Playboy fires former adult film star for 'disgusting and reprehensible comments' on Hamas attack

According to the Associated Press, the death toll in the Israel/Hamas War has reached 1600. At least 900 Israelis and 700 Palestinians, AP reports, have been killed since Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Saturday, October 7 — a day Israeli officials have been describing as "Israel's 9/11."

Mia Khalifa, a former adult film performer who was born in Beirut, Lebanon, has been expressing her views on the conflict on X, formerly Twitter. And Playboy has fired her from its Centerfold platform in response to some anti-Israel comments it slammed as "disgusting and reprehensible."

In an e-mail to Centerfold subscribers, Playboy — according to the Daily Mail and the Daily Beast — announced, "We are writing today to let you know of our decision to terminate Playboy's relationship with Mia Khalifa, including deleting Mia's Playboy channel on our creator platform…. Over the past few days, Mia has made disgusting and reprehensible comments celebrating Hamas' attacks on Israel and the murder of innocent men, women and children. At Playboy, we encourage free expression and constructive political debate, but we have a zero-tolerance policy for hate speech."

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On October 7, Khalifa tweeted, "Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal." Later in the day, Khalifa posted, "I can't believe the Zionist apartheid regime is being brought down by guerrilla fighters in fake Gucci shirts - the biopics of these moments better reflect that."

Khalifa, however, also said she was "in no way shape or form…. enticing" the "spread of violence" but wrote that "Palestinian citizens are…. fighting for freedom every day.”

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