#Ellie Wiesel

[mygidon73]

Sometimes fists matter more than facts

“There are no accidents, only encounters in history,” wrote Elie Wiesel. The outbreak of antisemitism that has swept across US college campuses is not a spontaneous reaction to Hamas’s massacre of over 1200 men, women, and children – a day during which the Gaza-based terrorist group kidnapped over two hundred people. Hamas’s invasion of the Jewish state, as well as the organization’s fans at Ivy…

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#American Jewish life #Antisemitism #Brandeis University #Columbia #Cornell #Ellie Wiesel #Fight Club #Gaza Hamas #Hadar Goldin #Hamas #Iran #Islamaphobia #MIT #Oberlin College #Operation Protective Edge #Qatar #US colleges

[almondemotion]

Another Saturday

The war continues. As the days lengthen, now spring, soon summer, a cycling of seasons. The angst The sorrow The worry Blooming like cancers. Chancres. Gouty rot. This week has been tough. My daughter was caught-up in some post-10/7 fallout, a social media debacle. I’ll explain shortly. Last week I didn’t publish a blog on this platform, It was too difficult, My first was sent…

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#diaspora #Ellie Wiesel #F Scott Fitzgerald #Gaza #Holocaust #Islamic State #Israel #Jon Ronson #Jonathan Glazer #Nazi #Rabbi Hillel #Ron Hassner #social media #Sunak

[atlafan]

#I’m not even leaving an option for none #reblog if you didn’t read any I guess??? shame on your English teachers though #I say that as if I actually read any of these cover to cover lmao #I think the only ones I actually read cover to cover were lord of the flies #of mice and men #wide sargasso sea #night #the canterbury tales #I wish I could make more answers the options should be limitless

[acti-veg]

Is it fair to compare what we do to animals to the holocaust? Or can we even call what we are doing to animals a holocaust to being with?

You could argue that it is fair to animals in some sort of abstract sense, but it is certainly not fair to the people who suffered in the holocaust or their families. The better question to ask is whether it is appropriate, and whether or not it even achieves anything. I think it is not a good idea to compare animal agriculture and the holocaust not because what animals experience is any less horrific but because animals are the victims of an entirely different system of oppression, with very different causes and consequences. The holocaust is unique in all of history. It is not comparable to the Rwandan genocide, it is not comparable to ethnic cleansing Darfur, it is not comparable to the mass slavery of black men and women in Europe and the Americas.

Even if this comparison were philosophically appropriate it still wouldn’t be appropriate for advocacy regardless; all it does is isolate and further distance people from the animal rights movement. Honestly, it makes us sound like extremists. We can advocate for our own movement and talk about animal suffering without being insensitive to the suffering of others, or hijacking someone else’s cause and using it for our own ends.

Most of the time when these comparisons are used they are used simply to make a point about animal rights, they aren’t exploring the interlinked nature of oppression, they aren’t empathising with the suffering of humans, they are essentially just using victims to further our own agenda, and that is wrong regardless of what our intentions are.

If a holocaust survivor or someone deeply involved in that event wants to compare animal suffering to what they or those they loved suffered through, like Isaac Bashevis Singer and Ellie Wiesel did, then that is their decision to make, but it is not ours as outsiders.

The mass slaughter of animals is uniquely and profoundly immoral in a way that has no comparison in all of human history. We don’t need to rely on comparisons which offend and isolate because what is happening to animals is horrific enough by itself. These comparisons may be understandable, and I’m sure they grab people’s attention, but it is exactly the wrong sort of attention for our movement.

These comparisons are offensive, they almost always lack any nuance and more fundamentally, they just don't work. Nobody ever went vegan because a vegan advocate who has no connection with the holocaust compared meat eaters or farmers to the nazis. If we want to be taken seriously as a movement then our advocacy has to be better than that.

#ask #holocaust comparisons #vegan

[girlactionfigure]

On April 11, 1945, the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by American forces.

