CALIFORNIA: Palestinian-American supermodel Bella Hadid on Saturday claimed that she was “shadow-banned” by Instagram for posting about Palestine, just hours after Israeli authorities attacked worshippers at al-Aqsa Mosque.
“My Instagram has disabled me from posting on my story – pretty much only when it is Palestine based I’m going to assume,” Hadid wrote on her Instagram story. “When I post about Palestine I get immediately shadowbanned and almost 1 million less of you see my stories and posts.”
In a subsequent post, Hadid posted a screenshot of what appeared to be an attempt to re-post a video of an Israeli officer assaulting an elderly Palestinian man, which she captioned, “Won’t let me repost…for 2 hours now,” with a crying emoji.
She shared a clip that appeared to show the Israeli army at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. “Posting this video directly after,” Hadid wrote. “Let’s be reminded that this land is some of the Holiest soil in the world. Where Jesus was born. Where every religion has a place to call home. To pray. To be. To live. (Not at all safe as you can see.) With mosques, synagogues, churches……” She added, “But to do this to only one group, during prayer on the holy month of Ramadan is just truly sick in the head.”
Hadid said in a separate frame that a pair of posts she was ‘trying to re-post from Eye On Palestine all day,’ and had penned ‘long messages’ about were ‘the only ones that are not uploading.’ The supermodel shared multiple frames of posts that did not appear to be uploaded to her Instagram Stories despite her attempts.
Israeli forces attacked Palestinian worshippers inside al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem during an early morning raid on Friday, wounding and arresting dozens of people.
Scores of worshippers were left injured as Israeli forces fired rubber-coated steel bullets, teargas and stun grenades inside the courtyards and prayer halls of the mosque.
