Questioning the double standards of world towards war and suffering, the Palestinian-American supermodel Bella Hadid said oppression in different parts of the world demands similar backlash and protests like the outrage against Russian invasion of Ukraine and questions on the visible discrimination towards Muslim world and other conflicts.
Taking to Instagram handle, she talked about the on-going exploitation of Muslims around the globe as people chose to stay mum about on the injustice.
“Question yourself, question how quietly you moved around other injustices, the footprint we leave here will be the clearest one we’ve left in a long time,” Hadid’s post read.
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“If this is your first time realising a war in some years, you’re not of the world. War is forever, and the position we take during it is forever too,” she pointed out the biased reaction towards the Muslim suffering in Palestine, China and other conflict zones.”
“The language we use to define oppression cannot favour one victim over another,” Hadid noted.
"How many Muslim nations aflame? Invasions by the west, merciless drone strikes, executions, and internment camps in China? How much of Palestine, how little of Palestine left?”
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," Hadid wrote as a caption to the text.
Earlier, the supermodel condemned the Russian Invasion of Ukraine saying ‘My heart is hurting for Ukraine and all those affected by this unimaginable reality. Putin’s actions are a threat to every democratic country in the world and must be stopped.’
Recently, Social media users accuse the media of hypocrisy in its coverage of Russia’s war on Ukraine compared with other conflicts.
On social media, the speed of such an international response raised eyebrows at the lack of such a reaction to other conflicts across the world.
Media pundits, journalists, and political figures were accused of double standards and to underlying their horror at how such a conflict could happen to a “civilised” nation.
On air, CBS News senior correspondent in Kyiv Charlie D’Agatasai said “This isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilised, relatively European – I have to choose those words carefully, too – city where you wouldn’t expect that, or hope that it’s going to happen.”
His comments were met with derision and anger on social media, with many pointing out how his statements contributed to the further dehumanisation of non-white, non-European people suffering under a conflict within mainstream media.
Reportedly, an outpouring support for Ukrainians has been witnessed across world in general.
The war has triggered swift condemnation by several countries, immediate sanctions by the United States and other countries targeting Russian banks, oil refineries, and military exports, and marathon emergency talks at the UN Security Council (UNSC).
