Snow White star Rachel Zegler celebrated for refusing to delete 'free Palestine' post
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The attempt to blame the actor's Palestine advocacy for Disney box office flop 'backfires'

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27737170

By Maysa Mustafa
Published date: 26 March 2025 21:35 GMT

“After an article reported that Rachel Zegler “trashed” the production of Disney’s Snow White due to her stance on Palestine, thousands online are applauding her vocal stance this week despite the pressures of working with Disney and former Israeli army soldier Gal Gadot.”

    • voicesarefree@lemmy.worldEnglish
      47·
      10 months ago

      I’ve heard it said that Walt was an antisemite, so I looked it up to confirm. According to an article in jewishpress.com the evidence that Walt was really an antisemite is weak but the MPA of the time had more things of concern… That same article goes on to equate anti-Israel with antisemitism so I doubt they’d give Walt any benefit of a doubt.

      I’m not on Twitter, but I hear getting exposure to actual vile antisemitism happens quite fast.

      I cannot wait for us to be past this “any criticism of Israel is antisemitism” and the US funding a genocide phase.

      • prole
        5·
        10 months ago

        I cannot wait for us to be past this “any criticism of Israel is antisemitism” and the US funding a genocide phase.

        What makes you think we’ll ever get past this? It’s been going on since the founding of the state of Israel.

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
      19·
      10 months ago

      Saying “free Palestine” does not equal “down with Israel and the Jews”. Wanting freedom from oppression for one group is not an endorsement of violence or oppression against another.

      • gamer@lemm.ee
        3·
        10 months ago

        down with Israel and the Jews

        See, now you lost all credibility. There’s no honest reason whatsoever to add “and the Jews” to that sentence.

        Israel is not “the Jews”.

        • prole
          8·
          10 months ago

          What? They weren’t actually making that argument, you realize that right? I think you’re literally agreeing with them.

          • gamer@lemm.ee
            1·
            10 months ago

            Yes they are, reread the comment. They’re making a boring logical platitude, but they’re equating Israel with “the Jews” in a way that’s irrelevant to their point.

            Again, there was no honest reason to add “and the Jews” to their comment other than to equate Israel with Jewish people in general. That’s a tactic used by pro-genocide people to accuse anyone that protests Israel of being anti-Semitic.

            • prole
              6·
              10 months ago

              No, they were summarizing the position of the people that they disagree with… Like you see the quotes, right? This isn’t what they say or believe. It’s pretty clear to me, from that one single comment, that they 100% don’t equate Israel with “the Jews.” It’s like the entire point of their comment.

              Maybe go back and reread what they said?

    • stalfoss@lemm.ee
      6·
      10 months ago

      It’s hard to say…there’s this thing where a ton of people hate Jews but love Israel

    • Muyal_Hix@lemmy.world
      5·
      10 months ago

      Either way he would still be an anti-union jackass so I don’t really care what he would think

    • prole
      3·
      10 months ago

      I’ve seen no indication whatsoever that this person hates Israel.

      • entwine413@lemm.ee
        1·
        10 months ago

        I meant more along the lines of the episode of Family Guy where Peter shoots Cleveland Jr. On accident and Carter supports Peter because he shot a black person.

  • Pueblo@feddit.org
    2·
    10 months ago

    I will remember her name and will never watch a movie with her. Fuck terrorists and their supporters