Blockout 2024: celebrities face backlash over Gaza | The Take

Now trending: the ‘digital guillotine.’ It’s a campaign known as Blockout 2024 to block celebrities on social media. Launched after the Met Gala in New York, it’s meant to hurt celebrities’ ad revenue. Will it have an impact?
In this episode:
- Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, Journalist
- Dr. Marcus Collins, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Michigan
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili and Khaled Soltan with our host Malika Bilal. Catherine Nouhan and Manahil Naveed fact-checked this episode.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

[@yvonnerobinson9919]

BLOCK THEM ALL. THEY ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN MONEY. SHAME ON THEM

[@fgv1001]

There are a few that are outspoken and condemn Israel's Genocide. I leave those alone.

[@bttv1348]

​@@fgv1001❤

[@MargaretCho-pt3ng]

Block everybody that's interested in money 🤑 Oops: I blocked myself

[@Gunjoterimawa]

Block Them All

[@skavengerr]

Who isn't interested in money ?

[@THomAs.H.P.76]

Kids grow up smarter, the new generation won't tolerate a status quo that is wrong.

[@amarx6248]

Not the ones I’m seeing. Education where I’m at is one of the lowest in the country. Most these kids here know how to do is wait in line at chick file and get into debt.

[@agrlockwd1492]

They’ll rewrite history books, properly. 🇺🇸❤️🇵🇸

[@user-gk5rg4pq5x]

How can they grow up smarter playing games on their phones?

[@user-gk5rg4pq5x]

@@agrlockwd1492What a joke! People want to rewrite history because they don’t like what actually happened.

[@agrlockwd1492]

@@user-gk5rg4pq5x I’m glad youre not my mother in law. 😂😂😂

[@AAN230]

Ive stop watching movies acted by those artist who supported genocide.

[@juulutpoulsen3018]

Same here, hypocrisy of their roles, for instance hunger games lead, supporting schumers Gaza tweets. Gal Gadot saving arab children as wonder woman while being former idf and making a showcase for October 7 for celebrities. Oscar winners loving to make political speeches but nowhere to see any mass killings of children. List goes on, just shows how system working for zios.

[@black-db2my]

Me 2 , that it , I do believe we the audience/ Viewers has the power to make a change

[@solusman8200]

Why stop? Just watch them where they're free, & they still won't get any money from us... Wink wink

[@lizziex6339]

If you keep watching, even when it is free in Netflix or other Platforms, you keep promoting the movie and the actors. The algorithm detects which movies are liked and keep booking the actors. So you keep pushing the actors.

[@karolinakuc4783]

​@@lizziex6339Also it is not that Netflix wasn't making fake documentaries like the one about black Cleopatra.

[@agrlockwd1492]

Boycotting goes beyond Hollywood. There’s Puma, Nestle, CocaCola, Sabra, Ahava cosmetics, Pepsi, Siemens, Walmart, Fry’s, HP, Chanel. Nike, Pantene. The list goes on.

[@BrendaHeeligan]

It’s working too! I just read an article in a right wing magazine that is very pro Israel and the economy is tanking and the BDS movement has really been successful. This movement will make it even worse. Puma has stopped investing in Israel they have stopped sponsoring Israeli football team. People all over the world are boycotting Israeli goods apparently.

[@Janewomanpower]

yes and they've all been named. for years I've been boycotting these companies for Gaza. But a great reminder to those that may not be aware. go to BDS Boycott Divestment Sanctions for Palestine.

[@AtheistEve]

Fry’s? The vegan company? What’s wrong with Fry’s?

[@akeleven]

Buycat app helps find corps supporting Israel

[@deelee4639]

We will first come for the celebs/ influencers who dont use their voice/platform for good, then we will come for the corporations which will effect the politicians who have stocks and get bribes from the corporations. STOP BUYING STUFF. We need to pick some companies and not buy from them for at least a month. Watch those stocks go down!!!

[@lorenam8028]

The theme of the gala was also particularly disgusting: Millionaires hiding in a magic garden where they can stop time so that the people outside don't change the unjust system. I'm not making it up, garden of time is the name of a short story, and that's what it is about.

[@icebergrose8955]

Wow. They really do live on another planet. Shallow as a puddle.