Pictured are survivors from Buchenwald at the Haifa Port on the way to the Atlit Detention Camp (July, 1945). The little boy holding the flag is Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, emeritus Chief Rabbi of Israel! At 8 years old, Lau was one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald. His brother Naphtali (on the left) looked after him throughout the war and together they made it to Israel.

Soldiers from the sixth armored division of the United States armed forces liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. Nazi SS personnel had escaped from the camp earlier that morning. American soldiers under the command of General George Patton discovered to their horror 21,000 emaciated prisoners, 4000 of them Jews, including some of the most famous Holocaust survivors, whose testimony and untiring efforts have ensured the horrors of Nazi atrocities be indelibly engraved on humanity’s consciousness. Among them were Elli Wiesel, and emeritus chief rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau. An estimated seventy thousand individuals were murdered in Buchenwald. Radio broadcaster Edward Murrow visited the camp a few days after its liberation, and described the appalling vision that met his eyes in one of the first eye-witness accounts of the Holocaust to reach Western ears. He signed off his broadcast as follows:

I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words…. If I’ve offended you by this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I’m not in the least sorry.

Rabbi Yisroel Bernath 

#OTD #1945 #Shoah #Buchenwald #liberated

[helluvanaro]

I once thought that humans were inherently good, that humanity could be fixed. To me words like "good" and "evil" and "cruel" have always seemed too simplistic to be used to describe the most complex beings on earth.

But how is genocide anything but evil? How is the ruling class being willfully oblivious of global warming anything but evil? How is humanity's hate for anything that's different not cruel?

I watched the Aaron Bushnell video, and I openly sobbed, because that's when it hit me. Humans ARE cruel and evil, the good ones are so few and far between.

And I don't understand how people aren't rioting, how they aren't laying in bed and never getting up, because Hind is dead, because Sidra is dead, because Aaron is dead, and people still say that this is warranted.

How can people be so horrible without being inherently cruel, inherently evil.

I have watched a genocide from behind a screen, and no matter how loudly I scream it seems like it's never loud enough, so as I go to bed in my nice bed, in my nice home, a child is going to bed and fearing that they'll never wake up.

We have all been screaming, but our begging and pleading and fighting and protesting, it falls on deaf ears, and day by day more people die.

How have we as a society condemned the genocide of the past but revered the genocide of today? We should have moved past this, we're supposed to be better than we were before. We're supposed to care, God-damnit.

We like to believe that we are better than we once were, that we aren't still barbaric and cruel; this is painfully untrue. It keeps me up at night, knowing that I whine about fucking school and a Palestinian child begs for their parents to not be dead.

I'm so privileged to live the life I'm living, yet I take it for granted so often.

We read books like "Night" By Ellie Wiesel and "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl, and we see these atrocities that were committed, we condemn those who performed them, and those who didn't speak up, but we watch genocide today and we do nothing.

It is a wonderfully heartbreaking hypocrisy that we refuse to acknowledge.

Will Palestine ever be free? Will Congo? Will all of us be forever trapped? How is this okay, how do we stand by idle as innocents are murdered. It seems like we're all slaves to our own fear, to our leaders, to our governments.

Race, and gender, and sexuality, and birthplace seem to be the only things that determine a person's worth. How is that fair? How is that okay?

I've always had hope that humans were good, that they were kind in at least some capacity, I now see how naive that is, how simplistic. Sometimes the simplest words are the answers to the most complex questions.

It hurts, you aren't supposed to realize how fucked up the world is until you're ready, and I'm not. I'm not ready, I don't want to know. I want to go back in time and believe that we can still fix this, but I can't.

How can we live in a world where the people in the right are the people who kill innocent civilians? How can the people in the right be the ones who steal dead women's lingerie to "prove that Palestinian women are slutty"? How can the people in the right be the ones who made fucking snuff of them committing their horrendous acts?

How does war equate to genocide?

If people aren't inherently good then I don't know what to do, because we have to be. We have to have something we can hold onto some sort of hope that this isn't how things will stay.

How am I supposed to have hope for the future if I know that I and so many others won't be welcome in it?

