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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]You might think that those tweets are insignificant but they are not. How many times do you see someone get fired because of a tweet or a show getting dropped by a network because of it? We live in a time where social media is powerful. A few weeks ago , Rihanna and Dwight Howard tweeted #freePalestine and were bullied into deleting the tweets. We're having an entire civilian population being bombed, and yet, an athlete tweeting?#?freepalestine? is smacked down with an immediacy that speaks to how desperate Israel and their backers  are to keep them insulated from even a whiff of criticism. I am not mad at Dwight Howard or Rihanna for deleting those tweets. I wanted to thank them. I wanted to thank them for showing with utter clarity what few will say openly: that acknowledging the humanity of the Palestinian people comes with a price.[/quote]

As I understand it, "#PrayforGaza" is understood as an expression of empathy for Gaza civilians, whereas "#FreePalestine" is understood to mean the dissolution of Israel and its replacement with a state in which Jews might or might not be welcome.   Maybe it has something to do with the political platform of those who started using that hshtag in the first instance.

Please feel free to address. [/quote]

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