Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber drew the wrath of netizens after sharing a post on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war with pictures of Gaza strip destruction, captioned “Praying for Israel”. Later, he deleted the posts after releasing his blunder.
While taking to the Instagram, the Canadian singer landed in controversy after sharing a couple of posts in which he expressed his support for Israel with the message, “Praying for Israel.” However, he used images of the Gaza Strip’s destruction by Israeli warplane airstrikes in the posts.
Soon after realising the blunder, he deleted the post and replaced it with a plain background and heartbreak emoji while maintaining his “Praying for Israel” message. Before he deleted his story, netizens had already taken screenshots of his posts and criticized his “stand without knowledge.”
Netizens react
While sharing pictures of Gaza destruction and Israel, one user wrote, “Celebrities are seriously misinformed (sic),”
“Just embarrassing. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, then don’t talk at all. And didn’t he say just yesterday that he wasn’t going to pick sides and look what he’s doing now… picking the wrong side while he’s at it too…. Smh (sic),” another user reacted.
Another user sarcastically wrote, instead of deleting the story, “he should have deleted his account (sic)”.
Previously, the 29-year-old singer had shared a post which read, “Truly hurting for both my Israeli and Palestinian friends. I’m pretty sure we all instinctively know evil when we see it. To villainise all Palestinians or all Israeli people to me seems wrong. I’m not interested in choosing sides, but I am interested in standing with the families, who have been brutally taken from us (sic).”
Jamie Lee Curtis’ post
Earlier on October 10, Hollywood actress and film producer Jamie Lee Curtis was also slammed online after she shared a post of children from the war-torn Gaza strip claiming them Israel children affected by Hamas rockets.
Taking to her Instagram post she shared a picture of children with the caption, “TERROR FROM THE SKIES (sic)” by adding the country’s flag. After receiving backlash for her misleading claims she immediately deleted her post.
Tagging the senior actress one user wrote, “Heads up @jamieleecurtis, why did you delete this image of terrified Gazans once you discovered that they weren’t Israelis? (sic)”.
“This k@riola uploaded a photo of children who were supposed to be from Israel but turned out to be from Palestine. Instead of apologizing as soon as she realized her mistake, she simply deleted the post. A typical example of Western hypocrisy (sic),” wrote another user.
Along with celebrities, world top leaders have also jumped into social media trends and started sharing pictures and videos without any authentication, which were later debugged as fake.
Israel-Hamas war
War between Israel and Palestinian fighter group, Hamas, erupted on Saturday morning, October 7. The death toll on both sides has risen to at least 2,500, with more than 9,000 wounded, and scores taken hostage.
In Gaza, the health ministry said at least 1,203 Palestinians had been killed, including 326 children and 5,769 citizens wounded due to Israeli attacks.
On the Israeli side, at least 1,300 people have been killed, including 220 soldiers and 3,300 wounded.
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