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Why is this so important and why have we got to a stage where the official israeli twitter account is taking on a supermodel? so, bella hadid as i mentioned is a palestinian american model with tens of millions of followers on instagram. she is the sister of gigi, who has a similar number of followers. they have both been very outspoken over the past two weeks, sharing instagram posts and instagram stories about the situation, and it kind of culminated in the case of bella hadid with her attendi...

To this thinking, "why does the israeli state official twitter account have to get into a ding—dong with a supermodel?" can you come back on the point specifically about what was being chanted and why it was important for the israelis to engage with this? first of all, i saw statistics myself which i think that there are seven million jews living in the state of israel, and 15 millionjews worldwide. her instagram account absolutely, by multiple, exceeds the actual population that she may be ad...

That is extraordinary to me, that in the middle of all of this, you have these meetings taking place. do you think they are really aware of the gravity and the role they play here? if they are not already they are becoming increasingly aware by the minute. as we have discussed over the last ten minutes or so, this is an incredibly complicated issue, it has long been an incredible complicated issue. and we have tens if not hundreds of millions of users who are interacting and commenting on this d...

Succeeded in the forum of public diplomacy or what is often called a kind of propaganda, israeli propaganda. and they would like to have those kinds of successes, they have been trying to cultivate their celebrities of their own. but they just dont have the ability to attract the number of followers and frankly to have the kind of pop culture resonance coming from a small country which does not have all that many prominent celebrities in order to do so. so i think it is a little bit ofjealousy o...

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Against those companies, it should be involving educational measures, defensive measures, how to educate those tiktok users so that they wont be seduced or manipulated. im not sure we are doing enough. i think it is important to flag that bella hadid did return to social media to say that in her view, what she was chanting in her posts have been pro—palestinian as opposed to anti—israeli. i wanted to pick up on that point about tech platforms — how mindful do you think tech platforms are a...

Anna, you are the editor of this weekjunior. for this tiktok generation that we are talking about, why do they want a hands—on magazine that you actually flick through? you dont swipe — what is the appeal here? i think it isjust genuinelyjust a passion for printed matter. i mean, we at the very heart of our mission have a real passion for reading and encouraging children to read for pleasure. what we have seen over the past five years since we launched is that there is still an appetite for ...

And allow our readers to make up their own minds about what is going on by providing them with the context and the background to these stories, to help them to understand both sides but without taking a side ourselves. anna, practically, how would you be covering the israel and the palestinian story? how would you be covering that right now? we have done it this week, it is our main news story this week, the team have just in fact sent that issue to press. i know that they were wrestling with it...

And i can see why israel takes issue with that, which is different to chanting the slogan "free palestine" which does not pre—dispose any political configuration. but i think that bella hadid and many other palestinians have not really interrogated the scholarly nuances of that slogan in depth, and i think it has become kind of a rallying cry for palestinians on social media in demonstrations and other public forums. i think it is not unusual that we saw her embracing that slogan like many oth...

Of what is happening today. thank you. may i refer to the question? i feel very comfortable as a communications scholar to speak about media effects in general. we have to distinguish between cognitive effects and behavioural effects. we are always looking for empirical evidence, i think in the case of tiktok, in the last few weeks, you have had much empirical evidence of those types of cognitive and behavioural. you wont give me enough time to lecture about it, but let me give you one example o...