{"id":61473,"date":"2021-05-24T15:15:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T21:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=61473"},"modified":"2021-05-26T05:28:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T11:28:10","slug":"dua-lipa-responds-to-full-page-ny-times-ad-that-blasts-her-israel-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/dua-lipa-responds-to-full-page-ny-times-ad-that-blasts-her-israel-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa responds to full-page NY Times ad that blasts her Israel criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Prominent Rabbi Shmuley Boteach\u2019s World Values Network took out a full-page New York Times ad on Saturday denouncing the British pop star Dua Lipa\u2019s criticism of Israel on social media, and the singer responded, saying the ad was full of \u201cfalsehoods and blatant misrepresentations.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61474\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Dua_Lipa_with_Warner_Music_edit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61474\" class=\"wp-image-61474 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Dua_Lipa_with_Warner_Music_edit-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Dua_Lipa_with_Warner_Music_edit-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Dua_Lipa_with_Warner_Music_edit.jpg 603w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/256;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61474\" class=\"wp-image-61474 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Dua_Lipa_with_Warner_Music_edit-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Dua_Lipa_with_Warner_Music_edit-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Dua_Lipa_with_Warner_Music_edit.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-61474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dua Lipa (Screenshot via Warner Brothers and Creative Commons License)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Grammy-winning megastar had reposted several messages on Instagram in the early days of the recent Israel-Gaza conflict that were critical of Israel\u2019s actions toward the Palestinians. Some contained the hashtag #SaveSheikhJarrah, a reference to the East Jerusalem neighborhood where Israel is threatening to evict Palestinian families.<\/p>\n<p>The Times ad said that Dua Lipa and Bella and Gigi Hadid, two supermodel sisters with Palestinian heritage, all accused Israel of being an apartheid state. It also claimed the trio \u201crevile Zionists and Israel\u201d and said their comments accused Israel of \u201cethnic cleansing.\u201d (Lipa is dating the Hadids\u2019 brother Anwar.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHamas calls for a second Holocaust. CONDEMN THEM NOW,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n<p>Lipa tweeted a response on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the price you pay for defending Palestinian human rights against an Israeli government whose actions in Palestine both Human Rights Watch and the Israeli human rights group B\u2019Tselem accuse of persecution and discrimination,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI take this stance because I believe everyone \u2014 Jews, Muslims and Christians \u2014 have the right to live in peace as equal citizens of a state they choose. The World Values Network are shamelessly using my name to advance their ugly campaign to \u2026 I stand in solidarity with all oppressed people and reject all forms of racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After an initial wave of celebrities posted statements highly critical of Israel\u2019s actions in the fighting, which started when Hamas began firing rockets at Israel on May 9, several other stars, many of them Jewish, have made statements in solidarity with Jewish communities around the world as antisemitic attacks on Jewish institutions have risen in the wake of the Israel-Gaza conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Gad, the Jewish comedy star known for his roles in \u201cThe Book of Mormon,\u201d \u201cFrozen\u201d and other blockbusters, added his voice to the growing list on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt never stops breaking my heart how easily antisemitism comes to so many,\u201d he wrote on Twitter. \u201cAnd how difficult it seemingly is for people to speak out against it. I will stand up against bigotry of all kind from Islamiphobia[sic] to racism. Wish others would do the same when it comes to anti-Semitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Dua%20Lipa%20responds%20to%20full-page%20NY%20Times%20ad%20that%20blasts%20her%20Israel%20criticism\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7137],"tags":[11411,8781,8790,8795,8788,380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61475,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61473\/revisions\/61475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}