lmao of course not only goyim. I'm obviously contextually speaking to the broader appeal of Broad City (and specifically Ilana Glazer as she launched her career through that show) to non-Jewish people. It's not that she isn't/wasn't also funny, but it thematically follows the success of many shows that have a buxom female character to reel in audiences.

Take "Modern Family," for example. It was the first major sitcom to feature a gay family ("Will and Grace" wasn't suburban and familial in this way), and the inclusion of Sofia Vergara was absolutely integral to the show's success. A lot of people are kind of perverts, and they like seeing large breasts on small women while they watch their favorite shows and movies. I'm young enough to still recall how middle and high school-aged boys talked about which shows they were watching and *why*, though it's something I try not to think about!

And we'll just have to agree to disagree regarding whether or not her comments were indicative of self-loathing. She literally begins the post with a call for "permanent ceasefire." As in, in half the world's Jewry in Israel EVER get attacked again, they have no right to defend themselves, period. And in the face of a genocidal regime (with the backing of Iran, another very wealthy genocidal regime, along with other violent world powers) that has vowed to do 10/7 "again and again and again" and affired DURING A CEASEFIRE that it was merely a "rehearsal," that seems pretty self-loathing to me.

Perhaps we have different definitions of "self-loathing." You may qualify self-loathing as a singular loathing of the self; but when you are as vocally identified with a part of yourself that you are expressing shame and condemnation about as Ilana is about her Jewishness--something she is unintentionally reasserting as connecting her inextricably to Israel and its people--it's clear to me that the loathing extends beyond Ilana merely hating Ilana.

Not to say Ilana doesn't hate Ilana--she's obnoxious! But this is to say (as further discussed in my other anti-Zionism and Daddy Issues article), the part of herself that she hates is the corollary to what she hates in all Jews. And indeed the very reason she could have such a disgustingly apathetic reaction to 10/7 (it took her time to write her first post post-10/7, where she condemned the violence but effectively blamed the entire attack on Israel) is because she is blaming Judaism - including her own Jewishness, for all of the ills of the world. She has fallen to internalized antisemitic narratives. No one in the West is beyond these, because they are pervasive and foundational (at a minimum, relating to the "Jews are Christ killers" or "Jews will burn in Hell for being non-believers" narratives that are common in Christian culture, which America is founded on).

And to your last question, she literally said "while the actions of the Israeli government fuel antisemitism." That is an atrocious justification of antisemitism, because the implication is clearly that antisemitism in only surging BECAUSE Israel is defending itself - not because latent antisemitism hasn't already been entrenched this entire time, waiting for any kind of "just" cause to rear itself in a politically correct way.

To suggest that ANY Jewish person is to blame for "fueling" antisemitism is in itself antisemitic. No Jewish person or entity justifies an explosion of hateful rhetoric and collective punishment against an entire people.

Thanks for commenting