Super model Bella Hadid has been loud in her condemnation of Israel this past week over its current conflict with the Hamas terrorist organization. Her father is an Arab who was born in Nazareth in November 1948, after Israel officially declared its Independence and just a few months before the final truce ended its war of independence. His family then chose to immigrate to Jordan.
Nazareth became part of Israel and its resident’s Israeli citizens. The Hadid family did not leave the country until after the war was over. But this does not stop Bella Hadid from claiming that they were refugees.
No one is condemning her for supporting the Palestinian cause or for criticizing Israel. But there are limits. And apparently even Hadid realizes that she went too far and has since deleted a video that she had published.
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In the video, which was posted on Instagram on Saturday, a crying Bella Hadid said, “I feel a deep sense of pain for Palestine and for my Palestinian brothers and sisters today and everyday. Watching these videos physically breaks my heart into 100 different pieces.”
“You cannot allow yourself to be desensitized to watching human life being taken. You just can’t. Palestinian lives are the lives that will help change the world. And they are being taken from us by the second.”
She also wrote, “There is NO place for this!!! Especially in 2021!!!! it has always been #freepalestine. ALWAYS. I have a lot to say about this but for now, please read and educate yourself. This is not about religion. This is not about spewing hate on one or the other. This is about Israeli colonization, ethnic cleansing, military occupation and apartheid over the Palestinian people that has been going on for YEARS.”
It is not clear why she deleted the video. This is, after all, the same person who last week denied that Israel even has a right to exist as a country. She wrote on social media, “When I say ‘Israel’, I am referring to a group of people, a group of settlers, who are colonizing Palestine.”