Selma Blair facing backlash after Islamophobic comment goes viral
Actor Selma Blair is facing backlash online after an Islamophobic Instagram comment from last week went viral.
Actor Selma Blair is facing backlash online after an Islamophobic Instagram comment from last week went viral.
The comment was made on an Instagram video posted by Abraham Hamra one week ago, in which he calls out U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Cori Bush, D-Mo., for being the only two members of Congress to vote against a measure that would prevent anyone who partook in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel from immigrating to the U.S.
Hamra, whose Instagram bio refers to him as a speaker and Syrian Jewish refugee, calls Tlaib a “liar,” “moron” and a “hateful antisemite” in the video and said “the truth is, the Jews have been victimized by the Arabs, and not the other way around.”
Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, said the bill was “redundant with already existing federal law.”
“It’s just another GOP messaging bill being used to incite anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian, and anti-Muslim hatred that makes communities like ours unsafe,” she said.
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