“And both added and labeled the victims as terrorists,” Hadid wrote in the caption accompanying the image.
Hadid, 74, published the post on Saturday before quickly removing it. The luxury property mogul, who is based in Los Angeles, was born into a Palestinian family in Nazareth, in what is now northern Israel, in 1948.
He has stated previously that his family were expelled from their home in the city of Safed after Jewish refugees from Germany and Poland arrived in Israel, and that his relatives then became refugees themselves.
Yaari Cohen from the Israeli Foreign Ministry posted a thread on X debunking the points of comparison between Nazis and Israel that were alleged by Hadid’s post.
Referring to the false claim that “Israel was founded on Jewish supremacy”, Cohen said: "False. In May 1948, following the UN vote that split the land of Israel in two, Israel immediately welcomed the vote and issued the Declaration of Independence [which]
included a call to neighbouring Arab states for peace. The next morning all neighbouring Arab states attacked Israel...Israel is by definition a country of all its citizens - no matter race, ethnicity gender, or religion."
Turning to the carpet bombings claim, Cohen said: "False again, Israel does not carpet bomb. Israel only uses targetted strikes in accordance with international laws of warfare."
Summing up his thoughts on Hadid's post, Cohen said: “This is not some shrewd complicated political stance. This is just pure hate. Shame on you.”
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