UPDATE: Celebrities, public figures express support for Palestine

[Bambino 24,156]

The Weeknd, Dua Lipa, Kyrie Irving, Paul Pogba, Lena Headey, Victoria Pedretti, Mark Ruffalo, Greta Thunberg and more have all used their platforms to express support for Palestine and the Palestinian people facing disposition from their homes in Jerusalem in favor of Israeli settlers.

[Regina George 59,387]

What is happening to Palestinians right now is straight up disgusting. I feel so sad when I see all those innocent people suffering. It reminds me of my people from Bosnia back in the 90s when gonocide happened and the world stayed silent. Israel needs to be held accountable for all those innocent lives lost today and through the years and the stealing from Palestinians. 
 

This makes me so ****ing sad. Trigger warning!

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Please everyone who is using social media share something. It may be nothing for you but it means the world to those who are suffering right now. 

[GagaSine 7,464]

Wow, seems the tides are finally changing from support of Israel, I am hoping with my whole heart the momentum keeps up.

[Bambino 24,156]

2 minutes ago, Regina George said:

What is happening to Palestinians right now is straight up disgusting. I feel so sad when I see all those innocent people suffering. It reminds me of my people from Bosnia back in the 90s when gonocide happened and the world stayed silent. Israel needs to be held accountable for all those innocent lives lost today and through the year and the stealing from Palestinians. 
 

The fact that pure colonialism and apartheid is still happening to this very day is very disappointing of a world constantly claiming to be all for human rights. I'm glad these celebrities are using their platforms to shed light on Palestine. Many of them are mainstream, which is great.

[Regina George 59,387]

Just now, Bambino said:

The fact that pure colonialism and apartheid is still happening to this very day is very disappointing of a world constantly claiming to be all for human rights. I'm glad these celebrities are using their platforms to shed light on Palestine. Many of them are mainstream, which is great.

I just saw the video of people from Israel cheering, singing and dancing while the mosque is burning. I am truly disgusted. 

[Bambino 24,156]

Just now, Regina George said:

I just saw the video of people from Israel cheering, singing and dancing while the mosque is burning. I am truly disgusted. 

Horrifying and inhuman.

[alsemanche 92,815]

I'm glad they are doing this. People always say 'keyboard activism' is useless, but this is incredibly important. We need to be active members of online activism and spread as much news and information as possible, especially that social media platforms are constantly deleting posts about this and deactivating accounts (and then they blame it on "technical problems" like IG and FB did today lol).  And even more important is the need for accurate information, something mainstream media has been adamant on not providing. Just now I saw the New York Post's article (which was deleted a few minutes ago after being online for over an hour. I'll post a screenshot in a bit) with the headline "Airstrikes from Hamas militants kill 20 in Israel, including nine kids". This is literally fully twisting what happened and changing everything, and people will obviously buy into it. We need to contribute to the diffusion of accurate news. Post on your socials, spread the word, follow accounts and report their content. Look for protests happening in your areas (there are protests happening all over the world) and share/join them if possible. We NEED to actively fight against this in whatever ways we can. We are witnessing settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing in action and it's been in-process for over a century now. 

Edit: the article from the NYP (screenshot is weird because I screenshot it from a quote retweet by someone else) 

 

[Bambino 24,156]

1 minute ago, alsemanche said:

I'm glad they are doing this. People always say 'keyboard activism' is useless, but this is incredibly important. We need to be active members of online activism and spread as much news and information as possible, especially that social media platforms are constantly deleting posts about this and deactivating accounts (and then they blame it on "technical problems" like IG and FB did today lol).  And even more important is the need for accurate information, something mainstream media has been adamant on not providing. Just now I saw the New York Post's article (which was deleted a few minutes ago after being online for over an hour. I'll post a screenshot in a bit) with the headline "Airstrikes from Hamas militants kill 20 in Israel, including nine kids". This is literally fully twisting what happened and changing everything, and people will obviously buy into it. We need to contribute to the diffusion of accurate news. Post on your socials, spread the word, follow accounts and report their content. Look for protests happening in your areas (there are protests happening all over the world) and share/join them if possible. We NEED to actively fight against this in whatever ways we can. 

It's never useless. If it wasn't for the online activism, these celebrities would probably have never heard of what's going in Palestine. Now imagine how many people are going to learn about this just because a public figure with million of followers has spoken about the cause.

Do as much as you can in your own way. Everything counts. You're on the good side of history.

[Regina George 59,387]

Dancing while people are being attacked while doing nothing but praying:

 

[alsemanche 92,815]

Just now, Regina George said:

Dancing while people are being attacked while doing nothing but praying:

 

And some users want to convince me that it's only the government that's bad and that the people are not part of the problem. Disgusting. 

[alsemanche 92,815]

Viola Davis reposted a thread 

https://www.instagram.com/p/COtDkdaBtRa/?igshid=v4czbnth0mvz

[LilyLark 10,074]

56 minutes ago, Regina George said:

I just saw the video of people from Israel cheering, singing and dancing while the mosque is burning. I am truly disgusted. 

I'm not defending the atrocious, horrific Israeli actions but IF that is the video I've seen circulating it's very  misleading. The people were gathered to celebrate Jerusalem Day at the Western Wall (multiple journos have discussed it on twitter).

[LilyLark 10,074]

I'm glad some celebs are raising awareness, but I'm side-eyeing the people on twitter who are mad that every celeb isn't posting about this. Unfortunately, large swaths of the general public are downright unaware or don't get the full story and whether some actress or comedian posts doesn't make that much of a difference in the long run.

What people should get angry about are politicians refusing to discuss the crimes being committed against Palestinians.

[LilyLark 10,074]

Just now, LilyLark said:

 

 

[Regina George 59,387]

19 minutes ago, LilyLark said:

I'm not defending the atrocious, horrific Israeli actions but IF that is the video I've seen circulating it's very  misleading. The people were gathered to celebrate Jerusalem Day at the Western Wall (multiple journos have discussed it on twitter).

But you can see the mosque burning in the back