[@junebrilly5302]

Susanne Sarandon has always courageously stood on the right side of Social Justice. She is HEROIC. the only one I BELIEVE❤❤❤❤❤

[@boetr7014]

@junebrilly5302 Even at a personal cost to her career she has never wavered. She is courage personified.

[@MarioLanzas.]

bjork too

[@kristiblack4789]

Not buying her self-serving $ocial Virtuing BS!

[@jasmineredley5577]

I have to say, it did feel extremely dystopian and disrespectful to those suffering in Gaza by going forward with the very ego centric approach of the Met Gala. The world needs to change and not still be in the mindset of “not my problem” it is our problem and this is our world and the humans in it our all us. We have to get this right! We need to respectfully live in peace and fairness. It’s not about covering up our ugliness with consumerism. We can still enjoy life, but it’s time to be humble whilst our brothers and sisters and children are experiencing a Genocide. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@xxSusiexx]

So very true! 🖤🤍💚❤️🔑❤️‍🔥🍉🕊️

[@clisediagonzalez5010]

When id and ego are devoid of conscience, it's no longer sustainable. Cancel narcissism at the core for their empty souls. Role models they are not.

[@abddurduran2981]

Israelis crimes against humanity and the genocide in Gaza will never be forgiven or forgotten by the history

[@skavengerr]

I am sure it will ...just like the Rohingya people, native indians and rwandan and Cambodian genocides. ...forgotten.

[@mm2hn107]

​@@skavengerr forgotten is not the word, it's more downplayed

[@user-tm3ec8yu4j]

Never

[@LukiaChan08]

I am afraid it will.. The west have a long history of white washing.

[@chadgunner4403]

Keep the movement going! We must never let celebrities, influencers, creators, oligarchs, and politicians forget that they are on the wrong side of history! 🇵🇸

[@garyleiser753]

Celebraties are also ignoramuses.

[@Guapaahi]

I don't agree Celebraties are better informed than most people BUT MONEY IS MORE IMPORTANT TO THEM THAN THEIR PRINCIPLES

[@behind_the_camera.1]

Let's took the platform what we have gave them. Palestine forever 🇵🇸. Free Palestine.

[@kentovewagenes1141]

This world is crazy... The people using their voice to block all the ignorant celebs is a great start ❤

[@desmonddwyer]

Stop going to there movies that will hit them in there wallet🤔🤔

[@Keepthepeacesharethelove]

Isn't it "their" instead of "there"?

[@mariahewitt9787]

I already have years ago... As soon as I found out about who they represent....

[@DaisyPusher]

All it is is brainwashing anyway. Everything has all these manufactured narratives meant to get us to accept violence and oppression

[@stevozrepto5558]

Been doing it for years . Only watch pirate movies 🍿

[@irenemonk7991]

It's about time we stopped fantasizing and making people rich that don't care about humanity most of the time.

[@user-em3vl6li5w]

Collectively, they could probably cancel out world debt with their obscene profits.

[@hayeserzorbas712]

"Profit over everything else, including people... " So so sadly true.

[@carol89589]

People Power works, we don't realise how powerful we are. There is more of US than them. ✊🏾

[@user-em3vl6li5w]

We are many they are few? I’m 76, I’m hopeful that social media changes the status quo. I’m British and so proud of the young around the world.

[@khalidpeacenowar4474]

Blockout *G4L G4DOT..* 💪🏼💪🏼🤣🤣🤪🤪❤️❤️🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@THomAs.H.P.76]

I have blocked close to 1000 Gal Gadot Fans accounts in Fb and more keep appearring. AIPAC spends lots of money to promotion.

[@norajacob7291]

Brilliant idea, when it affects them financially they then may listen.

[@Lobosank]

My congressperson will not even answer the phone anymore. Hey the stock market hit 40,000. Now what stocks are fueling this? Weapons manufactures?😮

[@girlwithathought2940]

This!!!

[@Lobosank]

@@girlwithathought2940 thank you young lady

[@TeddyKrimsony]

forcing EU, Japan and Korea to not trade with Russia

[@franciscam.claver8849]

Excellent episode.

[@user-mf1eq8sd5g]

Your silence will not protect you. The world is changing. I love it ❤

[@Staceypotterphotography]

So excited this is happening. I am in, 💯. We are not meant to live this way, we’re ready for a BIG change!!🙌❤️💪🙏

[@MiswakByNight.]

