Revealed: LA-Based Palestinian Businessman Mohamed Hadid Has Been Sending Harassing Messages To Pro-Israel Rep. Richie Torres For Months
Father of models Gigi and Bela Hadid: “You are just unusual Black and colorful mouth for Israeli and AiPAC and looking for pay day of over 500K payday for the next term”
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) has been a staunch defender of Israel since the October 7th attacks. But thanks in part to the Democratic Party’s coddling of anti-Israel activists and New York City becoming a hotbed for antisemitism, Torres has been on the receiving end of targeted campaigns to intimidate him over his position on the war.
This was one of them:
On Christmas Day, anti-Israel extremists vandalized my Bronx Office with red paint, symbolizing blood.
Covered in “blood” is a doll meant to symbolize Jesus, whom the vandals describe as a “Palestinian child messiah.”
The escalation in intimidation and incitement against… pic.twitter.com/Sj69AMQ1Xt
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) December 26, 2023
“There’s no issue on which I get more hate, harassment and death threats than on the subject of Israel,” Torres stated in an NY Jewish Week interview earlier this month. “My office has been flooded with hate calls. There’s a concerted effort to intimidate elected officials like me from supporting Israel. And there are elected officials who allow themselves to be browbeaten into silence and submission.”
As further evidence of his point on hate and harassment, the New York Post reported Saturday that real estate mogul and so-called “Palestinian refugee” Mohamed Hadid has been sending Torres hate messages on Instagram for months now:
“You worse than the rats of New York sewage system. They have bigger brains than you. You might get a job as bouncer at gay bar,” Hadid, 75, told Torres in an Instagram direct message sent from his verified account — adding the Congressman was a “slave to whites.”
“Make sure you dress as KKK to hide that ugly gray colored face of yours,” the developer added. “I know about Bronx.”
Torres, 36, made history in 2021 when he became the first openly gay African American, and first openly gay Hispanic member, of Congress.
“You are just unusual Black and colorful mouth for Israeli and AiPAC and looking for payday of over 500K,” Hadid saId in another message, referring to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group.
Hadid is the father to internationally known models Bella and Gigi Hadid.
In other messages, Mohamed Hadid leaned in even more on antisemitic tropes about Jewish people and money:
“Sell out. Black out .. he forgot this is not about black and white it’s not about Palestine or the Zionist state .. this is about a great Black man not a little ….kisser to your financial backers. As there will not be a single black person in your community that leaves a nice word about you Mr. Nate .. selling your soul ..”
Here are some of the messages Mohamed Hadid — the father of Gigi and Bella Hadid — has been sending to Rep. Ritchie Torres in recent weekshttps://t.co/eB3iZo09JZ pic.twitter.com/XFWf7xNsx5
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) April 20, 2024
In a statement, Torres pointed to how it had become acceptable in Democrat circles to hurl racist hate provided the targets also supported Israel:
“Most haters hide behind anonymous social media accounts, but Mohamed Hadid is so proud of his hatred for me that he felt no need to shroud his racism in anonymity. Whether it is dehumanizing me as worse than the rats of the NYC sewage system or telling me to dress like the KKK to ‘hide that gray colored face of yours,’ Mr. Hadid has hurled just about every racist insult at me shorting of calling me the N-word.”
The statement continued, “That Mr. Hadid felt so at ease demonizing and dehumanizing a black Member of Congress reveals a tragic truth about our politics: if you are a person of color and pro-Israel, you are fair game for racist invective. Enough with the double standard.”
In response to the reports of his hate-filled harassment of Torres, Hadid—who, incredibly, has also equated Israel to the Nazis—”apologized,” but only for the way his messages were worded. He still managed to insult Torres, calling him a “shill being used by Israel” and insinuating he’s a sellout to “black and brown” communities:
NEWS
Real estate developer Mohamed Hadid has issued this statement apologizing for his direct messages to Congressman @RitchieTorres.
