added to the LGB?
But you’re the first person I’ve heard put it into words succinctly. I’m not gay or bi I’m straight so who am I having an opinion? I think it sucks. The + is for the infinite identities that children are told that they can be and like you said mostly adults that want to include pedophilia and all kinds of other abusive behaviors.
I don’t think there’s anything the Pro Palestinians anti Zionist, antisemitic say about us isn’t 100% reflection of themselves for example example UK is a Zionist country, when it is clearly Islamist.
I don’t need to go on, but I can’t think of one thing that they say that is an inversion of the truth.
Yes, inclusivity is exclusivity. I’ve been saying that for a long time.
Great assessment. I would add that if you want a recent example of a progressive cult that sought ultimate power, became religious in its devotion to one deity (Mao) look at China's Cultural Revolution. Same use of language, same use of victimhood, same use of tactics, same quest for purification and destroying everything of value and morality in its way. A social and economic experiment that ended in rivers of blood.
Beautiful, insightful, and such an important piece. Re the new Pride flag: Daniel Ryan Spaulding talked about this awhile ago, which is how I learned about it. Your deep dive and analysis of its origins and purpose is incredibly important for people to know. Also, you wrote an article for Tablet in 2020 about the rise of antisemitism and how American Jews were ignoring it. Five years on, post 10/7, and it's more relevant than ever. I just shared it again. With Jewish friends who probably won't read it. I also shared this piece with a Jewish friend who has a trans daughter, who is going to England in a month to study at a college, because she thinks it's safer than where we live in Vermont. Now, Vermont is a hotbed of antisemitism and Israelophobia now, but England isn't safer.
Re: Your point about the money trail and the con, in BLM and the Alphabet movement. I would also add "The Women's March" and the whole "Anti-Racism education" movement. Each of these quickly became anti-zionist, anti-semitic, and excluded Jews.
Oh Eve. Another devastating but briliant piece to read. I once heard it said that we are born into a world at war. I wasnt sure i really believed it until October 7th.
I saw videos of people protesting against ' Zionists' while the Pogrom was still on-going. They hadnt even made up the famine or genocide lies. They were part protesting/ part celebrating the murder of Jews, simply for being Jews.
I had no idea at the scale of the ' con' to follow. I expected the usual BBC bullshit but then saw Jeremy Bowen blame a misfired Hamas rocket blast on a hospital on the IDF within minutes of it occurring. I realised then that Jeremy had decided it was safe to be so openly against Jews.
If i was Jewish , id be in Israel by now. I feel threatened even as a gentile. I fear the masses are going to cause real carnage and i dont want to be here when it happens. I want to be in a country that knows what it means to defend itself.
On another note, have you approached the Spectator for placing an article?
Or how about you writing a book and then doing a book launch for us all to attend ?
I read many years ago that some Native American tribes had a notion of many genders, I think four, and frankly I think that's what we need with the trans community: born men who transitioned towards female and born women who transitioned towards male. Because they may tell you they've gone to the other gender but it's nonsense. Even if the medicine were to be perfected (which it's not), they were *socialized* as the other gender and that has profound ramifications, especially in the workplace. I think we need names for two new genders and that would solve a multitude of problems. Men who transition towards female are their own thing, and women who transition towards male are their own thing. They're not men and women, no matter how much they pillory you if you hint that this may be true.
In order of how I listed them : male; female; person with both male and physical sex characteristics; person with no sex characteristics; identified as female at birth but upon puberty does not develop female sexual characteristics; identified as male at birth but upon puberty does not develop male sexual characteristics; identified as male at birth but is castrated and so does not develop male sexual characteristics.
So these were actual legal/halachic categories—some say 7, others 8 or more. Here is what I remember : Zachar, Nekevah, androgynous, tumtum, aylonit, saris hamah, saris adam. Also, they recorded that eBay were males who later identified/ became female and vice versa.
I have to say that tumtum is my favorite (I think of a Ken doll). Also if you think about the original adam (the earthling, not the proper name that comes from it) that is described as “male and female He created them” —that is the basis for some fascinating midrashim!
