One Direction’s Zayn Malik gets death threats for posting #FreePalestine

The One Direction star, who was raised a Muslim, was bombarded with death threats and messages of complaint after he “did a Rihanna” and tweeted the hashtag to his 13million followers.

And to start with, Malik might have assumed his protest post was a popular decision: the tweet garnered over 130,000 retweets and 138,000 favorites in a matter of moments.

But it soon became apparent that not everyone agreed with his opinion on the emotionally charged conflict, that has seen over 1,000 Palestinians perish in Gaza and 43 Israelis killed.