The NY Post reported earlier today that Hadid sent racist and homophobic direct messages to Congressman Torres.
Original Story:… pic.twitter.com/kWOPiLgXoG
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 20, 2024
On Twitter, speechwriter Aviva Klompas was among several pro-Israel advocates who noted how incredible it was that Hadid could still claim “refugee status” considering what he’s accomplished here in the U.S.:
Mohamed Hadid is a multimillionaire real estate mogul with dual Jordanian-American citizenship.
Yet he is still considered a “refugee” under UNRWA and invokes his “refugee status” in his non-apology / apology note to Congressman Ritchie Torres.
UNRWA has raised generations of Palestinians, like Hadid, to believe that no matter how wealthy they are or where they live, they are oppressed victims without agency or responsibility for their own future.
That’s supposed to give him a pass to employ disgusting tropes about Jewish wealth and power, while calling Torres a tool.
Mohamed Hadid is a multimillionaire real estate mogul with dual Jordanian-American citizenship.
Yet he is still considered a “refugee” under UNRWA and invokes his "refugee status" in his non-apology / apology note to Congressman Ritchie Torres.
UNRWA has raised generations of… pic.twitter.com/m3JzsjT5Fo
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 20, 2024
#MohamedHadid is not a refugee. He is a multi-millionaire with multiple citizenships. He is though a vile racist, Jew hater and homophobe. And this non-apology to @RitchieTorres is just degrading.
See more here on his original racist & homophobic attack: https://t.co/9qBl5qwJSd pic.twitter.com/T8QUIC4Vst
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) April 21, 2024
No refugee maintains "refugee" status when receiving citizenship in another country.
Except for the Palestinians!!!
Did you know that Mohamed Hadid, the father of the supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid, who lives in California, is considered a refugee according to UNRWA’s… pic.twitter.com/Jpsx68gPun
— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) April 18, 2024
For 76 years, so-called “Palestinian refugees” like Mohamed Hadid and corrupt organizations like UNRWA, have perpetuated a never ending Palestinian victimhood to justify and fuel Jew Hate and a desire to destroy Israel. 👇 https://t.co/izzz63I1oz
— Brigitte Wielheesen (@BWielheesen) April 21, 2024
Others wondered if members of AOC’s Squad would be weighing in on this one:
I wonder if anyone from the Squad will condemn Mohamed Hadid for sending racist, bigoted hate speech to a gay, black man in Congress….
Or do they think it’s acceptable to be a racist so long as you support Hamas and hate Jews? 🤔🧐#AntizionismIsAntisemitism https://t.co/btRW9hXLg4
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 20, 2024
Methinks the “Persian Jewess” answered her own question there. No way the Hamas Caucus comes to Torres’ defense on this. Not a chance.
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People are so stupid
Good for Torres holding firm to support Israel. I do have to point out, however, this statement of his:
“That Mr. Hadid felt so at ease demonizing and dehumanizing a black Member of Congress reveals a tragic truth about our politics: if you are a person of color and pro-Israel, you are fair game for racist invective. Enough with the double standard.”
Substitute “Conservative” or “Republican” in lieu of “person of color and pro-Israel”, and the statement is still true, had has been true for several decades now. Reagan, Bush, Romney, the left attacks all opponents as racists. Even McCain, the token Republican the MSM loved, was attacked while he was running against St. Obama. Welcome to the club Mr. Torres, maybe you should rethink the company you keep in the democrat party.
Baby steps.
We can expect to see a large part of the Muslim Arabs to take 1st place as racists in America soon.
Whites will always be the biggest racists until blacks give up the victim card and start working as a remedy.
“and start working”
Pretentious middlebrow pseudo-intellectual, rape apologist, and gutter level racist. You’ve got it all.
Sad that he played the victim card. It’s a low-IQ argument. He couldn’t say why he supports Israel, instead.
Every comment you have ever made here hardin is a “low-IQ argument”.
