I’ve decided that the topic that I’m most passionate about in today’s world is antisemitism. I’m Jewish, my entire life I’ve been raised in a Jewish household and have lived in a Jewish community. Because of the way I was taught and because of the community in which I was raised I am fortunate enough to be a proud Jew yet when meeting new people I am still hesitant and sometimes feel unsafe with disclosing that information about myself. Although Jews make up 2% of the american population, 58% of religious hate crimes are directed toward Jews. Many tend to turn a blind eye to this fact, or are uneducated about the problem. My goal for this project is to glitch the dichotomy between the reality of the hate so many jews experience and how media attempts to downplay what is really happening. I’d like to overlay and glitch two images together, those being one of a true story and then the medias conflicting portrayal of the situation. My favorite glitch images so far came from TextEdit but I think I will really enjoy using photoshop for this project, to probably make a gif that starts with the true story and have it glitch into what antisemites contort their crimes to be. Another idea is to depit how Jews will want to hide the fact that they are jewish but I currently am not sure how I want to do that yet. Im also not sure what images I want to use yet, the images I attached are some of a trip to Israel I went on with my dad when I was 5 years old, we are at the western wall in Jerusalem. The other two images begin to depict the statistics and struggles Jews face with proper representation.
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