Miss Israel says she's getting death threats after viral Miss Universe video controversy with Miss Palestine

Miss Israel Melanie Shiraz says she has been bombarded with decease and rape threats aft she claims a perchance edited video went viral showing her glaring astatine Miss Palestine during a Miss Universe competition.

The 27-year-old spoke astir however the maltreatment began wrong hours of the video circulating online and arsenic radical began to deliberation she had fixed Nadeen Ayoub a soiled look connected signifier during the pageant successful Bangkok, Thailand.

"I don't cognize if that footage was edited oregon not, but it was decidedly astatine slightest edited and cropped and clipped unneurotic successful a mode that made it look similar I was the lone 1 that was looking that way," she told Fox News Digital.

"My societal media got swarmed with hatred comments and conscionable these clips from this video that looked similar I was lasting close adjacent to her.

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Miss Universe contestants successful Thailand for the 2025 competition. (Miss Universe Thailand Facebook)

"I archetypal thought it was AI oregon something, past I realized that it conscionable came from a antithetic camera that had a precise distorted perspective."

Shiraz maintained she expected that she would "get a batch of hatred and heightened scrutiny conscionable for being the typical from Israel, but this should not origin Hitler comments and not origin decease threats."

"And that's precisely what I've been receiving," she said, earlier describing the harassment arsenic graphic and disturbing.

"This has been to the constituent of, I privation to rape and termination you or, I anticipation that you extremity up similar 1 of the hostages that got raped and changeable successful the head," she said.

"I've gotten, ‘die you soiled Jew.’ I don't privation to beryllium excessively graphic, and it's jarring."

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Shiraz, who studied astatine the University of California, Berkeley, and completed an MBA, antecedently worked successful Israel’s tech assemblage and founded her ain startup earlier entering pageantry. (Fox News Digital)

"I was hoping that I would beryllium capable to person a productive dialog with Miss Palestine, possibly adjacent instrumentality immoderate photos unneurotic and amusement the satellite that we tin beryllium an illustration for peace," she added.

Shiraz, who studied astatine the University of California, Berkeley, and completed an MBA, antecedently worked successful Israel’s tech assemblage and founded her ain startup earlier entering pageantry.

"I realized that I americium precise passionate astir advocacy," she said. "I got heavy progressive successful the Jewish assemblage and Israel advocacy connected campus, and it occurred to maine that a taste signifier specified arsenic this 1 could springiness Israel a quality dependable and erstwhile we’re mostly lone seen done a governmental lens," she added.

The contention successful Bangkok besides came aft Ayoub posted respective photos from the lawsuit online aft a show.

"She had besides posted 8 photos successful which I was disposable successful each of them," Shiraz recalled. 

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Shiraz says she is passionate astir representing Israel. (Melanieshiraz/Instagram)

"They were evidently not bully pictures of me, and ones wherever I was looking successful that direction, oregon what seemed to beryllium that direction.

"I had asked her to instrumentality it down, and she took down lone 1 oregon 2 of the photos, but not each of them."

"During the contention I had realized that determination was a circumstantial cameraman that was centered close connected her, and I was close down her," she said. "I had besides realized that that cameraman was lone pointing astatine her, and truthful myself, and they seemed to person immoderate benignant of connection betwixt them, which was striking to me."

Despite the abuse, Shiraz remains determined. "It is very, precise pugnacious to beryllium Jewish and Israeli successful this time and age, nary substance what we do, we volition get hatred for it," she said.

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Shiraz said she was hoping to person  a productive dialog with Miss Palestine and possibly instrumentality immoderate photos together. (Melanieshiraz/Instagram)

"It lone reinforces to maine that what I'm doing close present is important and that I shouldn't get distracted, conscionable motivated."

The 74th Miss Universe competition, featuring 121 contestants, continues successful Thailand, with the expansive last acceptable for Friday, Nov. 21st.

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"I'm precise passionate astir representing Israel and, aft this competition, anticipation to pivot from my inheritance to crook to advocating for Israel and for bully causes into my life's work," she said. "I travel retired and enactment my champion ft guardant each day, and sometimes it feels like, nary substance what I do, it conscionable volition not beryllium sufficient, you know, to get maine into definite people's hearts… But of course, it won't halt maine from putting my champion ft forward."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Miss Palestine for comment.