{"id":74660,"date":"2019-11-20T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=74660"},"modified":"2019-11-20T10:19:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T08:19:17","slug":"27-00-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=74660","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Actor Responds to Backlash for Starring With Gal Gadot"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Egyptian Actor Responds to Backlash for Starring With Israeli Actress Gal Gadot in \u2018Wonder Woman\u2019 Sequel<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Amr Waked. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Egyptian actor Amr Waked took to Twitter on Sunday to defend himself after anti-Israel activists criticized him for starring alongside Israeli actress Gal Gadot in the \u201cWonder Woman\u201d sequel, \u201cWonder Woman 1984.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After Waked\u00a0announced<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on Saturday that he would appear in the superhero film, set to premiere in 2020, social media users attacked him, with one writing on Twitter, \u201cF\u2013k you. Amr. You are a traitor,\u201d and others expressing disappointment in his decision and calling on him to withdraw his part in the film.<\/span><\/p>\n

One Twitter user wrote, \u201cYou are a man of morals..nothing moral in working with apartheid enthusiasts @amrwaked<\/span>\u00a0QUIT NOW!\u201d while another tweeted, \u201cyou\u2019re a hypocrite & a disgrace to all arabs. normalizers have absolutely no place among us. i hope u find whatever it is ur looking for in the us because we want u as far away from us as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Others attacked Gadot, saying, \u201cGal Gadot prayed for Israeli criminals who killed 2,400 Palestinians in 2014! Shame on Amr Waked,\u201d while one BDS supporter asked Waked, \u201cFrom a moral standpoint, are you okay with filming with an actress who is vocal in her support of her government which on a daily basis dehumanizes, kills, tortures, and imprisons another people? Or are the values you uphold elastic enough to accommodate such an issue?\u00a0<\/span>#BDS.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Waked addressed the critics by\u00a0tweeting<\/a><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cArt taught me to be a human before anything else, to champion human values, justice, and morals. It taught me to stand up against the [faulty] act and behavior, rather than the individual. It taught me to be committed to humanity rather than anything else. I work on that day and night, and I combat extremism, grudges, and hate towards anyone- or at least I try my best to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The actor\u00a0previously received backlash<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in 2008 for starring alongside Israeli actor Yigal Naor in the\u00a0BBC<\/em>\u00a0mini-series \u201cHouse of Saddam.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In March, Waked\u00a0met with<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0members of the US Congress to raise awareness of alleged human rights violations by the Egyptian government\u00a0and called for international solidarity with Egyptians. Not long after, the Egyptian Actor\u2019s Syndicate revoked Waked\u2019s membership and accused him of \u201chigh treason to the nation and to the Egyptian people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier that same month,\u00a0Waked told\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>ABC News<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>he feared returning to Egypt from Europe, where he now resides, because he had been sentenced to eight years in military prison for\u00a0publicly\u00a0criticizing\u00a0the government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Egyptian Actor Responds to Backlash for Starring With Israeli Actress Gal Gadot in \u2018Wonder Woman\u2019 Sequel Shiryn Ghermezian Amr Waked. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Egyptian actor Amr Waked took to Twitter on Sunday to defend himself after anti-Israel activists criticized him for starring alongside Israeli actress Gal Gadot in the \u201cWonder Woman\u201d sequel, \u201cWonder Woman 1984.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74679,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74660\/revisions\/74679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}