May. 11, 2021
The Canadian musician Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, shared on his Instagram account several posts critical of the planned eviction of Palestinians from lands claimed by Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem.
Palestinians in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood have been fighting their eviction by organizations seeking to settle Jews in the area for over thirty years.
The posts Tesfaye shared on his Instagram story included a protest painting by a U.S.-based Palestinian artist named Shirien showing a group of people holding signs that read No More Ethnic Cleansing and Palestinians Will Remain against a backdrop of Jerusalem, with a title in English and Arabic saying Free Jerusalem above them.