Kylie Jenner arrives on the red carpet for the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating the opening of “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” by the Costume Institute on May 2, 2022 in New York City. File photo by John Angelillo/UPI Mia Khalifa arrives at the 2022 Latin American Music Awards at Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on April 21, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. File photo by James Atoa/UPI Bella Hadid arrives on the red carpet for the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates the Costume Institute’s opening of “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” on Monday, May 2, 2022 in New York City. File photo by John Angelillo/UPI
Oct. 8 (UPI) — Kylie Jenner posted and then deleted a pro-Israel message after violence broke out between Israel and Palestine over the weekend.
Jenner’s about-face prompted comparisons to his ex-girlfriend Bella Hadid, the supermodel daughter of Palestinian-Jordanian real estate developer Mohamed Hadid.
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The younger Hadid was a vocal supporter of Palestine, her father’s homeland, drawing the ire of Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Jenner, 26, had reposted a graphic from StandWithUs, a California-based nonprofit that supports Israel, the New York Daily News reported.
The news was confirmed by Insider, who reported she deleted the post from her Instagram Story about an hour later after critics began commenting on her posts.
Meanwhile, Hadid remained publicly silent on the issue over the weekend but has been an increasingly vocal supporter of Palestine in the past.
In an apparently since-deleted Instagram post last June, Hadid wrote, “I will never let anyone forget our beautiful Palestine or our beautiful people,” The Cut reported. She also shared a letter against apartheid and videos showing Israeli soldiers beating Palestinian children.
“I urge you to watch each of these videos. Whether it’s a 12 year old child being suffocated by a grown man or a mother of six running with her hands up and being shot by the military. An elderly man seen.” “Crutches, unable to defend themselves, are thrown to the ground. A child and his father are being terrorized for absolutely zero reason,” Hadid wrote in the caption for a post that remains online.
“Someone please tell me which of these people provoked this kind of attack? If you try to find an excuse, you are the problem… I will continue to come forward peacefully and show factual information about how the IDF operates.” The Israeli government and settlers do not attack innocent Palestinians for any reason other than simply being Palestinians are.”
Last month, Hadid wrote a post that earned her the ire of Israeli leaders.
“My right, the right of my wife and the right of my children to travel on the roads of Judea and Samaria is more important than the right of freedom of movement for Arabs,” Ben-Gvir said, referring to the West Bank with its biblical Hebrew names.
Ben-Gvir lives in the illegal Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba in the West Bank, Al Jazeera reported.
“In no place or time, especially in 2023, should one life be more valuable than another. Especially simply because of their ethnicity, culture or pure hate,” Hadid wrote in a post following his remarks.
In response, Ben-Gvir called her an “Israel hater” who had tried to portray him as a racist.
Meanwhile, Mia Khalifa – the former Lebanese adult film actress – has made a series of tweets since Saturday defending Palestine.
“If you look at the situation in Palestine and you are not on the side of the Palestinians, then you are on the wrong side of apartheid and history will show that in time,” Khalifa said said in a tweet.
you too shared posts which points to the West’s blatant hypocrisy over its treatment of Ukraine and Palestine and who make fun about the political divide between Jenner and Hadid.
“If real journalism exists, the next person who speaks to Kylie Jenner will ask her opinion on geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and won’t break eye contact until she can string together a coherent sentence as she tells her 400 million followers “It’s so bad,” Khalifa said in a post.
Khalifa also condemned Israel’s so-called “settlers” for seizing Palestinian land, stating: “Settlers are NOT civilians when they take part in hostilities.”