Model Gigi Hadid announced that she will be donating all of her earnings
during fashion month two victims in both Ukraine and two Palestinians.
Now the reporting on this is the news itself because it turns out that
vogue wanted to censor certain parts of what Gigi Hadid was trying to do here now.
Now Hadid,
who is the daughter of a Palestinian real estate developer posted this on Instagram.
Let me read it to you and pay close attention to what she says.
I'm pledging to donate my earnings from the fall 2020 to show to aid
those suffering from the war in Ukraine,
as well as continuing to support those experiencing the same in Palestine.
Our eyes and hearts must be open to all human injustice.
May we all see each other as brothers and sisters beyond politics, beyond race,
beyond religion.
At the end of the day, innocent lives pay for war not leaders,
hands off Ukraine, hands off Palestine, peace, peace, peace.
Okay, great.
And she's doing something, it's not just putting something up on social media,
she's contributing to people, she's doing this donation.
It's wonderful.
Vogue wanted to do a little bit of coverage of it and
their original Instagram post about what Gigi Hadid is doing with these donations.
Included her intentions to donate to both Palestinians and
two Ukrainians, but they were criticized immediately for doing that.
Okay, so just to give you a sense of.
>> So posting her full post, that's just how it is.
>> For posting Gigi Hadid's post, yeah, just exactly.
Well, I wanna give you an example of some of the criticism they got for this.
The post was bombarded with comments from luminaries like
Entourage's Emmanuelle Chriqui who accused Vogue of
fanning the flames of anti Semitism.
Okay, I just read you verbatim what Gigi Hadid's post said, verbatim.
>> It acknowledges suffering.
>> It acknowledged the suffering.
Yeah, I mean there was not, by the way,
there wasn't even any criticism of the Israeli government in that post.
All she did was say I am donating my earnings from fashion month to
Ukrainians and Palestinians.
>> Yeah, by the way, if she wants to criticize the government of Israel,
she can do that too.
And if you're gonna cover her thing, you should include that too.
It's not like here is her 12 step plan for taking down the Zionist,
like it was just, there's nobody can dispute that they're suffering.
You can say, well they asked for it or something, you can be insane,
you can be a monster, you can't dispute that people are suffering.
And so look, it's we see this all the time, particularly targeted celebrities.
Emma Watson recently was attacked as an anti Semite because she acknowledged what
was going on there.
There's obviously a changing tide where people are starting to acknowledge that
it's not sustainable what's happening there.
Some celebrities are helping to shift people in that direction and
thus people who do not have a problem with what's going on right now in Palestine
desperately wants to get us back to the old status quo.
They want celebrities to be terrified of commenting on this sort of thing.
>> Exactly, it's a way of shutting down any discussion,
any debate about what's really taking place, and that's why I have a problem.
First of all, it completely minimizes real anti Semitism, which is definitely
still taking place all over the world and yes, even here in the United States.
To immediately say this is anti Semitism again, it causes people to just assume
that other claims of anti Semitism that are credible, that are real aren't real.
And I hate that, right?
I also hate the way that this is an attempt to prevent people from having
discussions or share thoughts or engage in debates that need to be had, okay?
This type of standard doesn't apply to any other conflict anywhere else in the world.
So let's go on to what Vogue did after the backlash,
because did they remain defiant?
Did they keep the post up?
No, they actually ended up censoring it.
A day after the backlash, Vogue decided to scrap the mention of
Palestinians altogether, and this is what they changed the caption to.
Let's take a look, today Gigi Hadid announced that she will be donating all of
her fashion month earnings toward relief efforts in Ukraine.
Originally, this continued as well as continuing to support those
experiencing the same in Palestine.
Okay, so the supermodel is following in the footsteps of her colleague and friend.
And is using her platform as one of fashion's leading faces to support
victims of Russia's invasion in Ukraine and she is not alone, okay?
So as you can see, they scrapped any mention of Palestine there.
And it's just first of all, so cowardly, so weak, so pathetic.
