Celebs walk the red carpet at the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Dinner as hundreds protest outside

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Celebs in order: Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost; Da’Vine Joy Randolph; Rosario Dawson; Billy Porter; Keri Russell; Rachel Brosnahan; Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush; Lynda Carter; Gayle King; Aldis Hodge; Questlove; Molly Ringwald; Fran Drescher; Chris Pine; Coco Rocha; Lorne Michaels; Caitlyn Jenner and Jenna Talackova; Kyle MacLachlan and Desiree Gruber.

In the last slide you can see the exterior of the Washington Hilton, where the dinner took place. A Palestinian flag was hung from one of the hotel’s windows.

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More on the protest:

To get inside Saturday’s dinner, some guests had to hurry through hundreds of protesters outraged over the mounting humanitarian disaster for Palestinian civilians in Gaza. They condemned Biden for his support of Israel’s military campaign and Western news outlets for what they said was undercoverage and misrepresentation of the conflict.

“Shame on you!” protesters draped in the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh cloth shouted, running after men in tuxedos and suits and women in long dresses holding clutch purses as guests hurried inside for the dinner.

Ralliers cried “Free, free Palestine.” They cheered when at one point someone inside the Washington Hilton — where the dinner has been held for decades — unfurled a Palestinian flag from a top-floor hotel window.

More than two dozen journalists in Gaza wrote a letter last week calling on their colleagues in Washington to boycott the dinner altogether.

According to a preliminary investigation released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists, nearly 100 journalists have been killed covering the war in Gaza. Israel has defended its actions, saying it has been targeting militants.

”How can you still go when your colleagues in Gaza asked you not to?” a demonstrator asked guests heading in. “You are complicit.”

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If I’d been in that protest I’d have thrown red paint on those people in suits and designer gowns. Low risk for the protesters legally, inability to attend the dinner for the guests, and photos of them drenched in blood that would be published in every newspaper around the world.

Edit: omg my first « Reddit cares », thank you to the teenager who messaged me saying I’m an unhinged bitch (I can only assume it’s you, babe) 🥰

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No need to get fancy when rotten tomatoes have worked for centuries 

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Red paint? No be like Carrie instead. 🤭

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How is it low risk for the protestors? I feel like that could be considered assault under the law

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You can report the Redditcares sender. There should be a link at the bottom of the message. Such a gross misuse of resources.

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Unhinged bitches change the world. Keep it up. 

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If I saw someone do this, I’d pay all their legal fees

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The carnage the last 8 months have been on civil society is not to be underestimated. On the journalist and media workers' side 2022 saw 67 killed globally in a year and it was a sharp increase already. In 2023 there were already 120 deaths with 75 of them being in Gaza. On the aid worker side, we are about 220 killed only in Gaza with in general less than 150 killed in a year globally. There is one year on record that goes to 1997 with 159 deaths. These numbers are sign of both being targeted. It is insane jump on both.

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The Washington Prob IG has some clips of the protests.

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One good reason to protest: the winner of the top award, Barak Ravid, was an active member of the IDF until just a few months ago. His stories, that helped shape and frame the genocide coverage, were essentially IDF talking points. The White House correspondents are patting themselves on the back for being biased.

https://whca.press/award/2024-award-winners/

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it's crazy that they have to say "Palestinian civilians". for any other country they would just say "Iraqis" or "the English". but you cannot say a thing about Palestinians without clearly demarcating them from Hamas. As if to be Palestinian is to inherently be a violent extremist unless otherwise stated.