Bella Hadid: Helmut Lang Pre-Fall 2020; Instagram Baba Rumble

Bella Hadid poses in Helmut Lang’s Pre-Fall 2020 campaign, with Ethan James Green in the studio. Brian Phillips is in charge of creative direction with Patti Wilson on styling. / Hair by Jimmy Paul; makeup by Hannah Murray

Bella Hadid’s July 2020 Instagram Rumble

Instagram apologized to Bella Hadid on Tuesday, July 8, after removing an image of her father’s passport.

“Instagram removed my story that only said ‘My baba And his birthplace of Palestine’ with a photograph of his American passport,” the 23-year-old supermodel said Tuesday on her Instagram Story.

The proud Hadid daughter pilloried the social media platform: “@instagram exactly what part of me being proud of my father’s birthplace of Palestine is ‘bullying, harassment, graphic or sexual nudity?'”

Hadid -- who is of Palestinian and Dutch descent -- also asked the platform “are we not allowed to be Palestinian on Instagram” and added: “This, to me, is bullying.”

Hadid then reposted the photo of her father’s American passport in an additional Instagram Story and asked the tech giant: “Do you want me to change his birthplace for you?”

Bella went on to recommend that her 31.5 million followers to “post where their mother and fathers were born today!”

“An Unfortunate Mistake”

Instagram owner Facebook said the incident was an unfortunate mistake, saying that in order to “protect the privacy of our community, we don’t allow people to post personal information, such as passport numbers, on Instagram. In this case, the passport number was blurred out, so this content shouldn’t have been removed. We’ve restored the content and apologized to Bella for the mistake.”