It’s been weeks since ‘Girl on Fire’ hitmaker Alicia Keys felt some serious heat following what many deemed an insensitive social media post during the current Israel-Hamas conflict, but some are still calling for the 15x GRAMMY winner to face stiff consequences for her actions.
Taking to Instagram in October, Keys turned off a number of her supporters for a post that some considered to be “tone deaf.”
“Tell me your truth…I’ve had my eyes on paragliding,” she told her 27 million followers on the platform – even including “side-eye” emojis.
The post set off a firestorm of controversy given that just days before Hamas “terrorists” used paragliders to attack an Israeli musical festival, killing nearly 300 attendees in the process. Some even accused the singer of being sympathetic to Hamas because her attire in the attached picture featured prominent colors found in the flag of Palestine.
After quickly deleting the pic and caption, Alicia took to her IG stories to offer an apology.
“The post I shared was COMPLETELY unrelated in any way to the recent devastating loss of innocent lives. My heart has been breaking …. I pray for and stand for peace,” Keys said at the time.
Although the hoopla from the incident has cooled, for some – like political commentator and media personality Megyn Kelly – the apology wasn’t enough.
Taking to the popular Sirius XM series ‘The Megyn Kelly Show’ on Wednesday (November 1), she joined columnist Maureen Callahan in calling for the ‘Karma‘ singer to pay the price for her perceived Palestinian support.
“Who the hell wears Palestinian colors all over them and posts about wanting to paraglide within days of the Hamas terror attack using paragliders,” Kelly ranted before calling “bullsh-t” on Alicia’s apology.
Later pointing out that the R&B diva’s husband, producer-rapper Swizz Beatz, is Muslim and that the two share a son named Egypt, Megyn went down a list of coincidental associations that could support arguments that Keys is pro-Palestine.
“I still am shocked that she has not been canceled by major corporations. You know she is the voice of All State,” Callahan chimed in. “She should lose that sponsorship; she should lose that job.”
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At writing, Keys nor Beatz have responded to Kelly’s criticism.
This is a no-story. Alicia didn’t di anything wrong and Iif anyone should be canceled it’s the crazy zionist lunatics like Amy Schumer supporting the mass murder of innocent children
Zionism = the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.
Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Zionism has come to include the movement for the development of the State of Israel and the protection of the Jewish nation in Israel.
Illegal occupation of another country. Killing innoncent palestinians… zionism is the new nazism… zionists are doing exactly what the nazis did to the jews. Facts are facts.
There was never a country called P********, check the timeline:
Pre 1272 BCE
Canaanite kingdoms
1272 BCE
Kingdom of Israel, its rulers were Jewish.
1272 BCE
Israel splits into two Jewish Kingdoms (Judea and Israel)
510 BCE
Babylonians conquer Israel
333 BCE
Greek Seleucids conquer Israel
174 BCE
Jewish Hasmoneans re-establish Israel
73 CE
Romans conquer Israel, they rename an area which stretches from Turkey to Egypt as Syria-Palestina. This was a province of the Roman empire and had no connection to modern day P******** or the Palestinians
330 CE
The area becomes part of the Christian Byzantine Empire, a Greek empire.
650 CE
Umayyad Sunni Muslims conquer Israel, incorporating it into their Arab empire
750 CE
Abbasid Sunni Muslims conquer Israel, incorporating it into their Arab empire
868 CE
Tulunid Sunni Muslims conquer Israel, incorporating it into their Turkish empire
905 CE
Abbasid Sunni Muslims conquer Israel, incorporating it into their Arab empire
969 CE
Fatimid Shia Muslims conquer Israel, incorporating it into their Arab empire
1099 CE
Christian Crusaders conquer Israel, incorporating it into their European empire
1187 CE
Ayyubid Sunni Muslims conquer Israel, incorporating it into their Kurdish empire
1250 CE
Bahri Sunni Muslims conquer Israel, incorporating it into their Turkish empire
1382 CE
Burji Sunni Muslims conquer Israel
1517 CE
Ottoman Sunni Muslims conquer Israel, incorporating it into their Turkish empire
1917 CE
Britain conquers Israel from the Ottomans in Israel
1920 CE
Britain awarded Mandate over the region by the League of Nations
1945 CE
Britain hands political decision making for Mandate over to the United Nations
1947 CE
The United of Nations voted to partition the land into Jewish and Arab States
1948 CE
Britain pulls out of the Mandate. The Jews declare independence, the Arabs reject the partition plan and several Arab nations invade Israel. The Palestinians refuse to declare independence.
