The Again Room with Andy Ostroy
Julianna Margulies just lately mentioned Black folks have been “brainwashed” to hate Jews — one thing she now regrets … and is apologizing over.
The actress, who’s Jewish, made the inflammatory remark late final month on a podcast look with Andy Ostroy … the place they talked about younger folks’s overwhelming embrace of Palestine within the Israel-Hamas conflict — one thing they chalked as much as antisemitism.
Particularly, Margulies talked about African-Individuals and folks within the LGBTQ+ group as being wholly misguided of their place on the matter … saying they’d be the primary ones to be discriminated towards — if not outright killed — in nearly any Muslim nation.
JM went to precise disbelief that Black folks, particularly, as a bunch gave the impression to be talking out towards Israel/Zionists — which she apparently views as hating on Jews, at massive, as effectively — after which introduced up the truth that Jewish folks had stood with Blacks in the course of the Civil Rights period … and principally mentioned the identical must be accomplished now in return.
She then mentioned {that a} latest Ken Burns doc on the Holocaust must be necessary viewing in colleges lately — particularly for the Black group … whom she recommended both did not know the horrid historical past, or whom she mentioned had in all probability been taught to “hate Jews.”
It brought about plenty of backlash, and on Friday … she folded, saying — “I am horrified by the fact that statements I made on a recent podcast offended the Black and LGBTQIA+ communities, communities I truly love and respect.”
Margulies continued … “I want to be 100% clear: Racism, homophobia, sexism, or any prejudice against anyone’s personal beliefs or identity are abhorrent to me, full stop.”
She added … “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.”
JM completed by saying, “I did not intend for my words to sow further division, for which I am sincerely apologetic.”
