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Susan Sarandon has been dumped by her Hollywood agency UTA over her controversial comment that scared Jews in America facing rising anti-Semitism are getting a “taste of what it feels like to be Muslim.”
Page six reports that agency employees were so hurt and shocked by left-wing Sarandon’s comments that it led to them cutting ties. She has worked at the agency since 2014.
Sarandon – one of the leaders of the SAG-AFTRA attack – has declined to comment yet.
The agency, which stands for United Talent Agency, is led by Jewish CEO Jeremy Zimmer.
Sarandon made the inflammatory comment during a protest in New York on November 17. She said people who are “afraid of being Jewish” in America are “getting a taste of what it feels like to be Muslim in America.”
Susan Sarandon said at a protest on November 17 that scared Jews in America are “getting a taste” of what it feels like to be Muslim.
Jews have rejected her comments and some Muslim Americans, including Asra Nomani, have taken to social media to explain to Sarandon the ways their lives improved when they moved to America.
Nomani shared a photo of herself with her parents and said, “Hi Susan Sarandon, this is my mom, my dad and I on the trail in Morgantown, West by God Virginia. Let me tell you what it means to be Muslim in America.
“My father did not have to become a second-class indentured servant to one of the many tyrants of Muslim countries who use immigrants from India, like my family, as essential slaves… my father got a job as an assistant professor of nutrition.
“He was rejected at first because of his tenure, but because he was a Muslim in America, he was given a right like everyone else: his right to appeal and guess what? He won and became a professor.
‘My mother? Being a Muslim in America meant she could live FREELY with the wind in her hair, like Masih Alinejad fighting for women in the Muslim country of Iran to enjoy.”
She went on to describe how she was able to safely and freely give birth to a baby out of wedlock in America – something that would have led to her death in some Muslim countries.
Asra Nomani, a Pakistani refugee, responded to Sarandon on Twitter with a list of the freedoms she and her parents enjoy in the US.
Response: There is growing anger over Sarandon’s comments
‘Where do you think I came to give birth to my baby safely and without shame? West by God Virginia in the United States of America – where we enjoy equal rights as Muslim Americans, not Americans.
“This is a taste of life for a Muslim family in America. Please do not minimize the experience of Jewish Americans by purging the hell that it is for Muslims living in Muslim countries and vilifying America for the life – and freedoms – it provides to Muslims like my family.
‘Go, live as a Muslim woman in a Muslim country. You come back to America and kiss the land beneath your feet,” she said.
Others compared her comments to those of Jane Fonda during the Vietnam War. Fonda was nicknamed ‘Hanoi Jane’ because of her continued condemnation of the US military efforts in Vietnam.
She traveled to the region and posed atop an anti-aircraft gun, something she has since apologized for.
Jane Fonda sitting on an anti-aircraft gun in Vietnam in 1972. She has since apologized for offending the families of American veterans with the photo and her comments about the war
‘Now now now. The Vietnam War had Hanoi Jane. It looks like Hamas Gaza will have Susan. She should go visit them,” said one critic.
“Someone please let actress Susan Sarandon know that she can open a good bottle of wine and celebrate another Jewish grandfather’s death by her private pool.
“Hamas, which it proudly supports, has just announced that one of the hundreds of innocent Israelis it kidnapped – 86-year-old Aryeh Zalmanovich – has been murdered in captivity.
‘Do you like this Susan? Does this fill your heart with joy?’ said another.
There has been a sharp increase in both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in the US since the October 7 attack and subsequent conflict.
The vast majority of public protests in major cities like New York were pro-Palestine, with some participants holding up anti-Semitic signs calling on people to “cleanse the world of Jews.”
At a neo-Nazi rally in Wisconsin this weekend, participants held up huge swastika flags.
There have been grotesque cases of Islamophobia, including the murder of a six-year-old Muslim boy in his home near Chicago.
His landlord had become paranoid that he and his Palestinian family would ‘come after him’.
Sarandon has yet to respond to the growing backlash to her comments.