#free palestine #free gaza #aaron bushnell #rant #long post

[rxin3stims]

Movie Character Stimboards ☆彡

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Disney:

Beauty & The Beast

Belle - Beauty & The Beast (1991)

The Princess & The Frog

Tiana - The Princess & The Frog (2009)

Wreck-It Ralph

Wreck-It Ralph - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Fix-It Felix Jr. - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Sergeant Tamora Calhoun - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Vanellope Von Schweetz - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Taffyta Muttonfudge - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Candlehead - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Rancis Fluggerbutter - Weeck-It Ralph (2012)

Jublieena Bing-Bing - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Snowanna Rainbeau - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Crumbelina DiCaramello - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Gloyd Orangeboar - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Swizzle Malarky - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Adorabeezle Winterpop - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Torvald Batterbutter - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Minty Zaki - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Sticky Wipplesnit - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Citrusella Flugpucker - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Nougetsia Rumblestain - Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Frozen/Frozen II

Anna - Frozen (2013)

Kristoff - Frozen (2013)

Big Hero 6

Baymax - Big Hero 6 (2014)

Hiro Hamada - Big Hero 6 (2014)

Tadashi Hamada - Big Hero 6 (2014)

Aunt Cass - Big Hero 6 (2014)

Gogo Tomago - Big Hero 6 (2014)

Honey Lemon - Big Hero 6 (2014)

Wasabi No-Ginger - Big Hero 6 (2014)

Fred/Fredzilla - Big Hero 6 (2014)

Zootopia

Judy Hopps - Zootopia (2016)

Nick Wilde - Zootopia (2016)

Moana

Moana - Moana (2016)

Maui - Moana (2016)

Marvel:

Guardians of the Galaxy

Rocket Raccoon - Guardians of the Galaxy (2014-2023)

Mantis - Guardians of the Galaxy (2014-2023)

Nebula - Guardians of the Galaxy (2014-2023)

PIXAR:

Finding Nemo/Finding Dory

Dory - Finding Nemo (2003)/Finding Dory (2016)

Nemo - Finding Nemo (2003)

Gill - Finding Nemo (2003)

Peach - Finding Nemo (2003)

Hank - Finding Dory (2016)

Cars

Cruz Ramirez - Cars 3 (2017)

Coco

Héctor Rivera - Coco (2017)

Onward

Iandore (Ian) Lightfoot - Onward (2020)

Barley Lightfoot - Onward (2020)

Dreamworks:

Madagascar

Melman - Madagascar 1-3 (2005-2012)

Rise of the Guardians

Jack Frost - Rise of the Guardians (2012)

Toothiana/Tooth - Rise of the Guardians (2012)

E. Aster Bunnymund - Rise of the Guardians (2012)

Nicholas St. North - Rise of the Guardians (2012)

Sanderson Mansnoozie - Rise of the Guardians (2012)

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

Mr. Peabody - Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

Trolls

Poppy (2016-Present)

Bluesky:

Ice Age Franchise

Manfred (Manny) - Ice Age Franchise (2002-2022)

Diego - Ice Age Franchise (2002-2022)

Ellie - Ice Age Franchise (2006-2022)

Buck The Wiesel Buckminster - Ice Age Franchise (2009-2022)

Rio

Blu Gunderson - Rio (2011)

Jewel - Rio (2011)

The Peanuts Movie

Charlie Brown - The Peanuts Movie (2015)

Sally Brown - The Peanuts Movie (2015)

Heather (The Little Red-Haired Girl) - The Peanuts Movie (2015)

Lucy Van Pelt - The Peanuts Movie (2015)

Schroeder - The Peanuts Movie (2015)

Marcie - The Peanuts Movie (2015)

Illumination:

Sing/Sing 2

Porsha Crystal - Sing 2 (2021)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Mario Mario - The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

Luigi Mario - The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

Princess Peach - The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

Jurassic Park/Jurassic World:

Dr. Alan Grant - Jurassic Franchise (1993-2022)

Owen Grady - Jurassic Franchise (2015-2022)

Blue - Jurassic Franchise (2015-2022)

Indominous Rex- Jurassic Franchise- (2015)

