Calls for dropping Gal Gadot after program on displaced indigenous people

[Bambino 23,710]

Activists have called on National Geographic to drop Israeli actress Gal Gadot from hosting future programmes following its recent documentary series called Impact. The series "follows the powerful stories of six women who are making an extraordinary impact on their communities around the world."

However, the fifth episode has been criticised by activists who found it ironic and inappropriate for Gadot to be highlighting the plight of indigenous people when Israel is a settler colonial state. She served in the Israeli military and is active on social media about her pro-Zionist stance.

Among those calling for Gadot to be dropped is BDS activist and national co-founder of Code Pink, Ariel Gold, who shared a petition on the website. "Gal shouldn't be speaking on indigenous rights, as she directly took part in displacing Palestinians in Palestine. Tell National Geographic to stop working with her!"

Activists have called on National Geographic to drop Israeli actress Gal Gadot from hosting future programmes following its recent documentary series called Impact. The series "follows the powerful stories of six women who are making an extraordinary impact on their communities around the world."

However, the fifth episode has been criticised by activists who found it ironic and inappropriate for Gadot to be highlighting the plight of indigenous people when Israel is a settler colonial state. She served in the Israeli military and is active on social media about her pro-Zionist stance.

Among those calling for Gadot to be dropped is BDS activist and national co-founder of Code Pink, Ariel Gold, who shared a petition on the website. "Gal shouldn't be speaking on indigenous rights, as she directly took part in displacing Palestinians in Palestine. Tell National Geographic to stop working with her!"

The petition has been signed by more than 4,000 people. It highlights Gadot's time as "a combat trainer in the Israeli military and then parlaying her service into a modelling career to whitewash Israeli war crimes… [she] has directly participated in violence against indigenous people."

The Wonder Woman actress "continues to be a vocal supporter of the Israeli military and Israel, which are continuing to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their land. It is an insult that Gal Gadot should be hosting such a series that is supposes to 'empower women' when she praises the army that harms and murders Palestinian women every day."

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210527-calls-for-israeli-actress-to-be-dropped-after-hosting-programme-on-displaced-indigenous-people/

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

Whatever...

No one should be punished because of their opinion. That's fascism. 

I hate extremism. 

[alsemanche 90,294]

Imagine having someone who served an army that's killing and displacing indigenous people lecture you on indigenous people's rights  You know, the same rights she's fighting against 

[POP2 4,205]

God cancel culture really is the worst

[Pennywise 35,672]

3 minutes ago, JusKeepBreathin said:

Whatever...

No one should be punished because of their opinion. That's fascism. 

I hate extremism. 

Gurl, you usually make more sense than this, killing and displacing people is not an "opinion" 

[Bambino 23,710]

5 minutes ago, JusKeepBreathin said:

Whatever...

No one should be punished because of their opinion. That's fascism. 

I hate extremism. 

Colonization, genocide, apartheid are all never an opinion.

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

4 minutes ago, POP2 said:

God cancel culture really is the worst

She was literally born in Israel. Imagine being cancelled because she doesn't want the country she was literally born in to just disappear. The US is a colony why doesn't it just disappear. We had the absolute worse president ever. That doesn't mean that when Trump was in office the US should have been wiped off the face of the earth.

[Bambino 23,710]

3 minutes ago, POP2 said:

God cancel culture really is the worst

Actually, this is one of the few examples where 'cancel culture' is needed.

[alsemanche 90,294]

2 minutes ago, POP2 said:

God cancel culture really is the worst

How is it bad to advocate against dropping someone who's literally actively working for the murder of indigenous people?

Y'all would be up in arms rn if there was a documentary featuring Trump talking about the rights of black people in America but okay 

[alsemanche 90,294]

8 minutes ago, JusKeepBreathin said:

Whatever...

No one should be punished because of their opinion. That's fascism. 

I hate extremism. 

Ah yes THAT is fascism, not Israel 

[Bambino 23,710]

Just now, JusKeepBreathin said:

She was literally born in Israel. Imagine being cancelled because she doesn't want the country she was literally born in to just disappear. The US is a colony why doesn't it just disappear. We had the absolute worse president ever. That doesn't mean that when Trump was in office the US should have been wipes off the face of the earth.

Not the same example but I don't recall Trump wanting to forcibly dispossess people out of their lands and homes just because he thinks one ethnicity is superior and has more power than other people

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

1 minute ago, Bambino said:

Colonization, genocide, apartheid are all never an opinion.

When did she say she wanted those things?

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

1 minute ago, Bambino said:

Not the same example but I don't recall Trump wanting to forcibly dispossess people out of their lands and homes just because he thinks one ethnicity is superior and has more power than other people

You mean like when he wanted to sell Puerto Rico. Give me a break. You don't know much about anything do you?

[alsemanche 90,294]

1 minute ago, JusKeepBreathin said:

When did she say she wanted those things?

she literally supports the IDF and served in it... you know, the army that's doing all these things? 

[ThisGuyTony 26,057]

I don’t support her beliefs but should people from the US, UK, Spain, etc not be allies for anything anymore because they are from “settler colonial states” as well?