Jeremiah Appledunch

[Jeremiah Appledunch @JAppledunch]

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[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Greek City Times published an open letter to Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey this week. It reads in part:

"We did not vanish. Greek people did not disappear after the age of myth. Greek culture was not frozen in classical marble. We are still here. For more than 3,000 continuous years, Greek identity has persisted."

The addendum: "Given Hollywood's insistence for minority representation, authenticity and diversity — where are the Greeks, or the Greek Americans in this Greek story?"

The film shot in Greece, with Greek funding, across Greek locations. Not one cast member is Greek.

Hollywood required diversity for every production except this one.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Three days ago, the Taliban made it legal to sell 9 year old girls off as sex slaves.

Zohran Mamdani? Silent.

The NYT? Silent.

AOC? Silent.

Mehdi Hasan? Silent.

Cenk Uygur? Silent.

[Helen Whately MP @Helen_Whately]

Polygamy is illegal in the UK.

But if you’ve married 4 wives overseas and moved here, you could claim up to £78,000 in benefits. Paid for by British taxpayers.

That is absurd. Conservatives will end this.

[Jeremiah Appledunch @JAppledunch]

@NiohBerg Trust what plan?! Trump’s not playing 4D chess ffs, he’s an impulsive moron, whose only MO is immediate self-indulgence. If he leaves Iran to the next gen of mullahs it’s because the attention potential is depleted.Those who think otherwise have impressive levels of cultish bias.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

The amazing @lalshareef explains how Israel removed Jews from Gaza in 2005 to get peace, leaving behind greenhouses worth millions of dollars.

The Palestinians looted the greenhouses, and Gaza was turned into a terror fortress.

This must go viral.

[Breitbart News @BreitbartNews]

Christopher Nolan gets ripped by Greek-interest publication for hypocrisy in his DEI "Odyssey" casting:

“Ancient Greece is not simply an aesthetic backdrop... If Hollywood truly believes representation matters, then Greek representation should matter too” https://t.co/N4VsW2fnJt

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Israeli witness recounts seeing Palestinian civilians laugh as they raped a woman who they pulled out of a car. They then slaughtered her with a knife and continued to rape the dead body, laughing.

These civilians then went on to find a couple running away and they butchered the couple with axes and knives.

Palestinian civilians came prepared to butcher and torture Jews on October 7 prepared with axes and knives.

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

I need to be as clear as humanly possible: under no circumstances on Earth whatsoever should another Godfather film ever be made. Ever. I say this amid reports The Godfather is being rebooted into a 4th film. This truly upsets me. Hollywood needs to focus on making NEW stories.

[GeroDoc @doc_gero]

👇Mel Gibson's 2006 film "Apocalypto" cleared 3x its production budget and was cast with ethnically faithful unknown actors who, no pun intended - killed it.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Wool is cruel. The sheep should be left alone."

Farmer: "Alone where?"

Activist: "In a sanctuary."

Farmer: "Doing what."

Activist: "Just being a sheep."

Farmer: "Sheep have been bred for ten thousand years to grow a fleece that doesn't stop. If I don't shear her, she overheats, gets fly strike, and dies in her own coat with maggots eating her from the skin down."

Activist: "Then breed sheep that don't grow wool."

Farmer: "We did. They're called mouflon. They live on cliffs in Sardinia and would last forty minutes on a Welsh hillside before something ate them."

Activist: "I just don't think we should use animals for clothing."

Farmer: "What's your jumper made of."

Activist: "...recycled polyester."

Farmer: "Plastic, then. Sheds microfibre into the washing machine every wash. The fibres go through the filter, into the river, into the fish, into you. When you're done with it, it sits in a landfill for four hundred years. My sheep's fleece composts in a hedge in eighteen months and grew back on her this spring."

Activist: "But the sheep didn't consent."

Farmer: "She was lying down with her eyes closed when I finished. She got up and went back to eating. I'd suggest you ask her how she feels, but she's busy, and I think she's already given her answer."

