Actress Susan Sarandon has been dropped by United Talent Agency (UTA) for her recent comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
During a pro-Palestinian rally in New York on Nov. 17, the actress said Jewish people were "getting a taste of what if feels like to be Muslim" in America.
Sarandon also repeated the slogan, "From the river to the sea," which critics allege is a reference to the genocide of the Jewish state of Israel.
UTA is no longer representing Sarandon, according to a spokesperson, per Page Six.
“Sources say several staffers at UTA were extremely hurt by Sarandon’s comments," the spokesperson added.
Sarandon's comment was criticized on social media by self-described Muslim reformer and former Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani.
“Let me tell you what it means to be Muslim in America,” wrote Nomani, who said she would give Sarandon a "taste" of what it feels like to be 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.”
Nomani said her father received his PhD from Rutgers University in 1975.
"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," she wrote. "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."
The former Wall Street Journal correspondent said her father was rejected for tenure, though was provided the right to appeal.
"He won and he became a full professor," she added. "That’s what it means to be Muslim in America. You get your full rights."
Nomani transitioned to her mother who "got to live FREE with the wind in her hair."
"It meant in 1981 she got to start a business on High Street in downtown Morgantown, called Ain’s International," she said. "That entrepreneurship and financial independence is denied Muslim women in so many Muslim countries."
Nomani also said her Muslim American family received 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," Nomani wrote. "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!"
Nomani concluded by telling Sarandon not to "minimize the experience of Jewish Americans by sanitizing the hell that it is for Muslims living in Muslim countries and vilifying Americans for the life -- and freedoms -- she offers Muslim families like [her] family."
"Go, live like a Muslim woman in a Muslim country," she wrote. "You will come back to America and kiss the land beneath your feet."
