Bella Hadid and Al-Jazeera share slanderous quotes of PM Bennett

• Published date: 15 June 2021
• Date: 15 June 2021
• Author: GABRIELLE ABRAMS
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

In a recent Instagram story, Hadid told her 43 million followers Bennett is said, "I've killed lots of Arabs in my life, and there's no problem with that."

AJ+ similarly shared via Twitter that Bennett has, "bragged about killing Palestinians."

Bennett, in a Knesset briefing in 2015, clarified that he was inaccurately quoted by former Joint List party member, Haneen Zoabi, that "I killed a lot of Arabs in my life" when in reality he said that in the context of his army service he killed many terrorists.

Bennett added at the time that "this is good and it is a shame we didn't kill more terrorists."

Zoabi, at the time, identified as Palestinian and considered the two-state solution unrealistic as well as the description of Israel as a Jewish state to be racist.

When Bennett's comments were allegedly made, he faced criticism by many of his fellow MKs and leaders of various Israeli organizations. Former National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror reportedly responded that "this is not legal."

The general delegation of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to the United States also responded to Bennett's comments, saying that, "It is extremely alarming that a public Israeli official at the ministerial level calls for murder and utters explicitly racist remarks without being held accountable."

The post by Hadid is just one of many social media posts by the Palestinian model about recent Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Bella along with her sister Gigi Hadid, children of Palestinian property tycoon, Mohamed Hadid, have both been extremely vocal in the Free Palestine movement to their millions of Instagram followers. Hadid also attended a pro-Palestinian rally in Brooklyn...