Alan Dershowitz Lies and Mongers Hatred against Christians -- Again

 Alan Dershowitz is a confused old man, an attention whore, and a dishonest hate monger who kisses Trump's behind. But you knew all that. 

Someone I thought of as a "friend" sent me the article, below. It is full of lies and hatred. 

I reminded this "friend" that Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world today, and that spreading hate and lies like this is used to justify that persecution. 

I have a lot going on in my personal life so I don't have time to go through this lousy piece of blood libel point by point, but maybe someone will want to address this in the comments section. Fact based, hate free comments only. Resisting the hatred of some not all Jews for Christians DOES NOT justify responding with antisemitism. 

And, no, I do not support any identification of Jesus with Muslim Arabs. Jesus was a JEW. No debate. It's the rest of the Dershowitz piece, full of hate mongering lies, that is vile. 

PS: I'm dealing with life/death health issues and I have been doing so since a medical emergency in early November. It's been two months of fear, sadness, what work can I get done before I die, including work on Bieganski, looking at the will, the card donating my body to medical research, and endless medical appointments and big medical bills. 

A social media friend, someone I liked and trusted, someone I'd known for ten previous years, in the midst of all this, a person who had previously said that she "loved" me, called me "vile" "pathetic" and a supporter of terrorism because I supported Kalama Harris in the 2024 presidential election, and was very opposed to Trump. 

And then the piece below comes in my mailbox the very day I had surgery.

These two communications epitomize  disregard for the humanity of the person to whom one is speaking. In both cases, my interlocutor was a Jewish person who saw me, in the moment, only as a -- what -- non-Jew? Enemy? Catholic? Polish Catholic? 

Not as a human being they'd been friends with for years, a supporter of Israel, someone focused on life/death issues. 

Just a person to bash. 

No, this is not how all Jews behave. No, this is not a comment on a religion or an ethnicity. It's a comment on my own personal experience in the past months, an experience that happened more than once, with others as well. 

People resorting to tribalism and forgetting humanity. People of all stripes do it. To the extent that Jews do it, I hope some will choose to examine this behavior and address it. 

and to Jewish friends who did not take this route, thank you. 

The Dershowitz piece is below. 

NPR and a Published Author Mispronounce Czeslawa Kwoka's Name.

NPR's Scott Simon and published author Lily Tuck discussed Tuck's new book about Czeslawa Kwoka. Their interview was broadcast Saturday, December 14, 2024. 

Tuck, again, has just published a book about Czeslawa Kwoka. 

Kwoka was a child Polish victim of Nazism. Nazis murdered Kwoka in Auschwitz. 

Both Scott Simon and Lily tuck repeatedly mispronounced Czeslawa Kwoka's name. 

As I listened to the interview, I was astounded. How does someone publish a book about a girl, how does NPR conduct an interview about this girl, and never take the twenty seconds of Google search to learn how to pronounce the murdered girl's name? 

ches WAFF a 

KWOK a

Not difficult. 

NPR interview is here. 

A Real Pain 2024 movie review

 

A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg explores American Jewish identity eighty years after the Holocaust

A Real Pain is a comedy-drama Holocaust-themed film. A Real Pain was written, directed, and co-produced by Jesse Eisenberg. The film depicts the journey of two cousins, David and Benji Kaplan, who travel with a tour group to Poland. The cousins' late grandmother, Dory, was a survivor. The cousins' journey is an effort to honor her and better understand their heritage.

Eisenberg, 41, plays David; Kieran Culkin, 42, plays Benji. A Real Pain also features Will Sharpe as James, the tour guide, and other tour members Jennifer Grey as Marcia; Kurt Egyiawan as Eloge; and Liza Sadovy and Daniel Oreskes as Diane and Mark.

David is a happily married husband and father. He lives in an attractive brownstone and makes a good living selling ads. He suffers from anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, as does Eisenberg himself. David takes prescription medication to suppress his symptoms.

Benji is a "real pain" – as in, "a pain in the ass." He is disruptive and socially inappropriate. Benji lives in his mother's house and smokes a lot of marijuana. He has no committed relationships or steady work. He uses the F-word in every sentence.

David's pain and Benji's pain are set against the overwhelming pain of the Holocaust. The tour group members are flummoxed in their attempts to assimilate historical reality. They juxtapose their comfortable American lives with what Holocaust victims endured. They cannot craft a coherent narrative about the world or their own lives that encompasses that dichotomy.

Pogrom in Amsterdam

 There was a pogrom in Amsterdam last night. Attackers were "pro-Palestinian." Full story here. 

Halloween and Bieganski

 

An essay by me about scary movies can be found here. And also here. In this essay, I compare how I reacted to scary movies as a kid, and also how I reacted to World War II and Holocaust related films. 

"Jews to the Gas" sign at Jagiellonian University; Authorities Investigate

 Read more here 

Quote: 

Adam Koprowski, a spokesperson for Jagiellonian University, told local newspaper Dziennik Polski: “We are extremely sorry that such a situation took place. “This banner, from what I know, was hung by someone at night and was immediately removed from the fence after this fact was revealed, along with other slogans. “The case was also reported to the police, which is conducting an investigation.” A spokesman for Krakow police said that the incident is being investigated under the crime of “incitement to hatred on the grounds of nationality.”

Lee: Kate Winslet Movie about Lee Miller

 There's a new Kate Winslet movie about Lee Miller. My review of the movie is below. 

The movie is not closely related to the themes of Bieganski. I post the review here because there are horrible things we are willing to talk about, and there are horrible things we aren't willing to talk about. The movie Lee, like society at large, is willing to talk about the Holocaust. But it's not willing to talk about another horror that had a catastrophic impact on Lee Miller's life, and the lives of millions of others. 

Movie review is below: