#recast pharah

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Hi Overwatch fans/players if you’re seeing this pls share/reblog!!!

If you didn’t know, Pharah’s voice actor, Jen Cohn has made Zionist standments like “free Palestine from Hamas” when it is ISRAEL who are killing them.

So until Blizzard acts, don’t give money to them. The new Moira mythic is pretty, but there are more important issues at hand!!

A Zionist with a phony accent should not voice/make money off of an Arab character.

Right now there are almost 3,000 signature on this petition asking for a recast! Andrea Toyias is the casting director for Blizzard and she is on Twitter! Our signatures mean nothing if she doesn’t see them. (Do not harass or send hate!)

We want a new Pharah voice actor!!!! #RecastPharah 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[mourningdewey]

this isn't my typical pfp edit or post but i'm hoping it will do something

boycott overwatch season 9 ; don't play , don't buy anything , spread the word . jen cohn is an outspoken zionist and an appallingly poor casting decision for our beloved pharah . we need our message to be heard by blizzard . we will not tolerate their silence in regards to jen cohn's support of the palestinian genocide . recast pharah .

please remember to keep boycotting brands on the bds list . keep reposting and liking coverage on palestine . donate if you are able . get your daily clicks in on arab.org . call your representatives , demand a ceasefire . this is not a passing trend . hundreds of thousands of palestinian lives , men women and children , are in danger . thousands have been lost already . silence makes you complicit . be on the right side of history , keep screaming for palestine .

please also be aware that not all jewish people are zionists , and not all zionists are jewish . antisemitism is completely unnecessary , distracting , and vile . the israeli government does not speak for all jewish people . do not try to hold innocent people accountable for israel's actions . do not lose sight of who and what we are fighting for . free palestine .

[iwantsomefries]

I am today years old when I found out that Pharah’s voice actress is a zionist

Like this was my reaction reading her comments like wtf do you mean there is no war? What do you mean ISRAEL is fighting against terrorism?

I highly doubt this will happen since Blizzard only really does things if THEY consider it serious, but I really hope she gets recasted. - a Support / Pharah main

Here’s the link to her claims apparently: https://www.pcgamer.com/overwatch-fans-call-for-boycott-and-recast-after-pharah-voice-actor-calls-to-free-palestine-from-hamas/

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Just a heads up for yall who came to my art account for my Overwatch OC Cyrus, you guys won't be seeing much of them for awhile, as I have decided to put Overwatch content on hold until the zionists voice actors in the roster are recast.

You'll likey see me fixate and diversify onto things like DnD art and OC art, closer to what I originally envisioned for this account.

So, to start that shift Meet Duran Steelbound, an Aasimar Paladin.

[r0semultiverse]

I think Pharah’s voice actor should just honestly not talk about shit she’s not actually educated about. “We are all Hanas” isn’t violent, but actively supporting a genocide under the guise of “I’m German, I’ve seen Jewish people targeted before” is not the moral stance you think it is. You’re supporting genocide, stolen land, & colonization. What kind of moral high ground do you think this is? It’s not one! I may not be a detail oriented person, but even I know genocide and colonization is wrong!

[ultravioart]

Sources:

https://x.com/geesegoose_1/status/1846378569439891616?t=1w9lkW4_1xIJ8GdFc44H_Q&s=19

https://x.com/kirikokamoris/status/1846607767269712380?t=9gCdG-jAmnvBAlNV80g_zA&s=19

New overwatch lore came out and if it couldn't get any worse for Pharah, Helix is working with Oasis to enforce the "anticrime-ai-predictive model" in Morocco and its basically minority report... and Pharah still talks positively about Helix so. Genuinely I hate this. My rewrite will take out this horrible portrayal for Pharah(recast her VA NOW and make the VA actually Egyptian or from an indigenous nation that can represent Pharah’s father's side). How do you make Pharah enforce a POLICE STATE with her background. How is that a hero, let alone an optumistic future.

:(

It's also pretty much confirmed the Wayfinders Society was outbought by Oasis for the items the Wayfinders Society uncovered, which implies the Wayfinders Society ISN'T a finding+recovery effort of returning artifacts to the countries of origin, rather, the Wayfinders Society is most likely a "the adventure of finding treasure!!!" WHICH IS SO BIZZARRE CONSIDERING De:Classified mentioned the efforts of returning artifacts to the countries of origin as if THAT'S what the Wayfinders Society is about????

