The talented and beautiful actress, Ms. Gal Gadot, happens to be Israeli.
Ms. Gadot recently played the the role of the evil queen in Snow White.
Because of Ms. Gadot’s role in this Disney movie, the latter has been banned in Kuwait and Lebanon (https://tinyurl.com/5hp8hjay; https://tinyurl.com/nhzyb3wf).
Is there anything more apparently absurd than such a ban?
Indeed, why are we keeping children from watching Snow White in movie theatres?
What would this imposed ban practically achieve? And where do we go from there?
Would a cultural boycott be extended, may God forbid, to health bans of generic drugs for chronic health conditions or to promising medical inventions, including the recent development of the “first-ever blood test for early detection of Parkinson’s disease” (https://tinyurl.com/frp67st2)?
So, with all due respect, why this hypocrisy? And why the stupidity?
Beyond culture or public health, how can the badly needed peace be achieved in the Middle East if we keep resorting to narrow-minded political decisions like this one?
