Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair was told by an NFL official to remove the name of Wafaa Akila, an 8-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza, from his eye black during the Texans’ Week 2 game or he would not be allowed to continue playing, according to a league source.
According to Reuters, Wafaa Akila was killed earlier this month by an Israeli airstrike.
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This guy is the CEO of Flock
He takes pictures of you and hands them over to the cops
But, he doesn’t want you to know what he looks like
PLEASE do NOT share his photo!
Wait, so you’re telling me an American citizen was walking down an American street, exercising her freedom of speech, and got surrounded and harassed by a mob waving foreign flags and chanting allegiance to a foreign country because they were offended by her T-shirt?
That is objectively un-American.
i know we've moved on to the next phase of this controversy but i just wanna say i personally never even knew she was jewish or felt such ties to her heritage bc she started her career pretending to be a “mixed-race girl from the hood” complete with irritating blaccent
Finneas has dropped out of Ed Sheeran's tour alongside fellow openers Aaron Rowe, Lukas Graham and Beoga in solidarity with Macklemore.
"Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed.
I have decided to withdraw from my upcoming tour dates with Ed Sheeran. I stand with Palestine and its people," Finneas wrote in a statement supporting Macklemore, who was dropped from the tour after making "Free Palestine" speeches on stage.
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