And this now makes sense. Venture is canonically a swash-buckling adventurer, but directly inspired by Indiana Jones-- and the idiots that wrote this don't realize that is PILLAGING and colonizing behavior to STEAL artifacts/treat cultural artifacts like treasure to pillage for. And to use arrow heads as the icon too???? Gross is an understatement. Indigenous people have been denied thier family's works, heirlooms, and artwork bc American museums refuse to allow indigenous people even SEE the items. They are stored away in boxes, collecting dust. It's a disgrace, and I would think since De:Classified mentioned this issue, an optumistic future would work to rectify this disrespect in the story.

It's such an honest let down for Venture's character... I wanted an archeologist that was exited about the HUMANITY within artifacts, and to bring that joy of celebrating culture to expanding Omnic lore. I absolutely did NOT want Venture/Wayfinders Society seeing the artifacts as some simple object exciting to find bc fame, money, or some detached history fun fact-aholic. If it was dinosaur bones, that's totally fine for having it be a "ooo treasure!!!! Did you know? (Insert fun fact)" hype but it is NOT okay to do that with cultural artifacts. For some reason in Overwatch, Greek artifacts have been taken out of Greece and are now in the Temple of Anubis. Venture is pillaging. HOW is that a hero. :/

It's actually super gross that Overwatch portrayed Greece as the 'low tech' map, portrayed it only as the tourist sections (that is not authentic Greek life, plus the maps mix up completely different areas of Greece together) and then not making a Greek hero despite the map and even Greek myth bp theme, and THEN having the gall to make Venture "save the artifacts from Talon bc no one else will!" (with horrible rep of artifact handling and collection mind you) as if the native residents don't exist. WHERE ARE THE GREEK PEOPLE. Did Greece get gentrified by Eastern Europe in overwatch???? Is Greece just a hollow shell of tourist traps bc all the natives left bc of economic disparity after the omnic crisis? (The Phillipines was hit hard, so was Spain and Portugal but they had the wall, so I can imagine Greece was hit hard too)????? That's genuinely so dystopian lmafo

And FYI, irl the British museum still refuses to return artifacts to Greece bc the people in charge ARE racist and think Greeks can't take care of thier own artifacts. So. I can not state how much the Venture comic pisses me off, having a non-native come in, state that no one is there to save the artifacts, and then take the artifacts outside of Greece while mishandling them (you do not drill into ruins, it would shatter terracotta. You do not barehand handle artifacts. Etc.)

Can overwatch make a Greek hero already so I can draw them giving the Wayfinders Society and Talon the middlefinger for pillaging Greek artifacts? Thanks.

Venture Overwatch, I will save you from this bs writting I refuse to have Overwatch's first trans rep be pillaging artifacts they should be PROTECTING.

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Note on article and article title: This article does heavy work to continuously refer to Hamas as terrorists, and it refers only to the October 7 events in their attempt to delineate the history of Palestine and Hamas, failing to mention the decades long history of occupation and war inflicted on Palestine by the state of Israel. This is a skewed historical overview of the occupation and genocide. I've removed that part below. If you want to read it, click on the link above. Furthermore, the title poorly depicts the reasons behind the boycott, which go beyond the single comment about Hamas that this actress made.

