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• Internet users are claiming that British singer Adele was filmed holding a Palestinian flag at a concert.

• The artist was in fact holding a Mexican flag, as shown in other, longer videos of the sequence.

• The concert was held at the end of September, just a few days before the start of the conflict in Israel and Palestine.

The fact-check, in detail

"British singer Adele [...] sings for Palestine", says the X account of Oumma.com, which describes itself as a news website for the French-speaking Muslim community, in a post on December 14 that has been viewed more than 600,000 times.

Like other accounts on X and Facebook, Oumma.com relies on a short video of less than 30 seconds shared on TikTok. The TikTok video, posted on November 14 by an account with 500,000 followers and nearly 4 million views, is accompanied by a caption that reads in English: "Adele singing when we were young while holding flag of palestine[sic]".

In this sequence, the artist is filmed singing in the stands of a theatre, with several gifts in her arms from the spectators around her.

A Mexican flag, not a Palestinian flag

Among the gifts was a flag in white, green and red. These colours prompted several people online to say that the artist was holding a Palestinian flag.

Except that Adele wasn't holding a Palestinian flag, but a Mexican one. Several other longer sequences of the scene can be found on YouTube or TikTok using a reverse image search (click here to see how)....

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