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Actress Julianna Margulies Slams Lack of Solidarity With Israel, ‘Laughable’ Support for Hamas in Podcast Interview
Julianna Margulies attends Golden Heart Awards 2023 benefiting God’s Love We Deliver at The Glasshouse, New York, NY, October 16, 2023. Photo: Anthony Behar/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect
In a recent podcast interview, award-winning Jewish actress Julianna Margulies gave her brutally honest opinion about the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by the Hamas terrorist organization, the resulting Israel-Hamas war, the lack of solidarity with Israel and the support Hamas terrorists are getting among many college students.
At one point during her guest appearance on The Back Room With Andy Ostroy, she targeted youths using “they/them” pronouns who’ve been voicing solidarity with Hamas, saying they would be the first to be “beheaded” if they ever stepped foot in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the terrorist group.
“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 … it’s those people that will be the first people beheaded and their heads played like a soccer ball on the field,” said The Morning Show star. “And that who they’re supporting? Terrorists who don’t want women to have their rights? LGBTQ people get executed, bar none. And this is who you’re supporting? It’s so insane to me that it’s laughable if it wasn’t so sad.”
The Good Wife star also found fault with college educators and asked, “Where are the professors calling all of these students into the auditorium and saying ‘Hold on a minute. Guys, do you understand what a terrorism organization is about? Learn what you are supporting.’”
“There are Muslims, Christians, Catholics, Buddhists, and Jews that are being held hostage, and you’re ripping down posters? Why?” she further asked. “What is that going to do? What are you actually trying to say? … I really wish all these kids would just for one minute stop screaming and hurting people and actually learn of which they speak.”
Later on in the interview, which aired on Nov. 20, the actress said TikTok “should be banned” after its users recently promoted a 2002 “Letter to America” written by Osama bin Laden that defended the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Margulies said “social media literally has distorted pretty much all of history.” She also said she is “really disappointed” with the disinformation The New York Times and BBC are spreading in their reporting of the Israel-Hamas war, calling it “careless.”
Margulies, who is the founder of The Holocaust Educator School Partnership at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, spoke at the Variety Hollywood & Antisemitism Summit last month about the “deafening silence” from her colleagues in the Hollywood industry when it comes to antisemitism. She further said on the podcast she is “stunned” at the lack of response given in the industry to the atrocities that unfolded in Israel on Oct. 7. She specifically addressed her non-Jewish peers in Hollywood, saying, “it’s the non-Jews that need to speak up, and it really brings me back to the Holocaust and how our ancestors must have felt when their friends suddenly were like ‘Sorry, I can’t come over any more.’”
Towards the end of the podcast, she said it hurts that her non-Jewish friends have not checked in on her amid the hate Israel and Jews around the world are now facing since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
“When girlfriends of mine — who were at my wedding, where I got married under a chuppah by a rabbi — have still yet to reach out to me to say ‘Are you OK?’ that’s where the hurt comes in,” she explained. “From people that you thought valued your life the way I value theirs. The hurt for me and for most of my girlfriends who are Jewish is like, how have our friends not reached out?”
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Israel to Send Delegation to Qatar for Gaza Ceasefire Talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a news conference in Jerusalem, Sept. 2, 2024. Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS
Israel has decided to send a delegation to Qatar for talks on a possible Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, an Israeli official said, reviving hopes of a breakthrough in negotiations to end the almost 21-month war.
Palestinian group Hamas said on Friday it had responded to a US-backed Gaza ceasefire proposal in a “positive spirit,” a few days after US President Donald Trump said Israel had agreed “to the necessary conditions to finalize” a 60-day truce.
The Israeli negotiation delegation will fly to Qatar on Sunday, the Israeli official, who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter, told Reuters.
But in a sign of the potential challenges still facing the two sides, a Palestinian official from a militant group allied with Hamas said concerns remained over humanitarian aid, passage through the Rafah crossing in southern Israel to Egypt and clarity over a timetable for Israeli troop withdrawals.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is due to meet Trump in Washington on Monday, has yet to comment on Trump’s announcement, and in their public statements Hamas and Israel remain far apart.