Overwatch fans are calling for the recasting of Pharah—one of the game's lineup of DPS heroes—following comments on the current situation in Israel and Palestine made by her voice actor, Jen Cohn, in a TikTok and YouTube livestream. In response to viewers commenting "free Palestine" in the chat of one of her Ask Bird Mom livestreams on February 12, Cohn said "Yes, free Palestine from Hamas." Cohn, who is Jewish, then expressed her wish for Palestinian "autonomy" and "safety," but angered some viewers by referring to Israel's campaign in Gaza as a "war" and saying that "when both sides are able to stop fighting, it will be wonderful." Some Overwatch fans were incensed at language that presented the last several months of violence as an equal conflict between two evenly matched sides, and saw it as an attempt to whitewash Israel's actions. The comments sparked an intense negative backlash. Cohn has spoken about Israel and Palestine on social media before, which is likely what led to fans commenting "Free Palestine" on her stream in the first place. But although Cohn has done things like criticise the use of "from the river to the sea" chants among "well-intentioned, good young people" at pro-Palestine protests on Instagram, her comments on stream elicited a bigger reaction. Many viewers were angered by what they saw as the drawing of a false equivalence and the use of obfuscatory language. Israel has drawn widespread condemnation for its campaign in Gaza, with 29,000 Palestinians—two-thirds women and children—reportedly killed and the International Court of Justice finding it "plausible" that Israel's actions could amount to genocide. At another point in the stream, Cohn remarked "that is not a very 'values of Overwatch' thing to say" in response to a comment reading "Free Palestine [flag emoji] new Pharah voice actor > >," which also caused anger. Cohn noted in a comment to PC Gamer that her remark was directed at "the call to have my role recast" and not the support for Palestine. "When I heard calls for my replacement—because I’m Jewish, because I love and support my people, because the ways I call for peace differ from the ways someone else calls for peace—it seemed to really run counter to those [Overwatch] beliefs," said Cohn. But to angered fans, Cohn's statements don't read like a call for peace but as an equivocation masking a one-sided campaign of violence. "I hope this is enough to show why fans want Jen Cohn recasted," said a tweet from an Overwatch fan that attracted nearly 3,000 likes on Twitter, "she is doubling down on her pro-Israel beliefs and this isn't a joke, this is a genocide happening right in front of us and she supports that." Other widely liked and shared tweets call on Blizzard to recast Pharah, accusing Cohn of spreading "Zionist propaganda" using a platform provided by her role in the game and of ignoring Arab suffering while voicing a character of Arabic descent. Numerous other examples of anger at Cohn's comments can be found across social media, with some calling for a boycott of Overwatch's ninth season until Pharah is recast. Meanwhile, a Change.org petition to recast Pharah's voice actor has attracted over 4,300 signatures at time of writing and its description reads that, "as of now, a beloved Arab and Indigenous Canadian character Pharah of Overwatch is being voiced by a woman with video evidence of her making zionistic statements… Jen Cohn has made countless statements denying the genocide of Palestinians calling it 'war' and claiming that the Palestinians must be freed from Hamas not Israel." It implores signees to take to Twitter with the hashtag #RecastPharah to show support.

Link to the Change.org petition:

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A thread of actors/musicians that support Israel.

Jen Cohn

She is well known for voicing many characters such as Pharah from Overwatch, Ursa (Zuko’s mom) from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Miss Champlain from Wordgirl, and many other roles. On a TikTok and YouTube livestream when many watchers commented “free palestine”, her response to them was “Yes, free Palestine from Hamas.”

There are also more quotes from Cohn such as her response to a comment about wanting a new Pharah voice actor along with the Palestine flag emoji, “That is not a very ‘values of Overwatch’ thing to say” which caused anger from many fans. Cohn has also stated that “Hamas is a terrorist organization, there are so many articles and videos of Gazans risking their lives by speaking out and begging to be free of their terrorist government.”

A change.org petition to call for a voice recast can be signed from this link here.

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(Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist nationalist group that controlled the Gazan strip for 20 years and is labeled as a terrorist group by many countries. It took over the Gazan strip after an election between a political party called Fatah in 2006. On October 7th of 2023, the IDF’s attack on Gaza was followed from a series of many other attacks in Israel from Hamas but there were other conflicts between Israel and other groups before 10/07.)

Deedee Magno Hall

Hall is well known for voicing Pearl, a character from the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe along with other live action roles for other studios. Although she never stated anything about Israel or Hamas, one of the posts she liked on Twitter was from Mark Hamill, “America stands with Israel ✊ #ALWAYS” which spread on the platform, receiving backlash from SU fans.

Eric Nam

Eric is a K-pop/R&B singer and songwriter based in South Korea who wrote songs under B2M Entertainment. He had many tours over the years as a musician and even acted in television. In a tweet by @DiscussingFilm on April 11, it was announced that he had been cast as adult Aang for the Avatar: The Last Airbender movie set to release around 2025-2026.