This was brilliant and makes you feel so good too!

[@OrbitFm-nh7fg]

Alhamdulillah.., I don't need to join in the boycott because throughout my life from childhood to adulthood I have never subscribed, liked and followed the accounts of artists, actors, singers, figures etc. both domestically and internationally, because for me what's the benefit of spending time following stories their life? 🇮🇩 FREE PALESTINA 🇵🇸

[@johnmpandaguta3289]

Facts

[@J.A.616]

Even I have never followed any celebrity but I am doing the blockout because I have learnt from somewhere that the celebrity still earns money even if you don’ t follow them by being shown in the search page. Therefore, it is better to blockout them so that they don’ t even come to your search page and earn money.

[@beautifulrose8619]

I thought the same thing, I don't follow anyone like that, but someone told me even if you don't follow you can block.

[@digglerdudeuk]

Silence is compliance.

[@azarahwagner2749]

Celebrities , sports figures etc are only people like you and me . Why place them on a pedestal and live like Kings when they don’t even know you exist.

[@omwoyojames6592]

I second you.. they ought to help save humanity

[@cynthiabragg2611]

💯 Agree Musicians are more pro humanitarian ✌️

[@Hlth-cn4fh]

No. We are different. We are in fact better. And we deserve and are entitled to our special privilege's society pays us. Bless you. Israel has spoken.

[@aFoxyFox.]

Even Bono has remained shockingly silent about these killings, check out Werleman.

[@Pram4]

Im muslim and love music back in the days, I just really busy for 3 years and realized I never play any song or go to watch movie, my last movie is the last avenger lol I just think my life is so ok without things like that...

[@mblushhhmblushhh3468]

Blocking celebrities 👏🙌🌷🇵🇸♥️

[@skysea5786]

And all it took is a rich woman from The West say "Let them eat cake". Just like hundreds years ago in France but now the whole world.

[@user-iv7ju3oi2d]

The chosen ones, are the evil ones !

[@alphonsemoonflee299]

They chose themselves with fairytales.

[@mariahewitt9787]

Revelation 2:9 and 3:9... Explains who they are...

[@mariahewitt9787]

Note to Netanyahu:: That is Not the Devil at the door ~That is your Shadow on the floor..

[@Emilio-sq6gb]

@@mariahewitt9787 I love that song...

[@Guapaahi]

The Chosen people who were promised Promised Land were the DECENDANTS of Abram *Palestinians are DECENDANTS of ABRAM*

[@roddyrod583]

Blocked them! And I'm happy about it!

[@richieroma]

silence = complicity

[@MrDXRamirez]

A total break from the old traditions and ethics of work in manufacturing gave us the disasters we have now. Airline, farming, mining, construction, meat packing, were entrusted, reliable, industries, making real good products before they became hot houses pumping out cheap commodities. A thirst for more profits increases the risks and hazards for so many trades, workers, and jobs and the compensation is never enough if they should lose life or limb on the job is the real world behind the affluent world of celebrities. There is an industrial genocide happening here at home! The celebrities are not concerned about that either.

[@occupied1007]

the Blockout is not only about Gaza, It is about the pressures we are feeling to just live. "let them eat cake" they say. It is not about Israel. how blind are you? remember the French revolution.

[@Staceypotterphotography]

If we are united, our “relevance” instantly becomes a true currency. Don’t give up!! I’m in this for the long haul. ❤🎉

[@darrellernst5493]

Back near the end of October perhaps early November I unsubscribed from Mr. Love and Light Russell Brand after he failed to condemn Israel. I don't have any respect for Hypocrites.

[@user-gu9co4li9l]

Please do not disrespect Hippocrates (c. 460 - c. 370 BC), a Greek physician of the Classical period . Save your disrespect for hypocrites. Thank you. 😎 😎

[@keithestraier-coetzee5487]

​@user-gu9co4li9l Hippocrates' conception of women's medicine(gynecology) is problematic enough for him to be cancelled on that basis alone, lol... I have his books in my library, before you ask 😂😅 But yes; hypocrites, not Hippocrates😅

[@darrellernst5493]

I don't have much respect for spelling police either. They are normally people who are just looking for an excuse to disregard the information or are egotistic and trying to feed their ego to make themselves feel superior. I was voice texting, write Google and complain.😂

[@darrellernst5493]

The fact that Russell respects the blood soaked royals who were deeply involved in the opium trade and the slave trade is bad enough. On top of that he's still promoting the children's game of football. " Give them games, bread and circus and they care not what we do". Caesar

[@keithestraier-coetzee5487]

@@darrellernst5493 Touché, ahaha😁😁😅 Voice to Text is a bit of a mixed bag at the moment!

[@davidhauser2665]

Good to see action taken

[@user-gw1dr7rt9b]

Very insightful conversation. Thank you.

[@sohelgayen7636]

I own a life where I don't follow any celebrities related to Music, film industry or any sport. So I don't need to unfollow them.

[@ralphlinville6646]

Fantastic young people !! Keep going!! If these celebreties want to pretend Gaza doesnt exist, take their money

[@DearProfessorRF]

This is all fine and all. I have blocked some of them too, but in reality, celebrities are not the main actors that bring about social change. The main actors and actresses are all of us, those who are not in the limelight, the anonymous ones, the common citizen ones. Even if tomorrow, some of them decide to speak up because of this campaign, will they do it from their heart or just to protect their business? This is why I’m not highly concerned with whether they speak up or not. They have the right to choose whether to say something or not. Now, if any of them expressed sympathy for Ukrainians and not a single word for Palestinians then I would certainly denounce their double standards

[@johnmpandaguta3289]

Problem is most of em' did show empathy 2 Ukraine

[@mateikataLanaDelRey85]

@@johnmpandaguta3289 Yeah,they helped Ukraine that's good It was their choice

[@zoiesev]

It feels like a positive change. 🇵🇸

[@michaelscottland4239]

Dear Al Jazeera podcast team, please please allow video footages into these types of presentations. This will make the viewers and the listeners both happy. Thanks. Add reference to watch Sammy The Bull Gravano’s podcasts. Thanks.

[@thetruth6992]

We make them stars, we name them celebrities, only we have the power.

[@ChristopherRaymond-zs6wv]

No one who matters couldn't care less about pop culture...its grotesquely obscene...

[@johnmpandaguta3289]

But I think to get the more commoner to sway to Gaza & use their vote 🗳 to direct 2 actual impact.

[@dmikaels2199]

Unfortunately not everyone, including celebrities, care about what’s happening outside their small pink bubble!

[@Blu-Phoenix]

Keep it up people! Until we start seeing change in our world we won’t stop!🇸🇩🍉

[@hamedzizo2457]

Great ❤

[@czesati2964]

Yes we can!

[@aminamangera4871]

Massacres against Palestinians have been happening since 1936 not just the last 20 years as your reporter stated. Facts are important.

[@-AtomsPhere-]

I don’t like this movement. I don’t wanna hear celebrities opinions on ANYTHING.

[@Northcoststar]

This will be wonderful give attention to what's meaningful and in alignment with the greater good of humanity

[@heliosmou]

Actually, one Starbucks I know of has been noticeably empty recently.

[@percheroneclipse238]

Hunger Games

[@salmaagha8339]

Very smart.

[@DearProfessorRF]

Well, these people have millions of millions of fans. I know this movement has just started and I hope it keeps growing because 100,000 lost fans is nothing I think.

[@HafsaUwais]

Precisely 💯 💯

[@jerrypolverino6025]

❤❤❤❤

[@islamvibe2]

unfollowers all cowards 👍

[@fannys941]

Block them.😊

[@Marta1Buck]

"we will not go down in the night without a fight"

[@Aslaan1]

Going good

[@fatherbewithme]

❤️🙏

[@tjmaxx4739]

Also block main stream news media !

[@vmafarah9473]

Thats interesting.

[@glenngilbert7389]

I'd love to join this movement - but sadly I don't follow anyone on social media

[@Guapaahi]

I am older than the state of Israel. In 1945/46 my mum was crying a lot ( not about the Blitz we had endured ) but the people liberated from the camps NOW IM CRYING about (PALESTINIANS) When are we going to liberate them? Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@Colleen222]

Sending love and well wishes to you & your family❤🕊️🇵🇸 I'm so sorry 💔

[@adventurekhan3512]

I blocked 50 celebrities.

[@tarasubramaniam6191]

"Let them eat cake" misattributed to Marie Antoinette.. This inconsiderate arrogant quote is actually by a Spanish Infanta

[@Hkdistsnsns]

I don't have social media except for FB and I obviously watch YT videos but I'm gonna create a Twitter, Instagram and every other account just to block all these celebs ,🤗

[@jennyvinyl85]

Why the main media in the US are ignoring this trend?

[@eggguy2183]

countries, sportsman’s those who not voice out

[@Afroninja2025]

These celebrities are staying silent, because they want to be enjoyable for both sides. There empty inside , but there staute in society is. Useful we need to force em,

[@huwguyver4208]

Nah. *Hard disagree* about bullying celebrities that don't speak out, even though I absolutely hope that Palestinians get out from under the boot of Israel and get their own state. I guarantee that having a "you're with us or you're against us" policy will, if anything, activate most unaffiliated people's 'f*** you' reflex (regardless of the merits of the issue) and make them come down against the issue you are trying to push them on. That is just human nature. To people with no knowledge of the issue, forcing celebrities to express a certain view comes across as bullying, and no-one likes a bully. It is also a massive propaganda gift for your opponents, who can then effortlessly redirect conversations about what is happening in Gaza to "what about all the cancel culture/forcing celebrities to agree with you?" so that they look like the victims. News feeds about Palestinian suffering will be replaced by feeds about how celebrity X was cancelled by the woke mob for wrongthink, or whatever. It also blurs the line between celebrities who genuinely have strong feelings about the issue and those who are just trying not to get cancelled. Tldr: trying to force celebrities to speak out for the Palestinians is a dumb, dumb, dumb, idea and it *will* backfire. Don't do it. Palestinians are already starting to win in the court of public opinion. Don't f*** it up.

[@zildamorais1108]

It's just a matter of not being a follower of people who don't take a stance on issues that concern all of humanity.

[@PriscillaBarberi]

😊

[@Jellyologist]

I don't follow celebrities anyway. But I can understand why celebritys dont want their platform to be political.

[@justinwheeler5614]

Next, realize you're individual power to cause a trend (no, you don't need to drink something random or purposely hurt yourself) and start to popularize those things that express your values.

[@YeasminiPhone]

Block these heartless selfish souls

[@ambergillani5067]

I have blocked all

[@user-vt2qf4ut2b]

I haven’t heard Amal Clooney, the human rights lawyer, support the Palestinians

[@heliosmou]

Good point.

[@abufathi75]

they (celebrities) are not worth of attention

[@soulstar2401]

How do we block you tube channels?

[@AtheistEve]

Don’t ever use the youtube “Home” feed. Just stay in “Subscriptions” feed. You choose who you’re subscribed to.

[@mateikataLanaDelRey85]

Just don't block them. It's pointless

[@AtheistEve]

You can also mute commentators if you feel like it.

[@julihc6752]

How do I mute commentators on YT?​@@AtheistEve

[@AtheistEve]

@@julihc6752 If you’re using the app. There are three dots next to each comment in the notifications section. Click on that and you have three options. One of them is to mute someone. I’m not sure if that’s a permanent whole platform mute or just for that comment thread. But from what I can gather, you can only mute someone if they’ve actually @ you and turn up in your notifications. It’s really not good enough. We should be able to mute anyone in any thread even if they haven’t responded to us directly. It would help to get rid of all the spam & trolls. YT should do better on that and give that control to the users. Currently they want all the rights to edit other people’s conversations, imperiously and impertinently.

[@rafizanrtm9998]

Thank you Al Jazeera for this news. Blockout has definitely reached to where I live. I also have blocked some public figures on tiktok although I have never followed them. Funny thing is, one of them is fifa. infantino can rot and I have no interest in watching the euro this year. Speaking of dj khaled, anybody sees that video that shows two of his friends who had to carry him just because he did not want to get his shoes dirty??

