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972 announcement

Rooney on why she agreed to work with 972 and an Israeli publisher

Mana Contemporary is an Israeli owned and founded contemporary art museum in Jersey City that is exhibiting Dutch artist Robert Roest’s Palestinian tunnel paintings.

A certain Jewish sub is losing their minds over this, despite Moishe Mana owning the museum and supporting Roest’s art.

I find this amusing, as I visited this museum in 2023 and Moishe was surprisingly there (in town from Miami), talking at length about how much he hated the IDF and Israel’s government. He said he was in the IDF in the 70s and “even then they were in the business of terrorizing anybody they wanted. Women, children, didn’t matter.” After refusing to point a gun at more people, he was “given a clerical job.” He left in the early 80s. Seemed like a real mensch for a very very wealthy real estate guy. Seemed like he really loved challenging, interesting art too.

ETA: An article called these “Hamas” tunnels. That’s not what they are and that’s anti-Palestinian propaganda.

Does anyone have the backstory on the development or idea behind Fiveish the dancing five dollar bill? I'm very, very hesitant to judge what Jewish orgs use to market their initiatives (I help a couple of Jewish orgs out myself) but I feel like that mascot is such an easy target for anti-semites (actual anti-semites) that anyone with some marketing chops would probably not want to go with something like that. Also I'd think the modern Orthodox segment of Jews that the organization is on level with would understand that it's something that would get lampooned because of Jewish stereotypes about money.

I don't want to cancel Fiveish. I just want to understand Fiveish.

I'm posting this here because I'm banned from two other Jewish subs (you know which ones) for daring to question the IDF's actions and the other J subs would also be likely to find this question/topic hostile. If this post is too inflammatory I understand.

How quickly j street became Hamas 😂

New episode of War is Stupid: An Anti-War Podcast About War is out with Mattan Berner-Kadish, an advocate for civil rights in Israel since his parents sued the country when he was four years old. Mattan talks about his work in the Occupied West Bank, bearing witness to extreme Israeli settler and military violence, including the killing of his close friend and fellow football fan Awdah Hathahleen. We talk nepo babies in the IDF, ICC evidence on Israeli Tinder, and how American Jews are the most progressive in the world (complimentary). Mattan talks about his new nonprofit From Here Forward, and makes the case that Naftali Bennett is not the Great Hope to save lives in Palestine and Israel—American primary voters are.

It’s up on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts!

My mom has always somewhat of a liberal zionist, like hates Net but still condemns hamas and gets all dramatic about oct. 7th. Basically, anything russia touches such as Hamas is bad, and anything against Russia such as democrat-run america is good; if they're a republican they must be a russian puppet. I just chalked it up to regular bias at that point - I suppose any place was better than Russia in the 90s. I didn't realize the extent until i went snooping through her facebook. I was already there bc sometimes Marketplace has better deals than Ebay, and her whole profile just makes me irrationally upset. Her pfp already made me upset being a painted israeli flag with what I'm told is basically "leave us alone" in russian. And then here goes the whole thing about sexual abuse and dead kids from Oct. 7th, most of which I guarantee is either an outright lie or actually comittedf by the IDF. Then here goes reposting some psychologists open letter to Mamdani's wife and calling her a "strange creature". Here goes condemning Greta after her suitcase was all messed up after her release. Here she goes saying that the starving children in gaza are fake (more specifically from a post about sudan, translated from russian: "It’s not like cursing Jews, or spreading fakes about 'starving' children in Gaza, or shouting 'From the river to the sea!' on college campuses. It’s cool to scream about a fake genocide and cancel Israeli festivals—you’re trendy, you’re with your own—but when a real genocide, not a made-up one, is right before your eyes—you somehow fade away"). Oh and ofc a little denialism mixed in bc why the hell not. Not even touching how she says Palestinians are jordanian by blood or being one of those "they had plenty of time to evacuate" people and "what if you were gay in gaza" people - which btw I can never argue with her about and say homophobia is no excuse for bombing bc she would absolutely bomb florida if she got the chance. I think it is now that I officially hate her, and especially hate that my cousin looks to her as such a role model. At least he doesn't mind when i post about palestine and said he doesn't wanna pick up a gun anyway. In the event my mom happens to find this subreddit, fuck you. If this is how you see that side of the world then you might as well kick me out the house now or cut me out of the will. Oh wait you won't bc im a poor wittle autistic girl who doesn't know how to live on her own. The only reason I will ever put effort into networking and making friends now is so I can run away from it all.

Added detail: it appears she's been thinking this way for a while now (all text translated from russian)