Dear Susan

(Sarandon)

Susan, are you there? It’s the Jews. We’d like to talk to you to tell you to go shove your Hollywood career up your arse.

At an anti-Israel protest in NYC, you Susan, at the age of 77 (ie you should have learned some wisdom by now), have been quoted as saying the following words:

"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.”

Now if these words really came out of your mouth, and we believe they did because you seem to have a consistent problem with Jews, let’s be clear about your “career” as an activist. It is all a load of horseshit, Susan. You don’t help society. You poison it. With Jew hate.

Susan, have you had a look at your Twitter timeline recently? I think Hamas have hacked your account. It is full of terrorist propaganda. Do you have two-factor authentication on all your devices? Have you changed your password recently? Oh, wait that was all you? Story checks out.

Susan, let’s have a look at your above quote again about the Jews getting our just desserts. You seem to fall into the pool of people who see the world as a boxing ring where the Jews are in one corner and the Muslims are in another, and the two are going to fight until one is knocked out and gone forever. You like pitting minorities against each other, Susan, don’t you? It fills some strange void in your heart. It’s not my prerogative to couch-psychoanalyze you from over here, but I would say that there’s clearly some issue you haven’t resolved and you think that creating a football match out of human lives is a way to somehow make your pathetic problems feel less pertinent this week.

Maybe you could do something in private. Like take up a new sport, or paint by numbers, or write poetry to yourself, or maybe go on a vacation, or pot some plants, or y’know perfect the art of making a tiramisu. I don’t know. You need something to while away your free time I guess. I wish I had those problems right now. But if I could give you some advice I’d say that shilling for a raping, massacring death cult of a terrorist organization like Hamas is a really bad choice. As hobbies go, antisemitism will likely bring you a lot of joy in the short term, but it never ends well, because we always endure and then you get exposed as a Nazi, I’m afraid.

It is a time for education, Susan. Let us give you a lesson. Take the opportunity. Open your mind. “Get beyond the tribal instincts.” Your words.

Now, I don’t suppose you really understand what it’s like to be a Muslim in America, Susan, because you aren’t one, even though that looks like a very expensive keffiyeh you wear right there. You know a lot of Muslims don’t actually walk around the United States dressed up as Yasser Arafat, so why do you? These Muslims just assimilate and go to universities, and establish good careers, and integrate their lives into a society that is far freer from the ones they escaped from. I believe you were schooled by a Muslim today on Twitter, who sent you a message that has thus far stunned you into total silence. Her name is Asra Nomani. This is what she wrote to you:

Hi there @SusanSarandon, this is my mom, my dad and me on the rail trail in Morgantown, West by God Virginia. Let me tell you what it means to be Muslim in America. First, your backstory: At an anti-Israel protest in NYC, you just said, "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.” Let me give you “a taste” of what it “feels like” to be a Muslim in America:

My dad didn’t have to become a second-class indentured servant to one of the many tyrants of Muslim countries that use immigrants from India, like my family, as essential slaves. In 1975, after getting his PhD at Rutgers, he was about to go to Libya — a Muslim country — led by a Muslim, Moammar Qhadafi, to work like a servant with a PhD for a wealthy dictator…but then the phone rang one day and I picked it up. It was West Virginia University calling, and my dad got a job as an assistant professor of nutrition. He got rejected first for tenure but being Muslim in America meant he got a right like everybody got — his right to appeal and guess what? He won and he became a full professor. That’s what it means to be Muslim in America. You get your full rights, like @DrZuhdiJasser has wished for his family in the Muslim nation of Syria, where a Muslim dictator destroys the lives of Muslims.

My mom? Being Muslim in America meant she got to live FREE with the wind in her hair, like @AlinejadMasih fights for women in the Muslim nation of Iran to be able to enjoy. And what did living free mean for my mom as a Muslim in America? It meant in 1981 she got to start a business on High Street in downtown Morgantown, called Ain’s International. That is something that @miss9afi wished women could have had the right to do in the Muslim nation of Saudi Arabia. But guess what? That entrepreneurship and financial independence is denied Muslim women in so many Muslim countries.

