Actress Susan Sarandon — who was dropped final yr from a expertise company over her anti-Jewish rant — and Shellyne Rodriguez, the ex-professor who threatened a Submit reporter with a machete, have been each noticed at anti-Israel protest at Columbia College Friday.
The Oscar-winning “Thelma and Louise” star was seen strolling amongst demonstrators with “Free Palestine” indicators whereas sporting a smile and an odd leather-based coat jacket decked out with a picture of Bart Simpson on its pink leather-based sleeve.
The 77-year previous celeb has rocked the identical quirky get-up at different anti-Israel demonstrations in current months.
Rodriguez, who was fired from newest instructing gig at Cooper Union for anti-Israel screeds, was noticed on the protest chatting with younger demonstrators.
“I’m right here to assist the scholars who perceive that it is extremely vital to have their voices heard,” Rodriguez, who wore all black with a conventional Arabic head scarf round her neck, advised The Submit.
“It is crucial at this level to problem all techniques which are filled with hate and bigotry and intolerance and injustice.”
In December, Sarandon was dropped from PTO Movies challenge consideration and the United Expertise Company after happening an anti-Jewish rant.
She later apologized.
At a pro-Palestinian rally in New York Metropolis on Nov. 17, the star proclaimed that Jews have been “getting a style of what it’s wish to be Muslim on this nation, so usually subjected to violence” following the worldwide rise of antisemitic assaults as a result of Israel-Hamas battle.
Final month, she gave a speech at an anti-Israel protest in Washington Sq. Park, the place she urged the gang to disrupt “the narrative of the highly effective.”
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