Bella Hadid Says Support for Palestine Has Lost Her Career Opportunities

Bella Hadid’s personal brand 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 for the Rep podcast, Hadid said her outspoken advocacy for Palestine 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. 

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The model has not let up her advocacy as tensions between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants continue to heat up. 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.”

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