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Palestine supermodel vowed to continue her public support for despite losing jobs, saying she was fearless when it comes to her activism.��

Hadid, who has a Palestinian father and Dutch mother, opened up to Libyan-American journalist Noor Tagouri for the podcast Rep about how her vocal support for a��had cost her friends and career opportunities.��

The 25-year-old acknowledged that while she sometimes worries about��saying the right thing, she is determined to stand by her convictions and highlight��her

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"I really do believe that if I started speaking about Palestine, when I was 20, I wouldn’t have gotten the recognition and the respect that I have now,"��said the model.��

"I had so many companies stop working with me...I have friends that completely dropped me."

Hadid’s father fled Palestine during the , when tens of thousands of Palestinians were forced to flee their homes during the creation of the state of Israel.��

The supermodel has often used her platform to shed light on atrocities faced by Palestinians, sharing posts on��Instagram highlighting��Palestinian stories, marching in Free Palestine demonstrations and donating her earnings to organisations supporting Palestinian refugees.��

The supermodel will soon make her acting debut in the new series of Ramy, an Emmy-nominated dark comedy about an Egyptian-American navigating life in New Jersey.��

In a recent interview for GQ with co-star Hadid said she would have loved to have grown up with her father and “live in a Muslim culture. But I wasn’t given that.”�� Her parents separated and Hadid went to live with her mother in Santa Barbara, California.��

Later in the interview, the model��explained why she continues to speak out: “I speak about [the Palestinian cause] for the elderly that are still living there that have never been able to see Palestine free, and for the children that can still grow up and have a beautiful life”.��

are systemically subjected to forced expulsions and violent attacks.

They are denied basic rights and freedoms,��amounting to what multiple human rights organisation have called "the crime of apartheid".��