"Wonder Woman" star Gal Gadot is once again under attack – this time by her compatriots, for an Instagram post she put up on Friday, June 25, supporting the annual Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv.
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Gadot posted a picture of the colorful event, which drew tens of thousands of participants, and captioned it, "My beloved Tel Aviv celebrated Pride 2021 in a colorful parade today! It's an amazing reminder to us all that love is the most powerful force in the world, it can overcome all obstacles and change the world!"
Many social media users were pleased and proud to see her post but others objected, some because of anti-LGBTQ prejudice and others on political grounds having to do with their understanding, or lack thereof, of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Gadot's outspoken support for Israel.
One user who did not mince words about Gadot's pro-Pride post was rapper Yoav Eliasi, known as the Shadow. On Saturday, he posted an outraged response in which he said, "The most famous Israeli woman in the world, Gal Gadot, who was silent while her country was under rocket fire, lynches, and pogroms, and put up a pathetic, neutral and petty post while her friends in Hollywood were beating up on Israel with lies and blood libels, suddenly responds to the Gay Pride Parade in a big way and puts up a Pride flag and talks about her 'beloved Tel Aviv.'"
Elias went on to muse, "How did they choose a coward to play Wonder Woman?" and wrote "Let's see you, Ms. Gadot, put up an Israeli flag and talk about liberal Israel, which accepts the other with senior government ministers from the [LGBTQ] community while its neighbors in the Middle East still whip, murder, and arrest members of the community. Come on, let's see you, Ms. Wonder Woman!"
Elias posted a collection of screenshots by other Israeli users who objected to what they saw as Gadot's lack of public support during last month's Operation Guardian of the Walls against Hamas infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.
"This is a tiny part of the responses," the Shadow wrote, calling Gadot "hypocritical."
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