‘I will continue to support Israel,’ said professional boxer Floyd Mayweather during a recent visit to Orthodox Jewish students in Israel. That remark and this photo that shows him smiling and shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes to the shock of people witnessing devastating online images of Israel’s military onslaught in Gaza that has k*lled at least 43,000 Palestinians and as many as 335,000 over the past year under Netanyahu’s leadership.
Other photos the boxer and real-estate investor posted on his Instagram account showed him posing with active Israeli military forces and wounded Israeli soldiers. Yet another picture showed Mayweather standing at the US embassy to Israel at its new location in Occupied Jerusalem. The embassy moved from Tel Aviv in 2018 despite the United Nations designating Jerusalem as an international city in 1947. Israel has a long history of operating outside international boundaries. According to the Associated Press, ‘Netanyahu’s government published its platform, which stated that the ‘Jewish people have exclusive and indisputable rights’ over the entirety of Israel and the Palestinian territories and will advance settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.’ Not only is the West Bank deemed Palestinian territory by the United Nations, but the article said Netanyahu’s government is ‘destroying any remaining hopes for Palestinian statehood.’
Yet, Mayweather wrote in his caption, ‘Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine having such a positive impact on society or sitting down with world leaders.’
@floydmayweather, we wonder if you visited Gaza to see what it looks like first-hand? If you were forbidden from doing so, did you ask why? Were you able to meet with Palestinians living in portions of the West Bank occupied by Israeli settlers?
We can only guess you didn’t.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DBwYKH8OsE9/?hl=en&img_index=1
https://www.instagram.com/p/DBwPKK0O_ag/?hl=en&img_index=1
https://www.instagram.com/p/DBwPKK0O_ag/?hl=en&img_index=3
https://www.instagram.com/p/DBubjVQOZjy/?hl=en&img_index=2
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/29/its-raining-bombs-in-a-city-by-the-sea
https://www.blackenterprise.com/floyd-mayweather-402m-real-estate-affordable-housing-nyc