The Crime of Mohamed Hadid

Ah, the Hadids. Where would we be without them? Brainless beauties, those Hadid girls, Gigi and Bella, sashaying down the catwalks of the Western world, and their doting, equally empty-headed, stage-door papa, a real-estate tycoon on his uppers and down on his luck, in sunny California, appear to have no other subject in their empty heads – as their Instagram postings make clear — than the hideousness of the Israelis and the sheer wonderfulness of the Palestinians they persecute. Gigi has informed the world that “Jesus was a Palestinian,” that the Palestinians are the “indigenous” people of a place known for thousands of years as “Palestine,” inhabiting the area long before the Jews ever arrived from Europe to steal their land and drive them out. It appears from her imaginative retelling of history that the Muslim Arabs arrived in “Palestine” two thousand years before Islam even existed. A neat trick!

Lately, the girls have been less loquacious, what with all their high-toned vogueing, and it is Mohamed Hadid who has hogged the Hadid limelight. While it is Hadid’s remarks on Israel that have been most intolerable, he also has a long record of sharp dealing; he has been sued by almost everybody he has ever had real estate dealings with, in one case even being forced by the courts to tear down a $100 million mansion he had built in Bel Air, that violated zoning laws and because of its size, threatened to slide down a hill into his neighbors’ home. Just now he has uttered a threat to the President that he will no doubt regret, should the FBI come a-calling to read him the riot act. You can find his threat to “hunt down Biden like a Nazi war criminal” for his support of Israel here: “Mohamed Hadid: We will hunt down ‘Zionist criminals’ like Biden for court,” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2024:

Real estate mogul Mohamed Hadid lashed out at US President Joe Biden on Sunday for his relations with Israel during the October 7 War, saying that it was the American leader’s war against Palestinians and that he would be hunted down like a Nazi war criminal.

“This is [US President Joe] Biden’s war on the Palestinian people,” Hadid said on Instagram in response to a TRT World clip of UN Sustainable Development Network director Dr. Jeffery Sachs calling on the US to cease supplying ammunition to Israel. [Jeffrey Sachs is another in our series of “World’s Greatest Authorities.”] “He will be in court with the rest of the Zionist criminals. We will hunt them down like they did the Nazis.”

The current war in Gaza is not Biden’s war against the Palestinians. It’s Hamas’ war against Israelis. Hamas started a war that the Israelis neither wanted nor expected, on October 7, when 3,000 of its operatives pushed into Israel from Gaza, and proceeded to rape, mutilate, torture, and murder 1,200 Israelis, and to kidnap another 265. Israel is now fighting the fourth war for its survival. The other three were the wars of 1948, 1967, and 1973. Mohamed Hadid seems to think that the war is “Biden’s” because, he mistakenly believes, Biden has the power to stop the war at any point. He has a touching belief that Israel is America’s lapdog, that must listen and obey. Israel is an ally, possibly America’s closest ally. It is grateful for American military assistance. It listens carefully to the advice American administrations give. But Israel cannot be bullied to accept a diktat, as Mohamed Hadid seems to think. Jerusalem has shown it has no intention, for example, of accepting a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and its overarching war aim remains the complete dismemberment of Hamas as a military threat.

And does Hadid mean when he says that Biden, having been “hunted down” like the Nazis, will receive the same fate as did those war criminals tried at Nuremberg? Does he want to see him put to death?

If Hadid were to be convicted for “threatening the President,” he could be punished with a five-year prison term, a fine of $250,000, and three years of “supervised release.” It was bad enough for Mohamed Hadid when his net worth fell from over $100 million just a few years ago to $1 million today. Now, with the right judge, and the wrong lawyer, he may be spending five years in the hoosegow. And then there is that $250,000 fine. But you needn’t worry about Mohamed Hadid. He’ll be visited at least once every few weeks by Gigi, or by Bella. They can talk about Paris fashions, and Bel Air real estate, and all the great things that are happening now in “Palestine.”