Dawn French

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Anyone else appalled and shocked at Dawn French's social media video mocking the reaction to the terror attack in Israel on Oct 6th. What on earth was she thinking ? She comes across as horrible and lacking in any empathy. I feel sorry for the innocent people on both sides of this war, in Palestine and in Israel.

I hope she gets cancelled because of this, but then again she doesn’t have much currency these days. After decades in the industry, I think she knows her glory days are long gone and perhaps this is why she said what she said in such a breathtakingly dismissive and callous way - she doesn’t give a shit about the reaction to the video, which I’ve watched and feel appalled that she posted it. I’ve always been intrigued about Lenny Henry’s views on why their marriage ended.

No she's not. She's mocking those who use it as an excuse to kill the Gazan population and aid workers, journalists etc. She's not mocking the victims of the attacks. If this is what people are seeing then they're being deliberately obtuse or know nothing about communication.

What other way is there to perceive it? It is mocking.

No one should murder, maim, assault, terrorise, starve, kidnap, imprison (without charge or fair trial) or leave to die another person. Or drive them from their home. Or flatten their neighbourhood.

Anyone who does that is morally bankrupt and criminal. Anyone who supports or justifies it is morally bankrupt. Anyone who votes for it is morally bankrupt. Anyone who ignores it is morally bankrupt. Anyone who minimises and mocks it is morally bankrupt.

Yeah, I think you have a point. Often celebrities do this to get attention and get extra sm followers.

Just Google ‘Dawn French news’ and look at the videos it throws up. She posted it in 7 Oct last year.

Exactly. And pulling grizzly baby faces with her mouth to highlight her mockery.

Utterly reprehensible.

And yet Netanyahu, his supporters, the IDF and others throughout the world do just that to the Palestinians.

It was the mocking which was so offensive.

Dawn French 💙🔴🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 on X: "No https://t.co/HuJvA47Omm" / X

It was posted last Thursday, according to the DM, which has the video.

Dawn French sparks backlash after filming peculiar video about October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel | Daily Mail Online

right, but if she was supposed to be representing the 'public discourse' i.e. the non-directly involved twitterati why did she use the silly voice to say "yeah but they did a bad thing to us"
followed by "but we but but our land and our history and..."

surely if you're talking about a third party you use the third person?
it should have been "yeah but they did a bad thing to them" or "Yeah but you did a bad thing first". She could have easily said "but, but, but the land, and the history," if the point she wanted to make was mocking uninvolved parties commenting their opinion and repeating the same old arguments.

She kept using the first person so she was clearly pretending to be either Israelis generally or victims of October 7 specifically for that 'character'.

The fact that lots of people don't understand basic grammar is pretty baffling....

Indeed. Morally bankrupt and criminal. Whoever’s doing it.

She is mocking the people who are defending the atrocities committed by both sides.
She is mocking those who justify either side by saying the other did ‘ bad things’.
She is mocking those who say it is a nuanced situation ( thus defending atrocities).
I appreciate that you find the video very upsetting but I do believe she agrees with you and it saying ‘NO ‘ to all the excuses being used by both sides.
She is saying everything you said in your post. That nothing ‘complicated ‘or ‘nuanced ‘can ever justify what has happened to EVERYONE INVOLVED.
She could have made it clearer. Watch it again.

I think this is the woke generation writ large - she is clearly making the point that there can be no justification, reason or legitimate cause for starving children to death.

To me it seems like people objecting are either very simplistic in their interpretations or deliberately jumping on a bandwagon of self righteous outrage.

I see those who are hung up on semantics are the ones who rely on distorting words in order to justify the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

The more that unspeakable things are done to Palestinians, the more that some people from Israel (not all) come on here and say “poor us! How awful people are to us!”. It’s almost like gaslighting.

I think there would be something wrong with anyone who didn't agree that punishing, starving, killing thousands of innocent children in order to justify hundreds or thousands of years of incredibly complicated history is wrong. Flat out, unequivocally wrong.

On the other hand her delivery has clearly fallen flat here.

I've always been a fan Of Dawn French on a superficial level - never been to any shows or read any books but love a bit of Vicar of Dibley/French and Saunders etc. I see lot of people are expressing disproportionate hatred of a fairly minor media figure and I'm surprised at it. I could never have imagined she'd stir up such strong feelings.

But even agreeing with the message I can fully condemn the manner in which it was sent here. I don't actually think she meant to mock anyone or minimise any horrors, quite the opposite, but the delivery was ill-judged and I think she'd be wise to remove the video and make a heartfelt apology. Show that she understands the complications and nuances she referenced briefly here.

'The actions of Hamas were/are horrific and unjustifiable. Every sane person agrees.'

French whined in a silly voice that what they did was 'a bad thing'. She didn't say 'waaah boo hoo' afterwards but she may as well have.

So disrespectful to the victims. Wtf is wrong with her and why on earth is she sat so close to the camera .

Because if you are an actor/in the public eye it seems that you have to jump on what they see as the right side of any bandwagon as I assume your ego is so fragile that you are petrified of losing fans. So pro trans , anti Israel , pro climate change stuff ie lecturing us plebs about not flying etc. but because they have smoke blown up their arses as they are “the talent” they think everyone is interested in their views.

so no doesn’t surprise me in the least.

Absolutely appalling.

I have seen this type of stuff on social media every single day since October 7th. People mocking and gaslighting, denying it happened. Saying or heavily implying "Oh yes but they were Israeli, they deserved it"

It has become mainstream.

One day people will wake up and realise that had they been alive in the 1930s and 1940's they would have been gleefully reporting their Jewish friends and neighbours to the Nazis, or at least turning a blind eye as they were carried off, before nipping into their homes to take stuff they would no longer be needing.

Dawn French can join their ranks and she has just joined the long list of celebrities who I will never watch again (not that she was ever that great).

@TorroFerney good points 👍

Posted before I read this and it’s this a million per cent. Rich privileged lefties.

Her words minimise her tone mocked. She has been told her post is hurtful but has left it up.

If she wanted to make a point about the actions of the Israeli government she could have done so without resorting to this.

Are you mimicking what French said, or is this your own hideous opinion? It’s not clear.

What a lame post 🥱