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Huda Kattan’s Anti-Israel Rants Ignite Fury | WATCH

 Huda Beauty founder Huda Kattan faces backlash after posting disgusting antisemitic conspiracy theories blaming Israel for global atrocities, including 9/11 and the October 7 Hamas attack. 

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Huda Kattan, the Iraqi-American mogul behind Huda Beauty, has unleashed a firestorm with her latest barrage of antisemitic vitriol, accusing Israel of masterminding World War I, World War II, 9/11, and the barbaric October 7, 2023, Hamas attack that slaughtered 1,200 Israelis.

Yesterday, she reposted these deranged conspiracy theories to her 4.7 million Instagram followers, prompting a tidal wave of outrage on X from users who branded her claims “disgusting” and “dangerous.” Jewish activists and customers are now demanding Sephora yank Huda Beauty from its shelves, vowing to boycott the retailer until it ditches the brand.

Kattan didn’t stop there. On June 18, 2025, she spewed a vile claim that “Israel has a booming organ trade from Palestinian bodies,” recycling a discredited narrative about 1990s organ harvesting while offering zero proof of ongoing crimes. Critics slammed this as straight-up blood libel, with @DahliaKurtz calling it “sickening” for stoking medieval antisemitic tropes. Kattan also shared posts branding Jewish settlers “inbreds” and Israelis “demons,” further enraging those who see her rhetoric as a hateful assault on Jews disguised as activism.

This isn’t Kattan’s first rodeo. On October 8, 2023, just a day after Hamas’s massacre, she sneered at an Israeli follower, “I don’t want blood money,” sparking initial boycott calls. By December 2023, she was ranting about Israel’s “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza, accusing the government of using Jews as “human shields.” Jewish News and activists like Rochel Leah Taktuk blasted her for conflating Israel’s actions with all Jews, fueling hate. Her November 2023 stunt of liking a post defending Hamas’s kidnapping of Israeli babies only poured gas on the fire.

A Change.org petition, now over 5,000 signatures strong, demands Sephora drop her “toxic” brand, with users vowing to shun retailers carrying Huda Beauty. Sephora, Selfridges, and others stay silent, leaving Kattan’s $1.2 billion empire untouched—for now. As she doubles down, declaring she’ll “risk everything” for her cause, the question burns: how long will retailers bankroll a figure peddling such divisive hate?


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