Justin Bieber Takes Down ‘Praying For Israel’ Repost Featuring Gaza Rubble
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“I’m not interested in choosing sides, but I am interested in standing with the families who have been brutally taken from us,” Bieber wrote in an earlier post.
Justin Bieber reshared a post to his 293 million Instagram followers Wednesday featuring the words “PRAYING FOR ISRAEL” plastered over an Associated Press photo of a destroyed building in Gaza, before the pop star had it replaced with his own text and the ill-chosen background image removed. The original post by @churchome was later also replaced by one without the Gaza photo. “To vilianize [sic] all Palestinians or all Israeli people to me seems wrong,” Bieber wrote in an earlier post on his Instagram story. “I’m not interested in choosing sides, but I am interested in standing with the families who have been brutally taken from us.”