The Jordanians conquer the West Bank and make it part of Jordan, granting all the Arabs Jordanian citizenship. They do not establish a Palestinian state.
The Egyptians conquer the Gaza Strip but and also fail to establish a Palestinian state (they do setup a pseudo-Palestinian government which they later shut down).
The Jewish people have only had one land to which they are indigenous, and that is their national homeland. If Israel is an imperial or colonizing power, it would be the first case in history of an indigenous people colonizing their own country.
The Jewish people originated in and are indigenous to what is now the modern state of Israel. Jews are from Judea. Arabs on the other hand are colonizers.
In fact, Arabs are the most successful colonizers ever: The irony of accusing Jews of colonizing Arabs is that the opposite is true. The Palestinian-Arab people belong arguably to the most successful colonizers in world history. Today, there are 22 Arab nations and 57 Islamic countries. Over 1.8 billion people are Muslims, constituting around a quarter of the entire global population.
While we read about and academics blithely reference the “Arab world”—which stretches across North Africa and the Near and Middle East—few mention that this entity was created largely by the violent subjugation of local indigenous peoples. Infrequently, we hear about Berbers, Yazidis, Arameans, Zoroastrians and Copts.
These and many more, along with Jews, are examples of pre-Islamic peoples, cultures and religions that were either wiped out or forced into an Arab or Muslim culture. Dozens of languages, cultures, religions and peoples that we only know from archeology did not survive the Arab armies of the seventh century onwards.
These marauders enforced mostly complete adherence to the Arab culture and language and Islamic religion by dint of brutal force. While the European empires have largely crumbled and been disbanded by local anti-colonial movements, the Arabs implemented such a scorched-earth policy that few indigenous peoples still remember, let alone adhere, to their pre-Islamic identity.
All of that in non sense.
If you had to reattribute lands according to history centuries ago, you’d kick out all the white people in Northen America, give all the land back to the Natives.
Same goes for many territories like OZ, NZ and the list goes on.
There should have been 2 states from the get go.
Yes H**** did horrible things but that doesn’t give the right to Israel to destroy everything and kill everyone and anyone.
They even destroyed premisces of nations that are allies.
Revenge doesn’t mean committing what is starting to look like mass murder.
Netanyahu knew an attack was coming, he was warned by the Army and people working for defense. He decided to sacrifice some of his people to go crazy and try to justify his actions.
Let’s remember he is FAR RIGHT. Most nations led by far right parties (such as Poland) are always pointed at yet it’s like he gets a free pass. Criticizing his politics is not antisemitism. If you’re Italian and you criticize your government, are you being racist of your own nation ? I don’t think so.
The antisemist card is played for everything and anything.
Israel fight radical islamists terrorism which are basically modern Nazism but in a much bigger scale and founds because the are almost 2 billion Muslims in the world.
Even if just 10% are radicals, that’s millions! Good luck with that.
I’m with the Jewish people.
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If Alicia is pro-p********, that is here business. She is allowed to pick a side if she chooses to. If this doesn’t align with your suport or values or whatever, that is not your issue. You do not know you.
Maybe she was making a statement, maybe not, but she’s not known for promoting any kind of violence. In the past, Alicia hasn’t been afraid to be very clear about where she stands on a particular issue, like when she made a short film in support of refugees at a time when there was a lot of talk about border control. She asked the question, “What if it was you?”
Kathy Griffin was canceled after standing up for this b-itch against Trump. A +30-year career sacrificed for and to the indifference of this hollow-cheeked, overpaid, Dollar Store Kate Gosslin. Yet, partisanship to either side of a conflict continents away from her high rise penthouse upsets her? GTFOH. Do you, Alicia Wife #2 Keys!
If you aren’t aware, she lives on a cliff over the ocean where paragliding is prevalent. I’m sure her interest is from watching this beautiful sport. If anything the timing of the post was off but no malicious intent I’m sure. Quit reading s!?t into it.🤬
Megyn Kelly needs to calm the F down. There’s no need to continue racist rants. Our country should be better than that though I’m guessing some ‘news’ personalities would rather attack than report actual news