Former porn star Mia Khalifa was terminated by Playboy after making "disgusting and reprehensible comments" about the attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists, who Khalifa referred to as "freedom fighters."

Roughly 1,600 people have been killed after Hamas launched a surprise attack against Israel on Saturday, prompting a retaliatory response from the Israeli military. Thousands were also wounded in the fighting while others were abducted by Hamas and raped, tortured and murdered.

In an email addressed to Playboy's creator community, the company said it made the decision to "terminate Playboy's relationship with Mia Khalifa, including deleting Mia's Playboy channel on our creator platform."

"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," Playboy wrote. "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."

EX-PORN STAR MIA KHALIFA EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR PALESTINIANS, REFERS TO TERRORISTS AS ‘FREEDOM FIGHTERS’

Khalifa, a Lebanese-American adult film performer who was once PornHub's highest-ranked adult star, has long referred to Israel as an "apartheid" state. She also famously received threats from ISIS for wearing a hijab while shooting a sex scene.

Shortly after Hamas launched its Saturday attack on Israel – the largest in decades – Khalifa wrote on X, "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."

The ex-porn star asked in another post on Saturday if someone could "please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal." She replied to this post two days later by saying, "this statement in no way shape or form is enticing spread of violence, I specifically said freedom fighters because that’s what the Palestinian citizens are… fighting for freedom every day."

"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," Khalifa wrote in another post.

The email from Playboy also included the letter it sent to the adult film star informing her of its decision to cut ties.

"Playboy has always been a champion of free speech," the letter to Khalifa read. "We have fought in courts for the rights of all people to speak free from any governmental interference. For seventy years we have highlighted different viewpoints in the pages of our magazine, on our websites, in the symposia that we've hosted, and from the thought-leaders, creators and artists who we've platformed on our various forms of media.

"We also have no place in our company nor on our platforms for speech that is hateful and dehumanizing. Your recent statements celebrating Hamas' attacks on innocent men, women and children in Israel, including rape, mutilation, killing and torture, are disgusting and reprehensible. Consequently, we are hereby permanently terminating you from the Playboy creator platform and ending all other business dealings we may have with you."

The letter continued, "We want to be very clear, we respect your right to free speech. We also expect that you understand that how you use your speech has consequences. Today, we are calling you out on your hate-mongering and severing all ties with you. We will also be letting our creator community know of our decision."

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Khalifa was also publicly fired from a psychedelic mushroom company after her post asking someone to tell the "freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal." Red Light Holland CEO Todd Shapiro informed Khalifa of her firing Saturday on X.

"This is such a horrendous tweet @miakhalifa. Consider yourself fired effective immediately," Shapiro wrote in response to her post. "Simply disgusting. Beyond disgusting. Please evolve and become a better human being. The fact you are condoning death, rape, beatings and hostage taking is truly gross. No words can explain your ignorance. We need humans to come together, especially in the face of tragedy. I pray for you to become a better person. However, it clearly seems like it’s too late for you."

Khalifa then responded to Shapiro's post by saying she wanted to "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 they freed themselves from apartheid."

"Please worry about your sad little company lacking direction and purpose before you utter my name again," Khalifa wrote. "I stand with all people fighting oppression, now and always, do your research before begging for my investment in your little project, I’m from LEBANON, are you insane for expecting me to be on the side of colonialism you f---ing weirdo."

Author Ashley Rindsberg said The New York Times and other American media outlets are showing deep-rooted "bias against Israel" in coverage of the deadly Hamas terror attack that left hundreds dead over the weekend – but the Gray Lady has defended the paper's "voluminous" reporting.

Rindsberg, a journalist who penned the 2021 book "The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History," has long felt the Times is prejudiced. 

"The New York Times’ bias against Israel, I would say at this point, it's not even overt or explicit, which it is. It's beyond the pale," Rindsberg, who previously lived in Tel Aviv, told Fox News Digital. 

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The Times’ front page on Sunday declared "Palestinian militants stage attack on Israel," with images of rockets fired from Gaza City, covered bodies of Israelis who were "killed by militants," Palestinians mourning the death of "a slain militant" and a truck breaching the border fence along southern Israel. Rindsberg, who lived in Israel for nearly two decades, believes the lack of a powerful image of Hamas kidnapping women and children is proof the paper has an agenda. 

