Bella Hadid responds with her 'shock' at Adidas campaign

Bella Hadid responds with her 'shock' at Adidas campaign

By fijivillage
Thursday 01/08/2024
Copyright Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP

Bella Hadid has said she was “shocked” and “upset” when she found out that the Adidas campaign she fronted for the SL72 trainers, based on the design the German brand used in that year’s Olympic games, drew a connection to the Munich massacre.

“In advance of the campaign’s release, I had no knowledge of the historical connection to the atrocious events in 1972. I am shocked, I am upset, and I am disappointed in the lack of sensitivity that went into this campaign. Had I been made aware, from the bottom of my heart, I would never have participated,” Hadid wrote on Instagram.

“I would never knowingly engage with any art or work that is linked to a horrific tragedy of any kind,” the 27-year-old model wrote.

“I will forever stand by my people of Palestine while continuing to advocate for a world free of antisemitism. Antisemitism has no place in the liberation of the Palestinian people,” Hadid concludes.

She noted that her team should have known, Adidas should have known, and she herself “should have done more research”.

In 1972, during the Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, eight Palestinian militants entered the Olympic village and killed two Israeli athletes before taking nine more hostage who were later also killed.

Ever since, the 1972 Games has been indelibly linked to these tragic events and was dramatised by Steven Spielberg in his 2005 film Munich.

After the campaign was criticised by Jewish groups, Adidas released a statement that it would “revise” it and drop Hadid as its ambassador. Of the groups that criticised the campaign, many specified that Hadid’s presence as half-Palestinian – her father was born in Nazareth – made the insult of the campaign even greater.

Source : euronews.com

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