Tom Cruise shows supports for his agent fired over pro-Palestine posts

Tom Cruise showed support for his agent Maha Dakhil after she was forced to step away from her leadership roles at talent agency CAA after she posted Instagram Stories supporting Palestine.

As per a report by media outlet Variety, Daha was relieved of her duties as co-chief of the motion pictures department, though she was allowed to remain an agent after her client, Tom Cruise made it known to CAA that he was backing her.

As per the report, Tom Cruise met with Maha Dakhil at her CAA office on November 15. A source told the portal that Tom ‘took the rare step of going in person to show support for his embattled agent’.

Maha Dakhil, one of talent agency CAA’s top agents, had ignited a firestorm with her Instagram posts last month, including one that said, “What’s more heartbreaking than witnessing genocide? Witnessing the denial that genocide is happening.”

She faced internal backlash and resigned from the agency’s board after she also reposted an image on Instagram that read, in part, “You’re currently learning who supports genocide.” She had added in the caption, “That’s the line for me.”

After backlash from within and also rivals agencies, Maha Dakhil had deleted both images and made a public apology.

“I made a mistake with a repost in my Instagram Story, which used hurtful language. Like so many of us, I have been reeling with heartbreak. I pride myself on being on the side of humanity and peace,” Maha had said in a statement in October.

Maha is not the only one dividing Hollywood amid the Israel-Hamas war. The Hollywood talent agency UTA dropped Susan Sarandon as a client after she spoke at a pro-Palestine rally recently.