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Indian Model Titled Miss Universe 2021 Amid Calls to Boycott the Ceremony in Israel

Jeric AzarbyJeric Azar
December 14, 2021
in Culture, Israel, Politics, Society
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Indian Model Titled Miss Universe 2021 Amid Calls to Boycott the Ceremony in Israel

Harnaaz Sandhu of India is crowned as the Miss Universe 2021. Photo: Reuters

Miss Universe 2021 ended after a long series of disputes and calls of boycott due to event. Israel’s hosting the pageant led to disputes over the political bias of the organizers.

Harnaaz Sandhu, the Indian model, was named Miss Universe beating out a field of eighty candidates. The seventieth Miss Universe contest faced serious challenges like political rows and pandemic precautions.

The former Miss Universe, the Mexican Andrea Meza, received successor role. Israel hosted the ceremony in Eilat, a town across the Red sea.To fit the daytime timetable in the US, the contest was conducted at mid-night. As a result, the ceremony ended at 5 a.m. local time.

Conventional demonstrations of ethnic attire, swimsuits, and interviews to assess participants’ conversational skills were all part of the competition. The top ten wore long dresses with elaborate beading in gold, silver, or bronze.

Contestants in the event, which former US president Donald Trump was the co-owner before taking the office, have a 10-year age span between from 18 to 28 and should be single. Before Sandhu, two other Indian girls had crowned Miss Universe. Sushmita Sen and Lara Dutta, both actresses in India, won the title in 1994 and 2000, respectively.

The 2021 Miss Universe contest, by the way, proved controversial following disputes over the host selections. Israel’s practice on Palestinian inhabitants in their homeland prompted multiple groups to boycott the event. 

The event’s participants arrived in Israel late in November and have since toured the country, drawing accusations for racial ignorance. The candidates donned robes with characteristic Palestinian needlework while rolling grape leaves during a visit in the Bedouin city of Rahat. 

The Bedouin are historically nomadic Palestinian people who have protested the Israeli state about prejudice in education and health care. This is where the disputes started.

Miss Universe 2021 amid Boycotts

The competition has taken disputable side for its holding in Israel. Numerous candidates faced demands to withdraw in favour of people in Palestine. Human rights activists and Palestinian groups invited the competitors to shun the competition to oppose Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.

The Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel issued a statement in which it called all participants and foreign sponsors to boycott the contest in Israel. “We urge all participants to withdraw, to avoid complicity in Israel’s apartheid regime and its violation of Palestinian human rights,” it wrote in part of its statement.

Among the eighty finalists, two were from Bahrain and Morocco, the signatories of Abraham Accords. Based on the accord, Bahrain and Morocco normalized relations with Israel since 2020.

Among the boycotters were Malaysia and Indonesia, with no diplomatic ties with Israel. the representatives of these two countries, unlike Bahrain and Morocco had no official compulsory force to attend the event. 

South Africa, which is a staunch supporter of the Palestinian people, has withdrawn its endorsement for the country’s delegate due to her attendance. Cape Town stressed on Israeli crimes against People in Palestine as the underlying reason. 

UAE, the first party to the Abraham Accords did not send a contender either.  The UAE, nevertheless, claimed that this was due to time restrictions” in choosing its national finalist. Observers believe that the public dissatisfaction with the normalization and a potential winner boycott resulted in the decision.

This is while UAE is hosting Israeli Prime Minister these days the first official Israeli visit to the country. Any potential disputes could have led to the start of a new political row between the two countries.

Israel held Miss Universe 2021 while calls for boycott attracted more attentions than the event itself.

Tags: Harnaaz SandhuIsrael BoycottMiss Universe 2021

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