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Julianna Marguliesis speaking out after facing backlash for criticizing the Black and LGBTQ+ communities over their perceived lack of support for Israel amid its ongoing war against Hamas.
“Throughout my career I have worked tirelessly to combat hate of all kind, end antisemitism, speak out against terrorist groups like Hamas, and forge a united front against discrimination,” she continued. “I did not intend for my words to sow further division, for which I am sincerely apologetic.”
The three-time Emmy winner, 57, appeared on the Nov. 20 episode ofThe Back Room with Andy Ostroypodcastwhen she made her remarks as the topic of antisemitism in light of theIsrael-Hamasconflict surfaced.
On the podcast, Margulies and Ostory — known for his HBO documentary on his late wifeWaitressdirectorAdrienne Shelly— got into the topic of antisemitism, with Margulies saying former PresidentDonald Trump"legitimized” its rise when he praised neo-Nazi protestors after the2017 riots in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“I’m the first person to march [for]Black Lives Matter. When that happened toGeorge Floyd, I put a black screen on my Instagram. Like, I ran to support my Black brothers and sisters,” Margulies continued. “When LGBTQ people are being attacked, I run. I made a commercial for same-sex marriages with my husband in 2012. Like, I am the first person to jump up when something is wrong, as I think most Jews are, because we have been persecuted from the beginning of time — not just World War II, but literally from the beginning of time when we first lived in Israel way before anybody else.”
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After Ostory said, “You’re 100 percent right. If we use the wrong pronouns on college campuses, there’d be an uproar,” Margulies went on to criticize progressive young people whom she feels have supported those attacking Jews.
“It’sthosekids who are spewing this antisemitic hate that have no idea if they stepped foot in an Islamic country — these people who want us to call them ‘they/them’ or whatever they want us to call them, which I have respectfully really made a point of doing … like, be whoever you want to be — it’s those people that will be the first people beheaded and their heads played [like] a soccer ball on the field,” she said. “And that’s who they’re supporting? Terrorists who don’t want women to have their rights? LGBTQ people get executed, bar none. And this is who you’re supporting? It is so insane to me that is it laughable if it wasn’t so sad.”
“It’s unfathomable,” Margulies said. “And where are the professors, calling all of these students into the auditorium and saying, ‘Hold on a minute. Guys, do you understand what a terrorist organization is about? Learn what you’re supporting.”
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She also made an apparent reference to aNew York Poststory about the LionLez group — Columbia university’s self-described “radical POC-run club for Queer women and nonbinary people” — disinviting “Zionists” from a film night they were holding.
“I want say to them, ‘You f—ing idiots,” she continued. “You don’t exist. You’re even lower than the Jews. A. You’re Black, and B. You’re gay. And you’re turning your back against the people who support you?’ Because Jews, they rally around everybody. It is a lonely place to be.”
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Margulies spoke about what she felt was the lack of support for Jews from the Black community.
“The fact that the entire Black community isn’t standing with us, to me says either they just don’t know, or they’ve been brainwashed to hate Jews,” she said.
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