[@Ayoub1-ic3ee]

Palestina libera❤❤

[@user-ok8ze6ki1b]

يااخوني ياملسمين هل باقي انسانيه وّالَلَه ماتكلمتَ الَا من جوّع وًّمَنَ ضَيَقَ الَحَالَ انَا وًّامَيَ وًّاخَوًّتَيَ تَشَرَدَنَا مَنَ بَيَوًّتَنَا بَسَبَبَ الَحَرَبَ نَحَنَ فَيَ حَالَهَ لَايَعَلَمَ بَهَا الَا الَلَهَ حَسَبَنَا الَلَهَ وًّنَعَمَ الَوكيَلَ فَيَ مَنَ اوًّصَلَنَا الَى هَاذا الَحَالَ 💔💔وًّالَلَهَ الَعَظَيَمَ مَا كتَبَتَ هَذا الَمَنَاشَدَهَ غَيَرَ مَنَ الَضَيَقَ وّالَفَقَر يَاعَالَمَ حَسَوّا فَيَنَا ارَجَوّكمَ وّالَلَهَ الَعَظَيَمَ رَبَ الَعَرَشَ الَعَظَيَمَ انَه الَاكلَ مَا فَيَ عَنَدَيَ بَالَبَيَتَ وًّالَلَهَ يَا اخَوّانَيَ انَهَ اخَوًّنَيَ بَقَعَدَوًّ بَالَيَوًّمَيَنَ مَافَى اكلَ وًّالَلَهَ وًّضَعَنَا كثَيَرَ صَعَبَ نَحَنَ 4 نَفَرَ دَاخَلَ الَبَيَتَ وًّابَيَ مَتَوًّفَيَ وًّلَا يَوًّجَدَ مَنَ يَعَوًّلَ عَلَيَنَا وًّسَاكنَيَنَ فَيَ بَيَتَ اجَارَ لَانَسَتَطَيَعَ دَفَعَ الَاجَارَ الَلَيَ بَاقَيَ عَلَيَنَا ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' My appeal to every Muslim ☪️☪️☪️ Allah knows that we do not have the value of a kilo of flour and my brothers are young I eat my brothers, Islam, do good, I swear to God I will not lie to you or deceive you. I am a displaced Yemeni girl. My family and I. Our house rent is 20,000 Yemeni per month, and now we owe 60,000 for 3 months. The owner of the house is one of the people who does not have mercy. By God, my brother, he comes every day and insults us and talks about us. He wants to expel us from the house to the street because we cannot pay him the rent, and he does not leave after we cry. They came back and talked to the neighbors, and we were given a deadline of the end of the week, and if we paid him an oath to God, he would take us out into the street without mercy. We are displaced from our country because of this war, and we cannot find food for the day, and I, my mother, and my sisters are young. Our father is dead, may God have mercy on him, and we have no one in this world to stand by us in these harsh circumstances. I am a girl and I cannot work. By God, we cannot find a living, and now if one of us helped us, I swear to God, I will die of hunger. My brother, I am an outsider to God and then to you, and I want your help for the sake of God. I am a daughter with keen eyes and short hands. I do not have a father like you, and my sisters are young. Save us and help us before they throw us out in the street. We become lost or we die of hunger, my family. The good person who has the ability to help us does not delay us for a moment. This is my number 00967717354582 WhatsApp 📞 Whoever can help us can message me on WhatsApp Saab sent him the full name on the ID card and the address. He will transfer us as much as he can. May God reward you with good reward, benevolence and giving. I am a Muslim girl from Yemen..✍'☖↿↿↿☖☖☖☖☖☖↿↿↿↿↿↿☖☖☖☖☖↿↿↿↿↿↿↿↿↿↿↿↿☖☖☖☖☖≪♢(´｡• ω •｡`)}}}}=]]]=@@@%&&&&&&&&&😢🎉🎉😢😢😢😢😢😢🎉🎉😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@cynthiabragg2611]

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[@Naval-Gazing-Society]

Many of us "normal" people have shut ourselves out from family over this, our economy in the US has taken huge hits at the expense of those of us with real jobs and we're facing a real housing crisis for working class people here, yet the tax dollars keep fueling this abomination over in Israel and Palestine. SO....these celebrities need to be working at getting the right things done with their platforms and that means maybe they need to get real jobs, too.

[@sohelgayen7636]

Where is Messi, Ronaldo in this situation?

[@juulutpoulsen3018]

Ronaldo is probably with Palestine as he had previously mentioned Syrian children. Hopefully Messi too is on the right side, he has although visited Israel mainly because he's very Christian.

[@MarioLanzas.]

