The head editor of a women’s fashion magazine is facing calls for her termination for complaining about Israel cutting Gaza off.
As previously reported, this week Hamas militants operating out of Gaza committed a terror attack against Israel, butchering hundreds of men, women, and children.
In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war and instituted an immediate blockade of all food, supplies, electricity, etc., going into Gaza.
Responding to this, Harper’s Bazaar Editor-in Chief, Samira Nasr, took to Instagram, where she published a story calling Israel’s retaliatory decision “inhuman.”
“Cutting off water and electricity to 2.2 million civilians…This is the most inhuman thing I’ve seen in my life,” she wrote in the post.
Below is a screenshot of the story:
Water? What about cutting off babies’ heads…?
Ladies and gentlemen #samiranasr ; Editor in Chief of @harpersbazaarus – let’s get this Jew hater fired. pic.twitFacebook Liveter.com/UXZUD6mIiG
— Allison Josephs (@jewinthecity) October 12, 2023
The backlash was swift.
“Yesterday, when the news of beheaded babies emerged, Samira posts this,” an outraged fashion executive told the New York Post.
“Really? That’s the most inhumane she’s seen? So, murder, rape and beheading is not?” an unnamed fashion industry colleague added.
Meanwhile, influencer Moti Ankari, who’s reportedly “contributed” to lifestyle magazines like Bloomberg Pursuits, Glamour and GQ magazine, slammed Nasr in an Instagram post of his own.
“Was @samiranasr off Instagram this weekend? And missed how 260 Israelis were murdered? How children were beheaded? How families were murdered in cold blood and then put on Facebook Live for their families to find out? How children were being kidnapped?” he wrote.
“This is @harpersbazaarus editor in chief. How much do you dehumanize Israelis? Perhaps she should put on her next cover: ‘We support the killing and kidnapping of Israeli children’ on her dying magazine.’ PS any normal person with common sense would rather not have electricity or water than their heads chopped off and their bodies burned,” he added.
Similar sentiments can be seen on Twitter:
Wait until she finds out what precipitated it.
— Nosferatu-Trish (@wtffiles) October 11, 2023
I dunno beheading babies is pretty much the most inhumane thing that comes to mind.
— Liz ️ (@Xandrigity) October 12, 2023
Did she see children being taken hostage, women being raped and paraded around to be spat on and grandmothers being shot in the head? I guess not. @samiranasr
— Andre’ Cilliers (@AndreCilliers5) October 11, 2023
I would say raping women then parading their dead bodies through the streets while even Palestinian kids spat on them is worse
But go off I guess
— tired (@RerunReigns) October 11, 2023
I can’t see how one community should be forced to provide power to another community, especially when that community just attacked it. Palestinians probably should have considered that before slaughtering families.
— J (@j913tn) October 11, 2023
According to the Post, Nasr eventually responded to the backlash among her colleagues by issuing an apology to her staff. It’s unclear how Hearst, Harper’s parent company, will handle the matter.
Nasr is one of many celebrities who’re facing backlash over their takes on the Israel-Gaza conflict. However, most celebrities are facing backlash for rightly siding with Israel, which, as noted earlier, suffered a terror attack this week.
Take pop sensation Justin Bieber, who published an Instagram Story featuring the words “PRAYING FOR ISRAEL.” But seen behind the words was an image of rubble from Gaza, which Israel has been bombing in retaliation for this week’s terror attack.
justin bieber posting “praying for israel” using a picture of a destroyed gaza is actually insane pic.twitter.com/GNcEyhNk6V
— Hurt CoPain (@SaeedDiCaprio) October 11, 2023
The next celebrity on the chopping block, actress Jamie Lee Curtis, incidentally made virtually the exact same mistake as Bieber.
“The Oscar-winning actress took to Instagram on Saturday to share a photo of several children looking to the sky, captioning the post ‘terror from the skies’ with an Israel flag emoji,” according to Yahoo News.
There was just one problem: “The photo was originally taken by Gaza-based photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf, who described the scene in her own post saying, ‘Palestinian families seek refuge with their children from the northern Gaza Strip.’”
American actress Jamie Lee Curtis posted this picture because she thought they were Israeli children.
As soon as she learned they were Palestinian, she deleted the post. pic.twitter.com/Kd0lpN9lW2
— Jackson Hinkle (@jacksonhinklle) October 11, 2023
Then there’s socialite Kylie Jenner. On the day of the terror attack in Israel, she published an Instagram Story featuring the Israeli flag and the words “NOW AND ALWAYS, WE STAND WITH THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.”
Note that she posted this perfectly legitimate post hours after Hamas militants invaded Israel and began butchering men, women, and children.
Despite this, she too came under heavy fire, with Hamas supporters like Mia Khalifa rushing to slam her for daring to support Israel.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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