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Of the show was the official israel account, the official israeli twitter account singling out the palestinian heritage model bella hadid, who has been very, very vocal, probably the most vocal celebrity that i have seen. i willjump in because i want to come back to bella against the state of israel in a second. sara, i want your take more broadly on the idea of celebrities getting involved with this stuff. i think you tweeted recently, you said, "heres the thing about celebrity hot takes on isr...

The editorial director of the weekjunior. its an actual magazine aimed at kids, there is no swiping required. anna, we will talk to you a bit later. i want to know briefly, i know your subscription numbers have gone up significantly. you are one of the fastest—growing magazines in the uk right now. is that correct? yeah, that is absolutely right. we gained 36% more subscribers last year and we hit 100,000 subscribers to the magazine, going from strength to strength at the moment. what is on th...

Of course, the wrongs on the rights of all of that. gabriel, tell us what you are seeing playing out in front of you on social media right now. the use of social media during conflicts, terrorism, war times, is not new. we have seen a lot of those in previous conflicts. notjust in the middle east, all over the world. what troubles me right now, and i must say that i am looking at the middle east conflict right now as a case study in a long range of abusive social media. study in a long range of ...

Movement having taken place last year. and we saw similar calls from users on social media asking celebrities, asking social media influencers to use their very, very large platforms to inform their followers about what is happening and also to share messages of solidarity. and we have seen so, so many. there has been some pushback as well, hasnt there? there has been this idea, and, sara, i will bring you in in a second, there has been this idea and i guess i would call it a stick to your own l...

Footballers, speaking out on social media, sending messages of solidarity. to list a few names — oscar—winning actress viola davis, singers including the weekend, dewar lipper, miley davies, singers including the weekend, dua lipa, zayn malik, mohamed salah, riyad mahrez, benjamin mendes. there have been so many figures who have spoken out on social media. to the point where we could almost say that there has definitely been a growth in terms of the number of celebrities that have spoken out...

Israelis were dancing because they were in jerusalem, the mosque was not burning, it was a tree. but the message, the narrative was israelis are dancing because the mosque is burning. this is the way the video was presented, especially to audiences that are not quite aware of, lets say, fake news and manipulated videos. and instead of showing the suffering and the agony involved in conflicts like that, you just add fuel to the fire. i know you have been writing about this this week, social media...

What does this mean, give us a sense of the scale — what does it mean to us as listeners and viewers? i think it can mean an awful lot because i think it can mean an awful lot because we have the battle for online streaming video which is dominated by the likes of netflix, amazon, disney+ obviously coming around the corner with 100 million subscribers worldwide. then you have at&t warner media, which is hbo and discovery which is channels like quest in the uk. they are very much on the back en...

Im sorry, it was a bit cheeky. i actually love celebrity culture, im a consumer of pop culture like everybody else. and i see celebrities i follow on social media using celebrity advocate for the causes that i believe in and putting their celebrity to very good use. what what i am concerned about is that many young people are using social media as their sole source of information, and with great power comes great responsibility for these celebrities. i hope they will use the platform to not only...

Example, actually the son of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu, he tweeted last week that it is very difficult to compete with palestinian celebrities such as bella hadid and gigi hadid and that the only israeli celebrity that could potentially compete is wonder woman actress gal gadot. he kind of lamented the fact that she remained like switzerland, indicating that she was neutral and he was not very happy with her input. so the fact that the prime ministers son is talking about the strengt...

Pulled her up on was that they accused her of advocating forjewish people to be thrown into the sea, which many people have taken issue with that analysis of what she did. what she actually did was she participated in a chant which said — "from the river to the sea, palestine will be free." which many palestinian activists and advocates say is a rallying call for all palestinians that live within israel and within the occupied territories to kind of call for their liberation and their freedom....