Should You Post That Israel-Palestine Meme?

For the past week, while the violence between Israel and Palestine
has escalated, a separate battle has accelerated on social media,
one fought with rocket emojis and celebrities like Israeli actress
Gal Gadot and Palestinian-American model Bella Hadid getting
involved. If you don’t post, are you tacitly anti-Palestine?
Anti-semitic? If you do post and you fumble some of your history,
are you nothing but a hashtag activist? (What about if you get it
right?) In this episode, Madison and Rachelle survey a week’s worth
of controversial celebrity statements and the evolution of one
particular viral infographic to ask who these memes and Instagram
posts really serve and how to avoid the 2021 equivalent of posting
black squares. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek
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