Pornstar Mia Khalifa has reportedly been cut loose from a contract with Playboy following her social media posts supporting Palestine and Hamas attacks against Israel.
The adult magazine put out a statement clarifying its stance, adding that "over the past few days, Mia has made disgusting and reprehensible comments celebrating Hamas’s attacks on Israel and the murder of innocent men, women, and children."
The move follows the pornstar's post on X extending support to Palestine. "If you can look at the situation and not be on the side of Palestinians, then you are on the wrong of apartheid and history will that in time."
Minutes later, she put up a post that read: "Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal," she said in another post on X.
"I just wanna make sure there’s 4k footage of my people breaking down the walls of the open-air prison they’ve been forced out of their homes and into so we have good options for the history books that write about how they freed themselves from apartheid," she wrote in response to criticism.
I just wanna make sure there’s 4k footage of my people breaking down the walls of the open air prison they’ve been forced out of their homes and into so we have good options for the history books that write about how how they freed themselves from apartheid. Please worry about… https://t.co/sgx8kzAHnL
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) October 8, 2023
Her tweets drew a huge backlash with Canada-based podcaster and radio host Todd Shapiro firing her. "This is such a horrendous tweet, Mia Khalifa. Consider yourself fired effective immediately. Simply disgusting. Beyond disgusting. Please evolve and become a better human being. The fact you are condoning death, rape, beatings and hostage-taking is truly gross. No words can explain your ignorance," Shapiro said in his post.
Khalifa was business partners with Shapiro and the duo had collaborated on Red Light Holland Corp and was responsible for helming the company's corporate social responsibility initiatives.
She also criticized reality star Kylie Jenner for posting a since-deleted message in support of Israel to her Instagram account, writing, "If true journalism exists, the next person to talk to Kylie Jenner will ask for her opinion on geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and not break eye contact until she can string one coherent sentence together since she wants to take a stance to her 400M followers so badly."
