Bella Hadid is considered one of the most prominent and outspoken voices against Israel and one who never misses an opportunity to attack the Israeli army and the country, as she spreads fake news in quantities on social networks and stirs up hatred and anti-Semitism among the Israeli refugees.
The pro-Palestinian model receives support from anti-Israeli organizations, BDS supporters and extreme anti-Semitic elements, but also experiences the other side of the coin with the limitation of exposure to her posts, their complete download and counter campaigns by pro-Israel organizations and elements.
Recently, Hadid (25) sat down for a long conversation with American Muslim journalist Noor Tagore (herself a controversial speaker), when she came to be a guest on The Rep podcast and spoke at length about her identity as the proud daughter of a Palestinian father (Muhammad Hadid, another harsh and outspoken critic of the family who regularly comes out against Israel; AD), her opinions, her activity and the personal and professional price she pays, according to her, for her activism.
Mohammed and Bella Hadid, photo: Gettyimages
"I have an anxiety that takes over me that I will say the wrong thing and not do what everyone expects of me all the time," she shared with Tagore and the listeners.
"On the other hand, I have come to the realization that I have done enough research on my side. I know my family and my history and that should be enough," she said.
Hadid added and shared that her opinions and actions online and offline come with a difficult price tag for her both personally and professionally.
"A lot of companies stopped working with me," she said of the professional and financial price that comes with her identification as a fierce opponent of the State of Israel.
"I have friends who abandoned and cut off contact with me completely," she confirmed.
Despite the inflammatory and harsh posts she makes against Israel, Hadid insists that her goal is not to spread hatred.
"I support my Palestinian brothers and sisters," she echoed the line she wants to convey in her posts.
"When I talk about Palestine I am labeled as someone who is not me," she insisted on going against her image as an uprooter of Israel, when she also refers to an ad that was published about a year ago in the New York Times against her, against her sister Gigi and against the singer Dua Lipa (who was her brother's partner at the time) Anwar), and claims that the prestigious media body sold its soul when it gave the stage to such a publication, which claimed that they called for ethnic cleansing and the destruction of the Jewish state.
Gigi Hadid, photo: Reuters
Hadid added and said that she realized from a young age that people would not necessarily be quick to embrace and accommodate her identity as a proud Palestinian woman and shared that when she was in middle school she was called a "terrorist".
"I was called names and I was attacked for being a person who spreads hatred against other people, when all I was talking about was the liberation of my father's people, people who are experiencing such terrible suffering."
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