Aaron Sorkin (Wikipedia)
Aaron Sorkin, the famed Emmy and Oscar winning writer and producer, has parted company with the powerhouse Hollywood talent agency CAA (Creative Artists Agency) after Maha Dakhil, a senior member at the firm, made posts supporting the terrorist organization Hamas. This is just the latest in what has been an unprecedented backlash against the people who failed to acknowledge the barbarity of the Hamas attack on October 7, even as countless world leaders have done so.
Big name donors like Bill Ackman, for example, are closing their checkbooks and calling on others to also stop making donations to prestigious Ivy League schools like Harvard because they took no action against student groups that declared their support for Hamas terrorism.
In another example of the fallout over the Israel-hating Hamas apologizers who ignored the evil of its attack on October 7, prestigious New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell took the unusual step of rescinding job offers that were already made to law school students who have leadership positions in various student organizations that took positions in support of Hamas.
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“These statements are simply contrary to our firm’s values and we thus concluded that rescinding these offers was appropriate in upholding our responsibility to provide a safe and inclusive work environment for all Davis Polk employees,” the firm said explaining its decision.
As for Maha Dakhil, she shared a post on Instagram that accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza that she later deleted. The co-chief of the motion pictures department at CAA, Dakhil stepped down from the organization’s inner board over the controversy.
“Maha isn’t an anti-Semite, she’s just wrong,” Aaron Sorkin said in a statement. “She’s a great agent, and I’m very proud of the work we did together over the last six years. I’m excited to be returning to WME.”
Usually, after a Hamas – or Hezbollah – terror attack on Israel, celebrities and politicians alike come out and condemn Israel for its responses to such attacks, calling them “un-proportional,” whatever that means.
But this is different Hamas butchered more than 1,000 innocent people and even burned babies alive.
Even some university professors who condemned Israel have retracted their statements. For example, Dr. Mika Tosca, a climate scientist and associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, apologized for calling Israel’s response to the Hamas attack evil.
“I am deeply sorry for writing what I wrote, and for hurting many people with my words, and I am especially sorry to Israeli people that I broadly placed at fault for the war,” she said.
