Whatever one’s reservations about our celebrity-orientated culture, there’s a lot to be said for big names coming out in support of important causes. In what some would say was a key moment for the mainstreaming of the Palestinian liberation movement, Harry Potter star Emma Watson shared an image on her Instagram account this week — with 64 million followers — featuring the text “Solidarity is a verb” against a backdrop of Palestinian flags.

Celebrated and chastised in equal measure, the post led Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, to post a tweet calling Watson an antisemite. His move was met in turn with significant derision on social media, even from more conservative Israel advocacy circles.

Despite that, Danon’s response was quite in keeping with recent events. Back in October, acclaimed author Sally Rooney refused a deal with an Israeli publisher out of respect for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and was faced with similar charges of Jew hate. The following month, the Jewish Chronicle covered a protest against right-wing Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely by invoking comparisons to Kristallnacht.