A South African artist is rejecting any ties to a Zionist women’s group that is using her image in its propaganda. Dope Saint Jude, a Cape Town hip hop artist and producer, confirmed that her image had been used by Zioness in posters and graphics promoting the pro-Israel group’s presence at the Women’s March in cities across the US last weekend.
One image, in a style reminiscent of Shepard Fairey’s famous poster of Barack Obama, shows Dope Saint Jude standing with arms crossed above the slogan “Zionists 4 Women’s Rights #TheResistance.” Another includes the slogan “Zionesses stand with women in Iran.”
The Zioness movement appears to be an astroturfing effort to portray support for Israel as feminist, in line with the propaganda strategy adopted by Israel and its lobby groups to try to co-opt progressive support.
In a series of tweets, Dope Saint Jude said, “I am in no way affiliated with the Zioness movement,” she tweeted. “At all.” “I’m just a South African girl who rides a motorbike, makes music and has no ties to Israel or the zionest [her spelling] movement,” she added.
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— source electronicintifada.net