An Instagram page posted an edited photo of the actor against the backdrop of the Dome of the Rock and the White House struck by lightning • Surfers attacked: "Nazis, stealing Palestinians' holy sites"
Danny Abdia
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Israeli basketball player Danny Abdia, who moved to play for the Washington Wizards in the Bay Area, received a birthday gesture, a doubtful fanatic who mocks, who caused a stir on the net.
Danny Abdia celebrated his 20th birthday yesterday (Sunday), and among the many wishes he received from his fans, he received a special but problematic tribute.
The Instagram page "overtimeedits" posted a photoshop-rich photo of the player, in which he is seen standing holding his Maccabi Tel Aviv uniform shirt with the number 8, with a painting of a Star of David on the ground and behind it the Dome of the Rock and the White House building struck by lightning.
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Unsurprisingly, the picture managed to provoke quite a bit of anger when many of the reactions attacked Israel with harsh words.
"First you stole the lands from the Palestinians and now you are taking the holy sites from them as well? You are Nazis under the guise of sheepskin," an angry surfer wrote below the photo.
"Is there a situation where you put an Israeli uniform shirt on the Dome of the Rock"?
Another surfer wondered.
"You should not put a Jewish actor near a holy place for Muslims," another surfer raged, a rage that only gained momentum when other surfers tried to explain that the Dome of the Rock is at the top of the Temple Mount and therefore the area is also sacred to Jews.
"The anti-Semites are going to celebrate this," another surfer added.
In Israel, too, the picture managed to garner reactions online, in part because Abdia himself shared the picture with Story, a rather puzzling move given the fact that it is a work that is almost clearly anti-Israel.
"10 times WTF?!?! Why is he posting a story of a picture with his T-shirt from Maccabi hanging on the Al-Aqsa Mosque?!? And a Star of David on the floor ?? And why is lightning hitting the White House ?!", tweeted one surfer.
Others mocked the editing level of the piece: "A picture of a 12-year-old girl who discovered that there are photo design apps, so she pushes everything together into a picture."
And "exciting that they gave up camels in the background."
