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By Shannon Power
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Vanity Fair France apologized for removing a Palestinian pin worn by actor Guy Pearce from a photo after a furious reaction online.
The Australian actor posed for a photo for the French version of the magazine as part of its portraiture series at the Cannes Film Festival.
Pearce posed while sitting in a chair, wearing a tuxedo and smiling widely at the camera. On his left lapel was a pin of the Palestinian flag and he also wore the Palestinian colors on his wrist via a woven bracelet.
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But when the photo was shared on the Vanity Fair France website and its official Instagram account, the pin was conspicuously absent.
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The editing of the picture to remove the pin was quickly met with fury on social media.
"The famous American magazine, Vanity Fair photoshopped the photo of the actor and musician, Guy Pearce who wore a pin in solidarity with Palestine at the Cannes Film Festival, but they forgot to photoshop the bracelet which was also in the colors of Palestine," wrote @rifain_nouvelle in French and translated to English on X, formerly Twitter.
"Variety edited the pin that Guy Pearce wore in solidarity with Palestine at the Cannes Film Festival. They didn't realize that the actor also wore a bracelet with the nation's colors," added @marciosallem in Portuguese and also translated to English.
One post about the matter by @ahmedhathoutt attracted 1.4 million views.
"So Guy Pearce showed solidarity with Palestine at Cannes by wearing a pin and Vanity Fair decided to photoshop it out. 🇵🇸 Little did they know the bracelet was also of the Palestinian flag colors," wrote Hathout.
Newsweek contacted Pearce's representatives and Vanity Fair by email for comment.
Vanity Fair later updated its website to replace the edited photo with the original.
"A previous version of this image was posted on the site, the original version was this one, posted simultaneously on Instagram. We sincerely apologize," it wrote under the portrait of Pearce.
Celebrities at major events have shown their solidarity with the Palestinians since Israel began its unrelenting military offensive in Gaza almost eight months ago. Its campaign was in a response to a surprise attack by Hamas in southern Israel on October 7 that left around 1,200 people dead and saw about 250 others taken to Gaza as hostages.
Israel's unprecedented assault on the Palestinian territory has killed nearly 36,000 people in Gaza and displaced hundreds of thousands more, according to The Associated Press.
The United Nations' International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt its military operation in Rafah on Friday, saying it was "not convinced" that Israel was doing enough to evacuate Palestinians from the besieged city.
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