Well-known actors expressed support on Thursday for British actress Emma Watson's recent pro-Palestinian Instagram post.
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In a joint statement by the Artists for Palestine UK group, signatories – who include actors Mark Ruffalo and Susan Sarandon – said, "We join Emma Watson in … meaningful solidarity with Palestinians struggling for their human rights under international law. We recognize the underlying power imbalance between Israel, the occupying power, and the Palestinians, the people under a system of military occupation and apartheid."
"We stand against ongoing Israeli attempts to forcibly displace Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan and elsewhere in the occupied Palestinian territory," said the signatories, who also include Mexican actor Gael García Bernal, American film director Jim Jarmusch, Scottish actor Peter Capaldi, English actress Maxine Peake, American actor Viggo Mortensen, English actor Steve Coogan, English actor Charles Dance and British actress Harriet Walter.
On Jan. 3, Watson shared on Instagram an earlier post by the badactivistcollective channel which posted a photo of the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine protest that took place on May 12, 2021, with the words "Solidarity is a verb" on top.
The caption quoted Sarah Ahmed, a prominent feminist scholar, "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 move garnered criticism from Israel, who claimed the Palestinians were indeed oppressed but not by Israel, but the Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
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