Susan Sarandon His recent anti-Semitic comments during a protest in New York at a pro-Palestine event sparked intense opposition on social media and sparked outrage in the American Jewish community.
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The actress and activist explained, according to the Chron, “There are a lot of people right now who are afraid of being Jewish and are starting to get a taste of what it feels like to be Muslim in this country.”
Hollywood’s premier talent agency, United Talent Agency has ceased representation to Sarandon for the comments he made
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According to the New York Post, several employees of UTA, whose CEO is Jewish Jeremy Zimmer and who has represented Sarandon since 2014, felt “extremely hurt” by the Oscar winner’s comments on “Dead Man Walking.”
Since the war began on October 7th, the 77-year-old actress, who has never renounced political activism and usually adding his name to numerous progressive causes, he has uploaded comments in support of Palestinians to his social network.
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“You don’t have to be a Palestinian to care about what’s happening in Gaza. I am for Palestine. “No one is free until everyone is free,” he posted on November 4th.
One of the people who expressed their outrage at Sarandon was Asra NomaniFormer Wall Street Journal reporter for 15 years, author and public speaker on issues related to Islam, women’s rights and religious extremism.
“Hello Susan Sarandon, this is my mother, father and I on the railroad in Morgantown, West Virginia. “Let me tell you what it means to be Muslim in America,” Nomani began on the social network X, formerly known as Twitter. “Let me give you a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in America: My father did not have to become a second-class servant to one of the many tyrants in Muslim countries who take advantage of immigrants from India, like my family, as essential slaves.”
He said that in 1975, after receiving his doctorate from Rutgers University, he was about to go to Libya, in the hands of Muammar Gaddafi, to work as a servant for a rich dictator, “but then one day the phone rang and I answered… It was the call from West Virginia University, and my father got a job as an assistant professor of nutrition.” At first he was rejected for a job , but as a Muslim in America, he had a right just like everyone else: his right to appeal, and guess what? He won and became a full professor. This is what it means to be Muslim in America. You get all your rights“.
Regarding her mother, she said that she could live in the United States as a Muslim “Free with the wind in your hair. And what did it mean for my mother to live freely as a Muslim in the United States? That in 1981 he was able to open a business called Ain’s International on High Street in downtown Morgantown. If only women in the Muslim state of Saudi Arabia had had the right to do so. But can you guess this? This entrepreneurial spirit and financial independence is denied to Muslim women in so many Muslim countries.“.
The beginning of Asra Nomani’s tweet directed at Susan Sarandon
That summer, Asra Nomani boarded a plane at Pittsburgh Airport bound for Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and left home at age 16 to attend a National Science Foundation camp without a male chaperone, a right granted to Muslim women and girls Saudi Arabia.
“Another ‘taste’ of being Muslim in America? My family found the path to citizenship. Do you believe that Qatar’s Muslim dictatorship allows Muslim slaves, servants or Palestinian Muslims a path to citizenship? No way. The Muslim Al-Thani family just bought citizenship from Muslim soccer stars from African countries in order to steal World Cup victories from them. But otherwise treats non-Qatari Muslims as slaves“.
She told how her family waited in the United States, took the exam, studied the constitution and thus all became citizens, before revealing that she had fled Pakistan in 2002 with a memory that could have led to prison or death: ” A A baby growing inside me, a wedding ring I didn’t have in my hand. Sharia law makes extramarital sexual relations a crime in Muslim countries like Pakistan. My body? The Mullah’s Tyranny. It is also a crime punishable by death… in Muslim countries, but not in the United States! Where do you think I came from to deliver my baby safely and without shame?”
And he ended: “Please, Don’t minimize the experience of American Jews It softens the hell it represents for Muslims in Muslim countries and denigrates America for the life (and freedoms) it offers to Muslims like my family. Go and live like a Muslim woman in a Muslim country. You will return to the United States and kiss the earth beneath your feet.”
(With information from EFE)