This post received backlash from ATLA fans due to posts regarding his involvement with Zionists and support for Israel such as liking a pro-Israel instagram post,

The companies Dive Studios and Mindset (both co-founded by Eric and also his brothers) having investor companies supporting Israel along with Mindset’s strategic investor Scooter Braun also supporting Israel as well as a history of working with celebrities that are pro-Israel, and the fact that he removed Malaysia and The Philippines off of his “House On A Hill” tour list due to backlash by many Malaysian fans for the aforementioned instagram post (Malaysia is against people supporting Israel and is very pro-Palestine.), ignoring the backlash but posted a statement regarding his neutral opinion on the Gaza genocide where the reason was that he “made the difficult decision to cancel the show” in Malaysia.

You can sign the recast petition here

Noah Schnapp

Schnapp is another well known actor who played characters such as Charlie Brown from the Peanuts Movie by the now-defunct Blue Sky Studios, and Will Byers from Netflix’s Stranger Things.

In a TikTok video, Noah Schnapp is seen sitting and filming with people holding “Zionism is Sexy” stickers, the line “You either stand with Israel or you stand with terrorism.”, along with liking a post that mocked Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as well as his visit to Israel. This had many fans call for a boycott against the 5th Season of Stranger Things or for Noah to be fired from playing Will Byers.

Jeremy Shada

Jeremy is also another well known actor and had many roles like the Cookie Run franchise as Gingerbrave, Adventure Time as Finn the Human, Voltron: Legendary Defender as Lance, Julie and the Phantoms as Reggie Peters, and some others. Many fans were not happy to see that he has been pro-Israel due to an instagram post liked by Shada and so some Finn and Gingerbrave fan art with the Palestine flag were made.

Tara Strong

Tara is the one of the most well known voice actor in the animation industry and had been widely loved for playing many famous characters such as Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls, Raven from Teen Titans (and the reboot), Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Timmy Turner from The Fairly Oddparents, Ilana from Sym-Bionic Titan, and so many other characters she’d played in.

Recently, she was fired from playing the character Bill the Orphan in an adult-animated series called Boxtown due to her negative responses to the Palestinian genocide. She said in a tweet, “Just found out on twitter! This is what happens when you help fans get shows made I guess. Fired for being Jewish. Glad I helped you get your kickstarter money. Please lose my email address & pray for my family in Israel and in Gaza. & #prayforpeace.” Bandit Mill Animation however, has stated this was due to Tara’s controversial tweets.

Speaking of, there are many tweets by Strong that prove this point such as liking posts that are against Islamic people, being pissed off that the BLM movement didn’t stand for a genocide, claiming the IDF doesn’t rape/harm any civilians, making a post with the hashtag #IStandWithIsrael, hiding a reply of the death count between Palestinians and Israeli people, and even more situations outside the Palestinian movement like being an anti-vaxxer, supporting PETA, supporting and directing an “eco-friendly” NFT movie project called Ornamental, supporting Autism Speaks (an organization that claims to “cure” autism.), being in a video where Tara was verbally abusing an Uber driver that was an immigrant along with Rena Sofer by saying “We are Americans, we were born here.”, did nothing when Greg Cipes called asexuality a phase to an asexual in a FMA game he hosted, being racist in response to a news clip of MEMRI (Which is a non-profit organization founded by Yigal Carmon, an Israeli military intelligence officer. MEMRI has been claimed to mistranslate clips so Palestinians would viewed in a bad light.), had a little girl who had a brain tumor pass away due to bronies donating to a charity where the money was instead of real medicine, it was put into “alternative treatments”, AND retweeted Ben 10 incest back in 2012-13.

Tara Strong has really destroyed her own reputation as a voice actor and it’s really upsetting that a famous woman who voiced pretty much everyone’s childhood have such negative ways when dealing with topics like these. The fact that there are STILL fans defending her actions is just depressing to see what she had become.

I have a picture limit that only goes for 10 images, so here’s a lightning round of more people.

Jerry Seinfeld, who voiced Barry B. Benson from the Bee Movie and had his own semi-fictional show named after his last name visited Israel into the IDF military base nicknamed “Camp Shoot-A-Palestinian” (I’M NOT FUCKING JOKING) and played target practice with pictures of REAL Palestinians, made a few pro-Israel posts on his instagram, and more.

