Singer Dua Lipa rejected claims she was antisemitic after an organization published a full-page ad in The New York Times accused her of antisemitism, saying the group used her name "shamelessly" to "advance their ugly campaign with falsehoods and blatant misrepresentations."
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In the ad, which appeared in Saturday's newspaper in the main section, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the head of the World Values Network, named Lipa, and the models Bella and Gigi Hadid as three "mega-influencers" who have "accused Israel of ethnic cleansing" and "vilified the Jewish State."
Lipa, who is Kosovar Albanian, took to Twitter on Saturday afternoon to "reject the false and appalling allegations" and said the World Values Network twisted what she stands for. "I stand in solidarity with all oppressed people and reject all forms of racism," she wrote.
In a post to Instagram on May 31, 2020, she would later remove, Lipa referred to members of the Israeli government as "fake Jews," who she said, "created Hamas SIMPLY for all of you geniuses to believe that hamas is the reasons for the decades worth of occupation, oppression, ethnic cleansing, and MURDER."
On June 1, 2020, she once again took to the social media platform to draw comparisons between the Black Lives Matter movement and Palestinians.
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"While everybody's in the mood to talk about human rights, this is what happens EVERYDAY in Palestine, paid for by our taxpayer dollars.
"The big bad tough guys of the #IDF thoroughly enjoy beating and shooting children. They even have shirts that depict a pregnant Palestinian woman with a sniper scope on her stomach that reads '1 shot two kills,'" she wrote.
Bella Hadid has issued calls saying, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the "river to the sea" phrase is code for the destruction of Israel often used by Hamas and groups bent on annihilating the Jewish state.
in 2018, CNN fired commentator Marc Lemont Hill after he used the phrase in a speech to the UN.
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