She continued: “I’m shocked, I’m upset, and I’m dissatisfied within the lack of sensitivity that went into this marketing campaign. Had I been made conscious, from the underside of my coronary heart, I might by no means have participated.”
“My staff ought to have recognized, Adidas ought to have recognized, and I ought to have accomplished extra analysis, in order that I too would have recognized and understood and spoken up. As I all the time have, and all the time will, communicate up for what I imagine to be mistaken. I don’t imagine in hate in any kind, together with antisemitism. That can by no means waiver, and I stand by that assertion to the fullest extent.”
She additionally added: “Palestine just isn’t synonymous with terrorism and this marketing campaign unintentionally highlighted an occasion that doesn’t signify who we’re.”