Alvin & The Chipmunks:

Alvin Seville - Alvin & The Chipmunks (2007-2015)

Simon Seville - Alvin & The Chipmunks (2007-2015)

Theodore Seville - Alvin & The Chipmunks (2007-2015)

Britney Miller - Alvin & The Chipmunks (2009-2015)

Jeanette Miller - Alvin & The Chipmunks (2009-2015)

Elenor Miller - Alvin & The Chipmunks (2009-2015)

Frosty The Snowman:

Frosty The Snowman- Frosty The Snowman (1969)

Karen - Frosty The Snowman (1969)

Professor Hinkle - Frosty The Snowman (1969)

Crystal - Frosty’s Winter Wonderland (1976)

Jack Frost - Frosty’s Winter Wonderland (1976)

Other:

Mr. Mint - Candyland: The Great Lollipop Adventure (2005)

Wybie Lovat - Coraline (2009)

Coraline Jones - Coraline (2009)

Lilly - Alpha and Omega (2010)

Rango - Rango (2011)

Walter - The Muppets (2011)

Manolo Sánchez - The Book Of Life (2014)

Joaquin Mondragon - The Book Of Life (2014)

Capper Dapperpaws - My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)

Lyla - Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (2018), Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse, and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spiderverse (2024)

Izzy Moonbow - My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021)

#stimboard list

[septembersghost]

I just want to say that I have lots of Jewish friends and also Jewish ancestry in my family, and I've been to Israel and it was incredible, so.. I just want to tell you that I support Jews and admire your traditions, and just want to give you a huge hug? anti-Semitism sucks. (also what makes zero sense to me is why kanye west is anti black when he's black himself??? how is this supposed to work)

it's been so scary to me to witness the steep rise of this over the past few years - the harmful rhetoric, the hate crimes, all of it, it just breaks my heart. and any prejudice does, we're seeing an increase in so much bigotry directed towards disparate, vulnerable groups, and it's soul crushing at times. it's upsetting and mind boggling how cruel and discriminatory people can be towards others. antisemitism bordering on violence is something i dealt with directly in high-school, over a span of time and traumatic incidents, so it makes it particularly personal in that sense, i know what it looks and feels like close up. i know we lost family in europe who we can never bring out of the ashes. i know i wouldn't be here at all had my grandparents' families not fled the old country because they were already facing pogroms, before the n*zi regime even rose to power, had they not landed on the shores of ellis island. i know our names were changed. all of my elder family is gone now, so those last connections to those places went with them, just as the last eyewitness accounts of survivors of the death camps are becoming more past than present too. my elderly friend who held my hands in his as he told me about watching his family rounded up, some shot in the ghetto, all separated in freezing train cars, divided at the camps and never seen again. it's not ancient history (though there's been plenty of persecution and exiles and forced conversions and executions there too). it's only removed by a couple of generations, but as their voices recede to history, we have to speak for them.

memory and learning are such important themes in jewish culture, and for all those before us and all those who didn't get the chance at their lives, we're supposed to remember them, remember for them. light the flame for them. that memory is another of our senses, meant to be collective, to derive meaning from the history. so when i see targeted hate directed at the jewish people, it's not only that it's visceral for me because i've faced it directly, it aches for all of us still living, for all those who've been lost, all those who've gone before us, whose memories are kept as blessings.

i always admit i'm more culturally jewish than religiously, i still enjoy gentile celebrations too because i spent so much time with that part of my family, and i don't regret that or feel conflict over it, i'm happy to have experienced different things and been surrounded by open exchanges of beliefs in a compassionate manner, but i identify with my jewish heritage in a far stronger and more spiritual way.

the mitzvot that mean the most to me are those centered on the importance of kindness. kindness and love are key facets of jewish teachings, and it is meant to extend to all people, to the animals, even to blessings of objects. we're supposed to do mitzvahs, good deeds, we're supposed to act in chesed or gemilut hasadim  (literally loving-kindness). to see jewish people characterized in the untrue cruelty that people like kanye peddle is not only dangerous, it's wounding. (there are also black jewish people and they have no association with the hate group he mentioned. likewise, his anti-blackness is despicable and something i cannot begin to speak on or explain, as is the same with his ilk like cand*ce ow*ns. his misogyny is also persistent.)

