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[–] [email protected] 175 points 1 year ago (14 children)

This smells really fishy. They quote her directly when it comes to her taking the side of Palestinians in general (aka, the oppressed population) but when it comes to her supposed support of Hamas in particular, all there is in the article is a paraphrase of THEIR version, not a direct quote.

Sounds like a political hit job.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s this idea going around that directly quoting the thing a person got cancelled for is spreading whatever hate they were spreading.

The obvious side effect of such a practice is that people who get silenced never get their side of the story told.

I find that sketchy as well

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

"If you can look at the situation and not be on the side of Palestinians, then you are on the wrong side of apartheid and history will show that in time,"

This post on her part was fine, but the other one...not so much. She should have stuck with this one only, rather than whatever the frick murderous thing that other post was.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Keep in mind she was a Lebanese refugee that lived through the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. I'm not condoning anything she said but she has a somewhat understandable view of the whole situation.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a quote for the other post? I heard it was just paraphrased, so we don't know what she actually said

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (28 children)

Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal," she wrote on the platform on Saturday.

That's all. If you're very inattentive or deliberately misinterpreting her words, you'd think that she was endorsing Hamas as "freedom fighters".

But if you DO pay attention and know anything, you'll notice that she never mentions Hamas and know that Hamas aren't usually the ones filming any of their atrocities. Add her clarification from a few days later and it's clear that she did NOT endorse Hamas and is the victim of character assassination because she had the temerity to speak up against the apartheid regime:

I just want to make it clear that this statement in no way shape or form is [inciting] spread of violence," she said. "I specifically said freedom fighters because that's what the Palestinian citizens are... fighting for freedom every day.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (18 children)

What a shit article. All she did was support the Palestinian cause and now they're putting shit in her mouth (no pun intended).

I don't like how the narrative is being forced in this conflict. They are clearing the way for something very sinister. We're about to witness a western sanctioned genocide. There's no way Israel is letting this opportunity go.

Something is going to happen soon in the West Bank too, I call it.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Look man, you can support Palestine, but telling the soldiers to turn their phones horizontally for better execution videos of civilians is a bit much.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good ol' Dubya set the stage for this 20 years ago. Yer either fer us or yer agin us. Either you support every thing we do without question or you support terrorism.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

The stage was set long before him. He was just one step in the plan.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Reading these comments is fucking insane.

Calling Hamas "freedom fighters" is an insult to every real current and past freedom fighter in history of mankind.

Freedom fighters dont choose targets that are exclusively civilian, they don't hunt down and execute civilians, nit caring about their beliefs or standing. They don't spread terror among the civilian population. All of these things make the thing they are fighting stronger and puts the rest of the population against them. It's what terrorists do.

Why do you think people in the zionist government support Hamas?! Because it serves to justify the hanous things the government does against Palestinians as a whole.

Real freedom fighters choose infrastructure, smaller military targets (that are reachable), political assassinations of the government officials they are against, et cetera.

These cause civilian casualties, but the civilian casualties are not the goal, they are the byproduct.

Palestinians deserve so much more than Hamas, but Hamas won't let them choose. They silence or kill anyone who disagrees with them, be it Israeli of Palestinian.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Fuck Hamas.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

She did clarify that she was talking about Palestinian civilians filming the missile attacks on civilian homes and such, calling them freedom fighters for documenting atrocities

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't she the pornstar that tried desperately not to be called that and to have that stuff forgotten? Why was she at playboy anyway?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

She’s flip-flopped multiple times on it. She’s happy to be referred to as a (former) porn star when it financially benefits her.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She was doing a podcast for Playboy.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What did she say? I don't want news to tell me how to feel.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (23 children)

She said that the execution and murder videos would have been better viewing if they had flipped their phones horizontally.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean that's incredibly poor taste and way out of line, but I wouldn't call that "pro-hamas" or deserving of being fired.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some people take the portrait vs. landscape argument way to seriously.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

There is no extreme too extreme in the war against the verticles.

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[–] frogfruit 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's the true crime against humanity here.

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[–] ThrowawayPermanente 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So your job is to be a sexy liberal Arab but not, like, too liberal or too Arab.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And definitely not praising the people who just went through a music festival with guns and indiscriminately killed people and dragged off other ones.

A woman whose husband is missing was being interviewed. She said that whenever her baby would cry in their hiding place, bullets would fly through the wall of the shed where they were hiding.

Why anyone would have praise for that organization I cannot fathom.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I came here thinking this sounds like she might be getting woke-cancelled for suggesting Israel is pure as driven snow...

Khalifa even urged Hamas fighters to "flip their phones and film" executions horizontally in one of her posts.

Nevermind, she can go fuck herself with a cactus.

If you think military fighters executing civilians is an acceptable strategy, you probably deserve to be among those civilians and see how you like it.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

They took her comment grossly out of context for effect. The actual quote was...

“Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal."

Yeah, pretty tasteless, but it's not what the article makes it out to be. She's largely getting dragged for openly criticizing Israel's genocide and the media is skewing the situation to make her look worse. Can't have the masses questioning the party line and all.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Telling a porn star to "go fuck herself" made me chuckle more than it should

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't know if I can jerk off to her in good conscious anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Were they pro-Hamas or pro-Palestine?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Pro Hamas. Right after the latest gruesome terror attacks, she called the terrorists of Hamas "Palestine freedom fighters" and proclaimed that actions by Palestinians were always justified, thereby expressing her support for Hamas and their terror attacks.

https://www.deccanherald.com/world/mia-khalifa-shows-support-to-palestine-amid-crisis-with-israel-sparks-row-2721465

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