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One might have hoped that a ceremony honoring Gal Gadot with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame would proceed with some semblance of dignity. But no, the event was predictably disrupted by the usual chorus of anti-Israel, Jew-hating agitators, determined to make a spectacle of themselves.
According to Variety, dozens of these protestors descended upon the scene, delaying proceedings and requiring police intervention. They brandished their crudely made signs declaring "Heros [sic] Fight Like Palestinians", "Viva Viva Palestina," and "No Other Land Won Oscar" - a reference, one presumes, to some obscure grievance they nurse against the Jewish state.
Video evidence captured by Variety's Katcy Stephan revealed the mob chanting "Shame on Gal Gadot", while clips showed police cuffing the more unruly elements as they shrieked slogans like "Up up with liberation, down down with occupation" and "Not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel’s crime."
The banality of their sloganeering was matched only by its volume.
Gadot, the 39-year-old Israeli actress soon to portray the Evil Queen in Disney’s live-action "Snow White", is no stranger to such rancor. A former member of the Israel Defense Forces, she has generally eschewed political pronouncements. Yet the barbarity of the October 7 massacre, which saw 1,220 Israelis butchered by Hamas, stirred her to break her silence.
"I could not be silent," she told conservative outlet, The Daily Wire, a sentiment she elaborated on to Variety: "There is a challenge for people to speak on social media because there is so much hate going on and so many bots and so many angry people that are looking for a cause."
She posed the question, "Who cares about the celebrity talking about politics?" A fair point - Gadot is an artist, not a pundit.
"I’m an artist. I want to entertain people. I want to bring hope and be a beacon of light whenever I say anything about the world." But the savagery of October 7 - the abduction of men, women, children, the elderly, even Holocaust survivors from their homes and beds - demanded a response.
"I was shocked by the amount of hate," she said, "by the amount of how much people think they know when they actually have no idea, and also by how the media is not fair many times. So I had to speak up."
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Wisely, Gadot avoided mention of the protestor circus during her Walk of Fame speech on Tuesday. Instead she thanked "Wonder Woman" director Patty Jenkins and "The Fast and the Furious" star Vin Diesel, and described herself modestly as "just a girl from a town in Israel."
One suspects the protestors, in their blind zealotry, would disagree - to them, she is a symbol of all they despise. Their loss, not hers.
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