A former Israeli beauty queen has slammed activist groups such as Black Lives Matter for not supporting the terrorized Jewish people, claiming they need to “learn their facts.”
Yityish “Titi” Aynaw, the first Ethiopian to win the “Miss Israel” title in 2013, criticized the double standards on full display by activists and self-styled human rights groups when it comes to Israel.
“I am so shocked by the response of Black Lives Matter regarding the terror attacks here in Israel,” the 32-year-old said in a post on Instagram.
“I remember you screaming in the streets, ‘I can’t breathe.’ I want to inform you right now… [it’s Israelis] who cannot breathe.”
She invoked some 200 Israeli hostages held in Gaza – including babies, children, women, entire families and the elderly.
“They were kidnapped, raped by the terror organization Hamas… slaughtering their souls. Hamas is ISIS. Pray for us. Pray for Israel because we can’t breathe, she added.
Aynaw’s comments were posted on a wrenching video showing a young woman being dragged from the trunk of a vehicle soaked with blood from her backside.
The beauty queen moved as a 12-year-old orphan from a small village in Ethiopia to Israel, where she went on to become an officer in the IDF and later the representative of the Jewish state on the world stage.
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“These groups – BLM – need to learn their facts,” Aynaw told The Post from her home in Ramat HaSharon near Tel Aviv.
“People need to learn who they’re really supporting, what they do to their own people, let alone Jews. They don’t care about saving lives. There are no human rights [with Hamas]. They kill their own – they also kill Muslims, Bedouins who serve in the army.”
The Chicago Black Lives Matter organization had posted a since-deleted graphic seemingly celebrating Hamas’ slaughter of Israelis.
“The situation here in Israel is so bad. We really haven’t experienced something like this since the Holocaust,” she added.
Aynaw said she is digesting the news of her brethren being abducted, injured or killed. She had friends at the Nova music festival where Hamas launched a devastating attack.
“We have a hole in our heart, in every Israeli heart,” she said, speaking on the anxiety that has gripped the nation. “During the day, I find myself trying to breathe, sounding like an old woman trying to catch my breath.”
Aynaw, who has called her adopted home “diverse, multicultural and unique,” and a country that “really accepts everybody,” looked to transformative civil rights visionary Martin Luther King Jr to express her urgent plea.
“Black voices everywhere: this is our time to stand together and be heard,” she said on Instagram, invoking the legendary leader who was a tireless supporter of Israel and railed against antisemitism. “My dream is to unite together against terror – to fight Hamas, fight terror.”
She said education about the makeup of the Jewish state might change people’s perception.
“They don’t have any idea that there’s black Jewish people here – a huge community of Ethiopians living here equally,” she said, adding, “A lot of officers and soldiers are black and fighting for their country, Israel,” she said amidst reports of seven Ethiopians who were killed since the attack began.
“People need to know there were black Jewish people who were killed.”
Aynaw’s final warning to those who support and defend the dastardly attacks on Israel “not by freedom fighters, but a fanatic organization” is to do your homework.
“All these people supporting them – the LGBT community – I want them to go to Gaza and see how Hamas will behave to them,” said Aynaw, noting the arrest, death threats and worse often visited upon them.
Aynaw admitted she’s afraid of what kind of world this will be as she tries to protect her 11-month-old son.
“I just said, ‘What kind of world do I bring my son into? A world that will hate him because he’s black or Jewish?’” she said, face etched with fortitude over fear as she quickly pivoted to the resilience that’s sustained the Jews for thousands of years.
“I start to feel guilty. But then I remember that light is stronger than the darkness.”
