Israel’s far-right national security minister lashed out at supermodel Bella Hadid on Friday for criticizing his recent fiery televised remarks about Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to Haaretz. In an interview earlier this week with Israel’s Channel 12 Ben-Gvir argued that his right to freedom of movement as a Jewish settler outweighs the same right for Palestinians. ‘My right, the right of my wife and my children to move around Judea and Samaria, is more important than freedom of movement for the Arabs,’ Ben-Gvir said on TV Wednesday, using the biblical name for the West Bank. “The right to life comes before freedom of movement,’ he said in his remarks with Israel’s Channel 12 Hadid, a world-famous supermodel and social media influencer whose father is Palestinian, shared an excerpt from Ben-Gvir’s interview with her 60 million followers on Instagram on Thursday, writing: ‘In no place, no time, especially in 2023 should one life be more valuable than another’s. Especially simply because of their ethnicity, culture, or pure hatred.’ Reported Haaretz. She also posted a video from leading Israeli rights group B’Tselem showing Israeli soldiers in the southern West Bank city of Hebron telling a resident that Palestinians are not permitted to walk on a certain street because it is reserved for Jews. ‘Does this remind anyone of anything?’ she wrote. In response, Ben Gvir wrote in a post in Hebrew. ‘I saw that yesterday you took an excerpt from an interview I gave and put it out to the whole world to try and portray me as racist and backward,’ stating that ‘I don’t apologize or take back my comments. I will repeat them 1,000 times.’ Hadid was born in the United States to a Palestinian father.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA