I’ve been writing about model Gigi Hadid’s pro-Palestinian, antisemitic posts on her social media pages. Hadid and her family have Palestinian blood, but they’ve equated rallying for their people by attacking Israel. I think they — she and her sister, Bella — don’t understand that these posts are interpreted by their combined mammoth 140 million Instagram followers to respond with hate, not justice.
Now Hadid has created a new post to explain the prior ones and to show sympathy for the Jewish hostages. It’s a kinda-sorta apology, like saying “I’m sorry…but…”
She is clearly being told to do this after I’ve connected her posts to “Maestro,” the movie from her alleged boyfriend, Bradley Cooper, about the famously pro-Israel, pro-Zionist late composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein would be furious to be associated with anything like Hadid’s posts.
The third paragraph is the most important here.
Let’s hope she means it, and this isn’t just a sop to protect a movie.
That would be too bad, because “Maestro” is excellent.
