Of course, Chagall was a distinctively Jewish artist. He was also an Eastern European artist, and refusing to place him in dialogue with non-Jewish Eastern European art and culture means consenting to the right-wing nationalist framing whereby Jews are not really part of Eastern European culture.

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Nothing about President Trump saying protesters at his rallies are being paid by Soros or that Jews who vote for Abdul El-Sayed are bad Jews, but time to complain that Mayor Mamdani accurately described Marc Chagall as an Eastern European artist and not specifically as a Jewish artist. Pathetic.

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In 1936, Marc Chagall wrote, “Although the world views me as an ‘international’ [artist] and the French consider me to be one of their own, I think of myself as a Russian artist and take pleasure in doing so.” Was Marc Chagall being antisemitic against himself when he wrote this?

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I do wish there were more focus on how the ad is not just antisemitic, but transphobic, deliberately referencing the gross "Kamala Harris is for they/them" ad from 2024, showing how this form of "America first" anti-Israel politics leads you to the Tucker Carlson right-wing rather than to the left.

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This ad is indeed, antisemitic, transphobic, and indefensible, but also, it is being run by Cenk Uygur, a known antisemitic wrecker with no link to the Abdul El-Sayed campaign. It isn't really comparable to the Ramaswamy ad, which his campaign is paying to run.

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