Susan Sarandon has quit her talent agency UTA over controversial comments, PEOPLE has confirmed.
At a rally in support of Palestine in New York on Friday, the actress, 77, addressed the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
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“There are a lot of people who are afraid, who are afraid to be Jewish at this time,” she said in her speech, according to reports Diversity. Jews in America “feel what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country, so often exposed to violence,” she continued.
The Thelma & Louise star also recently retweeted post on X about Roger Waters. The Pink Floyd musician is under police investigation on suspicion of “inciting the people” after wearing Nazi-like images in Germany. Sarandon’s re-shared post reads that Waters took the stage in Uruguay to perform “despite attempts by the Israel lobby to cancel the concert event.”
Susan Sarandon 2023.
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Following Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israeli civilians and subsequent Israeli government airstrikes in Gaza, the US has seen a spike in reports of anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish incidents, ABC News reports.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced on October 24 that anti-Semitic “incidents of harassment, vandalism and assault” had increased by 388 percent compared to the same period last year, as reported by CNN.
According to a Nov. 9 statement from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), “large numbers of Americans, including public school and college students, doctors and other workers, protesters and mosques” have filed reports of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias in the month since the violence escalated .
“We’ve definitely seen an increase in threats across the country. It’s focused on Jews and people from the Muslim community,” said FBI Assistant Director for Partner Engagement Robert J. Contee III. The Washington Post at the end of October.
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