i think about viktor frankl writing, "Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love," and elie wiesel, "There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you."

we're supposed to be tasked with healing, with repairing whatever of the hurt we can in the world (tikkun olam), leaving it just a bit more mended than it was when we got here, and it's like...hateful words take a knife to the stitching. i see the poison of that, when it's accepted, when it's furthered and emboldened, and it makes the fight a little fiercer, a little harder and heavier, because i know that it goes too deep to fix in far too many minds and places. all we can do is try our best to patch it again where that's possible.

anyway! i'm rambling as usual, but thank you for your kind words and understanding. it helps and means a lot to me, and i'm sending you a huge hug in return 💙💙💙

#anonymous #letterbox #you are not obligated to complete the work but neither are you free to abandon it #bubble wrap around my heart

[babyheroeclipseweasel]

✨✨✨ Yep! We struck GOLD! 🎖

The Wandering House ~ Sonic Archive, an interactive website by yours truly, in collaboration with Hüseyin Kuscu and his team at Kakare Interactive, has been awarded 🌟 Gold 🌟 at The Anthem Awards by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Selected from over 2,000 entries from more than 30 countries, the project received one of the highest scores in its category: Community Engagement ~ Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Additional contributors to the project include my beloved, Jay Beck, and many current and former Carleton College students over the years, including Apoorba Misra, Sergio Demara, Ceile Kronick, Cecilia Kryzda, Peixuan Ouyang, and more recently, Victoria Agüado, Jeremy G, Valentina Guerrero Chala, and Drew Rodriguez-Michel. Help was also lended by St. Olaf College students in professor Kristina Medina-Vilariño's class: Stella, Yanelis Camacho-Rosado, Ellie Kent, Victoria Menge, and Blake Wieseler.

The Wandering House ~ Sonic Archive has been made possible by the contributions of hundreds of participants in Northfield, Lanesboro, and Red Wing and by artist residencies in Lanesboro, at the Ragdale Foundation, and at The Anderson Center At Tower View. Through its many iterations, the project has received financial support from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Forecast for Public Art, the City of Northfield, and Lanesboro Arts.

Explore and enjoy!

https://sonicarchive.thewanderinghouse.com/en/

https://www.anthemawards.com/winners/list/entry/#!diversity-equity-inclusion/special-projects/the-wandering-house-sonic-archive/1982/-1/459444

#AnthemAwards

[essayly]

Relationships in the “Night” Novel by Elie Wiesel

People rarely value their relationship with others, especially with parents who they believe will always be around and therefore allow themselves to be rude to them. Yet, when people experience a traumatic event together, they often become closer and start realizing the significance of honoring and respecting their loved ones. In Night, the novel by Ellie Weisel, Ellie, and his father did not…

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[beingthamer]

[shit-talk-turner]

confused with the convo going around here, what makes you think taylor hasn't move on from alex? genuine question btw// It's the constant references to an ex, the whole "you didn't survive a pandemic just to come back to your ex" post and the fact that the playlist she made after her breakup with Alex, 'ouchie my heart', was last updated January 16, 2022. When someone after a breakup is still constantly talking about/referencing an ex, it means they're still not over them.

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." Ellie Wiesel

^

[atlafan]

if you didn’t have to read night by ellie wiesel in either high school history or high school english, then your teacher was antisemitic

#i had to read it in 9th grade world history #and obviously it got to me a little more because im jewish #I wasnt a big reader back then but I couldnt put that book down #i remember sobbing when his father finally died #I went to school early the day after I finished it and I cried to my teacher because of how upset I was

[infj-misc]

The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

#infj #ellie wiesel

[wholenessblooming]

~ Ellie Wiesel

#gratitude #humanity #human being #thankful #grateful #ellie wiesel

[coltonwbrown]

#ellie wiesel #portraiture #chas fagan #sean callahan