Bella Hadid Says Her Vocal Support for Palestine Has Lost Her Jobs

16.08.2022 - 21:37 / glamour.com

may not be especially political, but there is one stance that she refuses to stop speaking out about—no matter how many brand sponsorships or friends she loses, or how many full-page New York Times ads she’s targeted by. And that’s her support for Palestine, where her father was born. In an interview podcast, Hadid said her has cost her career opportunities and even relationships.

“I had so many companies that stopped working with me,” she said. “I have friends that completely dropped me.” Even though she described a feeling of “anxiety” about saying or doing the “right thing,” Hadid said she believes she has all the personal experience and knowledge she needs to stand by her convictions.

“I know my family enough, I know my own history enough. And that should be enough,” she said on the podcast. This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The model has not let up her advocacy as tensions between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants .

In a June Instagram post, Hadid wrote, “Everyday I wish I could go back in time, to when I was a child, so that I could start fighting for Palestine sooner. For my family, for my elders, our history and for the people of Palestine still living, now, through this treacherous, exhausting and painful occupation.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.After attending a pro-Palestine march in New York City in 2021 and posting about the march on Instagram, Hadid was lambasted by the official Israel account, which called her an “advocate for throwing Jews into the sea.” She, along with sister Gigi Hadid and singer Dua Lipa, were also the targets of a full-page ad in The New York Times () that called their pro-Palestine advocacy akin to “anti-Semitism.”Bella Hadid told Rep,