Here’s an example of a high IQ argument, from Emmanuel Levinas in the preface to Existents and Existence, rejecting the victim temptation.
These studies begun before the war were continued and written down for the most part in captivity. The stalag is evoked here not as a guarantee of profundity nor as a claim to indulgence, but as an explanation for the absence of any consideration of those philosophical works published, with so much impact, between 1940 and 1945.
You are the biggest pretentious pseudo-intellectual ass ever to steal oxygen,
Mr. Hadid did not apologize.
A proper apology has several parts, in order:
A precis: the one who is apologizing provides a succinct statement of the harmful act.
A statement of responsibility: the one who is apologizing takes ownership, without equivocation, of the harmful act.
A statement of regret: the one who is apologizing makes clear that they should not have committed the harmful act and regrets having done so, without reservation.
An atonement (penance): the one who is apologizing offers proper reparation, as much as is possible under the circumstances, for the harmful act.
A commitment: the one who is apologizing promises that the harmful act will not be repeated in the future.
Using “the wrong words” is not an apology. Mr. Hadid needs to take responsibility, regret his actions, pledge not to do this again, and offer reparation to Mr. Torres.
It’s a little simpler and in particular is not remedying a wrong. Erving Goffman:
“A further illustration of the difference between ritual concerns and substantive ones comes from occasions of accident in which the carelessness of one individual is seen as causing injury or death to another. Here there may be no way at all to compensate the offended, and no punishment may be prescribed. All that the offend[er] can do is say he is sorry. And this expression itself may be relatively little open to gradation. The fact – at least in our society – is that a very limited set of ritual enactments are available for contrite offenders. Whether one runs over another’s sentence, time, dog, or body, one is more or less reduced to saying some variant of “I’m sorry.” The variation in degree of anguish expressed by the apologizer seems a poor reflection of the variation in loss possible to the offended. In any case, while the original infraction may be quite substantive in its consequence, the remedial work, however vociferous, is in these cases still largely expressive. And there is a logic to this. After an offense has occurred, the job of the offender is to show that it was not a fair expression of his attitude, or, when it evidently was, to show that he has changed his attitude to the rule that was violated. In the latter case, his job is to show that whatever happened before, he now has a right relationship – a pious attitude – to the rule in question, _and this is a matter of indicating a relationship, not compensating a loss_”
_Relations in Public_ “Remedial Interchanges” p.117-118
“…vandalized my Bronx Office with red paint, symbolizing blood.
Covered in “blood” is a doll…”
He can get advice how to clean that up n dispose off the voodoo doll from the Capitol Police — what with all the incitement, threat, and insurrection they had to clean up there.
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God, the fat-finger is strong with this one, today.
stevewhitemd describes a protocol for doing this part:
“After an offense has occurred, the job of the offender is to show that it was not a fair expression of his attitude, or, when it evidently was, to show that he has changed his attitude to the rule that was violated. In the latter case, his job is to show that whatever happened before, he now has a right relationship – a pious attitude – to the rule in question…”
Goffman explicitly says that reparation does not come in. Apology is not about righting a wrong.
” _and this is a matter of indicating a relationship, not compensating a loss_”
Mr. Goffman is incorrect. An apology without a reparation is hollow and insecure. “I’m sorry if anyone was offended” is a prime example of such a hollow apology.
It is as if Mr. Goffman, and you, think that you need merely toss a few words over your shoulder as you walk away from an offense.
Goffman does American culture. Perhaps yours is more into victimhood? It would explain why it doesn’t work in America.
Reparation is from the victim psychology. Why does that keep intruding? It never works.
Exactly so. That’s both a common social convention, and a protocol described from several sources investigating communications. It also works, if apology is your goal.
One way or another, Hadid must be held accountable. How can that be accomplished? Congressional investigation, criminal or civil litigation? Do not fly for him and/or his family? Are his comments threats of terrorism? threats
Since he’s a “muzzie,” to use your pal “smooth’s” brilliant term, I guess you and him could build a camp to put him and all his fellow “muzzies” into. You can have gonzo the capo watch over them.
