“There is no room for that kind of behaviour in this world.”
Bella Hadid has called out anti-Semitism to her 55.7 million Instagram followers, seemingly in response to Kanye West’s anti-Semitic tweets.
“It is a scary place to live in where discrimination, or death wishes are something of our everyday,” she said.
“It is scary that most people would swipe past something so horrendous and unknowingly go on with their life, completely unaware of how it could affect another human being. But there is a point where we all have to speak up. No matter what.”
She said it would be a disservice to her friends, family, collaborators “and even the Palestinian community as a whole” to not speak up.
“There are people that I love in the world, people that happen to be Jewish, that feel scared by the words that have been used,” she continued.
“They feel targeted, they feel uneasy, and they feel confused. There is generational trauma resurfacing.
“Generation trauma of their ancestors being tortured and taken, there is self-doubt. These are triggers and I am here to say that if you see something, say something. To my Jewish loved ones, the Jewish communities worldwide, I am here to say that you belong, you are worthy and your right as a human being is to be ALIVE. Just the same as any other race, religion, shape or size.”
Read the article by Ava Gilchrist in Elle Australia.