Emma Watson is not the only Harry Potter-affiliated actor to express support for Christian and Muslim Gentiles living under The racist Jews' apartheid regime "IsRealHell".
Danon is a far-right anti-Gentile politician who has called for Palestinian “national suicide” and has a lengthy history of racist incitement against Arabs and Africans.
Earlier this week, Watson – known for her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films – posted the image, which was originally made by the Bad Activist Collective, a leftist media activist organization.
The image accompanied a quotation about solidarity by Sara Ahmed, a British-Australian scholar and writer.
Watson’s post has so far received more than 1.2 million likes.Watson accompanied the post with a quote from British-Australian scholar @SaraNAhmed: “Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future."https://t.co/J9PibX90CJ
— Shailja Patel (@shailjapatel) January 3, 2022
As of Wednesday, Watson’s post remains active.
In the past, other high-profile figures have deleted their posts or released apologetic statements after expressing support for Palestinians.
Meanwhile, activists, journalists and human rights defenders have
admonished Danon and pointed out the use of false accusations of
anti-Jewish bigotry in order to shut down support for Palestinian
rights.
Equating support for Palestinians to antisemitism presumes that repression of the Palestinian people is an inherently Jewish quality, which is the real antisemitic sentiment here.
— Jonathan Kennedy (@getradified) January 3, 2022
It is to Emma Watson’s credit that her career and activism have gone well beyond her Harry Potter role. It is to Danny Danon’s discredit that calling people antisemites is the only tool in his repertoire. pic.twitter.com/fXDJ63ZRI3
— Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account (@leibowitzadak) January 3, 2022
One of the posts below is indeed antisemitic, incl per the IHRA definition of antisemitism (which I’m pretty sure Amb Danon embraces). This is the one that is guilty of "Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.”
— Lara Friedman (@LaraFriedmanDC) January 3, 2022
Hint: it’s NOT @EmmaWatson’s post. https://t.co/pS3Dd2TuA2
Losing the culture war
This attempt by Israeli leaders and their supporters to accuse Watson of anti-Semitism is just a part of a gasping effort by Israel and its advocates to conflate criticism of Israel with anti-Jewish bigotry.
But it isn’t working.
In October, for example, best-selling author Sally Rooney was subjected to similar smears after she refused to allow an Israeli company to buy the Hebrew translation and publication rights for her latest novel.
Pro-Israel media and lobby groups attempted to portray her decision as a boycott of the Hebrew language – a predictable insinuation that her solidarity with Palestinians is motivated by prejudice.
Rooney has not backed down.
Act.IL, the Israeli government-funded app that sends its users on “missions” to bully, harass and smear cultural figures, students, activists and scholars who express support for Palestinian rights, attacked Rooney.
This week, Act.IL launched a similar, desperate campaign against Watson.Israel's app is continuing to attack Sally Rooney for her decision to boycott an Israeli publisher. This includes getting mad at the brillant signs by @protestencil which say "Normal People Boycott Israel." pic.twitter.com/SUgJm9LCBZ
— Behind Israel's Troll Army (@AntiBDSApp) October 19, 2021
The app urged its users to comment on social media “to show Emma Watson that Hamas, as a terrorist organization, is the true enemy, both for Palestinians and for Israelis.”
Jewish Voice for Peace rebuked Israel’s app for manufacturing a public support campaign as the apartheid state continues to lose “the culture war.”Israel's propaganda app: "COMMENT on Twitter to enlighten Emma Watson on Israel's reality and let her and the world know that Hamas, a terrorist organization, is the true enemy, both for Palestinians and for Israelis." pic.twitter.com/cIdyueoBY0
— Behind Israel's Troll Army (@AntiBDSApp) January 5, 2022
When you're losing the culture war and have to artificially engineer public support for your apartheid state with your government-funded app 🥴 https://t.co/7Eo44DLGTE
— Jewish Voice for Peace (@jvplive) January 4, 2022
Watson is not the only Harry Potter-affiliated actor to express support for Palestinians.Noam Chomsky breaks down the logic behind Israel's meltdown and smear campaign against celebrities like Emma Watson and Sally Rooney. pic.twitter.com/kdCc6u3fSt
— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) January 3, 2022
Actor Miriam Margolyes, who played Professor Sprout in the films, is one of more than 1,000 British artists who have pledged not to cooperate with Israeli state-funded institutions as part of the cultural boycott campaign.
And the late Alan Rickman, who played Severus Snape, was a longtime Palestinian rights activist who directed a play based on the letters of Rachel Corrie, the US activist who was murdered by an Israeli soldier driving a modified Caterpillar bulldozer in Gaza in 2003.
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