Lots of people justify celebrities for staying silent about real important issues... but for some reason it's totally normalized that they have to use their voice to sell us products. serving to capitalism is ok, but preventing a ma5acre it's not somehow.it's crazy when you think about it

[@OO-dr9wy]

Block even brands like Nike or Adidas

[@gxxgchchxy]

BLOCK.BOYCOTT

[@Guapaahi]

Mohammad Hadid's Family home / businesses was half inched by the *occupiers*

[@bobsanborn2395]

...follow the C O I N E D G E...

[@Frazmar-sw5xh]

How pathetic that celebrities would have a “profound influence on how we act and how we perceive ourselves”. Get a life! Celebrities are not here to adhere to your own beliefs and political views. They are here to entertain us. Can’t you people think and behave for yourselves? You need a celebrity to follow in order to know how to act? Wow!

[@johnmpandaguta3289]

Kkk not that celebrities have a big sway on social currency one post from Kylie Jenner & a post by me..hits different..

[@waterbearer4627]

People have had enough of attention seeking and vacant celebrities who are only interested in making money from the public. We are sick of worshipping them as idols and role models. It is all image and no substance. It is time to block and boycott them and to now focus on real role models in the community who make a difference.

[@diogenes2550]

Wow. Pop culture/social media obsessed youth have managed to make the Israel/Gaza conflict about celebrities.

[@writerconsidered]

Absolutely NO. Blocking celebs who aren't saying anything is wrong. If they were openly advocating for Israel fine. But an abstention should be treated as neutral. They are private citizens who have a right to abstain from controversy. And they of all people are as powerless as the rest of you. You go after governments and corporations not individuals. If anything it will have a backlash effect, they will be resentful to you and your cause. You make an enemy out of a neutral you make a future friend impossible.

[@miguel-h]

Being silent is being complicit.

[@TeddyKrimsony]

Celebrities are public figures not private citizens

[@Maghrebi2564]

Not one celebrity can help you or I on the day of Qiyamah.. Allahumma inni a'uzubika min dhiqid dunya wa dzhiiqi yaumal-qiyaamati wa dhiqi yawmil qiyaamah

[@Gunjoterimawa]

We should stop the blind hero worshipping of these celebs. They get to the top and forget where they came from and they've proven time and again they don't really care what's happenning outside their own bubbles. Block Them All.🍉🍉🍉🍉🇵🇸

[@trippingwithak]

WE THE BEST - GOD IS GREAT. Khaled says these things but not once does he say ceasefire now, stop killing innocent men, women and children

[@daithifinn4059]

Who in God's name pays attention to celebrities on serious issues. They are paid to perform and entertain. Why do you want to listen to a celebrity opinion on anything.

[@valeskacanas9187]

The way pro Palestinian people were at Harry styles concerts when he and his best friend Ben Winston are z^onist. Pro Palestinian people even defended Harry styles for refusing to wave a scraf had Palestinian flag on it, that was thrown on stage. The excuse " it wasn't technically a flag" They already made him millions and the tours got him abd got him and his zx^onist friends money 💰 and he got the grammys. The people who deserved to truly be boycotted meet no consequences and continue to get rich. The same people asking for boycotte same people that went to his concert bought his albums, bout jis Pleasing brand. Applauded his pinkwashing. Why does it matter boycott now when he and his z^onist cronie friends james Corden, ben winston, azoff, simon cowell, are untouchable. Where was this boycott when Harry styles didn't support the only then Muslim poc of 1d, zayn . Zayn posted free Palestine in 2014 and got hate, death threats, and called a terrorist but Harry styles was silent in complicity and did nothing

[@xyz-jv9df]

I feel that calling out Palestinians celebrities isn't the best option out there. Bcuz in d west , Palestinians have way less agency dan Jews. A Palestinian celeb wud be disproportionately n viciously targeted when compared to anyother celeb thats pro israel. Not to mention, celebrities are a soft target, d real impact will only be felt when the business houses are asked for accountability, dat is also where d real money lies. . .

[@johnmpandaguta3289]

The University kids are doin' eir' bid.

[@xyz-jv9df]

@@johnmpandaguta3289 I know, and I am so inspired by them taking a stand for Palestine. But as issues like these are usually so complex, it's not as simple as just calling out a celebrity. I know every movement or protest matures with time, we can't get it all perfect at d get go. But it's also important to critique ourselves constructively, if we are to engage in any form of protest .

[@xyz-jv9df]

@@johnmpandaguta3289 in fact they are doing more dan their bid. 🌻