Gwyneth Paltrow filmed an ad for an apartment tower in Herzliya, and my feed has decided she is now complicit in genocide.

But look at what the outrage actually claims. Posts with hundreds of thousands of views call the Herzliya coastline “stolen,” as if an apartment ad there were an act of dispossession. Herzliya was founded in 1924. It sits inside the Green Line, inside the 1947 partition borders, inside every peace proposal ever drafted, including the Arab Peace Initiative. There is no map of a two-state solution, drawn by anyone, on which Herzliya is Palestine.

The people calling it stolen land are answering a question they rarely answer when asked directly: which Jewish homes do you consider legitimate? If Herzliya is illegitimate, then it’s obvious that they think no Jewish homes are.

Our millennia of history on that land, our continued cultural practices forged within Israel around the land itself that we held sacred in diaspora, and our continued presence in the land of Israel throughout multiple conquerors mean nothing to them, nor do our very lives right now.

So, thank you, Gwyneth, for uncovering these people for who they really are. I’m sorry I made fun of your candle.