United Agents are conducting “a comprehensive and thorough investigation” into comedy director Kitty Laing after Israel and Hamas repost

United Agents is conducting “a comprehensive and thorough investigation” into one of Britain’s most prominent comedy agents after she was called in over a series of redeployments and involvements in the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Kitty Laing, head of comedy at United and representative of artists including Katherine Ryan, Nick Mohammed and Jamie Demetriou, was the subject of an Oscar nominee’s X-thread this morning Borat subsequent motion picture Author Lee Kern.

United said it was “made aware of social media posts this morning by one of our senior officials” and is “immediately conducting a full and thorough investigation into this matter.” “These are not the views of United Agents,” it added. Laing apologized for the last few minutes.

In this morning’s lengthy thread, Kern highlighted a series of reposts from Laing, including one calling for Israel’s Jews to be called “settler paramilitaries,” another referring to “fake beheaded babies” in connection with the attack that acquired Al-Shifa Hospital, one representing Israel. is responsible for this controversial attack. Scroll down to see the full topic.

In a now-deleted Instagram screenshot, Laing called British Labor leader Keir Starmer “absolutely disgusting” and a “total moral coward” for insisting on his LBC radio show that Israel has the right to “defend itself.” A number of other Twitter screenshots contain reposts of a tweet from the BBC A man like Mobeen Creator Guz Khan wrote on October 18: “At least the whole planet can now see what the West and Israel stand for.” Another repost from Laing said: “If you’re not sure which side to be on: There is a global, multi-racial, multi-religious grassroots movement for justice in solidarity with Palestine. There is nothing for Israel.”

Prominent British comedians such as Khan and Co A man like Mobeen Star Tez Ilyas has tweeted regularly about the conflict since it began on October 7 following Hamas attacks on Israel in which an estimated 1,400 civilians were killed and 200 kidnapped.

Laing deleted her Twitter account and then added it back to post an apology this afternoon. She said she “unreservedly apologized” and added: “Looking back, I realize how naive I was and that much of the information on social media about the conflict is unfounded and hurtful.”

Kern’s thread comes just two days after CAA co-head of film Maha Dakhil stepped down from day-to-day leadership and resigned from the agency’s internal board after reposting an Instagram story that said: “You are currently finding out who supports genocide.” “