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Croatia has stormed the Eurovision final with a historic anthem that denounces the Ottoman occupation and revives the ancient Christian tattoo tradition to protect young girls from rape

Performed entirely in Croatian, the song slams centuries of Islamic Turkish occupation of their lands and recalls how Catholic girls were tattooed with Christian motifs to stop them from being abducted, converted to Islam, and forced into sexual slavery

"That’s why many chose the grave, our mothers did not birth slaves”

Turkey is already attacking the group for performing the song

[Marissa Streit @marissastreit]

.@GadSaad agrees with Orwell: it takes an intellectual to come up with truly stupid ideas. When academics are disconnected from reality or accountability, bad ideas spread like parasites. While STEM professionals have to answer for their mistakes, humanities professors build theories that no one ever has to test. That lack of accountability is exactly how toxic ideas take over a university and eventually a culture. If these professors can't survive the scrutiny of their own ideas, should they be teaching our children? Watch here 👉https://t.co/exAlMFJlca

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: A new report compiled by over 430 witnesses, survivors, experts and medical staff of October 7th reveal new never before told horrors.

Women were stripped, bound, stabbed, shot, and burned. They were executed both during and after rape.

Heads were decapitated. Pelvic bones shattered. Even after death, sexual assault continued.

At Kibbutz Be'eri, nails, sharp objects, and pieces of metal and plastic were similarly embedded in a woman whose body was discovered naked and bound.

On another victim, grenades were used.

Men were also sexually assaulted, with at least one case of gang rape occurring.

The horrors are truly barbaric.

[Eva Savagiou @evasavagiou]

homer is not a woke trend.

im generally not the kind of person who gets offended easily.

almost never, actually.

someone can say something about me, about my body, about my life, about what i do, and most of the time i just move on.

not everything touches me.

but there is one thing that gets under my skin.

when someone has an opinion without having the slightest idea what they are talking about.

when someone speaks like they are enlightened, special, above everyone else, while really just walking behind whatever temporary trend the world is clapping for that week.

and yes, im talking about christopher nolan.

i used to respect him a lot.

when i first heard he was making the odyssey, i was excited.

like genuine excitement. a real dopamine rush.

i thought maybe, finally, someone with a huge budget, huge tools, modern technology, and the attention of the entire world would approach homer with awe.

not to copy him.

to respect him.

because homer was never “material” for a movie.

you do not dress him up in whatever the current year wants to see.

hollywood did not make him important.

he was already bigger than every director who will ever try to touch him.

in greece, we grow up with these texts.

the iliad. the odyssey.

we study them in school, we are examined on them, we are graded on them.

and when i was a little girl, every time i had a class on either the iliad or the odyssey, my mind would run.

i would see everything.

homer writes in a way that puts images inside your head before you even have time to resist them.

you do not need imax.

you do not need a trailer.

you do not need hundreds of millions in budget.

the way he describes things is so vivid, so poetic, so full of body and light and blood and sea, that you enter the world without permission.

you read, and suddenly you are there.

in troy. at sea. inside the palace.

inside achilles’ rage and odysseus’ intelligence and all of the pride and violence and grief and longing and the return.

and it is almost funny, but also a little sad, to think that an average thirteen-year-old child in greece, reading homer at school, can imagine something more alive than a famous director with endless resources.

i know creativity is different from mind to mind.

i do not believe art should be locked in a museum.

i do not believe every adaptation has to look like a school textbook.

imagination should be free.

but freedom without understanding is not art.

it is arrogance.

and that is what bothers me.

someone can touch homer. fine.

but touch him after you’ve actually understood the weight of what you’re holding.

if you are given an epic that has survived thousands of years, you do not treat it like raw material for a modern message.

you do not use it as a vehicle to prove how “correct” you are according to the trends of the moment.

you do not take something that is part of a people’s language, education, memory, and culture, and flatten it into another product of the season.

you enter with respect.

you read it. then you read it again. you sit with it. you ask people who know more than you. you listen for a while.

and then, eventually, maybe, you make something.

and now the clever ones will come.

