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Kim Kardashians Prayer for Israel Draws Death Threats
11/26/12
By Mark Tapson
Woe to any celebrity who dares even publicly hint at support for Israel, lest he or she feel the wrath of fans lusting for the destruction of that embattled Middle Eastern democracy. Like pop singer Katy Perry last year, reality TV megastar Kim Kardashian found that out the hard way last week.
As Israel pushed back against Hamas recently with Operation Pillar of Defense, the normally apolitical Kardashian tweeted this simple note of concern: Praying for everyone in Israel. Well-meaning, right? Harmless, right? Not to the Israel-haters among her nearly 17 million Twitter followers, whose illiterate response was fast and furious. They bombarded her with angry, insulting tweets, some of which wished death upon her. Ill pray you will die kim spewed someone with the Twitter handle nashauzir. AishaJamil tweeted pray for palestine not that f***ing israel. Ure so stupid!! U should die at there! Bitch. Go die in a hole full of sh*t wrote MusUp_.
Realizing that she had accidentally stepped out of her depth into shark-infested political waters, Kardashian quickly backpedaled, tweeting that she was now Praying for everyone in Palestine and across the world! A saintly sentiment, but there are two problems with that. One, there is no Palestine (except on Arab maps, which feature no Israel), and two, it is a retreat into a moral neutrality so broad as to be meaningless.
Even praying for everyone on the planet wasnt enough to placate the Jew-haters among her followers, who continued inundating Kardashian with venom. She tried to appease them by deleting her tweets altogether. And then, in a blog post entitled A Message To You Guys, she actually apologized for offending them:
I realized that some people were offended and hurt by what I said, and for that I apologize The fact is that regardless of religion and political beliefs, there are countless innocent people involved who didnt choose this, and I pray for all of them and also for a resolution. I also pray for all the other people around the world who are caught in similar crossfires.
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Kim Kardashian
11/26/12
By Mark Tapson
Woe to any celebrity who dares even publicly hint at support for Israel, lest he or she feel the wrath of fans lusting for the destruction of that embattled Middle Eastern democracy. Like pop singer Katy Perry last year, reality TV megastar Kim Kardashian found that out the hard way last week.
As Israel pushed back against Hamas recently with Operation Pillar of Defense, the normally apolitical Kardashian tweeted this simple note of concern: Praying for everyone in Israel. Well-meaning, right? Harmless, right? Not to the Israel-haters among her nearly 17 million Twitter followers, whose illiterate response was fast and furious. They bombarded her with angry, insulting tweets, some of which wished death upon her. Ill pray you will die kim spewed someone with the Twitter handle nashauzir. AishaJamil tweeted pray for palestine not that f***ing israel. Ure so stupid!! U should die at there! Bitch. Go die in a hole full of sh*t wrote MusUp_.
Realizing that she had accidentally stepped out of her depth into shark-infested political waters, Kardashian quickly backpedaled, tweeting that she was now Praying for everyone in Palestine and across the world! A saintly sentiment, but there are two problems with that. One, there is no Palestine (except on Arab maps, which feature no Israel), and two, it is a retreat into a moral neutrality so broad as to be meaningless.
Even praying for everyone on the planet wasnt enough to placate the Jew-haters among her followers, who continued inundating Kardashian with venom. She tried to appease them by deleting her tweets altogether. And then, in a blog post entitled A Message To You Guys, she actually apologized for offending them:
I realized that some people were offended and hurt by what I said, and for that I apologize The fact is that regardless of religion and political beliefs, there are countless innocent people involved who didnt choose this, and I pray for all of them and also for a resolution. I also pray for all the other people around the world who are caught in similar crossfires.
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Kim Kardashian