BERLIN, Germany — Adidas said Friday it had dropped vocal pro-Palestinian model Bella Hadid from an advertising campaign for retro sneakers referencing the 1972 Munich Olympics, which were overshadowed by a massacre of Israeli athletes.
The German sportswear giant recently relaunched the SL72, a shoe first showcased by athletes at the 1972 Olympics, as part of a series reviving old classic sneakers.Eleven Israeli athletes and a German police officer were killed at the 1972 Munich Games after gunmen from the Palestinian Black September group broke into the Olympic village and took them hostage.
'The terror of 1972 is etched into the collective memory of Germans and Israelis,' he told Die Welt TV on Friday.A flood of social media posts meanwhile expressed support for Hadid, criticized Adidas for axing the model, and called for a boycott of the company.
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