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Julianna Margulies Faces Backlash After Calling Out Black and LGBTQ+ Lack of Support for Israel | THR News Video
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12/1/2023
Julianna Margulies's recent comments on the podcast The Back Room with Andy Ostroy has garnered backlash. Learn all about her comments and people's responses on social media in this video.
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Juliana Margulies is facing backlash after calling out the Black and LGBTQ communities'
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lack of support for Israel in its fight against Hamas and suggested that some were "brainwashed."
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Margulies was on the Nov. 21 episode of The Backroom with Andy Ostroi podcast to speak
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about her role on The Morning Show, before the conversation shifted to antisemitism and
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the Israel-Hamas conflict.
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Margulies expressed her sadness that Black and LGBTQ+ people were supportive of Palestine
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and in her eyes were not supporting Israel in their fight against Hamas, especially as
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she believed Jews have supported the Black community.
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"I'm the first person to march for Black Lives Matter.
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When that happened to George Floyd, I put a black screen on my Instagram, like I ran
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to support my Black brothers and sisters," she added.
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"When LGBTQ people are being attacked, I run.
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I made a commercial for same-sex marriages with my husband in 2012.
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Like I am the first person to jump up when something is wrong, as I think most Jews are,
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because we have been persecuted from the beginning of time."
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The actress then had a warning for "progressive young people."
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"It's those kids who use pronouns who are spewing this antisemitic hate that have no
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idea if they stepped foot in an Islamic country.
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These people who want us to call them 'they/them' or whatever they want us to call them, which
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I have respectfully really made a point of doing, like be whoever you want to be."
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"It's those people that will be the first people beheaded and their heads played with
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a soccer ball, like a soccer ball on the field."
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Margulies then brought up a Black lesbian organization at Columbia University who was
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reported to be disinviting Zionists from a film night.
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"I want to say to them, 'You fucking idiots.
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You don't exist.
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That you're even lower than the Jews.
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A, you're Black, and B, you're gay.'"
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Margulies pivoted to the civil rights movement and said that "the Jews were the ones that
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walked side by side with the Blacks to fight for their rights.
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And now the Black community isn't embracing us and saying, 'We stand with you the way
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you stood with us.'"
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Margulies' comments drew a swift and furious reaction on social media.
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Writing on X, Washington Post columnist Karen Attea wrote, "Wish I could say that Julianna
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Margulies' racist rant against Black people is an outlier, but as I've said before, I've
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heard this same sentiment from supposedly liberal circles.
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Solidarity with Black people is transactional.
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We are supposed to be grateful charity recipients."
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Joel Kim Booster tweeted, "I've never heard someone want to say a slur more than Julianna
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Margulies does in that little podcast she did."
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