Gal also came under fire for her post - especially the use of the word 'neighbors' as most Palestinians are not Israeli citizens and cannot become citizens. Only causing more of the lucrative divide.' 'Seems more like a way to shame Jews rather than creating any real change for your brothers and sisters.'Īnother replied: 'This ain't it, Bella. She also closed comments on a Twitter post of the same statementĪnother urged: 'Go read a book,' while one simply commented: 'Lies.' No comments: Gadot eventually closed off comments on Instagram after being inundated with criticism for her statement.
The Hadid sisters and Gal's posts come as Israel on Thursday pressed ahead with a fierce military offensive in the Gaza Strip, killing as many as 11 senior Hamas terrorist military figures in retaliation for artillery and mortar that had been lobbed into Israel from Palestinian areas. I pray for better days.'ĭespite her statement seeming benign, many social media users objected to her painting the most-recent conflict as a both-sides issue. 'I pray for the victims and their families, I pray for this unimaginable hostility to end, I pray for our leaders to find the solution so we could live side by side in peace. Our neighbors deserve the same,' she continued.
Israel deserves to live as a free and safe nation. 'This is a vicious cycle that has been going on for far too long. I worry for my people,' the 36-year-old Wonder Woman star wrote on Instagram.
Meanwhile, Gal Gadot, who is Israeli, faced backlash and was even forced to disable comments on her post about the conflict between the Israeli military and Hamas. Her sister Gigi then liked the post, amplifying the cartoons riddled with historic inaccuracies and anti-Semitic tropes to her 66.2 million followers.
Supermodel sisters Bella and Gigi Hadid have sparked a firestorm over an Instagram post that said Israel was not a country, but rather a land settled by colonizers.īella, who has nearly 42 million followers on the platform, published the series of cartoons Wednesday that called Israel 'occupiers' and called Palestinians 'oppressed.'