(VINnews) — Leftist Jewish comedian Sarah Silverman has backtracked on social media posts that were supportive of Israel, after she got heavy backlash from the left.
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In an Instagram Story shared with her 2 million followers on October 18, Silverman reposted this statement.
“Many are saying that it’s inhumane that Israel is cutting off water/electricity to Gaza,” the post reads. Israel made it pretty simple—’release the hostages and we will turn it back on.’ Instead of pleading with Hamas to release civilian hostages which include babies and toddlers there are politicians (cough cough AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]) calling Israel inhumane.
“If that isn’t enough for you: Israel does not need to supply Gaza with these resources (which they do, for free). If Hamas didn’t spend billions of dollars on terrorism they would be able to build the infrastructure to support themselves.”
Her post was met with intense outrage, with one Twitter user calling the comedian “a genocidal maniac supporting starving Palestinian civilians by depriving them of water and electricity.”
we’ve officially reached the “they actually don’t deserve water and electricity” moment in mainstream discourse pic.twitter.com/xDh9Xo4p2H
— keyvan (@still_oppressed) October 19, 2023
“We’ve officially reached the ‘they actually don’t deserve water and electricity’ moment in mainstream discourse,” commented Keyvan.
“Amazing for Sarah Silverman to sit in her mansion built on incompetent third-rate joke-telling and tell 2 million people that they don’t deserve food and water,” said Heidi Moore.
Silverman quickly retracted and deleted the post, saying she made a ‘stoned’ mistake slamming those calling Israel ‘inhumane’ for cutting off water and electricity to Gaza – because she was busy ‘wondering where the hostages are’
In a response to one post condemning her, Silverman wrote: ‘Oh…yeah I took that down I put it in stories from someone, realized it was a mistake to post in the stoned fury of wondering where the hostages are in all this madness.’
Another Jew in name only.
Sad she was bullied into an apology
Foolish girl who can’t recognize that they would gladly kill her as well die to the fact that she is a Jew. As to “mainstream media now saying that they don’t deserve water”, typical perversion of what was said. If my friend spends his salary on drugs an not paying his rent, he should be expected to be out out into the street. Stop spending your money on terror tunnels. Return our innocents. Animals.
Spineless coward.
The left is the angriest, vilest, most foul mouthed section of humanity, whether it’s this war, Trump, Climate Change, free speech, politics or religion. This fascist piece of society is the most putrid dregs of our civilization.
Obviously she’s a Jew by birth only. However she’s not a self-hating Jew but I lost jew who doesn’t know fact from fiction. Who the Gentile nations take advantage of by brainwashing her with fiction rather than facts. Right now we need to stick together even if the person next to us doesn’t understand what that means. One for all and all for one… This is our reality now
Seems her ‘apology’ was meant as ‘tongue-in-cheek’. Too bad she felt it necessary to do so though.
Silence is violence.
WHY DONT THESE JEW HATING LFTISTS MOVE TO GZZA AND LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER?
Spineless hag.
Too bad she deleted her post.
But it’s understandable.
Bullying.
She doesn’t want to get stabbed to death like that lady, President. Of her Synagogue
Don’t blame
Why were some of the original comments removed VIN???
Coward. Not surprised though. I don’t even consider her a Jew.
She had a chance to be a hero but she buckled. A coward .
She’s always been a coward
Gutless leftist coward! She deserves what she gets.
Apparently Israel supplied 6% of Gaza water. They polluted their own supply
1) most of their water isn’t supplied by Israel
2) it’s easy To slam someone, it’s harder to say what’s right when people are slamming you and even harder to do the right thing and not retract. She obviously was more afraid of losing followers than sticking to where are the hostages.
Very successful for someone who’s not all funny.
Kind of mind boggling.
Bad joke
Truth hurts…..
It’s ironic because her brand is all about the kind of offensive humor that’s a little light on the humor.