ITV receives barrage of complaints over Loose Women star Nadia Sawalha’s ‘one-sided’ pro-Palestine Instagram posts – as she hits back saying she has talked about the ‘continuing hostage crisis for Israel’
- Ms Sawalha hit back saying she has talked about the ‘awful tragedy of October 7’
Loose Women star Nadia Sawalha is at the centre of a bitter row after being accused of using her social media account to circulate pro-Palestinian propaganda, while ignoring the suffering of Israelis murdered and kidnapped by Hamas terrorists.
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that ITV has been bombarded with complaints from viewers angered by what they claim is a ‘one-sided’ stance after the conflict began after Hamas terrorists committed atrocities in southern Israel on October 7.
In further Instagram posts, Ms Sawalha, 58, also infuriated viewers of the ITV panel show, many of whom were Jewish, after she appeared to support pro-Palestinian campaigners who argue that the best way to secure the return of the hostages, who include several Brits, was for Israel to adhere to a ceasefire in Gaza, even though many military experts and politicians, including Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, argue this would only allow Hamas time to restock weaponry.
An ITV insider confirmed that the channel’s switchboard had been ‘bombarded’ with viewers saying they were angered by Sawalha’s stance on Gaza, and who ‘wanted to know the best way of lodging complaints against her with ITV bosses’.
Loose Women star Nadia Sawalha is at the centre of a row as viewers claim she has a ‘one-sided’ stance on the Israel/Palestine conflict
An Instagram story posted by the Loose Women star with a big banner saying ‘Free Palestine’
She reposted a Save The Children post which says ‘no child should know displacement’
People have been accusing the Loose Women host of being silent October 7
‘We were quite surprised at the volume of complaints over the past week about Nadia. It’s quite unusual to get this sort of reaction. But then again, Israel/Palestine has always been a very divisive issue.’
People commenting online also asked why she has been ‘silent on 7/10’.
But Ms Sawalha told MailOnline: ‘I have talked about the awful tragedy of October 7th and the continuing hostage crisis for Israel.
‘As a British-Arab I have also talked about the plight of the Palestinians, and I firmly believe, as do millions of other humanitarians, that a ceasefire is the most humane way forward for both the innocent hostages and the innocent civilians of Gaza and the West Bank.’
Meanwhile, Ms Sawalha’s cameraman husband Mark Adderley also waded into the row and defended his wife’s stance suggesting the murder of 1400 men, women and children by Hamas, with over 240 innocents taken hostage in Gaza had been ‘all the attention of sympathy in the world’ but that the conversation had now ‘moved on.’
Ms Sawalha is the daughter of the Jordanian-born British actor Nadim Sawalha and his English wife Roberta Lane. She is the sister of television actress Julia Sawalha and has appeared on Lily Savage’s Blankety Blank with her.
ITV declined to comment.
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