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Jesus fucking shit... a Palestinian speaking for Palestine gets canceled by playboy.
Obviously if she supported Hamas i might be ok with that. But her comments were in support of Palestine, not hamas, and she herself **is a Palestinian**...
For the record these are the comments she made that playboy directly mentioned were the reason for dropping her:
“If you can look at the situation in Palestine and not be on the side of Palestinians, then you are on the wrong side of apartheid and history will show that in time.”
“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.”
“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.”
This was playboys official statement in response as to why they canceled her:
“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,” the company wrote in a message to users (via Daily Mail). “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. We expect Mia to understand that her words and actions have consequences.”
#Israel #Palestine $Hamas #Playboy
Obviously if she supported Hamas i might be ok with that.
…she was literally cheering on #Hamas and asking them to release higher quality footage of their attacks on civilians.
That said…IDK man I don’t like punishing people for opinions, but supporting terrorism is pretty bad…Maybe I should file it under the same take I had when #ye got cut from all his business deals…it is what it is, and he should have done business with people who would stand by him no matter what he said. Which interestingly enough was #MiaKhalifa’s take too, once she got let go from another company.
> …she was literally cheering on #Hamas and asking them to release higher quality footage of their attacks on civilians.
No this was during the riot from palestinians, not the hamas attacks itself.
Remember first the citizens rose up and rioted. During the riot hamas placed bombs along the wall. The bombs went off and hamas and palestianians flooded into israel
The act of bombing the walls to their prison and escaping is perfectly ok to cheer on.. It would only be if sheered on the attacks of the hamas (which as far as I can tell she did not) that it wold be an issue.
@freemo Lol what?
Hold on. How much did you read about this situation? Where are you getting your information from?
Im getting my info largely from israeli news and videos as my israeli friends are sending it to me... Thats what they described and showed me. What part do you disagree with?
@freemo I disagree that she wasn’t talking about #Hamas, because she was.
When the situation started, the first thing she did on #X / #Twitter was root for #Palestine. Not the worst thing in the world to post, but the second thing she did was boost a tweet/xeet that downplayed the paragliding attack on the #EDM festival in #Israel. On #Instagram she also explicitly downplayed #Hamas as a group, calling them mere “resistance”. So when she talks later about “resistance”, it’s safe to say she’s not merely talking about responses to #Israel’s actions, but #Hamas’ provocations as well.
The post reads "No you dont understand... The flew into occupied territory on hang gliders"... What about that statement is inaccurate... Every word of that is entierly factually true, none of that actually supports Hamas, it is simply a statement of fact, that is, exactly what they did. What part of that statement do you even disagree with?
And note you cant say "it leaves out the details of the massacre"... cause while this is true, it also wasnt her post, AND since i dont know what the post is in reply to I cant say if that omission was out of bias or out of irrelavance to whatever point might have been made there.
@freemo It’s not a lie of commission, it’s a lie of omission, and an obvious attempt to downplay what happened.
Imagine if I had said, the hour the planes hit the twin towers on 9/11, “well, we provoked them, y’know” and said nothing about the attack, or American casualties and victims, or how bad the attack was. One could very reasonably infer that I’d be supporting the act of terror due to my downplaying of the situation and deflection of blame.
This is why #HasanPiker got in so much trouble when he said “America deserved 9/11”, even though he technically had his facts right, he just explained himself very badly, and deflected blame as well. Trying to justify the actions of terrorists makes it seem like you support them.
> Imagine if I had said, the hour the planes hit the twin towers on 9/11, “well, we provoked them, y’know” and said nothing about the attack, or American casualties and victims, or how bad the attack was. One could very reasonably infer that I’d be supporting the act of terror due to my downplaying of the situation and deflection of blame.
That isnt a remotely equal analogy.. it would be more like saying. Lets look at the original quote we are turnigninto an analogy again:
> No you dont understand. They flew into occupied territory on hang gliders
your quote does not at all line up with that one. It would be more like if the following was said about 911:
"No you don't understand they used planes in forign USA territory"
While that clearly doesnt paint the full picture of 911 no one would read that and go "thats a lie of omission"... no one would think it is acting like they didnt fly those planes into towers... its just, people know they were flown into towers, it wasnt needed to say that, its assumed, the narrative is known.
I agree they are very different things.
What I see is a member of the community who has been abused cheering the fact that her people have finally been able to blow the walls of their prison and escape.. that was a huge freedom moment for them as a tortured and abused people... I think her reaction, especially with her going out of her way not to support hamas but only supporting the rioting people themselves and their escape throught he wall.. i think that shows remarkable restraint for a person whose community and family have been the victim for so long
I saw the same for the isralis by the way... many of them make excuses for the genocide and war crime of their own government. I often say how their support of terrorism is because of the same effect, they have had so many people die due to this war they just arent thinking straight, so as long as they dont actively support the terrorism and instead turn a blind eye, while it isnt right, as a victim as well I can understand how that mentality occurs at the hands of brutality.
She answered that for us. let me find the quote so I can judge it.. one sense.
"Hamas was born as a means of resistance"
Though in context she said (and i am paraphrasing)... that hamas was formed 20 years after israel started exterminating her people.. it was born as a direct result of unjust mass murder commited ont he palistinians...
She is right... look i dont justify the terrorism... but if someone is terroristic to you for 20 years straight, and you have no means to do anything about it other than to just watch your people get slaughtered... yea your going to rise up as a means of resistance. And while i still do not justify it, id o understand meeting terror with equal terror.. after 20 years fighting back int he same way you have been treated isnt right (two wrongs dont make a right) but it is **expected**. There is a big difference between whats right,a nd what is the natural consequence of an injustice.
If i try to kill someone their going to try to kill me. Doesnt make it right, but it does make it expected.
@freemo I’m not sure why you’re reaching so much on this. It’s one thing to support #Palestine, but that’s completely different from downplaying, supporting, and joking about terrorism.