Remember when it was rapists who weren’t welcome in Hollywood? Now it’s people who oppose rape. Witness the fury that swirled around Gwyneth Paltrow when she posted an Instagram story saying: ‘Rape is not resistance or freedom-fighting.’ She was referring to Hamas’s use of sexual violence as a weapon against the women of southern Israel during its pogrom of 7 October. And for that – for humbly suggesting that it was wicked of the marauding misogynists of Hamas to visit such sexual horrors on Israeli women – she’s been branded scum.

She’s added ‘her support to pro-Israel genocide propaganda’, thundered rapper Lowkey. When the official Twitter account for the State of Israel shared a screenshot of Paltrow’s IG story, the replies were insane. She’s a ‘genocide apologist’ and ‘genocidal freak’, wailed an army of the demented. One radical outlet accused her of ‘align[ing] herself’ with the ‘genocide propaganda’ of those evil Zionists. Just a few months ago, an actress speaking up about rape would have been lauded online – now she risks being defamed and damned.

Gal Gadot had a similar experience.