Eve, to your point on "inclusivity", it has become rather exclusive. Just like "diversity" and "equity" has become a discriminatory suppression of dissent.
Regarding the goons outside the Royal Courts of Justice, note the ubiquitous war drums. They are at almost every pro-terror demonstration. Not randomly - you don't see violins or accordions showing up - they really mean "war is coming." They are at war with Western civilization, not just Jews and Israel. It's quite obvious, especially when you notice the absence of Western country's flags at such mob gatherings. Unless said flags are on fire, of course...
I read the 7/10 Sexual Violence piece in the Times today. Much of this was known not too long after the atrocities were committed. What’s new will be the testimonies from the former hostages. It takes years for many sexual violence survivors to open up. I think the scariest thing since 7/10 is how fast Jew hatred has spread and become normalised throughout the mainstream society. I read a piece by Jonathan Sacrerdoti in the Jewish Chronicle about Jewish opera singer Ilona Domnich and how she has lost work since being vocal post 7/10. I bought her version of Hatikvah on iTunes which was released last Jan. This tsunami of Jew hate has spread throughout the fields of music, books, film and the art world. A place that’s supposed to unite us, and inspire us. Now it’s been politicised and weaponised with jihadi, death cult progressive ideology. We’re in a dark place at present, but as Jews we have survived these movements and empires over millennia. We are still standing and will be standing while these Jew haters will be regulated to the trash bins of history. Eve, you really need to gather a collection of your best essays out into book form. PLEASE! Am Yisrael Chai!🐺💪🎗️🇮🇱
Agreed. Eve, you deserve to be an author on this topic, as you are an authority. I’d gladly buy your book.
I would too! She should put together a collection of her best essays and go to Wicked Son to get them published.
As to your affirmations at the end.
I used to be a political artist because I wanted to break down the barriers between Us and Them, between Man and Nature, between Men and Women, between races, between everything. I just wanted people to treat the world with respect. Over time I got the memo that I was only preaching to the choir. Over time I got more and more subtle, I obfuscated; I had this idea that if you can get past your viewer's defenses by avoiding their red flags, you *might* be able to open them up a crack emotionally, and that crack might allow some sense in, as from a journalist.
I kept that up for decades, and over time I came to the conclusion that the world likes itself just as it is, it doesn't *want* tikkun olam, it doesn't *want* to be its best self, it likes to be evil and narrow-minded and self-important and cruel. But still I kept it up.
On 10/7/23, I stopped. That was the day I realized the left wanted peace and love for everybody but the Jews, who had to die. That was the day I realized that tikkun olam doesn't work. That Orwell was right, when you help people they hate you for it because it shames them, and they will get you for it. That no good deed goes unpunished.
And then I spent two years reading about the death cult that's taking over the world. We are Not The Same, and some people are never going to respect anything.
As an artist, it cut me off at the knees. I'm not talking to people anymore when I paint. I'm just talking with God.
Your affirmations, is there any truth in them? There is, if people want them. Some people will want them. Most won't.
Yet it is better to light a single candle...
I've been saying for years and years and years that the American Jewish singular emphasis on "social justice" in the guise of tikkun olam was creating martyrs to everyone else's causes while ignoring our own needs, and teaching others that we don't count or matter. But now it's so baked in that even today, most non-orthodox synagogues still have it in their mission statements.
Re preaching to the choir. Don't underestimate the importance of this. We need the encouragement, the knowledge that we aren't alone. That's the candle. And - I'm sure your paintings achieve this even more, become the candles, precisely *because* you are focused on conversation with the Divine, instead of with people. One of those artistic paradoxes.
