An Israeli fashion designer’s pricey apparel was yanked from a pair of luxury retail web sites after she compared Hamas to ISIS following the Oct. 7 massacre.
Dorit Bar Or, the Tel Aviv-based creator of fashion label Dodo Bar Or, had posted a clip on her Instagram account showing a scene harking back to the hit film “Independence Day.”
The spoof shows a spaceship encircled by Palestine and ISIS flags destroying a tower bearing flags of Western nations including the US, France and Great Britain, in accordance with screengrabs first reported on by the Day by day Mail.
The Muslim call to prayer is heard within the background because the constructing erupts in a fireball and the words “The West is Next” appear across the screen.
The video fades to black bearing the words “Hamas=Isis, Free Gaza from Hamas.”
A professional-Palestine influencer, @liudmilahq, flagged the clip to the luxury sites Mytheresa and Net-A-Porter, with each moving to drag Bar Or’s garments after outcry from other Palestine backers.
Net-a-Porter, owned by Swiss conglomerate Richemont, defended its decision to drop the 9-year-old brand
“Discrimination, hate, and violence haven’t any place on our platforms. We apply this policy consistently to all brands we stock in all markets,” the corporate said.
“After content appeared that was offensive and inflammatory, the brand in query has been suspended from our sites.”
Meanwhile, Munich based Mytheresa quietly removed the Dodo Bar Or landing page from its website – though a seek for her brand pulled up some items, including a strapless black dress for $875 and a black leather jacket for $1,145.
Mytheresa didn’t return quite a few calls for comment.
The corporate did send a direct message to at least one pro-Palestine commenter obtained by The Post that said, “We don’t tolerate any type of hate speech. We decided today with immediate effect to take the brand Dodo Bar Or out of our assortment.”
Bar Or, a former actress in Israel, didn’t respond for comment.
She ignored questions on the controversy when contacted by Jewish News, an Israeli publication.
““Thanks a lot to your amazing support! We highly appreciate it! It’s heart-warming during these difficult times we’re all going through! Thanks!❤”
Bar Or’s supporters slammed the retailers for his or her decision following the Hamas terror attack that killed greater than 1,400 in Israel.
Jewish charity Campaign Against Antisemitism told the Day by day Mail that it was “scandalous” that Dodo Bar Or’s clothing line was pulled because “she compared a proscribed Islamist terrorist group to a different proscribed terrorist group.”
‘Whose sensibilities are Net-a-Porter and Mytheresa attempting to protect? Their customers, which include many within the Jewish community, are entitled to an instantaneous explanation,” the group added in accordance with the outlet.
Influencer, @maamaandtata warned Net–A-Porter on Instagram that if it didn’t “reinstate” Dodo Bar Or inventory, then “I and plenty of other members of the Jewish community see this as a hate crime.”
The move to drop Bar Or was in sharp contrast to the choice made by Sephora last month to maintain selling Huda Beauty products — despite its pro-Palestine founder Huda Kattan declaring that she “doesn’t want blood money” from Israeli customers.
A change.org petition that has some 21,000 signatures is asking on Sephora to drop Huda Beauty from its stores.
Sephora has not responded to the petition or to The Post’s requests for comments while Kattan has circuitously responded to the petition, but has doubled down on her support for Gaza.