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Journal Article
Look What You Made Me Do: Jewish Swifties and A Fundraiser for Gaza
2024
Overview
In December 2023, Taylor Swift attended a comedy show fundraiser for Palestinians in Gaza. A qualitative study was conducted with 23 11th and 12th grade students who self-identified as emotionally connected to both Israel and Swift to assess how these students understood Swift's attendance and whether it affected their parasocial relationships with her. By making use of the concepts of influencer betrayal and parasocial breakups, I demonstrate the ways in which the adolescents tried to make sense of how a celebrity with whom many felt close to could choose to attend an event whose purpose clashed strongly with their love of Israel. The study captures a moment in time and how a group of Jewish teens came to distance themselves from a parasocial relationship that had provided them great meaning when they felt that the object of their affection betrayed them by seemingly allying with a pro-Palestinian cause.
