Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Watermelon emojis are now scattered on social media as a sign of support for Palestine, especially the residents of Gaza who are being bombarded by Israel. Behind the use of the watermelon emoji, it turns out there is resistance to the alignment of social media giants such as Instagram, TikTok and Facebook in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Watermelon has long been a symbol used to represent support for Palestine. Because Palestinian-supporting netizens suspect there is massive censorship of Gaza content, they use the watermelon emoji to replace the Palestinian flag.