Like the Hadid sisters, my dad is a Palestinian refugee. After Bella spoke out Instagram offered a few other explanations for it being removed, and then said “Whoops, it was a mistake!” Why? According to Instagram the post violated “community guidelines on harassment or bullying” as well as regulations on “hate speech”. Last year Bella Hadid posted a photo on Instagram of her dad’s US passport which listed his birthplace as Palestine.
This isn’t the first time that a Hadid has had their comments about Palestine erased on Instagram, by the way. After an outcry from people who pointed out that it is not antisemitic to support Palestinians, Vogue then amended the post a third time to put the reference back in. Vogue initially included the reference to Palestine in the post but removed it after it was accused by a number of pro-Israel voices, in very bad faith, of furthering antisemitism. Our eyes and hearts must be open to all human injustice”. Last Sunday Gigi, who is half Palestinian, announced that she was giving her earnings “to aid those suffering from the war in Ukraine, as well as continuing to support those experiencing the same in Palestine. The magazine recently edited a reference to Palestine out of an Instagram post on its official social media page that was dedicated to supermodel Gigi Hadid’s pledge to donate her all her Fashion Month earnings to relief efforts in Ukraine and Palestine. Nothing makes liberals abandon their progressive values, or their courage, like someone mentioning Palestine. The topic has become so loaded that some people seemingly prefer to pretend Palestine and Palestinians don’t exist and just ignore the issue altogether. What starts with “P” ends with “E” and is too terrifying a word for many people to so much as mention? “Palestine”, of course! Simply uttering the P-word in a vaguely sympathetic way can be enough to elicit bad faith accusations of antisemitism.
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