{"id":271871,"date":"2026-02-03T13:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/271871\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:31:12","slug":"online-hate-against-deni-avdija-following-netanyahus-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/271871\/","title":{"rendered":"Online hate against Deni Avdija following Netanyahu&#8217;s message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Israeli basketball player Deni Avdija drew widespread attention after being selected to the NBA All-Star Game, receiving congratulatory messages from many figures, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The prime minister\u2019s message, however, sparked a wave of backlash online. Anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian users targeted Avdija on social media, focusing in part on his past service in the IDF. <\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Several commenters accused the player of responsibility for killing children in Gaza and condemned his All-Star selection, while others criticized the NBA for honoring him. Some took the opportunity to accuse Netanyahu of genocide and framed the public congratulations as politically damaging for Avdija. <\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The critics warned that association with the Israeli prime minister could negatively affect the player\u2019s public image and follow him throughout his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli basketball player Deni Avdija drew widespread attention after being selected to the NBA All-Star Game, receiving congratulatory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[69925,85,46,47352,43,2460],"class_list":["post-271871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-deni-avdija","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}