The singer-songwriter was slammed for a banal social media post that some claimed alluded to Hamas’ use of paragliders in a recent attack
was pressured to clarify that her Instagram post about wanting to learn how to paraglide was definitely not in any way an allusion to an incident in the
That post was subsequently deleted because some people decided that Keys was definitely not just making social media small talk about a potential new hobby but referring to Hamas fighterson Oct. 7. That Keys happened to be wearing a green, black, and white jacket — three colors commonly seen together, including, by chance, on the flag of Palestine — was taken as further proof that Keys was either being willfully insensitive or dog-whistling.
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