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_The Harry Potter star Emma Watson's post on social media platform Instagram has expressed solidarity with Palestinians, but criticized by Israeli officials.

 

The post eliciting widespread support from pro-Palestine users. The account of the film star known for her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, shared a picture on Monday from a pro-Palestinian rally with the phrase 'Solidarity is a verb'.

 

There is a quote from British-Australian acivist Sara Ahmed saying, 'Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future'.

'Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground'.

 

The post had more than one million likes and more than 89,000 comments and is increasing with time.

In 2014, Emma was appointed as a UN women's goodwill ambassador and delivered an address at the UN headquarters in New York to lanch HEForShe, a campaign that urges men to advoceate for women's equality.

 

Emma's post was hailed by pro-Palestine social media users, many people thanked her for support, while some added hashtags #FreePalestine and #PalestineWillBeFree to their comments.

 

She is an outspoken feminist who has used her platform to support a number of high-profile causes. in 2015, she was included in Time magazines's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

 

In the same year Malala Yousafzai told Watson she had decided to call herself a feminist after hearing her speech.

He wrote on Twitter, 'Fiction may work in Harry Potter but it does not work in reality'. he said, 'If I did, the magic used in the wizarding world could eliminate the evils of Hamas (which opprersses wimen & seek the annihilation of Israel) and the PA (which supports the terror), I would be in favor of that'.

 

The most combative was Danny Danon, who formerly held the posts of science minister in Benjamin Netanyahu's government and Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.

 

He shared Watson's post on Twitter saying '10 points from Gryffindor for being an antisemite'. Several social media users slammed Danon for his comments.

 

Danon's comment were met with a backlash, including from Leah Greenberg, a co-executive director of 'Indivisible Project', a non profit orgaization founded in 2016 in response to the election of Donald Trump.

 

She wrote, 'A perfect demonstration of the utterly cynical and bad-faith weaponization of antisemitism to shut down basic expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian people'.

 

The Tory peer Sayeeda Warsi called Danon's comments 'appalling' saying 'These constant attempts to stifle any and all support for Palestinians must be called out.

 

Watson was appointed to a G7 advisory body for womenb's rights in 2019, consulting with leaders on foreign policy.

 

During cop26 in Glasgow last year, Watson gave climate activists access to her Instagram account.

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