Hi there @SusanSarandon,
First, your backstory: At an #AntiIIsrael#protests in NYC, you just said, "There are a lot of people that are afraid, that are afraid of being #Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country.”
Let me give you “a taste” of what it “feels like” to be a #Muslim in #America…
"Susan Sarandon has been dropped by UTA after she made controversial comments at a pro-#Palestine rally in New York on Nov. 17, Variety has confirmed.
Sarandon said at the rally, “There are a lot of people afraid of being #Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a #Muslim in this country.”
T-minus 12 hours until we've gone full #Jews run #Hollywood on the left. 🫤
Great news - Susan Sarandon has been DROPPED by top #Hollywood agency UTA after her atrocious statement of #Jews finally “getting a taste of how it feels to be #Muslim in #America”.
Reading a book about the history of Catalunya and the first chapter is the period 1000-1400AD when the Crown of Aragon was expanding across the Mediterranean. It mentions the multiple instances of persecution and pogroms against Jews, the worst being in 1391 including in Valencia.
How about everyone just stops hating each other for a few hundred years.... lets try that?
A #petition has been launched asking Bristol’s #political representatives to add their voices to calls for a #ceasefire in Gaza.
In 7 days the petition - which also calls to light up City Hall in the colours of the #Palestinian flag - has gathered almost 2,000 signatures. The move comes as a national survey on #Muslim voting intentions suggested shift away from Labour, following party’s refusal to call for ceasefire between #Israel & #Hamas.
Edie Pump sits in a high-backed leather chair at a table with a pair of folded glasses set on its surface, in a room with a brick wall and a window facing an exterior brick wall and trees in the background.
At the first solidarity rally that I attended, within a few days of the Oct 7 massacre, many politicians and many faith leaders came together to mourn with the #Jewish community.
However, there were no representatives from the #Muslim community.
Several Australian Jewish leaders have written about how they have resigned from various interfaith initiatives as a result of this failure of empathy.
Therefore, it is heartening to read these two pieces by moderate Muslim authors.
I should also say that at every single rally/service that I have attended, the deaths of civilians in Gaza has been mentioned and mourned.
If your free #Jewish#birthright to #Israel tour & free holiday in #MiddleEast didn't allow you any access to #Gaza , #WestBank or #Muslim communities & you were totally OK with accepting the govt reasons for blocking access & you've never done your own research on why - beyond what #IDF & Israel govt tells you - you have accepted #indoctrination & OK staying blind while more #Palestinians are murdered, daily.
Antisemitic and Islamophobic Incidents Surge in #Australia
Posters plastered across Sydney portraying Prime
Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu of Israel as Adolf #Hitler in disguise. A record increase in reports of #Islamophobia, including threats to #Muslim community organizations. #Antisemitic chants at a pro-#Palestinian rally and charges that #Nazi salutes were performed outside a #Jewish museum
Australia has experienced a flurry of incidents targeting Muslims and Jews
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) and a group of #farright House #Republicans want to revoke visas issued to Palestinians.
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) introduced legislation on Thursday to ban Palestinians from the United States in an echo of former President Donald #Trump’s infamous “#Muslim ban.”
"What's next? Start passing out Brown Shirts for ICE?"
If you’re a #Muslim American threatening to refuse to vote for #Biden out of anger, then enjoy your #Trump 2.0 administration where he hardens an already extremely conservative Supreme Court for generations which will ultimately rule that he has the authority to deport Muslims who “sympathize with the terrorists”—something he recently said he would do.
He is going to use another term to cleanse (pick your term) the country of constituencies that historically vote against Republicans.
It's really becoming a thing on even "mainstream" #UK talk radio stations, that #Muslim members of the public get subjected to a "#Hamas test", isn't it? "Yeah so your opinion is X, but WILL YOU OR WILL YOU NOT CALL HAMAS TERRORISTS?"
I think it's disgusting to routinely use that line of questioning.
Shame on the broadcast media. And shame on the press for stoking the fire.
They are all people, who to this day and despite their "expertise," have never posted or said a single thing about the genocide happening in #Xinjiang to the #Uyghurs, or the horrific colonial boarding schools in #Tibet.
If you think about this, it's so bizarre. Imagine if there were Middle East experts who never spoke up on #Israel/#Palestine but were happy to pine in on human rights issues on the other side of the world.
They'd be panned and heavily criticized for their hypocrisy. Same would be true for #India (if they ignored the rise of anti-#Muslim rhetoric) or #Japan historians ignoring or glossing over WW2 war crimes.
In the past, every time the news reports on I/P again, there is a sharp surge in antisemitic violence around the country and around the world in the diaspora. This time is different.
And while some might argue there is a substantial and noticeable difference in scale, I'm not convinced that the violence so far is (rhetoric certainly is). No, the biggest difference this time is that Islamophobic violence (again, as delineated from rhetoric) seems to be accompanying it.
That's new, and it's bad, and it's important for us to recognize that those who are pleased with one are always (yes, always, really think through what you think are counterpoints) pleased with the other. For now, maybe from here on out, violence will rise against both each time.
Update on this: I'm depressed to report that yes, there is a substantial and noticeable difference in the antisemitic violence in the United States and the rest of the diaspora that absolutely blots out all previous reactions.
Which is, perhaps, related to the rising Islamophobic violence as well.
The idea that both of these are the new normal should terrify people on the left, even who aren't Jewish or Muslim (or Arab or Sikh, because bigots are stupid). Instead, it is met with (at best) a collective shrug where it isn't lauded as appropriate consequences.
One of New York's Most Vital Colleges Is Targeting Muslim Students (www.thenation.com)
The Brooklyn College administration has repeatedly shown that it is willing to suppress Muslim and Palestinian speech on campus.