Julianna Margulies has apologized for inflammatory remarks she made in regards to the Black and LGBTQ+ communities.
The “Good Spouse” star’s feedback, made on a Nov. 20 episode of actor/producer Andy Ostroy’s “Back Room” podcast, went viral Friday on X, the platform previously often called Twitter. The principle drivers of the backlash have been two very provocative feedback: her said perception that the “whole Black neighborhood” might have been “brainwashed to hate Jews” and her warning about what would occur to a queer one that “stepped foot in an Islamic nation.”
In a press release to Deadline on Friday, Margulies stated:
“I’m horrified by the truth that statements I made on a latest podcast offended the Black and LGBTQIA+ communities, communities I really love and respect. I need to be 100% clear: Racism, homophobia, sexism, or any prejudice towards anybody’s private beliefs or id are abhorrent to me, full cease. All through my profession I’ve labored tirelessly to fight hate of all type, finish antisemitism, converse out towards terrorist teams like Hamas, and forge a united entrance towards discrimination. I didn’t intend for my phrases to sow additional division, for which I’m sincerely apologetic.”
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Margulies was known as a bigot by many on social media over her remarks.
In the course of the podcast, Margulies recognized herself as a Jew and spoke of the latest spike in antisemitism because the begin of the Israel-Hamas battle. (There’s additionally been a major uptick in Islamophobia.)
Eight minutes in, her remarks took an alarming flip when she expressed her perception that Jews don’t obtain sufficient assist from different marginalized teams.
“I’m the primary individual to march [for] Black Lives Matter. When that occurred to George Floyd, I put a black display screen on my Instagram, like I ran to assist my Black brothers and sisters,” Margulies stated.
She added: “When LGBTQ individuals are being attacked, I run. I made a industrial for same-sex marriages with my husband in 2012. Like, I’m the primary individual to leap up when one thing is mistaken, as I believe most Jews are, as a result of we’ve got been persecuted from the start of time.”
After implying that Black and queer individuals owe Jews their assist, she lashed out at younger individuals who have pro-Palestinian sentiments, calling them “loopy individuals” who’re “getting their information from TikTok.”
“Earlier than one bomb was dropped on Oct. 7, earlier than one bomb was dropped in retaliation for a brutal, barbaric assault, individuals have been already on their bullhorns saying the Jews deserved it,” Margulies stated.
Ostroy stated he thinks some “individuals hate Jews” as a result of “all through historical past” they’ve been “industrious, profitable, resourceful, completed,” and that “threatens lots of people.”
Ostroy added, “You realize, if we use the mistaken pronouns on faculty campuses, there’d be an uproar.”
“Oh, my God, neglect it,” Margulies responded. “It’s these youngsters who’re spewing this antisemitic hate that do not know in the event that they stepped foot in an Islamic nation — these individuals who need us to name them they/them, or no matter they need us to name them, which I’ve respectfully actually made some extent of doing ― it’s these people who would be the first individuals beheaded, and their heads performed with … like a soccer ball on the sector.”
Margulies then talked a couple of movie screening by a “Black lesbian membership on the Columbia campus” promoted with flyers that she stated learn “No Jews allowed.” She seems to be referring to an October incident when a screening at “a membership for queer ladies and nonbinary individuals run by college students of coloration” was promoted with a word on its flyer that stated, “It’s FREE PALESTINE over right here. Zionists aren’t invited,” in response to the Columbia Spectator pupil newspaper.
“As somebody who performs a lesbian journalist on ‘The Morning Present,’ I’m extra offended by it as a lesbian than I’m as a Jew, to be sincere with you,” Margulies stated.
Later within the interview, she talked about Ken Burns’ documentary “The U.S. and the Holocaust” and stated it needs to be “obligatory watching, particularly for the Black neighborhood, if I could.”
“The Nazis have been watching how the Jim Crow South was treating slaves and stated, ‘Oh, nice name, let’s do this playbook. That’s what we’ll do to the Jews.’ Which can also be why, within the civil rights motion, the Jews have been those that walked aspect by aspect with the Blacks to combat for his or her rights, as a result of they know. And now the Black neighborhood isn’t embracing us and saying, ‘We stand with you the best way you stood with us’?”
Margulies added, “As a result of the truth that the whole Black neighborhood isn’t standing with us to me says both they only don’t know or they’ve been brainwashed to hate Jews.”
