A Supermodel and Mega-Influencer, Gigi Hadid, Repeats Myth of Israelis ‘Organ Harvesting’ From Palestinians

The claim that Israel had deliberately targeted Palestinians for organ harvesting is a ‘distorted and falsified’ interpretation of the initial investigation, a reporter who was part of that probe says.

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Gigi Hadid during the 76th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 21, 2023, at Cannes, France. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

A model and influencer who has 79 million followers on Instagram, Gigi Hadid, is under fire for sharing a video that accuses Israel of harvesting the organs of dead Palestinians, an apocryphal conspiracy theory.

Ms. Hadid, who’s the daughter of a multimillionaire Palestinian-American real estate developer father and a Dutch mother, had previously shared a post celebrating the release of a Palestinian child, who had been convicted of attempting to murder an Israeli in a stabbing attack, as part of the Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange. 

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