A few weeks ago, when I was on my week-long break from the online world, Adidas won the Gold medal for bad taste and tone deafness by featuring palestinian-identifying model and Israel-hater Bella Hadid in advertisements for its 1972 Munich Olympic sneaker relaunch.
You know, the Games in which eight palestinian Arab terrorists. infiltrated the Olympic Village, butchered 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team.
Understandably, the Jewish community was appalled, leading to Adidas apologizing and pulling her from the campaign. There were reports Hadid was going to sue them.
Now she has taken to Instagram to apologize for appearing in the campaign, claiming she would never “knowingly engage with any art or work that is linked to a horrific tragedy of any kind.”
“For those of you that do not know my heart, I want to make sure you’re hearing directly from me about my recent campaign with Adidas. I would never knowingly engage with any art or work that is linked to a horrific tragedy of any kind. In advance of the campaign release, I had no knowledge of the historical connection to the atrocious events in 1972,” Hadid wrote in a Monday Instagram Story.
She added that she was “shocked,” “upset” and “disappointed” by Adidas’ “lack of sensitivity.” She further faulted the sportswear giant, her own team and herself for not doing more research.
“While everyone’s intentions were to make something positive and bring people together through art, the collective lack of understanding from all parties undermined the process. I do not believe in hate in any form, including antisemitism. That will never waiver, and I stand by that statement to the fullest extent,” Hadid wrote.
Do I believe her when she claims to be ignorant about the Munich massacre? Seems unlikely, although it is possible, given her father Mohamed has admitted to being completely ignorant about things like Hamas and Zionism despite his constant social media posts bashing Israel.
This is what the Hadids do – they post hate against the Jewish state to their tens of millions of followers with scant regard for the facts.
“Connecting the liberation of the palestinian to an attack” might hurt her heart, but it is absolutely correct. Their so called “liberation movement” to correct their own mistakes in rejecting our peace overtures from even before Israel’s establishment has been defined by terrorism. “Palestine” is absolutely “synonymous with terrorism” and does “represent” who they are – at least based on their strategy and tactics for the past 100 or so years.
if Bella truly wants us to believe “Palestine” is not synonymous with terrorism and that she stands for “peace over violence”, I suggest she not attend rallies wearing the keffiyeh (popularized by terrorists like Yasser Arafat) while standing next to people advocating for “resistance”:
including blatant terror supporters like Nerdeen Kiswani:
Oh, and she should also educate herself and stop posting absolute lies about the Jewish state that only serve to embolden the terrorists and incite others to perpetuate violence against Jews.
