{"id":14708,"date":"2023-11-28T15:50:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T20:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=14708"},"modified":"2023-11-28T15:50:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T20:50:44","slug":"gigi-hadid-takes-u-turn-on-her-pro-palestine-post-as-she-admit-of-not-doing-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/gigi-hadid-takes-u-turn-on-her-pro-palestine-post-as-she-admit-of-not-doing-fact-check\/14708\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigi Hadid takes U-turn on her pro-Palestine post as she admit of not doing \u2018fact check\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gigi Hadid, an outspoken advocate for Palestine, admitted of mistakenly spreading misinformation regarding Israel to her nearly 80 million followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy post on Tuesday, the supermodel wrote, \u201cAs someone of Palestinian descent, the endless heartbreaking news and imagery coming out of Gaza has been painful and often overwhelming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that it is important for her share stories of the hardships the Palestinians are going through, however, over the weekend, she shared something without doing \u201cfact check or deeply think about prior to posting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The since-deleted post claimed Israel to be the \u201conly country in the world who keeps children as prisoners of war.\u201d The post also blamed Israel for abduction, rape, humiliation, torture, and murder of Palestinian for years before October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Gigi also shared photos of Ahmed Manasara, a Palestinian man who was convicted of attempted murder in relation to 2015 stabbings of Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem. The picture also featured his cousin Hassan Manasara, who was shot dead by the police.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">gigi hadid cares so much about her career and reputation because there is no way she is going back and forth on her statement about palestine\u2026one day she can be preaching about gaza and the next she\u2019s staying neutral. we been knew bella is the better hadid. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yfkz2sSBPm\">pic.twitter.com\/Yfkz2sSBPm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ana (@withluvselena) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/withluvselena\/status\/1729561430679081003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ahmed\u2019s lawyers had argued in court that he has not stabbed anyone, despite of which he was sentenced to twelve years in prison, which was later reduced to nine and half years.<\/p>\n<p>According to Amnesty International, Ahmed developed Schizophrenia and severe depression inside jail, which has been proved life threatening. Despite of this, he was not granted early release, which was used by Gigi as an example to enlighten how \u201chundreds of Palestinian children [who] remain detained, suffering in Israeli jails.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gigi Hadid, an outspoken advocate for Palestine, admitted of mistakenly spreading misinformation regarding Israel to her nearly 80 million followers\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":14709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[984,536],"class_list":["post-14708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-gigi-hadid","tag-palestine"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}