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Around noon EST, Tuesday, the “Pour It Up” mockingbird tweeted out “#FreePalestine, ” counted eight minutes and deleted it.
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That great political thinker, Rihanna, decided to take sides in the Middle East (always a bad idea) with a tweet she regretted instantly.
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Around noon EST, Tuesday, the “Pour It Up” mockingbird tweeted out “#FreePalestine, ” counted eight minutes and deleted it.
The post can no longer be seen on her feed, but the Internet never forgets:
Rihanna’s tweet was never meant to go out in the first place, according to TMZ. “She deleted it because it was never meant to be tweeted, ” goes their quote from a source. “She didn’t even realize it was a tweet until she started hearing from her fans.”
OK, that’s so unbelievable, both my cats are nodding sadly.
Back in 2013, during a concert in Tel Aviv, some reporters in the audience thought Rihanna inserted “all I see is Palestine” in place of “all I see is dollar signs” in the song “Pour it Up, ” meaning that Israel, including the very concert hall full of ticket buying Israelis, is rightfully Palestinian.
She denied. Looks like denying and deleting is what major stars with anti-Israeli views are doing these days. NBA All-Star Dwight Howard posted the same hashtag, then deleted, then apologized.
