Via Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com
06:22 21 Nov 2023, up to date 08:30 21 Nov 2023
Actress Susan Sarandon has been slammed for claiming Jewish other people ‘are getting a style of what it feels love to be Muslim’ amid the warfare with Hamas.
The Oscar winner, 77, has attended a number of rallies in New York the place she joined within the chant ‘from the river to the ocean,’ a combat cry utilized by pro-Palestinian activists and Hamas alike that many view as an anti-Semitic name for the destruction of Israel.
The mantra has been given a brand new rent of lifestyles within the aftermath of Hamas’ fatal rampage throughout southern Israel Oct. 7 and Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
In additional stunning new remarks, Sarandon stated at a contemporary rally: ‘There are numerous other people fearful of being Jewish at the moment, and are getting a style of what it feels love to be a Muslim on this nation.’
The Rocky Horror Image Display big name has additionally retweeted posts on X celebrating Crimson Floyd’s Roger Waters, who has been dogged for years with allegations of anti-Semitism.
In the meantime, Muslim-American journalist Asra Nomani slammed Sarandon for the ‘style of what it appears like’ observation the big name made at a rally Saturday, by means of highlighting how just right lifestyles is for her and her migrant folks in america.
Nomani, a former Wall Side road Magazine journalist, wrote: ‘Hello there @SusanSarandon,’ she tweeted. ‘Let me inform you what it way to be Muslim in The usa.’
Nomani then indexed the freedoms she and her folks – who emigrated from India – revel in of their followed house.
She spoke of the way her professor father used to be in a position to acquire tenure, whilst her mother loved going with no headband and opening a industry in Morgantown, West Virginia, the place they settled.
‘Please do not reduce the enjoy of Jewish American citizens by means of sanitizing the hell that it’s for Muslims residing in Muslim nations and vilifying The usa for the lifestyles — and freedoms — she provides Muslims like my circle of relatives,’ concluded Nomani.
‘Pass, reside like a Muslim girl in a Muslim nation.
‘You’ll come again to The usa and kiss the land underneath your toes.’
Nomani spoke as Sarandon, who received a absolute best actress Oscar in 1995 for Useless Guy Strolling, took to X to hail an look by means of Crimson Floyd singer Roger Waters at an tournament in Uruguay.
‘In spite of makes an attempt by means of the Israeli foyer to cancel the development, Roger Waters of Crimson Floyd took the level in Uruguay, donning a Kufiyyah and advocating for an finish to the Israeli genocide in Gaza,’ the publish learn. Sarandon retweeted it to her 850,000 fans.
Waters, who has many times been accused of anti-Semitism, advised journalist Glenn Greenwald he idea the Hamas terror assaults had been blown out of share by means of Israelis ‘inventing tales about beheading small children.’
Sarandon raised eyebrows on Friday, when she attended a protest outdoor Penn Station in New York Town.
The actress, a left-wing campaigner identified for her protests with Jane Fonda towards the Iraq warfare, her embody of environmentalism and her improve for Bernie Sanders, led provocative chants.
She joined in with ‘From the river to the ocean, Palestine will likely be unfastened’ – a choice many see as tough the destruction of Israel, the New York Submit reported.
She advised the group: ‘There are numerous other people which can be afraid, which can be fearful of being Jewish at the moment, and are getting a style of what it feels love to be a Muslim on this nation.
‘You need to pay attention, you need to have information. You should not have to move via all the historical past of that area, you simply have to turn the small children which can be loss of life in incubators.
‘The ones photographs are sufficient to turn you that one thing is significantly fallacious. We want a ceasefire now.’
Her feedback about being ‘Muslim in The usa’ specifically infuriated Nomani. She used to be born in India to Sunni Muslim folks and lived and labored in Pakistan.
One among her Wall Side road Magazine colleagues, Daniel Pearl, used to be murdered by means of Islamists.
Nomani has turn into a passionate defender of Muslim girls’s rights.
And Nomani took factor with Sarandon criticizing america’ remedy of Muslim girls.
