Famous Good Wife and ardent Zionist Julianna Margulies recently appeared on The Back Room with Andy Ostroy, a podcast where men talk to celebrities about things, and oh my goodness, what does Julianna Margulies say? Is there something you want to say? What is most interesting to all of us on this website is that at one point she introduced the right to speak about her disdain for anti-Zionism in the LGBTQ+ community by saying: the morning showI’m more offended by that as a lesbian than I am as a Jew. ” First of all, no, she isn’t. Second, why is she speaking on behalf of lesbian Jewish journalists when the option exists, and continues to exist, to not speak at all?
as actual It was excruciating to hear her, a lesbian Jewish journalist, share her bigoted views on this 50-minute podcast. Juliana has demonstrated horrific racism and managed to stand up for all the illogical and frustrating points that her allies and alleged community members have made on behalf of these identities in recent months. did. So I’m not a religious person. ”
First attempt to discuss her character the morning show She recalled that she wanted to insist that her character wear a Star of David necklace instead of a cross, and quickly digressed into something else entirely. (That’s a good point. We need more gay Jewish representation on TV, but not on Juliana’s neck, thank you.) And she proposed the following storyline for Season 4: Masu.
“In season four, I want Laura Peterson to go to Colombia and teach a class to LGBTQ filmmakers and journalists so they can hear about Hamas. That’s what I want.”
It’s hard to imagine anything worse than this Morning Show”It’s an actual season 3 lesbian storyline, but Margulies dares to dream. She bravely represents the LGBTQ+ community on television through Laura Peterson, a woman with a big house in Montana who essentially dumped her hot girlfriend for not calling the police. Despite this, he is extremely angry at the LGBTQ+ community. Margulies continues:
“The people who are spewing this anti-Semitic hatred are children who don’t even know if they’ve set foot in an Islamic country. They are the ones who want it, and I said that out of respect.” The first thing to do is to be decapitated, and those people are the ones whose heads are toyed with like soccer balls. So who are they supporting? Terrorists who don’t want women to have rights? LGBTQ people are executed. ”
Kayla recently wrote about what’s wrong with that way of thinking. And it’s safe to say that any supposedly “respectful” use of they/them pronouns was negated by this contextualization. And she advances an inaccurate anecdote about the “Jew ban.” A “permit” sign at a screening organized by Columbia University’s “Black Lesbian Group” (actually a QPOC-led group for gay women and non-binary people), no “No Jews” sign. Ta). Once again, there’s disgusting, unabashed racism in her ass.
“Because I want to tell them, ‘You idiot.’ You don’t exist. You’re even lower than Jews. A. You’re black, and B. You’re gay.” , will you turn your back on those who support you? Because Jews rally around everyone.”
The host and Juliana give a big sermon about why young people “support Hamas.” This is a consistent error throughout Juliana’s discourse: 1) confusing Jews with Zionists, and 2) confusing Palestinians with Hamas.
She expresses disdain for people who destroy signs for hostages taken by Hamas, and it is natural to feel disdain for this. But everything else she says on this podcast is completely ridiculous. She and Andy said that the United States would never tolerate black people being treated the way Jews are currently being treated (which is very objectively wrong) and that people on college campuses are wrong. Confidently and unsubstantiated claims that you will be persecuted for using . Although it is a pronoun, it was praised for hating Jews.
That’s a full hour of two adults with full access to the internet and a library asking each other, “Why do kids support Hamas?” And he answered again and again, “Because they hate Jews.”
I have a better question. Why do children support the Palestinian people?
A better answer is: Because they hate genocide.
You see, Juliana saw a documentary. She thinks it’s OK for the IDF to bomb hospitals because Hamas operates out of them. (Although, having played a nurse on TV, she may be qualified to speak on behalf of a hospital.) Here’s the thing: Never bomb a hospital. That’s not a good thing. Literally never! Literally, killing innocent civilians is never acceptable. Nothing that has ever happened to anyone, including everything that has ever happened to us Jews, makes it okay. Despite centuries of oppression and exile and extermination, despite the Spanish Inquisition and Russian pogroms and the Holocaust and the October 7 attacks, literally nothing, absolutely nothing, was justified indiscriminately. It will not be done. Killed more than 15,000 innocent Palestinians And it continues to create an endless loop of intergenerational trauma, making mistakes upon mistakes, never getting it right. Condemning both Hamas’s brutal attack on October 7th and Israel’s occupation of Palestine and carpet bombing is much more consistent than condemning the former and not the latter. Never again means never again for everyone.
