Kitty Laing, the head of comedy at U.K. talent agency United Agents, is (hopefully) in career trouble, after reposting heinous anti-Israel tweets, including one justifying the murder of innocent Jewish civilians.
Comedy writer Lee Kern drew attention to the specific tweets:
Over 1400 civilians murdered. Women raped. Babies killed. Children burned. Acts all filmed by Hamas & all within the borders of Israel as recognised by the UN. But @kitty of @UnitedAgents shares a post casting civilian victims of rape & war crimes as “legitimate” military targets pic.twitter.com/dG1NUzZZpQ
— leekern (@leekern13) October 24, 2023
@kittylaing gloats over Israel, (still burying murdered children), sharing a triumphalist tweet stating there’s no empathy for Israel. (There is). What is this spite & contempt that Kitty of @UnitedAgents has for a people who lost the most Jews in one day since the Holocaust? pic.twitter.com/iAC0oGQKPr
— leekern (@leekern13) October 24, 2023
Kitty is disgraceful. My friend was hospitalised this week. He collapsed from it all. His cousins were made to watch their own children murdered. Hamas filmed their reactions & live streamed it. More family are kidnapped. But Kitty finds much to mock here. What a wicked soul
— leekern (@leekern13) October 24, 2023
Laing originally deleted her account after being exposed, before reinstating it to post the following apology:
“I would like to unreservedly apologise for my retweets on social media surrounding the horrendous attacks in Israel on October 7th. With hindsight, I realise how naive I have been and that much of the information on social media surrounding the conflict is unsubstantiated and hurtful. I should have taken time to consider this beforehand.”
Allow me to redraft it to reflect what I believe is closer to the truth:
“I would like to unreservedly apologise for my retweets on social media surrounding the Hamas resistance acts in Israel on October 7th. With hindsight, I realise how naive I have been to think I would not jeopardize my career by exposing the evil in my heart.”
Laing seems to have deleted her account again – and possibly her career:
We have been made aware of social media posts by one of our senior agents this morning. These are not the views of United Agents Ltd. We are conducting a full and thorough investigation into this immediately.
— United Agents (@UnitedAgents) October 24, 2023
Meanwhile, this is one of her tweets, which is still visible in Google Search:
Israeli parents who went “camping” with their kids at the Supernova Music festival were also no doubt excited to be doing so.
