Gal Gadot picks Shaheen Bagh’s Bilkis as her personal ‘Wonder Woman’, deletes story later

New Delhi: Wonder Woman’ Gal Gadot in her latest post on Instagram shared Shaheen Bagh’s Bilkis Dadi’s photo as her “personal wonder woman”.  Gal shared a series of stories featuring her ‘personal Wonder Women’ which included young girls and female personas from various walks of life.

“Saying farewell to 2020, with all my love to #MyPersonalWonderWomen Some are those closest to me – my family, my friends – some are inspiring women I’ve loved discovering, and some are exceptional women I hope to meet in the future,” she wrote.

Gal shared an image of Bilkis Dadi on her Insta story and wrote, “The 82-year-old activist fighting for women’s equality in India showed me it’s never too late to fight for what you believe in.”

but later she deleted the story but kept it in her feed.

Bilkis dadi garnered fame from participating in last year’s widespread protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in New Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh. She has also being featured among Time Magazine’s top 100 most influential personalities in the world in the ‘Icon’ category.

This is how netizens reacted:

https://twitter.com/TrulyMonica/status/1344504969148305414

@GalGadot
I have been to Israel
I know what your ppl have gone through and going through
funny part is
you don't know what we have been through and going through

Gist is….get your facts right
thats the first thing you should be doing
prior to declaring anybody
WONDER WOMAN https://t.co/YIs0uKSe2f

— LOVE you ALL…. (@srini791751) December 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/ImpoliteHindu/status/1344513807041744899

You can't beat the left lobby
You just cant pic.twitter.com/059RV9JGKK

— Harridan (@brawling_virago) December 31, 2020