{"id":49624,"date":"2024-03-21T11:32:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T07:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=49624"},"modified":"2024-03-21T13:04:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T09:04:35","slug":"emma-sawko-apologises-for-sharing-pro-israel-video","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/emma-sawko-apologises-for-sharing-pro-israel-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Dubai-Based Restaurateur Issues Apology For Sharing Anti-Palestine Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49628\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/Emma-Sawko-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/Emma-Sawko-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/Emma-Sawko-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/Emma-Sawko-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/Emma-Sawko-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/Emma-Sawko-1-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/Emma-Sawko-1-155x87.jpg 155w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/03\/Emma-Sawko-1-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A popular Dubai-based restaurateur has come under fire for sharing an anti-Palestine video.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Sawko, co-founder of well-known <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/healthy-meal-plans-dubai\/\">vegan restaurant<\/a> Wild &amp; The Moon, as well as organic caf\u00e9 Comptoir 102 in Dubai, issued an apology this week after a sharing the video.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/lifestyle\/food\/2024\/03\/20\/wild-and-the-moon-emma-sawko-israel-video-apology\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The National<\/em><\/a>, the video in question Sawko shared was produced by an American conservative group, PragerU which was titled &#8220;My Life in Israel as an Arab Muslim&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The clip shared by the<a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/the-grazia-guide-to-new-dubai-restaurants-to-dine-at-in-2024\/\">\u00a0restaurateur<\/a> is part of a series called <em>Stories From Us<\/em>, and featured a woman named Sophia Salma Khalifa, who claimed to be &#8220;the first Muslim Arab to enroll in the Israel Defense Forces&#8217; Atuda programme in electrical engineering&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); 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font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; 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font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C4sI4ThAwKf\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\"style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by emmasawko (@emmasawko)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The conservative group claims it promotes &#8220;American values through the creative use of educational videos&#8221;, while providing &#8220;a free alternative to dominant left wing ideologies.&#8221; But it has been claimed in a previous report by <em>Education Week<\/em> that PragerU is known to &#8220;promote mistruths about climate change, slavery and a whole host of other things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After drawing much criticism for her promotion of the video, Emma took to Instagram to offer an apology on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am sorry for the post I re-shared,&#8221; she said to her 53,000 followers on the platform. &#8220;I was standing by the fact that we must find a way towards peace, and this is the only message I have been meaning to convey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am deeply shaken by the loss of innocent Palestinian lives and as the conflict extends over time, as the situation gets direst by the day, as the anguish grows, I also feel our hearts harden and I feel we are losing the ability to communicate and find the ways towards peace and dialogue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sawko added the hashtags &#8220;standing against genocide&#8221; and &#8220;ceasefire now&#8221;. She also currently has comments on the post and others turned off.<\/p>\n<p>However, many have taken to Wild &amp; The Moon&#8217;s Instagram page to declare they are now &#8220;boycotting&#8221; the caf\u00e9, with many comment stating &#8220;free Palestine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Per <em>The National<\/em>, she also shared a series of videos in which she expressed remorse for posting the now-deleted clip. &#8220;This was the wrong thing to do and I regret it deeply,&#8221; she said in one video while holding back tears. &#8220;There was no malignant intent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no way any human being can stay in a country for as long as I have been without respecting, loving and supporting the people and the country. I deeply love this place and if I have a hope it&#8217;s that this will be forgiven one day and that we go back to be what we was. I am sorry,&#8221; she reportedly also said in the clips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42714,"featured_media":49627,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[260,35],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dubai-Based Restaurateur Apologises For Sharing Pro-Israel Video<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wild &amp; The Moon co-founder, Emma Sawko, is responding to backlash after posting a pro-Israeli video.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/emma-sawko-apologises-for-sharing-pro-israel-video\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Popular Dubai-Based Restaurateur Issues 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