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anothertroy · 7 days ago

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Your parents ended up emigrating to Israel in 1988 when you were in university. You wore a yellow pin honoring the October 7 Israeli hostages at The White Lotus premiere in February.

I always wear it if I’m on a red carpet and a press line.

Public sentiment on Gaza seems to have shifted a lot since then. I wonder where you are right now on the issue?

Where I am is either a full magazine or no comment about it, because two or three sentences in a profile are not enough to deal with the issues. I wear the hostage pin because there are innocent people who were taken from their homes. Most of them are peace activists who lived in border communities where they were ferrying sick kids to hospitals and working with people from Gaza constantly. There are Holocaust survivors, there are children who were taken, there are people being starved and tortured and raped who have no access to the Red Cross. People are rightfully talking and thinking about all the civilians that are in danger everywhere else. But those people in tunnels, it’s now 600 days they’ve been there, they’ve been forgotten entirely. And so I wore the pin once and the hostages’ families got in touch with me and they thanked me enormously. I now am aware that they are watching me and that it matters to them. If my son or sister or daughter or father was being kept in a tunnel somewhere and weighed 25 kilos now, or may have been strangled or shot, and it felt important to me that some actors somewhere wore the yellow hostage pin, then who am I to not wear it?

So when it comes to more nuanced arguments about Netanyahu and the right-wing lunatics in the cabinet, or whether the IDF is or isn’t doing things, or this new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is or isn’t handing out food correctly, or whether Hamas’s press releases should be printed as fact, and whether there aren’t journalists in there — there are so many complicated arguments. It isn’t a place to dip one’s toe or to have a simple quote on it. What I wish for everybody, obviously, is peace. Who doesn’t? I don’t know anybody, apart from the extremists on all sides, who want either continued war or tension.

The argument that you make for the ribbon is a humane one. Why don’t you think more actors have worn them?

Because just for wearing it, I’ve been called a Zionist baby killer, a Zionazi. Even a yellow hostage pin for innocents is deemed political, which it isn’t.

#I love Jason Isaacs to bits #the only good thing to come out of this terminal nightmare is discovering which celebrities are Jewish tbh #tired complicated Jewish person tag

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anothertroy · 21 days ago

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Fireworks display at the end of the Festival of Britain, 1951

#archivists make their own fun #it's so nice to be doing work that I'm enjoying again jfc #anyway becoming increasingly obsessed with the Festival Pleasure Gardens at Battersea #scattered black and whites #I wish there were more truly fantastical public art. everything's so boring these days

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anothertroy · 22 days ago

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It has been abundantly clear to me that the pro-Palestine movement's antisemitism, anti-Israelis-as-people sentiment, glorification of violence, and all the other components of the shit stew that I'm currently too angry to articulate, were going to lead to extreme violence, including against Jews in diaspora. I have been telling y'all for over a year and a half to collect your fucking people and you will not do it. I have been trying to educate gently and with nuance and provide a voice that is neither "there's no antisemitism in the movement" nor "antizionism is antisemitism." And yet somehow for either the message does not get through or frankly many of you just do not give a shit. Setting Jews in Colorado on fire will not free Palestine and frankly you are really stupid if you think it will, and also you and I are different because as a general principle I think setting people on fire is bad and you don't.

Anyway I could not be more fucking over it. Your movement is cooked as hell and is also not in any sense "leftist" or "radical." It's actually reactionary as fuck. At this point if you continue to refuse to speak up in your activist spaces and collect your people I will no longer be assuming you just need some gentle education, I will assume that it is intentional and you either agree with the bullshit or are prioritizing your personal social standing.

#yeah #tired complicated jewish person tag #rocket science #spent all yesterday in a fugue state underneath the work I was doing #at least the work I do always feels like a slow quiet combat against all this kind of thing #preserving history. returning voices to lost people and objects. love being an archivist. anyway

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anothertroy · 23 days ago

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Anselm Kiefer (German, b. 1945), Dein aschenes Haar Sulamith [Your Ashen Hair Sulamith], 1981. Oil on burlap

#another morning where only Anselm Kiefer can express how I'm feeling I guess

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anothertroy · 25 days ago

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Thunderbolts* (2025), dir. Jake Schreier

#he really was #thunderbolts #group hug #xoxo

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anothertroy · 25 days ago

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Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova THUNDERBOLTS* (2025) dir. Jake Schreier

#so #thunderbolts #was good actually btw. my life is a trash fire and I can't manage anything #but I did enjoy one (1) MCU movie again so that's nice I guess #group hug #assassin problems #tumblr I wish you would give me things I search for instead of only mostly disturbing imagines about my kids

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anothertroy · 3 months ago

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#cute cute #music #pop music is not a crime #this is how we happened #us:known youment #us:mirliflore #idiot pop stars #(is a tag I have for some kids it's not a comment on this song :x)

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anothertroy · 3 months ago

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they posted a full version lol it’s mr Stacy’s dad for me

#thanks ilu this is the greatest thing I've seen in quite a while #the civil war mime absolutely ended my night dfskjghdskfjhg #music #cover version #that's the colour of my bike #the others #menage à garage :')

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anothertroy · 3 months ago

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Did you check what number has the executive order of "Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism"?

With any other president I would say it's an unfortunate accident but with this one I can't say that. This is the guy whose best buddy did a Nazi Salute for the cameras.

#the thing is that there are only two possibilities with this #the two possibilities are just 'a really unfortunate accident where no Jews were present to stop it' = bad #or 'Musk made this happen specifically on purpose' = horrific #tired complicated Jewish person tag #I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the Everything because I just don't have the energy but it's shit like this #this insidious deniable shit. this is the kind of thing that keeps me awake at night #every oblivious well-meaning goy out there will be like 'it's just a coincidence'#'are you so fragile you can't handle seeing some random numbers wtf'#and I'm like I hope you never ever ever have something chill you literally to your physical bones like this. ever #anyway.

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anothertroy · 5 months ago

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When I'm out in the garage working, Vice gets to tag along and hunt dust bunnies in the garage attic. I pause every so often to call him down, just to make sure he hasn't gotten into trouble.

He always has a Lot to report.