Julianna Margulies has apologized for offensive comments she made about Black and LGBTQ supporters of Palestine.
“I am horrified by the fact that statements I made on a recent podcast offended the Black and LGBTQIA+ communities, communities I truly love and respect,” she said in a statement. “I want to be 100% clear: Racism, homophobia, sexism, or any prejudice against anyone’s personal beliefs or identity are abhorrent to me, full stop. Throughout my career I have worked tirelessly to combat hate of all kind, end antisemitism, speak out against terrorist groups like Hamas, and forge a united front against discrimination. I did not intend for my words to sow further division, for which I am sincerely apologetic.”
While discussing the Israel-Hamas war in a Nov. 21 episode of Andy Ostroy’s podcast “The Back Room,” Margulies said, “the fact that the entire Black community isn’t standing with us to me says either they just don’t know, or they’ve been brainwashed to hate Jews.”
About people who use pronouns other than those assigned to them at birth, she said, “It’s those kids who are spewing this antisemitic hate that have no idea if they stepped foot in an Islamic country —these people who want us to call them they/them, or whatever they want us to call them — which I have respectfully really made a point of doing, like, be whoever you want to be — it’s those people that will be the first people beheaded and their heads played with like a soccer ball. Like a soccer ball on the field. And that’s who they’re supporting? Terrorists who don’t want women to have their rights? LGBTQ people get executed.”
Deadline was first to report Margulies’ apology.
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