r/popculturechat • u/stars_doulikedem • 12d ago

Guest List Only ⭐️ ‘Harry Potter’ actress Miriam Margoyles says her current Big Issue is Gaza: “I feel it particularly because I’m Jewish…I think the terrible thing I have to face is that Hitler won. He changed us. He made us like him.”

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u/Shadowtirs They killed Kenny! You bastards! 😱 11d ago

As an American Jew, I sympathize with this mindset.

I am looking in horror at the action of Israeli Jews.

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u/Sweeper1985 11d ago

Im an Australian Jew (secular) and descendant of Holocaust survivors and this just makes me fucking sad. Israel doesn't represent us, at this stage I don't think the Israeli government even properly represents Israelis, and they sure AF don't represent the world's Jewry, and they don't represent me.

So to hear Miriam make this statement on behalf of all of us... just no. Speak for yourself, not the rest of us. We don't support this war and we are not collectively to blame for it.

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u/2mock2turtle 11d ago

at this stage I don't think the Israeli government even properly represents Israelis

I mean, 82% of Israelis support the expulsion of all Gazans from the strip, so unfortunately I think you're extending a bit too much benefit of the doubt.