Founder of Huda Beauty Huda Kattan Controversial comments on the ongoing Israel-Palestinian conflict.
“I’ve been talking about Palestine for a while, and it’s what I know about the Palestinian cause, and it’s really frustrating,” Kattan, 41, said in a video shared by Tiktok on Friday, August 8. “I can’t see what makes sense of things. The more I learn, the more I’ve learned, I’ve been trying to use my own voice.”
Kattan explains that as an influential person, she believes she has a responsibility to represent anything [she thinks] It’s wrong. ”
“I’m tired of seeing kids starving, getting stuck, living in tents, and being bombarded in tents, and they’re just trying to survive in an already incredible and habitable situation they live in,” the beauty blog says. “To make you silent from speaking, they’ll do what they’ve been doing. They twist your words and mark you an anti-Semitic, and now, I’m going through all that.”
Kattan shared her support for Palestine in many social media videos earlier this summer. In a Tiktok video released in July, she falsely claimed that Israel was responsible for World War II, World War II, the September 11 terrorist attacks and Hamas’s attack on Israel in October 2024.
As a result, many social media users begged Sephora to stop the beauty products in the warehouse because of her so-called anti-Sewish belief. (The cosmetics store noted in a statement that the situation is currently under investigation and does not support any hatred.)
“I will never indulge any hatred,” she said Friday. “Of course, this includes Jewish hatred. I even have to say that it’s strange to me because it’s obvious.”
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Kattan further said that the video she deleted expressed “critical views of Israel” but nothing about individuals or “hints” about Jewish beliefs.
“I will never talk about anyone because I am against hatred and discrimination,” she said. “The video was misunderstood and completely abused. [that] I never even mentioned it in the video. The video is no longer played. …I chose to delete it because I see a lot of people saying what I said from the context and I don’t want this conversation to happen. ”
She added: “The distortion of these words is so great that it is narrated that I am very disappointed that I am essentially unaware of the Holocaust, or that I am basically saying that the Jews created the Holocaust. [It] It can even be said to be a strange thing. Why do I say that? This doesn’t even make sense. ”
According to Kattan, understanding the school’s massacre has had such a big impact on her that she promises to be under any similar circumstances.
“I was forced to speak for others as a human being,” Katan said. “I don’t think there is any problem with that. I also think it’s unfair that you can’t criticize Israel’s actions without being mislabeled. It’s not impossible to criticize Israel’s actions not only creates anti-Semitism, but I think it’s a form of anti-Semitism itself.”
