{"id":87014,"date":"2021-06-27T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=87014"},"modified":"2021-06-17T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T06:43:07","slug":"27-00-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=87014","title":{"rendered":"Zara Faces Calls for Boycott Over Head Designer\u2019s Exchange With Palestinian Model on Israel Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Zara Faces Calls for Boycott Over Head Designer\u2019s Exchange With Palestinian Model on Israel Conflict<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A Zara store in Edmonton, Canada. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Social media users have called for a boycott of the Spanish apparel company Zara after one of its head designers sparred with a Palestinian model over the latter\u2019s pro-Palestinian posts on Instagram.<\/span><\/p>\n

Palestinian male model Qaher Harhash, who has accused Israel of \u201capartheid\u201d and \u201coccupation,\u201d shared last week a screenshot of a private Instagram message he allegedly received from Vanessa Perilman, Zara\u2019s head designer for the women\u2019s department, in which she voiced support for Israel and criticized the model\u2019s portrayal of Israel as \u201ca horrible evil country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe if your people were educated, then they wouldn\u2019t blow up hospitals and schools that Israel helped to pay for in Gaza,\u201d Perilman reportedly said, in part. \u201cIsraelis don\u2019t teach children to hate nor throw stones at soldiers as your people do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She added, \u201cI will NEVER stop defending Israel and people like you come and go and in the end, as the Jews survived the Holocaust, we will survive this bulls**t circus media that you are positing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After screenshots of her comments were posted online, social media users shared the hashtags \u201cBoycottZara\u201d and \u201cZaraMustApologize,\u201d and accused the brand of Islamophobia. Others also called on Zara to fire Perilman.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perilman soon after reached out to Harhash and said in a series of private messages on Instagram that she was sorry for her harsh remarks. She explained she is concerned about losing her job and the safety of her children, and told the model her and her family have received death threats as a result of her comments.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes me sad that we can\u2019t see eye to eye on politics but that doesn\u2019t mean I wish bad things to happen to you,\u201d Perilman wrote to Harhash. \u201cI\u2019m sorry if this fight started something more than it should have but now it\u2019s getting out of control \u2026 I\u2019m just fed up with everyone saying terrible things about Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo many people have been super mean at work and saying terrible things about Jews that i [sic] took it out on you and I feel really really bad,\u201d she continued to say. \u201cI feel terrible. Especially because I\u2019m a mom and I shouldn\u2019t be writing mean things like that \u2026 I am so so sorry. I really hope you can forgive me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Twitter user Nooran Alhamdan said on Friday that she reached out to Zara about Perilman and demanded \u201cdisciplinary action be taken.\u201d Zara responded via email and said following an \u201cinternal investigation,\u201d the company concluded that \u201cfrom what we know through our research, her immediate and spontaneous apology was accepted and so the misunderstanding was clarified and closed on Wednesday.\u201d Harhash himself said that he does not accept Perilman\u2019s \u201chalf assed apology.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The designer reportedly deleted all of her social media accounts following the conversation with Harhash. The Palestinian model said that Zara asked him to share Perilman\u2019s apology publicly but he refused to do, Newsweek reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf Zara wants to make a statement with me, they also need to address Islamophobia. When certain fashion designers said antisemitic things, they were fired from their jobs.\u201d he said, according to Newsweek. He added, \u201cSo far, Vanessa Perilman hasn\u2019t been fired.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Harhash added: \u201cFor me an apology means to fully acknowledge the pain or suffering you caused someone. She came into my DM\u2019s wrote hateful comments, why should I accept a half assed apology?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Zara Faces Calls for Boycott Over Head Designer\u2019s Exchange With Palestinian Model on Israel Conflict Shiryn Ghermezian A Zara store in Edmonton, Canada. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Social media users have called for a boycott of the Spanish apparel company Zara after one of its head designers sparred with a Palestinian model over the latter\u2019s pro-Palestinian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87029,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87014\/revisions\/87029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}