Leftist Jewish comedian Sarah Silverman has backtracked on social media posts that were supportive of Israel, after she got heavy backlash from the left.
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,” 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.’
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