"They have taken babies into Gaza as captives. And if that is not on the front page of The New York Times, if a photo of that baby is not the main image and the sole image in The New York Times, you know that this problem is far gone," Rindsberg said. "The New York Times, and this is my sincere belief, is beyond redemption at this point."

On Monday, the Times continued to keep kidnapped women and children off the front page while focusing on "a stunning intelligence failure" by Israel. The words "terror" and "terrorists" were nowhere to be found on the Times’ front page on Sunday or Monday. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., even called out the Times for including Hamas terrorists in the death count and compared it to including the 19 hijackers on the death toll when reporting about the attacks of September 11, 2001. The Times has used the term "terrorist attacks" to refer to the assault in some of its online coverage.

"I mean, what we're seeing is, it's always a sort of, a steady ramp up. And it begins with the equivocation. You know, you get these numbers… comparing Israeli deaths, which are civilians, they mix in the hundreds of terrorist deaths with Gaza civilian deaths to try to create this fake balance," Rindsberg said. "This is not balanced. What happened was a massacre of civilians by terrorists."

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A spokesperson for The New York Times vehemently defended the paper’s coverage. 

"This description of The Times's coverage of the horrific attack is inaccurate, as any fair reading of our voluminous coverage of the assault makes clear," Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander told Fox News Digital. 

Rindsberg took particular exception to a "news analysis" piece by Paris bureau chief Roger Cohen, who has worked at the Times for over 33 years. Cohen’s piece, "A Shaken Israel Is Forced Back to Its Eternal Dilemma," suggested Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was fatally distracted.

"The most sweeping invasion of Israeli territory in decades, conducted by a Hamas force that had been widely seen as a ragtag collection of militants, has delivered a psychological shock to Israel so great that its very foundations are being questioned: its army, its intelligence services, its government and its capacity to control the millions of Palestinians in its midst," Cohen wrote. "As with the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, disbelief has mingled with anger at a colossal intelligence failure."

Rindsberg said the piece is "blaming the victim," but feels it’s simply par for the course when it comes to the Times. 

"This is just the beginning, just like a military operation. It'll start with phase one, it’ll proceed to phase two. By phase three, we're going to start getting full-blown hit pieces where Israel is being blamed for basically every moral wrong for the murder of children…. whatever The New York Times can pull out of its hat, it absolutely is going to do that," he said. 

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The Times is not the only American media organization to face scrutiny for coverage of the Hamas attack against Israel. Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt chided MSNBC on Monday, bluntly asking while appearing on the network, "Who's writing the scripts?"

"MSNBC has become a mouthpiece for the radical left in the U.S. and around the world as well," Rindsberg said. 

"The whole purpose is to try to yank the conversation as far to the left and to radicalize the conversation to whatever extent possible. And it's really becoming naked. I mean, we just had Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL on MSNBC telling one of their hosts how shocked he was by the language, by the fact that they're referring to terrorists as fighters," Rindsberg continued. "These are not fighters. That strips all of the moral charge from the terminology. And again, what it's trying to do is sanitize what happened in Israel. What actually happened, we know, is a massacre perpetrated by terrorists against civilians."

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MSNBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

Rindsberg said the Israeli people are well aware that American media outlets don’t always take their side, even when the opposition is pure evil. 

"They're on the same page as all the rest of us when it comes to the mainstream media, which is that the bias is just -- it's so obvious. It's no longer cloaked; it's no longer hidden. We all know it for what it is. Israelis see the same exact thing," he said. 

On Sunday, the ADL leader also criticized some U.S. media outlets' treatment of the terror attack, in a blistering thread on X.

"Commentators must stop dignifying them as ‘militants’ and stop lauding their crimes as ‘spectacular’ – they are agents of death with an agenda of savagery and there is no excuse for those who apologize for their crimes or glorify their actions," Greenblatt wrote.

"There are some issues in public life that might prompt impassioned debate, then there are moments of unmistakable moral clarity that demand unequivocal, universal condemnation. This is one of those moments. It is good vs. evil," he continued. "That’s it." 

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Fox News’ Kristine Parks and Nikolas Lanum contributed to this report.