Netanyahu has repeatedly said Hamas must be disarmed, a position the terrorist group, which is thought to be holding 20 living hostages, has so far refused to discuss.
Israeli media said on Friday that Israel had received and was reviewing Hamas’ response to the ceasefire proposal.
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Tucker Carlson Says to Air Interview with President of Iran
Tucker Carlson speaks on July 18, 2024 during the final day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photo: Jasper Colt-USA TODAY via Reuters Connect
US conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson said in an online post on Saturday that he had conducted an interview with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, which would air in the next day or two.
Carlson said the interview was conducted remotely through a translator, and would be published as soon as it was edited, which “should be in a day or two.”
Carlson said he had stuck to simple questions in the interview, such as, “What is your goal? Do you seek war with the United States? Do you seek war with Israel?”
“There are all kinds of questions that I didn’t ask the president of Iran, particularly questions to which I knew I could get an not get an honest answer, such as, ‘was your nuclear program totally disabled by the bombing campaign by the US government a week and a half ago?’” he said.
Carlson also said he had made a third request in the past several months to interview Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who will be visiting Washington next week for talks with US President Donald Trump.
Trump said on Friday he would discuss Iran with Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.
Trump said he believed Tehran’s nuclear program had been set back permanently by recent US strikes that followed Israel’s attacks on the country last month, although Iran could restart it at a different location.
Trump also said Iran had not agreed to inspections of its nuclear program or to give up enriching uranium. He said he would not allow Tehran to resume its nuclear program, adding that Iran did want to meet with him.
Pezeshkian said last month Iran does not intend to develop nuclear weapons but will pursue its right to nuclear energy and research.
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Hostage Families Reject Partial Gaza Seal, Demand Release of All Hostages
Demonstrators hold signs and pictures of hostages, as relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas protest demanding the release of all hostages in Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb. 13, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Itai Ron
i24 News – As Israeli leaders weigh the contours of a possible partial ceasefire deal with Hamas, the families of the 50 hostages still held in Gaza issued an impassioned public statement this weekend, condemning any agreement that would return only some of the abductees.
In a powerful message released Saturday, the Families Forum for the Return of Hostages denounced what they call the “beating system” and “cruel selection process,” which, they say, has left families trapped in unbearable uncertainty for 638 days—not knowing whether to hope for reunion or prepare for mourning.
The group warned that a phased or selective deal—rumored to be under discussion—would deepen their suffering and perpetuate injustice. Among the 50 hostages, 22 are believed to be alive, and 28 are presumed dead.
“Every family deserves answers and closure,” the Forum said. “Whether it is a return to embrace or a grave to mourn over—each is sacred.”
They accused the Israeli government of allowing political considerations to prevent a full agreement that could have brought all hostages—living and fallen—home long ago. “It is forbidden to conform to the dictates of Schindler-style lists,” the statement read, invoking a painful historical parallel.
“All of the abductees could have returned for rehabilitation or burial months ago, had the government chosen to act with courage.”
The call for a comprehensive deal comes just as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares for high-stakes talks in Washington and as indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas are expected to resume in Doha within the next 24 hours, according to regional media reports.
Hamas, for its part, issued a statement Friday confirming its readiness to begin immediate negotiations on the implementation of a ceasefire and hostage release framework.
The Forum emphasized that every day in captivity poses a mortal risk to the living hostages, and for the deceased, a danger of being lost forever. “The horror of selection does not spare any of us,” the statement said. “Enough with the separation and categories that deepen the pain of the families.”
In a planned public address near Begin Gate in Tel Aviv, families are gathering Saturday evening to demand that the Israeli government accept a full-release deal—what they describe as the only “moral and Zionist” path forward.
“We will return. We will avenge,” the Forum concluded. “This is the time to complete the mission.”
As of now, the Israeli government has not formally responded to Hamas’s latest statement.
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