Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, slammed a post by British actress Emma Watson late Sunday night on Instagram that expressed her support for the Palestinian Authority.
Watson, famous for her role as Hermione in the Harry Potter film series, expressed her solidarity with “Palestine” late Sunday night with a photo on Instagram that included a poster saying, “Solidarity is a verb,” pictured against a background of activists brandishing “Palestine” banners and picket signs saying “Free Palestine.”
In her post, Watson added a quote from British-Australian feminist writer Sara Ahmed that said, “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. Solidarity involves commitment, and word, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.”
In response, Erdan wrote in a tweet, “Fiction may work in Harry Potter but it does not work in reality. If it did, the magic used in the wizarding world could eliminate the evils of Hamas (which oppresses women & seeks the annihilation of Israel) and the PA (which supports terror). I would be in favor of that!”
Fiction may work in Harry Potter but it does not work in reality. If it did, the magic used in the wizarding world could eliminate the evils of Hamas (which oppresses women & seeks the annihilation of Israel) and the PA (which supports terror). I would be in favor of that! pic.twitter.com/u1TrP3sqSS
— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) January 3, 2022
On her own website, the writer of the quote, Sara Ahmed, 52, says that she works “at the intersection of feminist, queer and race studies,” and that her research focuses on “how bodies and worlds take shape; and how power is secured and challenged in everyday life worlds as well as institutional cultures.”
Emma Watson posting a Free Palestine solidarity Instagram message hours after Hamas fire rockets into Israel is pretty much as tone deaf and braindead as dancing on a fresh grave, but I guess if you support terrorist regimes you like celebrating death and destruction.
— Eve Barlow (@Eve_Barlow) January 3, 2022