It’s a very sad situation where the world, particularly the West is at. Narcissistic self hatred. I watched Netflix’s documentary on the London 7/7 bombings as it was the 20th anniversary. I was disappointed the documentary seemed to make the Muslims into victims. They refuse to see the Elephant in the Room. There’s this pathetic attitude of ‘don’t look back in anger’ rubbish. Morrissey, one of my favourite artists isn’t buying it. He wrote a song about the Manchester Arena bombing of 2017 and no record label will bring his album out unless he drops the song which he refuses to do. This were we at now. Can’t say anything against radical Islam but it’s the ‘in’ thing to shout ‘death to the IDF’ and weaponise Jew hatred and mainstream it everywhere. The world is completely upside down. As Jew we are living in a perpetual Purim where evil is good and good is evil. But as Eve wrote yesterday, this to shall pass. We’ve outlived all our enemies and will do so again. Am Yisrael Chai!🦁💪🎗️🇮🇱
They adhered to the party line.
“Perpetual Purim.” That’s it. Now if we could just find Esther…
You may have lost your old world, Eve, but in this dystopian reality in which we now live, there are thousands of us who consider you to be a hero and would love to buy you a drink.
The ugliness of that flag hurts my eyes. I'm tired of hearing about their genitalia, their mythical missing rights, their need to brainwash and mutilate children, their hatred for women, and now their hatred for Jews. I don't promote violence, but I don't care what happens to the screaming activists, the snot-nosed Rachel Zeglers of the world and the rest of the Jihadis.
It’s a death cult like the jihadis and their flags with Crescent and Sword.
As little as I care for Oasis, their concerts this weekend seem to have been a politics-free zone (except for one insensitive slur Liam used in a text, but he’s Liam - you don’t expect sensitivity). That had to have been a relief.
Yes I will write about that separately
You ARE right, Eve!
I saw this early on. Did I want to? Of course not it’s so unpleasant. That’s why so many people are in denial .
The flag, yup
Maybe it’s because I teach in a community college and I have a lot of experience with these brainwashed brain, dead youth. Honestly, I think it’s turning around a little bit now.
I had a student that identified as A a few years ago and she said “trans is cancer”
Because they didn’t accept asexual. Why the need to identify as such?
A grown-up adult woman came out to everyone, especially her students that she’s now non-binary and polyamorous so they know her, excuse me I mean their sex life. It’s very important.
Years ago, I asked my gay friends a male couple who’ve been together for decades, dear friends, what do you think of this trans thing in the T added to the LGB?
But you’re the first person I’ve heard put it into words succinctly. I’m not gay or bi I’m straight so who am I having an opinion? I think it sucks. The + is for the infinite identities that children are told that they can be and like you said mostly adults that want to include pedophilia and all kinds of other abusive behaviors.
I don’t think there’s anything the Pro Palestinians anti Zionist, antisemitic say about us isn’t 100% reflection of themselves for example example UK is a Zionist country, when it is clearly Islamist.
I don’t need to go on, but I can’t think of one thing that they say that is an inversion of the truth.
Yes, inclusivity is exclusivity. I’ve been saying that for a long time.
Thank you! And Gh help us.
In Canada the LGBT… string must start 2S: “two spirit” to please radical native activists who want their own designation.
Progressive extremism.
Great assessment. I would add that if you want a recent example of a progressive cult that sought ultimate power, became religious in its devotion to one deity (Mao) look at China's Cultural Revolution. Same use of language, same use of victimhood, same use of tactics, same quest for purification and destroying everything of value and morality in its way. A social and economic experiment that ended in rivers of blood.
Beautiful, insightful, and such an important piece. Re the new Pride flag: Daniel Ryan Spaulding talked about this awhile ago, which is how I learned about it. Your deep dive and analysis of its origins and purpose is incredibly important for people to know. Also, you wrote an article for Tablet in 2020 about the rise of antisemitism and how American Jews were ignoring it. Five years on, post 10/7, and it's more relevant than ever. I just shared it again. With Jewish friends who probably won't read it. I also shared this piece with a Jewish friend who has a trans daughter, who is going to England in a month to study at a college, because she thinks it's safer than where we live in Vermont. Now, Vermont is a hotbed of antisemitism and Israelophobia now, but England isn't safer.
