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Israeli-born actress Gal Gadot is speaking out about the criticism she received after publicly voicing her support for Israel following the October 7 attacks in 2023. Speaking to Variety<\/em><\/a> in anticipation of receiving her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Gadot, who is also Jewish, addressed the controversy her remarks in support of hostages taken during the attack caused. \u201cThere is a challenge for people to speak on social media because there is so much hate going on and so many bots and so many angry people that are looking for a cause,\u201d\u00a0she said.<\/p>\n

She also acknowledged how speaking out on October 7 was a rare circumstance for her. \u201cAfter October 7th<\/sup>\u00a0[2023], I don\u2019t talk politics \u2014 because who cares about the celebrity talking about politics?\u201d she asked, adding that her goal is \u201cto bring hope and be a beacon of light whenever I say anything about the world.\u201d \u201cBut on October 7th, when people were abducted from their homes, from their beds, men, women, children, elderly, Holocaust survivors, were going through the horrors of what happened that day, I could not be silent,\u201d she said. \u201cI was shocked by the amount of hate, by the amount of how much people think they know when they actually have no idea, and also by how the media is not fair many times. So I had to speak up.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, after Gadot spoke out against the attacks, she was met with criticism from pro-Palestinian supporters. Yet for Gadot, the support is personal. \u201cI\u2019m not a hater. I\u2019m a grandchild of a Holocaust survivor who came to Israel and established his family from scratch after his entire family was erased in Auschwitz. And on the other side of my family, I\u2019m eighth generation Israeli. I\u2019m an indigenous person of Israel,\u201d she said. The pushback has only encouraged her to speak out more against antisemitism. This has lead to her accepting the International Leadership Award<\/a> during a recent summit by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). \u201cThis is a time when many of us in the Jewish community have had to find our voice and confront the hatred against us, even if it\u2019s extremely uncomfortable. That\u2019s been the case for all of us in every walk of life, in every profession, including my own,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Her support led to disruptions before her Hall of Fame star ceremony when pro-Israel and pro-Palestine supporters clashed. Palestine supporters could be heard shouting<\/a>, \u201cUp up with liberation, down down with occupation\u201d and \u201cNot another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel\u2019s crime.\u201d One supporter, Roma Ealaicos, cited the deaths of Gazan residents since October 7. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason we should be celebrating an Israeli,\u201d he said. Dana Nikri, spoke in support of Israel. \u201cThey come [to] our home and take us from our home and give us dead children,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cWe don\u2019t start war, we don\u2019t want war at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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