Selena Gomez, played Alex Russo from Wizards of Waverly Place, Mavis from the Hotel Transylvania franchise, and many other roles has many posts regarding support to Israel such as liking Amy Schumer’s pro-Israel posts on Instagram, was VERY pissed off when fans asked her for Palestinian support, and lying about the beauty company Rare Beauty supporting Gaza even though the CEO is a Zionist which resulted in the donation money going a Zionist organization called Magen David Adom.

Scarlett Johansson had worked with companies that support Israel over the years along with a couple of posts that are pro-Israel.

Kim Dongyoung, who is a member of a few South-Korean bands as Doyoung like NCT and it’s other sub-units has lost over 800,000 instagram followers because of a McDonalds Korea promotion he was in even though he had donated to World Food Program Korea (a company that started to donate food to Gaza back in December of 2023.).

Taika Watiti, who played Blackbeard from Our Flag Means Death has liked Instagram posts of Gal Godot’s suppport for Israel, went on a big rant about his response to people addressing his silence on Palestinians because of people not knowing about Māori issues on the Marc Macron podcast (Many, Many Māori people are pro-Palestinian.)

Sarah J Maas, author of The Assassin’s Blade, Crescent City, and A Court of Thorns and Roses, is a Zionist that has spoken about her “love for Israel”, said that she was proud of her family members that had been involved with the IDF and its military bases and went on a trip to Israel.

Con O’Neill, who plays Izzy Hands from the show Our Flag Means Death has a liked post by Eve Barlow with the lines of “coming out as a Zionist is harder than coming out as gay”.

Keanu Reeves is another well known actor that appeared in The Matrix franchise as Neo, The Day the Earth Stood Still as Klaatu, Cyberpunk 2077 as Johnny Silverhand, and many other movies. He said that he wanted to make a John Wick movie that take place in Israel with IDF soldiers that trained for stunts, went to a party that was hosted by a former arms dealer during the 2014 Gaza war, and visited Israel several times along with meeting Netanyahu.

Rick Riordan, the author of the Percy Jackson books made a very lengthy blog post stating the Israel-Palestine conflict with lines such as “the Israeli government’s brutal retaliation against the entire population of Gaza has reached genocidal proportions.” & “This means security and support for Israel, yes.”

You can find a LOT MORE celebrities/actors (that aren’t included in this post) that support Israel/ had signed Zionist letters along with people who support Palestine here👇

If you follow any of the people that are on this post, including the ones I’ve shared above, UNFOLLOW THEM. Do not go to any place that includes that person and boycott any artist that remains silent/supports Israel.

[odessastone]

Lmao the person who signed the Recast Pharah petition saying we should have autistic VAs representing autistic characters …? not sure if that was a typo, if they’re getting Pharah confused with Symmetra, or if they’re an Autistic Pharah Truther [objectively correct opinion if so]

[angeltannis]

@purplekoop yeah honestly feel like it kinda got swept away with all the other shit happening to the series. :/

Pharah’s character has always been so like…infuriating to me in a way, because I wanna love her so bad, she ticks a lot of boxes I enjoy and I DID love her for years (when her character was pretty much entirely fanon lol) - but for everything good they do with her character (I loved the PVE lore bits and the stuff from the recent Ana short story from Heroes Ascendant), they do something equally stupid and weird (like making her a meathead jock/bully who threatens to shove people into lockers?? Like where did THAT come from…or just making her increasingly cop-like in general…that interaction she has with Kiriko that’s like “Just because a law is immoral doesn’t give you the right to break it” makes me wanna switch off her immediately)

And then the stuff with Jen Cohn makes me so angry I literally wanna throw up whenever I think about it. Especially since she gained such a large platform in the first place because of voicing an Arab woman. How does one live with oneself with that level of cognitive dissonance going on. Saying she needs to be recast is putting my opinion of the situation VERY mildly

@oktobearfest Last year for OW’s first Pride Month event they released a really clunky short story with an excuse plot to have Pharah and Baptiste come out to each other (Bap is bi). Basically Baptiste expresses interest in Cassidy but doesn’t want to interfere because he isn’t sure if Cass and Pharah are a couple. To which Pharah says she’s a lesbian and that Cole is like a brother to her. Then she starts bringing up Angela and being all like 😌💕 because the lead writer at the time (who’s since been laid off) was apparently a huge Ph@rm3rcy stan, lmao.