That summer my mom started her business, I got on a plane at Pittsburgh airport for Tahlequah, Oklahama, and I went away from home at 16 for a National Science Foundation camp — without a male chaperone, a right denied Muslim women and girls in Saudi for so long. In another “taste” of being Muslim in America? My family got a pathway to citizenship. You think the Muslim dictatorship of Qatar allows a pathway to citizenship for Muslim slaves, servants or Palestinian Muslims? Hell no. The Muslim Al-Thani family just buys citizenship for Muslim soccer stars from countries in Africa to steal World Cup wins. But otherwise it treats non-Qatari Muslims like slaves. America? My family waited, took the test, studied the constitution and we are citizens — hallelujah!

I’m going to fast forward because this is just a “taste” of what it means to be Muslim in America. In 2002, I fled Pakistan with a souvenir that could have gotten me imprisoned or killed: a baby growing inside of me, a wedding ring not upon my hand. Sharia law makes sex out of marriage a crime in Muslim countries like Pakistan. My body? The mullah’s tyranny. And even dare to be atheist like @YasMohammedxx? It’s also a crime punishable by death — in Muslim countries but not in America! Where do you think I came to give birth to my baby in safety and security, without shame? West by God Virginia in the United States of America — where we enjoy equal rights as Muslim AmeriCANs, not AmeriCANTs. This is a “taste” of life for a Muslim family in America. Please don’t minimize the experience of Jewish Americans by sanitizing the hell that it is for Muslims living in Muslim countries and vilifying America for the life — and freedoms — she offers Muslims like my family. Go, live like a Muslim woman in a Muslim country. You will come back to America and kiss the land beneath your feet.

Here is Asra with her parents. This is what gratitude looks like:

Asra’s tweet has almost 3million views. Quite awkward for you, Susan. Glorious for the rest of us, though.

What Asra couldn’t tell you, however, is what it’s like to be a Jew in America. You see Susan, the Jewish people are most persecuted minority of people in the history of the world. Now, we’re not playing victim olympics here, you understand. But every Jew is a survivor, and has survivor’s blood, and a nice cocktail of intergenerational trauma and a determination to overcome our enemies, including people like yourself. We Jews do not need to be Muslims to understand that according to the ADL, the number of antisemitic incidents in the US has increased by 316% since October 7th. We Jews do not need to be Muslim to understand that here in America our people have been experiencing horrendus attacks for years, including some major events such as the pogrom at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018.

No we Jews don’t need to be Muslims to understand that on college campuses all over this country, people like yourself have threatened the livelihoods of students who are simply Jewish. We Jews don’t need to be Muslims to understand that if we carry an Israeli flag in the district of Westlake, Los Angeles, we could be murdered by a pro-Palestine protestor like yourself, using a megaphone as a weapon, and that the press would do everything to minimize the crime. Susan, you really are clueless about the fact that the Jews, not the Muslims, are the most at danger minority community in the United States. But you’re not just clueless. You’re a disgrace. Because you know what you’re doing.

Here’s how I know, Susan. I’ve been on your timeline. You’ve been retweeting far right fascist Jackson Hinkle. Jackson has been banned from WhatsApp, YouTube, Instagram and Twitch for misinformation. Jackson is known for promoting “MAGA Communism”, ie a call for working-class supporters to ally with the MAGA movement. He is renowned as Twitter's most viral misinformation spreader. You retweeted a post of Jackon’s in which he denied the massacre on October 7. You also re-posted this:

Like the rest of the non-Jewish world Susan, you are just DESPERATE to prove that Israel is a failed endeavor, aren’t you? And it doesn’t matter if the disinformation is even coming from your own political aisle any more. You have no standards left, Susan. You’re just in on it. Israel’s survival has really upset you. That is what so much of this is about for you. You feel the need to constantly negate the proof of Hamas's intentions and you spend every waking moment of your days shifting the blame towards Israel instead. Most criticism of Israel since 1948 has been motivated by delegitimizing Israel, yours included. You were only two-years-old when the state was formed. Israel seems to have haunted your whole life. Such a shame. You could have just embraced and accepted the only Jewish state. You can’t let it go, can you?

Susan, as a Jew I would like you to get a taste of what it feels like to be a woman in Gaza. Please report back once you get there. You won’t have very long to do so.

P.S. Thelma & Louise is dated, and Brad Pitt turned out to be an abusive asshole, so I won’t miss it, or you. All the best.

Us.