31 July 2024 at 11:35 Bella Hadid on controversial Adidas campaign: – Wasn’t aware of it – I had no knowledge of the historic event in 1972, the American-Palestinian model recently wrote on her Instagram story, according to the BBC. Adidas’ advertising campaign with the relaunch of retro shoes from the 1972 Munich Olympics is linked with the terrorist attack on 11 Israelis, carried out by the Palestinian group Black September. The State of Israel has responded in a statement to X that Adidas has used a half-Palestinian model, Bella Hadid, to front the shoes from Munich 1972. Adidas and Hadid say they were not aware of the terrorist attack against the Israelis, and that this link was not intended . To the Hollywood Reporter, Hadid says that anti-Semitism has no place in the liberation of the Palestinian people. (NTB)
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