Egyptian singer Angham said she received Israeli threats because of her pro-Palestine stance and rejection of “the Israeli unprecedented violence against the people of Gaza.”
The singer said such messages do not intimidate her. “These threats made me laugh, they indicate weakness and helplessness,” she wrote on her Instagram page on Sunday.
Angham described Israelis as “occupiers and thugs,” and reminded them of the October 6th war in 1973, saying: “I am not defending Egypt because these threats prove that you are still aching from this battle, and it will always be the nightmare you’ll never wake up from. Egypt will forever remain free and independent, and always reminding you of the hardest moments your people lived.”
Before Angham, Actor Bassem Samra revealed that “he was threatened via a text message he received from an unknown number after his calls to open the borders to respond to the Israeli massacres appropriately,” during a pro-Palestine protest organized by the actors syndicate a few days ago.
Ashraf Zaky, the head of the Actors' Syndicate, who recently visited the Rafah border crossing to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians and call for the delivery of humanitarian aid, said “these threats are a reaction to the impact of the Egyptian artists’ statements rejecting the Israeli aggression.”
He told Asharq Al-Awsat that “the syndicate will always support its members and will remain a source of soft power bothering the enemy because it chooses justice and rejects genocide and bloody aggressions.”
Egyptian artists have volunteered with the Egyptian Red Crescent to help provide relief to the residents of Gaza who are besieged by Israel.
