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#SwiftiesForPalestine Trends As Fans Try to Bully Taylor Swift Into Opposing Israel
PJ Media ^ | 11/06/2023 | Jon Del Arroz

Posted on 11/06/2023 9:50:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind

For the most part, Taylor Swift makes the wise business decision to stay out of politics, but it doesn’t stop her rabid fans from trying to force her into a particular stance online.

Yesterday, #SwiftiesForPalestine started trending on X, attempting to strong-arm the singer into making a statement. Over sixteen thousand posts were made during the hashtag’s peak trending hours, with many of the posts being calls for boycotts of companies like Starbucks and McDonald's and others falling into the realm of the ridiculous, accusing others of misogyny for not supporting the hashtag effort.

A large number of posts regarding a suspended account, @LegitTayUpdates, has been circulating in the #SwiftiesForPalestine community as well, chronicling how the account claimed to be in Israel and has allegedly been arrested for refusing to join the IDF.

Before X suspended the account, Vogue interviewed the person behind the tweets, who claimed she was a nineteen-year-old girl living in Southern Israel.

The focus of the hashtag, however, appears to be to try to get Taylor Swift to condemn Israeli action in Palestine and call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Several different accounts have been posting the same image, which implores Swift to “stay on the right side of history,” a reference to the first time the singer waded into the political realm to endorse a Tennessee Democratic candidate for the Senate. This move turned off many of her non-activist fans and proved useless as Republican Marsha Blackburn cruised to a landslide victory.

Swift also endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the 2020 election, citing their friendliness to the LGBTQ community as one of the reasons for the move.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hamas; israel; palestine; taykorswift
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So far, Swift has been silent on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as taking a stand for either side has proven to be a disastrous cancel situation for left-leaning celebrities.


1 posted on 11/06/2023 9:50:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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And now this, from Pop Star, Selena Gomez, a good friend of Taylor Swift, who was bullied into deleting her Instagram account after her post regarding the Hamas attacks, merely stating :


2 posted on 11/06/2023 9:52:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Get a life, people!


3 posted on 11/06/2023 9:54:03 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Meanwhile, The Jerusalem Post reported on brave Israeli girls venturing out to the theater amid all this chaos to see Taylor Swift’s new film, The Eras Tour, a full-length concert experience recorded and made for cinema. As of this writing, the film has grossed $231 million worldwide.

With such big dollars at stake and such a divide on the topic across the globe, Swift would be wise not to wade into the political waters and divide her audience as she did in 2018 and 2020. Her words would do nothing to aid either the Israelis or Palestinians and would only serve to divide her audience.

4 posted on 11/06/2023 9:54:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

SHe isn’t that stupid.

It would blow her fanbase apart like a nuclear bomb...............


5 posted on 11/06/2023 9:54:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

BOTS, BOTS and more BOTS…. IMHO.


6 posted on 11/06/2023 9:55:49 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MA)
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To: SeekAndFind

Swifties for satan.


7 posted on 11/06/2023 9:55:59 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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“makes the wise business decision to stay out of politics”

Disagree. Posted that the Dobbs decision returning abortion law to the states last year was a dark day for America. On her tour before this last one was giving lectures on gay marriage.


8 posted on 11/06/2023 9:57:43 AM PST by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s a libtard. She will support a cease fire.


9 posted on 11/06/2023 10:01:41 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: SeekAndFind

Pick a side Taylor


10 posted on 11/06/2023 10:03:49 AM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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Who gives a frogs-fat-ass what this skank thinks about anything?


11 posted on 11/06/2023 10:08:46 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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If Taylor Swift comes out for Hamas, that may just be the the final straw which tips me to supporting Israel to do whatever it wants.


12 posted on 11/06/2023 10:09:45 AM PST by PGR88
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Oh she broached the political some time ago now. Swifty is a lefty for sure. No broken heart here since I was never a fan. That said it hasn’t hurt her much financially. Spiritually and mentally perhaps a different story.


13 posted on 11/06/2023 10:12:18 AM PST by xp38
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“ frogs-fat-ass”

with a reported US fan base of 190 million plus followers Taylor enjoys the one of the largest followings of any modern entertainer.

In todays world that’s called influence and that translates into power and money, lots of both. You should care because reality is getting drowned out by the likes of her and whatever side she chooses to pick could have a great deal of influence down the road.
14 posted on 11/06/2023 10:21:39 AM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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“For the most part, Taylor Swift makes the wise business decision to stay out of politics...”

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No she doesn’t.


15 posted on 11/06/2023 10:22:13 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: The Louiswu

Which is precisely why this country is doomed.


16 posted on 11/06/2023 10:22:21 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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chronicling how the account claimed to be in Israel and has allegedly been arrested for refusing to join the IDF.


They refuse to oppose murder, rape and infanticide?


17 posted on 11/06/2023 10:23:45 AM PST by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: SeekAndFind

#NotTooSwifties


18 posted on 11/06/2023 10:23:48 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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These swiftys are so g.d. annoying. Almost as annoying as Swift’s music.


19 posted on 11/06/2023 10:24:41 AM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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The dumbass entertainer came out for Hillary when she was running against Trump so she’s fair game in the political discussion.

There’s a video of a reporter asking Elvis a “got ya” question, I think it was about Vietnam and his response was “I’m just an entertainer and I’d like to keep my thoughts on that to myself.”

Today’s paid clowns could learn from Elvis.


20 posted on 11/06/2023 10:26:36 AM PST by tuffydoodle (When 2% of the country gets to tell everyone else how to live, that’s true oppression.)
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