Dua Lipa: Angry response to full-page New York Times ad accusing her of anti-Semitism

“This is the price you pay for defending Palestinian human rights,” Dua Lipa told a Jewish group that ran a full-page ad in the New York Times, describing both Lipa and the Hadid sisters as anti-Semitic because they were pro-Palestinian. recent conflicts with Israel.

In the ad, the 25-year-old Two and models Gigi and Bella Hadid were targeted by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, head of the World Values ​​Network, as three “mega influencers” who “accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing” and “defamation of the Jewish state.”

Dua, who is their brother’s partner Hadid, Anwar, issued a statement against the ad, saying it contained “blatant misconceptions about who I am”.

“I completely reject the false and horrific allegations made today in the New York Times ad by the World Values ​​Network. “This is the price you pay for defending Palestinian human rights against the Israeli government, whose actions in Palestine have been blamed on both Human Rights Watch and the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem for persecution and discrimination.”

“I hold this position because I believe that everyone, Jews, Muslims and Christians, have the right to live in peace as equal citizens of whatever state they choose.”

Responding to Dua’s new statements on her Twitter page, a World Values ​​Network spokeswoman said: and the Hadid sisters for their hateful hatred of Israel and their grave defamation of characterizing the only democracy in the Middle East as an apartheid state. “

And he closes: “Dua Lipa pours hatred on social media. “She thinks she can spread anti-Semitic hatred, but she is terrified when she is accused of her prejudice and intolerance.”