"It is not a passing insult but an alarm bell, reverberating against barriers I have spent my career trying to overcome."
I read Dr. Lederman Friedman’s article with interest; I’m sorry it took her until recently to realize how truly savage the toxic false orange idol is to those with disabilities AND many others. As a retired nurse who spent nearly 40 years working with the disabled as a rehab nurse (CRRN) I can say my reconning came on November 27, 2015 (over 10 years ago) when this vile entity very publicly, and without just cause, humiliated a NYT reporter (with a physical disability) during a campaign stop in SC. I cannot l, and will not, ever forget that heinous incident which cemented my hatred for this POS.
Bella Hadid in a new Adidas campaign for the brand’s remake of its SL 72 sneaker. Photo: Adidas Supermodel Bella …
by Shiryn Ghermezian
After Adidas was criticized for choosing the anti-Israel model as a face of the new campaign, the German sportswear company pulled her from the project. Adidas also issued two apologies regarding the matter — one directed at Hadid herself — and said it would “revise” its campaign. Hadid had not commented on the ordeal until Monday. She said in the statement on her Instagram Story that she “always will speak up for what I believe to be wrong.”
“While everyone’s intentions were to make something positive, and bring people together through art, the collective lack of understanding from all parties undermined the process,” she said of the Adidas campaign. “I do not believe in hate in any form, including antisemitism. That will never waiver, and I stand by that statement to the fullest extent.”
“Connecting the liberation of the Palestinian people to an attack so tragic is something that hurts my heart. Palestine is not synonymous with terrorism, and this campaign unintentionally highlighted an event that does not present who we are,” she continued. The model concluded by saying that she is a “proud Palestinian woman” who “will forever stand by my people of Palestine while continuing to advocate for a world free of antisemitism.”
“Antisemitism has no place in the liberation of the Palestinian people,” she said. “I will always stand for peace over violence, any day. Hate has no place here, and I will forever advocate for not only my people, but every person worldwide.”
Video posted online shows the man, identified as Broadway producer James Simon, tearing down the flier in the heavily Jewish neighborhood.
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Jon Levine and Matthew Sedacca
A Broadway theater producer is the latest New Yorker to be caught on film brazenly tearing down fliers of civilians in Israel kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, The Post has learned.
In a video shared online by neighborhood blog I Love the Upper West Side, James L. Simon, who co-produced the 2022 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” is seen at West 62nd Street and Broadway using scissors to remove a poster featuring one of the roughly 200 hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel.
The stone-faced Simon then crumpled up the flier, which had been taped to a traffic sensor box in the heavily Jewish neighborhood, before chucking it into a garbage can and silently walking off, the footage showed.
“You’re going to a dark and devious place if you’ve come to a place where you’re ripping posters off the wall of Israeli hostages, of innocent people held captive by terrorists,” former Broadway producer Adam Epstein, who hosts the podcast Dirty Moderate, told The Post.
Simon, who has also produced Broadway revivals of “Pippin” and “Bells Are Ringing,” told The Post he took down the fliers for the purpose of keeping the city’s streets clean, not for antisemitic reasons, and apologized for offending anyone.
“I’m a strong supporter of free speech and encourage people to express their opinions, but all I’m asking is to do it legally,” he said, citing city Sanitation Department rules.
Videos of New Yorkers ripping down similar kidnap posters around the city have surfaced, putting on blast a New York University student, teens on the Upper East Side, and Brooklyn husband-wife couple.
Dee had announced on May 21 that he was considering a $1.3 billion lawsuit against CNN over her description of the attack as a “shoot-out.”
CNN International Anchor Christiane Amanpour announced her apology today to Rabbi Leo Dee for referring to the terror attack that killed Dee’s wife and two daughters as a “shoot-out” on April 10. Dee had announced on May 21 that he was considering a $1.3 billion lawsuit against CNN over her description of the attack as a “shoot-out.”
The Journal reported earlier today that during a May 21 event at The Carlebach Shul in New York titled, “Antisemitism: Is There No Solution?”, Dee said through a video call that he was considering the lawsuit after Amanpour wrote a private apology to him via email. Showing the email exchange to attendees, Dee alleged that he wrote her back demanding that she apologize publicly but she never replied to him. Dee also said during the event that he would reconsider the lawsuit should Amanpour publicly apologize but also if CNN provided more balanced coverage of Israel.
In her on air apology, Amanpour said: “On April 10, I referred to the murders of an Israeli family: Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee, the wife and daughters of Rabbi Leo Dee. I misspoke and said they were killed in a ‘shootout’ instead of a shooting. I have written to Rabbi Leo Dee to apologize and make sure that he knows that we apologize for any further pain that may have caused him.”
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who hosted the May 21 event and is friendly with Dee, said in a statement to the Journal, “Less than 24 hours after Rabbi Leo Dee announced, at the memorial lecture for my father Yoav Boteach, his plans to sue @CNN for $1.3 billion for defaming and desecrating the memory of his martyred wife and two daughters, CNN, and one of its most distinguished anchors, Christiane Amanpour, was forced to capitulate and retract their nauseating lie about how they were murdered. The lesson here is that the Jewish community must never again allow the defamation of its good name and character. Let all our enemies know that this is just the first of many actions we will be taking to ensure that the Jewish people and the State of Israel will never again defamed. Antisemites beware!”
The Journal has reached out to a representative of Rabbi Dee regarding the status of his potential lawsuit and has yet to hear back.
