Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Samira Nasr’s issued a mea culpa over her “deeply insensitive and hurtful comments” in calling Israel’s move to chop power to Gaza the “most inhuman thing” she’s “ever seen.”
Nasr, whose comments sparked outrage inside the glossy corridors of the Hearst-owned fashion mag, said she was sorry in an Instagram post Thursday.
Her apology got here as Hearst executives sent out their very own memo distancing the corporate from the views of the controversial editor and pledged $300,000 to charitable groups within the region.
Sources speculate Nasr’s apology was forced and that the she is on thin ice contained in the company’s glossy corridors.
“Samira is fighting for her job,” said one Hearst worker, who said that the editor has been reaching out personally to Jewish staffers and apologizing.
“She’s eating crow,” the source added.
Neither Hearst nor Nasr responded to requests in search of comment.
Samira Nasr, whose father is Lebanese and whose mother is Trinidadian, wrote on her Instagram Stories Tuesday night: “Cutting off water and electricity to 2.2 million civilians…That is essentially the most inhuman thing I’ve seen in my life.”
Nasr’s message sparked immediate blowback from Hearst staffers and fashion industry insiders still fuming over Hamas terrorists killing greater than 1,200 Israelis, a lot of them children. Israel has called up around 300,000 reservists and are planning to storm Gaza in an effort to free the greater than 100 hostages that were taken.
“I need to apologize to my friends, colleagues, and the whole Jewish community for my deeply insensitive and hurtful comments,” Nasr wrote on her Instagram account on Thursday afternoon.
“I haven’t any hate in my heart for any people, and I’m not in any way sympathetic to a terrorist group that just murdered hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians. I’m a firm believer that words matter, and I used to be careless with mine. My most sincere apologies.”
Hearst Magazines president Debi Chirichella sent out a memo to employees, obtained by The Post, which condemned Nasr’s initial message.
“A recent social media post in regards to the unfolding situation within the Middle East was made by considered one of our editors,” the exec wrote. “It expressed views that don’t represent Hearst’s values and I do know that it offended and upset a lot of our colleagues, partners and readers. We’re horrified by the brutality of the terrorist attacks by Hamas and the people of Israel.”
Hearst said it’s going to be donating $300,000 to 3 separate organizations working on the bottom to assist people within the region.
Sources told The Post that while Nasr’s apology was welcomed, it seemed forced.
“She got in trouble,” a fashion industry source surmised. “That’s a forced apology but I’ll take it.”
“People should be held accountable,” offered a Hearst insider. “Nasr all the time preached she hates cancel culture. Well, now she is about to experience it.”
Actress and author, Jill Kargman, who’s the daughter of former Chanel president Arie Kopelman, reposted Nasr’s apology with an avatar of herself and the word “nope.” over it.
The 59-year-old editor, who grew up in Montreal, is not any stranger to controversy.
In 2021, during a flareup within the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, Nasr posted on Instagram: “One cannot advocate for racial equality, LGBT & women’s rights, condemn corrupt & abusive regimes and other injustices yet select to disregard the Palestinian oppression. It doesn’t add up. You can not pick & select whose human rights matter more.”
On the time Hearst, which publishes glossies like Elle, Cosmopolitan and Esquire, didn’t publicly address the Instagram post.