Dressed down for Hamas bash
An Israeli fashion designer’s pricey apparel was yanked from a pair of luxury retail websites after she compared Hamas to ISIS following the Oct. 7 massacre.
Dorit Bar Or, the Tel Aviv-based creator of fashion label Dodo Bar Or, had posted a clip on her Instagram account showing a scene reminiscent of the hit film “Independence Day.”
The spoof shows a spaceship encircled by Palestine and ISIS flags destroying a tower bearing flags of Western nations including the US, France and Great Britain, according to screengrabs first reported on by the Daily Mail.
The Muslim call to prayer is heard in the background as the building erupts in a fireball and the words “The West is Next” appear across the screen.
The video fades to black, bearing the words “Hamas=Isis, Free Gaza from Hamas.”
A pro-Palestine influencer, @liudmilahq, flagged the clip to the luxury sites Mytheresa and Net-A-Porter, with both moving to pull Bar Or’s garments after outcry from other Palestine backers.
Net-a-Porter, owned by Swiss conglomerate Richemont, defended its decision to drop the 9-year-old brand
“Discrimination, hate, and violence have no place on our platforms. We apply this policy consistently to all brands we stock in all markets,” the company said.
“After content appeared that was offensive and inflammatory, the brand in question has been suspended from our sites.”
Meanwhile, Munichbased Mytheresa quietly removed the Dodo Bar Or landing page from its website — though a search for her brand pulled up some items, including a strapless black dress for $875 and a black leather jacket for $1,145.
Mytheresa did not return numerous calls for comment.
The company did send a direct message to one pro-Palestine commenter obtained by The Post that said, “We do not tolerate any kind of hate speech. We decided today with immediate effect to take the brand Dodo Bar Or out of our assortment.”
Bar Or, a former actress in Israel, did not respond to a request for comment.
She ignored questions about the controversy when contacted by Jewish News, an Israeli publication.