Zara Head Designer Spars With Palestinian Model Sparks Boycott Calls
Male model Qaher Harhash said he received a controversial private message on Instagram allegedly from Vanessa Perilman, Zara’s head designer for the women’s department, in which she expressed frustration over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She then reportedly said: “Maybe if your people were educated, then they wouldn’t blow up hospitals and schools that Israel helped to pay for in Gaza.” Perilman allegedly added: “Also I think it’s funny that [you’re] a model because in reality that is against what the Muslim faith believes in and if you were to come out of the closet in any Muslim country you would be stoned to death....