At 77, Susan Sarandon's career is winding down. But her legacy as an Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe winner would be looked on fondly for generations. Or at least it was supposed to be.
Sarandon tarnished her legacy earlier this month with an impressively bad take on the Israel-Hamas war. The Hollywood actress somehow felt it prudent to declare that American Jews are getting a “taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim.”
United Talent Agency, one of Tinseltown's biggest agencies, promptly dropped her as a client. Some media outlets framed the decision as retaliation for Sarandon's support for Palestine, though it's unclear how many included her antisemitic remarks for readers to judge.
Fox News is covering the backlash, including a response from one Muslim American “pushing back against the Hollywood liberal's claims, arguing there's something she should know about her family's experience in America”:
“My message to her is I am a Muslim living in America, and I have more freedoms living in the United States of America than I would any Muslim country in the world. It was here in America that my mother and father arrived in the 1960s. My father got a Ph.D., my mother was able to work for a living,” Asra Nomani, author of “Woke Army,” told FOX News Wednesday.
“My mother was able to live with her hair free in the wind. My father became a professor at West Virginia University. He got a job offer to Libya, where he had to make a choice whether he would work for the Muslim dictator Moammar Gadhafi as an indentured servant, essentially, or live free in the United States of America, and this is where he chose.”
Nomani said her parents are now in their 80s and 90s, living as “free Americans” in West Virginia.
“That is what she [Sarandon] should know about the Muslim experience in America,” she added.
“Scream” actress Melissa Barrera was fired from the horror film earlier this week after insinuating on social media that Jewish people control the media. In response, lead star Jenna Ortega announced she was quitting the franchise as well.
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