Re: Your point about the money trail and the con, in BLM and the Alphabet movement. I would also add "The Women's March" and the whole "Anti-Racism education" movement. Each of these quickly became anti-zionist, anti-semitic, and excluded Jews.
This is a brilliant series of thoughts - thank you for your clarity .
But how do we fix it - seriously ?
Ensure none of them get real political power.
IUDs
Oh Eve. Another devastating but briliant piece to read. I once heard it said that we are born into a world at war. I wasnt sure i really believed it until October 7th.
I saw videos of people protesting against ' Zionists' while the Pogrom was still on-going. They hadnt even made up the famine or genocide lies. They were part protesting/ part celebrating the murder of Jews, simply for being Jews.
I had no idea at the scale of the ' con' to follow. I expected the usual BBC bullshit but then saw Jeremy Bowen blame a misfired Hamas rocket blast on a hospital on the IDF within minutes of it occurring. I realised then that Jeremy had decided it was safe to be so openly against Jews.
If i was Jewish , id be in Israel by now. I feel threatened even as a gentile. I fear the masses are going to cause real carnage and i dont want to be here when it happens. I want to be in a country that knows what it means to defend itself.
On another note, have you approached the Spectator for placing an article?
Or how about you writing a book and then doing a book launch for us all to attend ?
I read many years ago that some Native American tribes had a notion of many genders, I think four, and frankly I think that's what we need with the trans community: born men who transitioned towards female and born women who transitioned towards male. Because they may tell you they've gone to the other gender but it's nonsense. Even if the medicine were to be perfected (which it's not), they were *socialized* as the other gender and that has profound ramifications, especially in the workplace. I think we need names for two new genders and that would solve a multitude of problems. Men who transition towards female are their own thing, and women who transition towards male are their own thing. They're not men and women, no matter how much they pillory you if you hint that this may be true.
I think this is cited in either Helen Joyce's book or some of Richard Dawkins' works. I'll have to go back and check.
In order of how I listed them : male; female; person with both male and physical sex characteristics; person with no sex characteristics; identified as female at birth but upon puberty does not develop female sexual characteristics; identified as male at birth but upon puberty does not develop male sexual characteristics; identified as male at birth but is castrated and so does not develop male sexual characteristics.
The rabbis of the Talmud identified 8.
That's fascinating! What were they?
So these were actual legal/halachic categories—some say 7, others 8 or more. Here is what I remember : Zachar, Nekevah, androgynous, tumtum, aylonit, saris hamah, saris adam. Also, they recorded that eBay were males who later identified/ became female and vice versa.
I have to say that tumtum is my favorite (I think of a Ken doll). Also if you think about the original adam (the earthling, not the proper name that comes from it) that is described as “male and female He created them” —that is the basis for some fascinating midrashim!
But what do these *mean*?
Not ebay! Weird aurocorrect —meant “that they…”
You can edit your comments. Use the three dots to the right of the comment. I use it constantly. I thought the “eBay” might be autocorrect! 😺
I call them ex-men and ex-women. Their sex hasn’t changed of course but I refuse to call an ex-man anything with “woman” in the term.
any comment about why, as far as I can recall, all of the trans people who are raising these issues, are trans women? Where are the trans men?
Look up Chase Strangio, a former woman now calling herself a man. A lawyer for ACLU: now a radical organization pushing for transing children.
These youngsters have no moral ground, have read no History as well as “ fiction “ like Orwell’s 1984 or Bradbury’s Fareheit 451
Looking for social acceptance and the adrenaline high…
Eve, to your point on "inclusivity", it has become rather exclusive. Just like "diversity" and "equity" has become a discriminatory suppression of dissent.
Regarding the goons outside the Royal Courts of Justice, note the ubiquitous war drums. They are at almost every pro-terror demonstration. Not randomly - you don't see violins or accordions showing up - they really mean "war is coming." They are at war with Western civilization, not just Jews and Israel. It's quite obvious, especially when you notice the absence of Western country's flags at such mob gatherings. Unless said flags are on fire, of course...
Gamzeh ya'avor. We can only pray it does.