“oh, eva, you’re just mad about the casting.”

no.

i am mad about the laziness.

i am mad about the confidence of people who have not opened homer, but suddenly have loud opinions about what helen, achilles, the odyssey, the iliad, and greek mythology can or cannot be.

i am mad that everything becomes surface level.

someone sees one sentence trending on tiktok and suddenly thinks they have an argument.

“homer never described her exactly.”

as if that empties the whole text.

as if genealogy, language, symbolism, culture, and memory do not matter.

helen of troy was never only “a beautiful woman.”

she is a symbol. a myth. the daughter of zeus and leda. the woman around whom one of the most destructive and poetic imagined events of the ancient world was built.

and yes, homer’s language matters.

“white-armed helen.”

λευκώλενος ἑλένη.

you can argue that “white” in homer can be poetic.

fine.

you can try to make it less literal if that helps your argument.

fine.

but you cannot pretend the text is empty.

you cannot pretend there is no description, no context, no lineage, no aesthetic, no cultural imagination.

the same with achilles.

achilles was never only a warrior.

homer does not only give him a body. he gives him a soul.

violence and rage and emotion in one body. pride alongside a tenderness that doesn’t make sense unless you’ve actually read him.

if you do not feel those things, you are not making achilles.

you are borrowing a name.

and before someone pretends not to understand me, this is not about hating an actor or a group of people.

it is about taking greek mythology and acting like the source material is optional.

that is the insult.

art is being treated like a costume.

something you put over a modern agenda, then expect everyone to clap for, because if they do not clap, they call you whatever label fits the week’s discourse.

racist or transphobic or narrow-minded or whatever.

and it doesn’t work on me.

sometimes people do not react because they hate.

sometimes they react because they love something and they are watching it get smaller and flatter and turned into content.

homer is not content to me.

he is something i had open on a school desk in greece before i was old enough to understand how much of me was inside it.

the saddest part is that many people will never read homer.

not because they do not deserve to.

but because they do not have the time, the desire, the access, the education, or because the world moves too fast and everyone is tired.

so what cinema and social media show them becomes the image inside their head.

and that carries responsibility.

for a lot of people, that movie will become the only homer they ever see.

that is what annoys me.

not because i want everything frozen in time.

because if you are going to change something this old, this powerful, this tied to a culture, at least understand it first.

budget is not understanding.

and if someone reads all of this and still only understands that i have a problem with certain people, then they did not read me. they only read what they wanted to be angry about.

if you cannot feel the difference between hate and protecting a culture, then maybe you are not my audience.

and that is okay.

unfollow me.

i do not want people around me who cannot understand what i write.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

URGENT: Erfan Shakurzadeh, a university student, is hours away from execution.

He was a student at Iran University of Science and Technology. He had a future. He had dreams. Now he has been transferred to Qezelhesar Prison to be hanged.

Erfan is not alone in that death row. Every single day, the Islamic Republic sends young people, students, protesters, workers, to the gallows.

Tomorrow, they will try to erase him, just like they erased the dozens before him.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Vote for a Party that isn’t afraid to stand up for Britain’s Jews.

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[The Jewish Chronicle @JewishChron]

🗣️ Non-Jewish Brits need to stand against antisemitism, and pro-Palestine marches need to stop

Kemi Badenoch, speaking to the JC, said that pro-Palestine marches have become vehicle for the intimidation of Jews in Britain, and that marches, like the upcoming Nakba day, need to stop.

She also spoke about her upbringing in Nigeria, and how it gave her the tools to be able to spot toxic, radical Islamism and also made her unafraid to speak up against it.

She argues the British public needs to take a united stance against antisemitism now.

🔗 Full story: The Jewish Chronicle

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The NYPD has released footage of four suspects believed to be behind the swastikas spray painted onto synagogues and other Jewish institutions yesterday.

Let’s make them famous.