Susan Sarandon isn’t letting cancellation curb her pro-Palestinian views. The Oscar-winning actress lost her representation late last year after uttering this tone-deaf comparison at a pro-Palestinian rally Bottom of Form “There are a lot of people that are afraid, that are afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country.” She also shouted along with the crowd, “Long live the Intifada,” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” according to The New York Post. Both comments are steeped in violent, antisemitic tropes. She quickly apologized. More recently, a pro-Israeli activist confronted her about her strident views. That exchange didn’t get much media attention at the time. It should have. Social media user Keren Picker walked with Sarandon during yet another pro-Palestinian protest in late April. Picker pressed the star on her positions regarding the Israeli/Hamas war. That included the mountains of evidence that Hamas did more than butcher hundreds of women. The terror group sexually assaulted them in the most barbaric ways possible.  Sarandon dubbed those assaults mere “myths.” “We know that all of those myths about babies in ovens and the rapes,” Sarandon said in response to Picker’s interrogation. “It’s not a myth. You’re denying, you’re denying the terror actions made on October 7th to so many innocent civilians,” Picker countered. She shared the exchange on Instagram.             View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Keren Picker (@keren_picker)   Sarandon, 77, may need to watch “October 7,” a new verbatim theater production from Phelim McAleer. That New York-based play recalls the horrors of that day, including the sexual assaults Hamas committed against its victims. Better yet, she should screen “Screams Before Silence.” The documentary, available for free on YouTube in multiple languages, lets Oct. 7 survivors detail the systemic sexual abuse committed against them.     The latter has been summarily ignored by many media platforms and film critics. Sarandon, too. More recently, the “Bull Durham” star posted a message on Instagram suggesting Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas amounted to a “genocide.” Right or wrong, Sarandon took a professional hit for her earlier comments. Her more recent musings never got the media’s full attention. For more background, here’s another look at Sarandon’s role in the roiling pro-Palestinian protests in New York City.   Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon gets students at Colombia University to repeat a pro-Palestinian chant. They all obediently repeat her words as if members of a cult.pic.twitter.com/KHH1GKlRTw — Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 19, 2024   Sarandon isn’t the only famous person to deny reality when it comes to Hamas’ savagery against women. Comedian Bassem Youssef similarly suggested several months ago that Hamas’s sexual crimes never happened.

A recent column by the Guardian suggested that getting in shape could turn someone into a "right-wing jerk." The scribe of the column is Zoe Williams, who claimed that fitness and wellness can often lead to a judgmental and narcissistic mindset.The Guardian column stated that "there is a dark side to wellness, which I always, for shorthand, thought of as political: getting fit makes you more rightwing.""The mechanism is incredibly simple: you embark on this voyage of self-improvement, and more or less immediately see results. You feel stronger and more energetic, probably your mood lifts, and pretty soon you think you are master of your own destiny. You’re still not, by the way: destiny does not care about your step count."The piece went on to claim that the more healthy and confident someone becomes, the more likely the individual is to point out other people's failures for not being "as healthy as you."Consequently, Williams said that someone is healthy and regularly exercises could become "high on self-righteousness.""You embark on this voyage of self-improvement, and more or less immediately see results. You feel stronger and more energetic, probably your mood lifts, and pretty soon you think you are master of your own destiny … There you are, high on self-righteousness," Williams scribbled.In addition to judging and becoming self-righteous through a healthy lifestyle, Williams wrote that there is a "capitalist logic" to the whole endeavor, writing: So nothing is ever enough. As soon as you can run 5km, you want to run 10. Before you know it, you’re swapping Strava stats with people you used to think were tossers but now, miraculously, you find you have a lot in common with. Always competing, always striving for growth, even if by ‘grow’ you mean ‘shrink.' You have internalised the market, unfortunately. Also, you’re getting on everyone’s nerves.Williams continued by saying that there appears to be a divide between spending time "on your biceps" and developing one's personality. "I realise it’s not really a question of an unwitting slide into fascism, hastened by a treadmill. It’s more that there is a fixed amount of excellence in any self ... Wellness could turn you into a bit of a jerk, is what I’m saying."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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