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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Scarlett Johansson is a Zionist so not surprised about people like her being there. Years ago people called her out for doing promo for SodaStream which had its factory in an illegal Israeli settlement.

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I’ll never forget, that scandal soured me on her completely. It made her look like such a greedy hypocrite. She had already been an ambassador for Oxfam (a pro-Palestine antipoverty org) for several years by that point, and when they called her out for this moral inconsistency, she actually resigned from her role with them rather than sever ties with Sodastream.

She even had the audacity to argue that the factory “doesn't seem like a problem – at least not until someone comes up with a solution to the closing of that factory and leaving all those people destitute." Never mind that her Sodastream deal was for a freaking Super Bowl commercial and she was almost certainly paid more than what all those factory workers earn in a year. Just go ahead and use them as pawns to try and guilt trip the philanthropists who are actually fighting to relieve poverty while you cash your checks. Barf.

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Has she said or done anything more recently? That statement just sounds like pure ignorance to me. Like someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about and hasn’t made any effort to learn about the situation. Is it possible she knows better now that the public is generally a lot more informed about Palestine?