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Eiichiro Oda, author of One Piece manga, maintains professional associations with cast members who advance or normalize support for Israel’s apartheid and ongoing genocide across Palestine whilst remaining silent on Israeli occupation himself despite decades of Zionist terror.
Eiichiro Oda, the Japanese manga artist and creator of One Piece, continues to elevate and platform Taz Skylar despite Skylar’s public promotion of organizations tied to support for Israel’s settler-colonial violence, while overseeing collaborations with actors like Iñaki Godoy.
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Eiichiro Oda is the Japanese creator and author of the manga series One Piece, one of the best-selling manga franchises in the world, who, to this day, remains wholly silent on Israel's ongoing genocide, occupation, and illegal apartheid ethnostate despite 77+ years of Zionist terrorism.
As the leading authority with decisive influence over the franchise’s direction, public image, and casting, Oda made the choice to retain and continue elevating Taz Skylar, the actor portraying Sanji, despite Skylar’s documented promotion of organizations and figures linked to support for Israel during its intensified assault on Gaza and bombing of Lebanon. This decision to sustain the association, whether framed as neutrality or oversight, sends a clear message that such actions remain tolerable within the public platform of One Piece.
One Piece builds its narrative around themes of liberation from tyrannical governments, resistance against militarized oppression, defense of the persecuted, and solidarity with the vulnerable against overwhelming power structures. By failing to distance the series from controversies involving key cast members who platformed or normalized support for the occupier, Oda allowed the franchise’s massive cultural influence to coexist with rhetoric and actions that many Palestinian, Lebanese, and anti-genocide supporters view as dehumanizing toward indigenous civilians under occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
Oda similarly bears responsibility for the continued public collaboration with Iñaki Godoy, who plays the protagonist Luffy, after Godoy participated in promotional work for McDonald’s — a corporation heavily targeted by BDS campaigns. McDonald’s Israel publicly supplied free meals to Israeli soldiers (IOF) during the assault on Gaza, actions that directly tied the brand to material support for the military apparatus carrying out widespread destruction. Even absent explicit political intent in the advertisement, partnering with a globally boycotted entity during an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe demonstrated disregard for the concerns of Palestinian supporters and those aligned with the anti-oppression values that One Piece itself promotes.
Public figures and cultural authorities with Oda’s level of influence hold a responsibility to consider how associations and partnerships impact communities facing decades of Zionist settler-colonialism, displacement through “Aaliyah,” land theft, and systematic violence. Silence or inaction in the face of widespread backlash does not occur in a vacuum; it functions to protect the status quo of impunity and minimizes accountability for complicity. Oda’s pattern of prioritizing franchise continuity and commercial partnerships over addressing these ethical breaches contributes to normalizing associations with entities that shield or enable Israel’s 77+ years of settler-colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, and genocide across Palestine.
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🔒Silence = Complicity:
For those who have passionately spoken out against other instances of genocide and massacres, yet fall silent when it comes to the suffering endured by Palestinians, their silence becomes a glaring indictment of the value placed on Palestinian lives and perpetuates a dangerous narrative that suggests Palestinian suffering is somehow less worthy of outrage, less deserving of empathy and less human than that of others.
By choosing silence in the face of Palestinian suffering, those with influential platforms inadvertently contribute to the erasure of Palestinian voices and experiences. They perpetuate a narrative of invisibility that allows the injustices inflicted upon Palestinians to continue unabated, shielded from the spotlight of global scrutiny.
Their silence sends a chilling message of complicity to the world – one that suggests Palestinian lives are expendable, their struggles inconsequential and their humanity negotiable. It emboldens perpetrators of violence and oppression, granting them impunity under the guise of indifference.
To remain silent in the face of Palestinian suffering is to betray the very essence of activism – the relentless pursuit of justice for all, without exception or equivocation. It’s a betrayal not only of the Palestinian people but of the universal principles of human dignity and equality and instead is a tacit endorsement of the dehumanization and marginalization of an entire population.
True activism demands consistency and integrity, an unwavering commitment to speaking truth to power and standing in solidarity with the marginalized and oppressed, regardless of geography or politics.
BDS Boycott:
The BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement is a global campaign which follows the worldwide boycott movement that led to the successful dismantling of apartheid in South Africa and therefore advocates for various sustained forms of boycott against Israel until it complies with international law.
Founded as a response to the rampant, ongoing and systemic dispossession, displacement, and disenfranchisement endured by generations of Palestinians, the BDS movement is in direct response to the relentless expansion of Israeli settlements, the imposition of discriminatory laws and the denial of basic rights to millions living under occupation, apartheid or in exile with no right of return.
Central to the ethos of BDS is the belief that every purchase and action carries a weighty moral responsibility. To buy goods from or actively support companies or organizations on the BDS list is to cast a vote in favor of perpetuating injustice, a tacit endorsement of the status quo of occupation and discrimination. It’s a direct violation of the collective conscience, a betrayal of the fundamental principles of human rights and dignity.
By pressuring Israel and its supporters by withdrawing support and capital, humanity aims to bring awareness to — and ultimately — end the occupation of Palestine, grant equal rights to all Palestinians and recognize the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes. This pressure also extends to any individuals and entities found to be complicit in the normalization, funding or support of Israel’s brutal occupation and 75+ years of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
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