Tom Cruise has personally stepped in to assist his agent, after she was relieved of her duties following pro-Palestinian social media posts.

Maha Dakhil, who represents Cruise, was let go from her position as co-chief of the movement photos division of CAA (Inventive Artists Company), an influential Los Angeles expertise company.

She had made numerous posts on Instagram, together with one which learn: “What’s extra heartbreaking than witnessing genocide? Witnessing the denial that genocide is going on.”

In response to Selection, Cruise took “the uncommon step of stepping into particular person” to her workplace to indicate his assist for her, and he made it identified to CAA that he was backing her. It’s reported {that a} group of different CAA assistants threatened to stroll out over the company’s remedy of Dakhil.

Dakhil was allowed to remain on on the firm as an agent, however she was stepped down from her different senior position.

The information comes as Hollywood continues to wrangle with easy methods to take care of artists and executives who select to be personally outspoken in regards to the ongoing disaster in Israel-Gaza.

Earlier at the moment (November 22), Melissa Barrera was dropped from Scream VII after writing an Instagram submit in assist of Palestine.

In a submit on her Instagram Tales, Mexican-born Barrera, who performed Sam Carpenter, wrote: “I too come from a colonized nation. Palestine WILL be free. They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we had been seeds.”

In one other submit, she added: “Gaza is at present being handled like a focus camp. Cornering everybody collectively, with no the place to go, no electrical energy no water. Individuals have learnt nothing from our histories. And identical to our histories, persons are nonetheless silently watching all of it occur. THIS IS GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING.”

Barrera later claimed there was “censorship” in Western media which “solely reveals the opposite aspect” of the battle from Israel’s perspective.

In the present day (November 22), Pulp, Lucy Dacus, Sleater-Kinney and extra had been amongst the 1000’s of musicians who’ve signed an open letter calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Mark Hamill and Jamie Lee Curtis had been amongst 700 Hollywood figures who signed an open letter voicing their assist for Israel, whereas Selena Gomez’s make-up firm, Uncommon Magnificence, introduced that will probably be donating funds to the reduction efforts in Gaza. Over 2,000 names from the humanities world, together with Tilda Swinton, Large Assault‘s Robert Del Naja and Miriam Margoyles, signed an open letter calling for ceasefire.