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Eugene

(62,627 posts)
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 01:41 PM Jan 2022

Emma Watson pro-Palestinian post sparks antisemitism row

Source: The Guardian

Emma Watson pro-Palestinian post sparks antisemitism row

Israeli officials attack actor’s message, and are accused of ‘cynical weaponisation’ of term

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
@nadiakhomami
Tue 4 Jan 2022 17.28 GMT

Emma Watson has been accused of antisemitism by Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations after she posted a message of support for the Palestinian cause.

Watson, best known for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, posted an image on Instagram showing a photograph of a pro-Palestinian protest with the banner “Solidarity is a Verb” written across it. It was accompanied with a quote about the meaning of solidarity from the intersectional feminist scholar Sara Ahmed.

While the post elicited widespread support from Palestinian activists, it drew strong criticism from Israeli officials. The most combative was Danny Danon, who formerly held the posts of science minister in Binyamin Netanyahu’s government and Israeli ambassador to the United Nations. Sharing Watson’s post on Twitter, Dannon said: “10 points from Gryffindor for being an antisemite.”

Israel’s current ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, was also critical. “Fiction may work in Harry Potter but it does not work in reality,” Erdan wrote. “If it did, the magic used in the wizarding world could eliminate the evils of Hamas (which oppresses women and seeks the annihilation of Israel) and the PA (which supports terror). I would be in favor of that!” PA refers to the Palestinian Authority.

Danon’s comments were met with a backlash, ...

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/04/emma-watson-pro-palestinian-post-sparks-antisemitism-row

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Emma Watson pro-Palestinian post sparks antisemitism row (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2022 OP
K & R Budi Jan 2022 #1
You Can't Criticize WHITT Jan 2022 #2
Israel is always playing the same slippery-slope game over and over again. DetlefK Jan 2022 #3
But if you express support for the Palestinians..... TheRealNorth Jan 2022 #4
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
1. K & R
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 02:04 PM
Jan 2022

Notice they never mention HAMAS & the evil that keeps the divide going.

When you embrace HAMAS then you show your true intent.

Glad to see the call out on her fueling the fire while staying silent on the source.

If it's peace you seek then reject HAMAS or stop talking, m'am.

WHITT

(2,868 posts)
2. You Can't Criticize
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 02:17 PM
Jan 2022

the RighWing Fascists without getting called an antisemite.

They can't handle the truth.

Good for Emma for speaking truth to fascists.

DetlefK

(16,451 posts)
3. Israel is always playing the same slippery-slope game over and over again.
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 02:18 PM
Jan 2022

If you criticize the nation Israel, you hate Jews. Yadda-yadda-yadda.

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