They have not released a statement on exactly why the caption was changed.
>> I wonder.
>> I wonder and originally they were simply just quoting Gigi Hadid herself.
Now beyond Instagram, the actual Vogue story also edited to remove
one of the two original instances of Palestine being mentioned.
Specifically a quote of the final line of Hadid's post reading hands off Ukraine,
hands off Palestine peace, peace, peace.
>> It's calling for peace, especially three times needlessly radical,
needs to be censored.
Yeah, so if they had the best thing that they could have done is they could have
responded that simply acknowledging human suffering is not unacceptable.
It's certainly not anti Semitism and they are gonna stand by their original post,
they could have done that.
They could have taken down the entire thing which would have been cowardly, but
they actually found something worse than that.
Because by keeping up something like the post, it shows that their only interest
in this is clout chasing off of Gigi Hadid, that's what they want.
They still wanna have something about her.
>> So God.
>> But what do you think vogue?
You think she's gonna like, I don't know, I have no idea, I don't speak for
her maybe she'll comment on it.
You think she's gonna like your approach to this?
You think she's going to look favorably on vogue as a result of the way that you've
handled this?
It is not only cowardly it's exploitative at the same time,
it's exploitation on a person who's trying to point out exploitation.
Isn't it ironic, don't you think, how could they do this?
And Vogue in the past by the way, at the very least teen Vogue, in the past five
years or so has done some good political reporting, some progressive stuff.
So, to see them on this particular issue running scared from
criticism is just sad and needless in 2022.
>> Also, I mean, did they think people wouldn't notice,
like are you guys really that dumb?
Like of course people are gonna notice that you're like taking something very
specific out of her messaging.
But I love the point that you made Ojode about how,
yeah they wanna profit off of her fame.
They wanna take advantage of that, but they don't necessarily wanna support what
she's doing, they couldn't care less, right?
This was just a way of piggybacking off of her celebrity for their own means.
And once they got a little bit of pushback is like, wait, this is not what we expect,
this is not what we want.
We don't wanna get political about this,
we just wanna take advantage of her fame and not deal with any backlash.
So, let's just censor her and
change her messaging to something that's more suitable for people who apparently
get triggered at any mention of the brutal treatment of Palestinians.
>> I don't know that she'll say anything, it'll be fascinating if she does.
>> Yeah. >> Give her perspective on what happened.
>> And she remains undeterred, look, she and her sister have spoken out
against the Israeli Government's treatment of Palestinians before.
There was actually a full page ad taken out against them essentially calling
them anti-Semites.
Calling for the condemnation of the sisters as a result of their activism
around this issue, and this is what it looks like, it's graphic five.
And it just gives you a sense of how aggressive the effort is to shut
down any type of discussion about this particular issue.
This is real censorship, this is real intimidation and it's wrong.
Regardless of where you stand on this issue, preventing anyone from
speaking out about the treatment of Palestinians is censorship.
It is wrong and it goes against what we're supposed to support in this country which
was just freedom of expression, freedom of speech.
>> I love that ad, Hamas calls for a second holocaust condemned them now.
Yeah, I don't buy albums or whatever but duly did perform once on SNL.
And I noticed she did not condemn Hamas in that song that she sang on the show,
this is insanity.
>> Yeah. >> Demanding that a singer,
she should really make much more of her creative output about condemning political
organizations worldwide.
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It's like there's an anti-Semitism switch that gets triggered anytime you even
mentioned Palestinians.
Look it's true, I don't think that's gonna stop, I think that those ridiculous,
unfounded accusations will continue.
But what I am noticing a change in how people have been defiant and
have continued with their,
I think well evidenced like critique of the Israeli Government.
This is not about Jewish people,
this is about a Government that continues to be brutal towards people.
Continues to occupy people, continues to keep people in an open air prison.
I mean, it's undeniable the evidence is there,
you can't just pretend like it doesn't exist and hope it goes away.
>> Yeah.