This story reveals the mindset of many Westerners (including some Western Jews) steeped in the self-righteous, virtue-signaling posture of today’s deranged “woke” culture.
The appropriation of Anne Frank as a symbol of universalism (or even, of Palestinianism -- I've seen signs and graffiti online of her wearing a keffiyah) is the next step in the strip-mining of Jewish identity by antisemites, where everything meaningful or good about Jewish identity is made "universal" leaving the Jews with nothing of our own, enabling our portrayal as cultural parasites.
That said, the universalising of Anne Frank began with the publication of her diary, which had overtly Jewish and Zionist passages removed by her father and the publisher, out of fear that non-Jews would find them too alienating.
First clue this assertion is disinformation followed by the legacy media, funded by Qatar and delivered by a “Judas “ trivializing the meaning of the original covenant.
Anyone believing this twaddle has not graduated from a serious education with critical thinking skills.
This is part of the problem with Holocaust education. The unique Jewishness of one of history's most horrific crimes continues to be diluted to the point where it has little meaning for dealing with the crisis of contemporary antisemitism.
I believe it’s more of a punch in the face to Jews. It’s deliberately antagonistic & those using images of the dear girl are lower than a gnats bollocks! They are disgusting 🤢. I’m not even Jewish and it makes me so angry that these fucktards desecrate the memory of Ann Frank🤬
Hi Future of Jewish! I'm Daniel, was quoted in this excellent article. I am the *former* CEO of HonestReporting and the *current* CEO of RealityCheck Research (www.RealityCheckResearch.org). You can find our posts on Substack here: https://danielspeaksup.substack.com. Would you mind correcting my title in your article? Thank you! (I couldn't find an option to send a private message so I'm writing this comment instead)
👏👏👏 An outstanding piece that resonates through time, Tzlil! Woke culture is complete garbage. Trying to act as if Anne Frank represents the suffering of all people rather than the Jewish people is just ridiculous. What’s next? Frederick Douglass being used as a symbol of feminism? Harriet Tubman being used as a symbol for environmentalists or animal rights activists? Cesar Chavez being the face of the Fat Acceptance Movement? 😂😂😂 I mean come on! Having a black actress play Anne Frank is insulting, political correctness gone mad and a slap in the face to the six million Jews who perished in the Shoah. Should Martin Luther King or Malcolm X be played by a white man? Should Harvey Milk be portrayed as a straight man? No, of course not! That would insulting to the black and gay communities respectively, so why on Earth would you have a Gentile portray Anne Frank?
All the idiots at this event who agreed with the actor had no courage or backbone whatsoever and just said what was politically correct. But Tzlil and the black actress who was in attendance set them straight. The Holocaust was perpetrated against many different groups yes, but mainly the Jewish people who the Third Reich considered their primary enemy. Anne Frank deserves her proper respect! Can we please stop acting like the Jewish people aren’t a historically marginalized minority group too? Is no one at that conference familiar with their own history? Are they not aware of the lynching of Leo Frank in 1915, the Dreyfus Affair, the pogroms in Tsarist Russia, the Doctor’s Plot, the Farhud in 1941, or the Hebron Massacre of 1929? Just to name a few! Do the names Elie Wiesel, Simon Wiesenthal, Otto Frank, or Chaim Weizmann ring a bell at all?
I’m glad those Jews who would deface the memory of Anne Frank are in the minority. It’s a shame they are plucked out of obscurity and given a voice. Wonderful article. Thank you for having the courage to speak up. You are a lioness.
at a time when only a Latino can play a Latino....when the Sinbad casting must be "of color" this is peculiar. Tony Shalhoub can be cast as Jewish man in "Mrs. Maisel" ....fine with me....what if a Lebanese or Syrian role was cast with our own woke Mandy Patinkin....? There'd be hell of a complaint. For artistic purposes, I'd say ... okay cast a black actor...will Leo Frank be Morgan Freeman? Or is this another way to appropriate Jewish experience and culture and make it void? Judaization" so called is now a criminal offense especially if it's the strengthening of Jewish life in Israel...aka the Jewish homeland.....but deJudaization and Africanization or Arabization is a virute in woke circles. Further showing the implicit racism and irrationality of woke.
Woke has destroyed the true education of our children, it has destroyed friendships and it is destroying the entire Western Society. Thus opening the doors to extremism in none Western belief systems as well as changing history. We are told to welcome all immigrants into our countries who bring their own ideals, customs and belief systems to our lands and work very hard to take over. We are constantly apologizing for actions of forefathers who, like all us, made mistakes. We cannot undo their mistake by constantly putting them down, but we should be learning from those errors not to repeat them. Millions of dollars have been spent to apologize, and compensate those who were affected those errors, and the recipents of these funds must think we are crazy!! We live in a world where everything that was done was wrong and everything today is fine. I can imagine in a hundred years of so, people will look back at the present in horror of what was done and want to change the past and still make even more errors.
Read with great interest. I will be rereading this piece several times because there is wisdom that transcends the progressive ideology of today’s institutions.
I have just never heard this wisdom spoken so clearly.
Anne Frank as black? That trivializes what happened to her and the excuse that anyone can play any role is ludicrous. Can you just imagine the hue and cry if a white guy were portraying Nelson Mandela or Malcolm X?
The appropriation of Anne Frank as a symbol of universalism (or even, of Palestinianism -- I've seen signs and graffiti online of her wearing a keffiyah) is the next step in the strip-mining of Jewish identity by antisemites, where everything meaningful or good about Jewish identity is made "universal" leaving the Jews with nothing of our own, enabling our portrayal as cultural parasites.
That said, the universalising of Anne Frank began with the publication of her diary, which had overtly Jewish and Zionist passages removed by her father and the publisher, out of fear that non-Jews would find them too alienating.
I didn’t know about this editing. I would love to read the uncut version.
Don’t bother. It doesn’t exist. Being conned.
That is an outright lie.
First clue this assertion is disinformation followed by the legacy media, funded by Qatar and delivered by a “Judas “ trivializing the meaning of the original covenant.
Anyone believing this twaddle has not graduated from a serious education with critical thinking skills.
This is part of the problem with Holocaust education. The unique Jewishness of one of history's most horrific crimes continues to be diluted to the point where it has little meaning for dealing with the crisis of contemporary antisemitism.
Don’t let it be diluted.
Take action.
I am!
So sorry to hear that 🥲🇮🇱
I believe it’s more of a punch in the face to Jews. It’s deliberately antagonistic & those using images of the dear girl are lower than a gnats bollocks! They are disgusting 🤢. I’m not even Jewish and it makes me so angry that these fucktards desecrate the memory of Ann Frank🤬
Hi Future of Jewish! I'm Daniel, was quoted in this excellent article. I am the *former* CEO of HonestReporting and the *current* CEO of RealityCheck Research (www.RealityCheckResearch.org). You can find our posts on Substack here: https://danielspeaksup.substack.com. Would you mind correcting my title in your article? Thank you! (I couldn't find an option to send a private message so I'm writing this comment instead)
I just subscribed.
Wow. Thank you for this.
Brilliant! Thank you!
👏👏👏 An outstanding piece that resonates through time, Tzlil! Woke culture is complete garbage. Trying to act as if Anne Frank represents the suffering of all people rather than the Jewish people is just ridiculous. What’s next? Frederick Douglass being used as a symbol of feminism? Harriet Tubman being used as a symbol for environmentalists or animal rights activists? Cesar Chavez being the face of the Fat Acceptance Movement? 😂😂😂 I mean come on! Having a black actress play Anne Frank is insulting, political correctness gone mad and a slap in the face to the six million Jews who perished in the Shoah. Should Martin Luther King or Malcolm X be played by a white man? Should Harvey Milk be portrayed as a straight man? No, of course not! That would insulting to the black and gay communities respectively, so why on Earth would you have a Gentile portray Anne Frank?
All the idiots at this event who agreed with the actor had no courage or backbone whatsoever and just said what was politically correct. But Tzlil and the black actress who was in attendance set them straight. The Holocaust was perpetrated against many different groups yes, but mainly the Jewish people who the Third Reich considered their primary enemy. Anne Frank deserves her proper respect! Can we please stop acting like the Jewish people aren’t a historically marginalized minority group too? Is no one at that conference familiar with their own history? Are they not aware of the lynching of Leo Frank in 1915, the Dreyfus Affair, the pogroms in Tsarist Russia, the Doctor’s Plot, the Farhud in 1941, or the Hebron Massacre of 1929? Just to name a few! Do the names Elie Wiesel, Simon Wiesenthal, Otto Frank, or Chaim Weizmann ring a bell at all?
Regrettably many Jews in the Diaspora and even some in Israelhave lost their moral compass.
Thank you for this. I get so bloody angry with all of this nonsense.
Me too. It’s anger mustering.
I’m glad those Jews who would deface the memory of Anne Frank are in the minority. It’s a shame they are plucked out of obscurity and given a voice. Wonderful article. Thank you for having the courage to speak up. You are a lioness.
Unfortunately, the Diary of Anne Frank was stripped of a lot of its specifcially Jewish content when it was originally published .
at a time when only a Latino can play a Latino....when the Sinbad casting must be "of color" this is peculiar. Tony Shalhoub can be cast as Jewish man in "Mrs. Maisel" ....fine with me....what if a Lebanese or Syrian role was cast with our own woke Mandy Patinkin....? There'd be hell of a complaint. For artistic purposes, I'd say ... okay cast a black actor...will Leo Frank be Morgan Freeman? Or is this another way to appropriate Jewish experience and culture and make it void? Judaization" so called is now a criminal offense especially if it's the strengthening of Jewish life in Israel...aka the Jewish homeland.....but deJudaization and Africanization or Arabization is a virute in woke circles. Further showing the implicit racism and irrationality of woke.
Woke has destroyed the true education of our children, it has destroyed friendships and it is destroying the entire Western Society. Thus opening the doors to extremism in none Western belief systems as well as changing history. We are told to welcome all immigrants into our countries who bring their own ideals, customs and belief systems to our lands and work very hard to take over. We are constantly apologizing for actions of forefathers who, like all us, made mistakes. We cannot undo their mistake by constantly putting them down, but we should be learning from those errors not to repeat them. Millions of dollars have been spent to apologize, and compensate those who were affected those errors, and the recipents of these funds must think we are crazy!! We live in a world where everything that was done was wrong and everything today is fine. I can imagine in a hundred years of so, people will look back at the present in horror of what was done and want to change the past and still make even more errors.
A wicked satire of this exact phenomenon is currently playing on Broadway:
https://www.diaryofslamfrank.com/
(Correction: off Broadway.)
Read with great interest. I will be rereading this piece several times because there is wisdom that transcends the progressive ideology of today’s institutions.
I have just never heard this wisdom spoken so clearly.
Thank you.
Anne Frank as black? That trivializes what happened to her and the excuse that anyone can play any role is ludicrous. Can you just imagine the hue and cry if a white guy were portraying Nelson Mandela or Malcolm X?
Oh! You have been very courageous.