There’s also a line in the story that’s so unintentionally funny bc you can tell it was a mutated, “corporate won’t let us say this” joke - Pharah is clearly trying to say to Bap something like “What, do I look straight to you?!” but instead says “I’m not passing, am I?” (To which Bap replies like “No, of course not!!”) It caused me to nearly choke on my lunch while reading it because I thought she was Also coming out as trans in the same story jfkgkhk

[scionsthings]

https://scionsthings.tumblr.com/post/655184588365299712/total-drama-overwatch-au-b-and-scott-as-roadhog Nice recast, I also like the idea of Lindsay, Trent, Duncan, Alejandro, Lightning, Heather and Gwen as Mercy, Hanzo, Genji, McGree, Doomfist, Widowmaker and Pharah respectively!

ALEJANDRO MCCREE AND LIGHTNING DOOMFIST....😳😳😳

I want to draw that

Also hmm..Duncan is like 100% a Junker, Izzy too. (Not Roadhog and Junkrat, just Junkers)

Omg Jasmine fits well as Ashe. Lmao Rodney is Bob (( "Rodney, do something!"))

I Flashed Sierra as Pharah instead of "justice rains from above" she say "FOR CODYY, WEEE"

Hanzo and Genji idk honestly but Reaper is 100% Ennui you can't change my mind

[mourningdewey]

reblogging a reblog (thank you @odessastone and @cooplagoop for your contributions to my post) to share the links to jen cohn's FOUL behavior AND to highlight the tags

reminder to my fellow overwatch enjoyers that fareeha amari is canonically arab . she would not support zionism .

if you love pharah , you should know she deserves better than to be voiced with a phony arab accent by a loud zionist . free palestine , fuck zionism

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[ALT TEXT: a tweet from @bubblebeexox on Twitter that states “spread and sign this petition to recast pharah's voice actor. jen cohn is a vile zionist and spreading israeli propaganda #recastpharah,” with a link to the following change.org petition.]

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Oooookay got some... 'interesting' asks in my inbox.

Yeah ngl I don't participate much in fandoms bc I love to analyze every little thing and that gets enjoyers mad and dislikers mad. Enjoyers think I am attacking the thing they love, Dislikers think I am wasting my time by analyzing.

Imo if you care about something, you enjoy it's strengths and analyze it's flaws. That's how you become a better writer and artist.

If you don't like seeing media disected and analyzed you should probably block this account, and I genuinely don't mean that in a sassy way. I'm just here to have fun learning about what I like in media, and what I dislike in media. How media does things well, and where it fails. Be it in actual story, PR, game mechanics, etc. I am pretty blunt in that regard. I am not interested in 'softening' my analysis for the sake of a stranger's... comfort? If you can provide solid logic to why my take is wrong, I change my take. I am not unreasonable, I just don't brush aside red flags as if it is nothing. I have seen what happens behind the scenes, and if someone is doing something like that publicly, it is a red flag. And it's NOT just that VA, there are tons of VA that do outright undeniably bad things. Pharah's English VA NEEDS to be recast, for example.

For context, I have professional experience in the media industry. I quit because the work environment was not professional and filled with extremely immoral people that made it unsafe to work in (disrespecting nsfw boundaries, racism, ableism, etc). So yeah, I am going to point out red flags when I see them! I will tag any such posts as "#/negative" so feel free to block the tag, or my account. I'm just here to analyze art and enjoy talking about my special interests. If me... existing makes you uncomfortable, please do yourself a favor and block me lol. Idk what else to say.

[odessastone]

In case anyone’s wondering like I was, because her twitter is pretty barren, it’s on her Instagram that she’s posting about this.

reminder to my fellow overwatch enjoyers that fareeha amari is canonically arab . she would not support zionism .

if you love pharah , you should know she deserves better than to be voiced with a phony arab accent by a loud zionist . free palestine , fuck zionism