Susan Sarandon was fired from UTA last week for saying a sentence at a Free Palestine rally that could have been interpreted in a variety of ways, but that there’s really only one way to hear it objectively, and that’s This is because someone judged it to be “anti-Palestinian.” Semitic abuse. (UTA represents many greats, including Meghan McCain, several Fox News anchors, and Bill O’Reilly until his massive sexual harassment settlement came to light.) He was not fired.)
But on this podcast, Juliana Marguiles says objectively bigoted things about black people, queer people, Palestinians, and Muslim people. She is on her CAA client list for now and was given the opportunity. apologize. If she feels persecuted right now, I think it’s not because she’s Jewish, but because she says hateful bigoted things on a regular basis. USA Today gave her an in-depth column last week To share her little ideas. Meanwhile, the United States staunchly supports Israel, pumping $3 billion into Israel’s vast and powerful military in 2022. Actors and journalists are losing their jobs, artists are losing money and funding. work and artistic freedomin support of Palestine.
Like Amy Schumer, Margulies takes her time to present a vision of a highly mercenary operation.
“The fact that the black community as a whole isn’t supporting us, to me, they’re just kicking it.” [word fumbles] –They just don’t know or have been brainwashed to hate Jews. But when you, as a community, feel as marginalized as we feel, isn’t it time for you to step up? ”
There’s a lot to unpack here. Her repeated assertion that various groups are defending Palestine because they are brainwashed idiots is completely disgusting and, in this particular case, dangerously racist . She doesn’t even seem to know that black Jews exist? finally, Perhaps most clearly expressed by the level of tzedakah (Hebrew for charitable giving, essential to the Jewish faith), it is best to donate without expecting anything in return, not even a “thank you”, and without anyone knowing you helped. is. If you’re just donating expecting something in return, it’s probably best not to donate in the first place.
Which brings us to Margulies’ next statement. So she wants us to know that she was an activist herself, and that she was, in fact, at the very top of that black square on Instagram. She also threw her first brick against Black Lives Matter.
“I was the first person to march in Black Lives Matter. When it happened to George Floyd, I put up a black screen on Instagram as I ran to support my black brothers and sisters. When lgbtq+ people were being attacked, I ran and in 2012, my husband and I made a commercial about same-sex marriage.”
She is right that Jews have a long and storied history in social justice communities. In fact, anti-Semitism is deep-rooted in this country. This is because Jews are associated with various civil rights movements.. In keeping with that tradition, Jewish Voice For Peace is one of the leading activist organizations supporting the Free Palestine movement, which has welcomed Jewish supporters. Jewish homosexuals are increasingly calling for a ceasefire and supporting a free Palestine, not out of ignorance or lack of education, but the opposite.
Nor do we need to deny that anti-Semitism is on the rise, or stop defending the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza to focus our energies on liberating Palestine and fighting for the release of Israel’s Palestinian prisoners. Zionism also targets anti-Semites, including American and European leaders who historically supported anti-Semitic policies, rejected Jewish immigration, and participated in or turned a blind eye to the Holocaust. bring profit. Now they can actually support Israel instead of supporting Jews, and conveniently, this approach also provides them with political allies in the Middle East.
What is actually shocking is that anyone who can do basic calculations and understand the tragedy of death, displacement, torture and starvation can look at what is happening in Gaza and advocate for a ceasefire and an end to apartheid and occupation. It’s about being able to see what’s happening in Gaza, rather than using our platform to Instead, like Julianna, they use it to complain that the WGA did not immediately issue a statement condemning Hamas. I think the statement will solve everything.In my opinion, Zionism is not reflects Jewish values and traditionsand the vicious and unchecked racism seen from Zionist Jewish celebrities like Juliana makes it even clearer.
Being aligned with Zionism doesn’t make Julianna Margulies more in tune with Jewish values, and Margulies used her experience playing a lesbian on TV as a gateway to the most racist crap ever. He says it’s shameful.
In between all the social media posts about Margulies Big Podcast Adventures, I saw the following. Non-binary model/activist Rain Dove’s reel Perhaps a better note to end this article than anything else I can say about Julianna Margulies.
Dove, which was working to raise funds for various humanitarian causes in the region, was flooded with DMs from followers telling them that they would be killed if they set foot in Palestine, and Dove formed a team to help. He went to Palestine to distribute supplies. Together with a team of local LGBTQ+ people and allies on the ground in Egypt, they set out to deliver cash and material aid to Palestinians in need in Gaza. They survived, felt welcome and were shocked by the horrific conditions in the area.
“This propaganda that LGBTQ+ people should not seek humanitarian aid and Palestinian rights solely because of their conservative values is unethical and wrong,” Dove wrote after returning home. “Every human being has the right to food, water, physical security, and freedom of movement. And I mean everything. So don’t get it twisted.”