“a never ending Palestinian victimhood”
It seems like an even fight to me, at that level.
If you are implying even with Jews, that is absurd.
Not surprising hardin is comparing Jews to people who love to rape, torture, mutilate and murder.
Good God will you just shut the ever living fuck up, you lowbrow clown.
Parallel question: who are the most popular blacks? Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, etc. Roughly, blacks who do not claim victimhood.
There’s a door of popularity available to both sides.
“Door of popularity.” A nonsensical, meaningless term.
Not to mention the criteria suggested is not based in reality.
Door is something you can open and pass through, and it’s the only solution. It always seems like victimhood is the magic card but it doesn’t work. Look at blacks in general, worse off every year and waiting for rewards from the race card instead of getting to work and acting like whites, the secret to success.
Victimhood is far from a magic card. Silly concept. Blacks do not need to act like whites, and their state has little to do with waiting for rewards from playing race cards. Racism aside, the overgeneralized stereotypes make you sound like the victim.
Victimhood is a magic card that doesn’t work but seems like it should work to the users of it.
For Jews it has a second purpose, so it’s a little harder to give up. Its second purpose is to prevent Jews from assimilating, via alienation. In the 80s, when I got academic book catalogs, the Jewish Studies section always had a Holocaust for Children subsection.
Jews are about the smartest and most successful people in the world, so would do better without it. They have a very high verbal IQ so would do great putting out the right message if they got the right message.
The right message is not victimhood but what Jews do for the world and for that matter for Palestinians. All wealth comes from trade, and Israel has been trading with Palestinians to make both mutually wealthy, until it’s shot down or blown up by Hamas. There’s your winning message.
Sick Palestinians get treated in Israeli hospitals, as a Mitzva, part of the religion. Something to look up to.
Palestinians have an average IQ of 83. You’re two standard deviations higher. Complaining to them that you’re bigger victims isn’t going to work. In fact it doesn’t work anywhere.
The whole Palestinian refugee matter is wacky and needs to go. ONLY thos that are directly connected to the displacement in 1948 should have refugee status.
Ambassador Ershan’s statement at the UN was spot on.
As for Hadid, just another Palestinian hater suffering from Jewish Derangement Syndrome, pretending it’s just Israel that is the problem.
There’s victimhood all over the place, not just 1948. It doesn’t matter to the present. The present is about what to do now. Cooperation and trade is the only possible answer.
For Palestinians the ONLY refugees emanate DIRECTLY from 1948, not all over the place.
NOTHING of what you say matters to the present.
And you ONLY solution is also nonsense.
You’re really an ignoramus, aren’t you hardin? Israel has always wanted “cooperation and trade” with Arabs including Palestinians and has always been rejected.
That’s what I said. I said further that it’s your correct argument, not victimhood. Palestinians are not too bright and all they remember is that they’re bigger victims.
Mr. Hadid sounds kind of fundamentalist Muslim, what with the attempted sexual, pigment, and ethnic slurs.
Good thing for the daughters our culture here in the US, while degenerate as cited by Hadid pere, yet frowns on honor killings of women for immodesty. I wonder how he feels about that?
My guess is that Mr Hadid and Mr Torres vote for the same candidates every election.
Mr. Hadid sounds like he is terribly agitated. Does his goat have a headache?
I’m shocked, simply shocked, that a Muslim Palestinian is harrassing the first Black GAY representative in Congress. Hadid has to reach across to New York from LA to do so, but luckily the internet reaches that far. Gotta wonder what Hadid is doing with his millions to help his homeland. Is he sending humanitarian relief to Gaza? If anytrhing, I’m betting on donations to Hamas. Or lists of gay men to harass. It’s a toss.
Hadid and his daughters are vicious anti Semites