Julianna Margulies attends Golden Heart Awards 2023 benefiting God’s Love We Deliver at The Glasshouse, New York, NY, October 16, 2023. Photo: Anthony Behar/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect

In a recent podcast interview, award-winning Jewish actress Julianna Margulies gave her brutally honest opinion about the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by the Hamas terrorist organization, the resulting Israel-Hamas war, the lack of solidarity with Israel and the support Hamas terrorists are getting among many college students.

At one point during her guest appearance on The Back Room With Andy Ostroy, she targeted youths using “they/them” pronouns who’ve been voicing solidarity with Hamas, saying they would be the first to be “beheaded” if they ever stepped foot in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the terrorist group.

“It’s those kids who are spewing this antisemitic hate that have no idea if they stepped foot in an Islamic country, these people who want us to call them ‘they/them’ or whatever they want us to call them … it’s those people that will be the first people beheaded and their heads played like a soccer ball on the field,” said The Morning Show star. “And that who they’re supporting? Terrorists who don’t want women to have their rights? LGBTQ people get executed, bar none. And this is who you’re supporting? It’s so insane to me that it’s laughable if it wasn’t so sad.”

The Good Wife star also found fault with college educators and asked, “Where are the professors calling all of these students into the auditorium and saying ‘Hold on a minute. Guys, do you understand what a terrorism organization is about? Learn what you are supporting.’”

“There are Muslims, Christians, Catholics, Buddhists, and Jews that are being held hostage, and you’re ripping down posters? Why?” she further asked. “What is that going to do? What are you actually trying to say? … I really wish all these kids would just for one minute stop screaming and hurting people and actually learn of which they speak.”

Later on in the interview, which aired on Nov. 20, the actress said TikTok “should be banned” after its users recently promoted a 2002  “Letter to America” written by Osama bin Laden that defended the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Margulies said “social media literally has distorted pretty much all of history.” She also said she is “really disappointed” with the disinformation The New York Times and BBC are spreading in their reporting of the Israel-Hamas war, calling it “careless.”

Margulies, who is the founder of The Holocaust Educator School Partnership at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, spoke at the Variety Hollywood & Antisemitism Summit last month about the “deafening silence” from her colleagues in the Hollywood industry when it comes to antisemitism. She further said on the podcast she is “stunned” at the lack of response given in the industry to the atrocities that unfolded in Israel on Oct. 7. She specifically addressed her non-Jewish peers in Hollywood, saying, “it’s the non-Jews that need to speak up, and it really brings me back to the Holocaust and how our ancestors must have felt when their friends suddenly were like ‘Sorry, I can’t come over any more.'”

Towards the end of the podcast, she said it hurts that her non-Jewish friends have not checked in on her amid the hate Israel and Jews around the world are now facing since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

“When girlfriends of mine — who were at my wedding, where I got married under a chuppah by a rabbi — have still yet to reach out to me to say ‘Are you OK?’ that’s where the hurt comes in,” she explained. “From people that you thought valued your life the way I value theirs. The hurt for me and for most of my girlfriends who are Jewish is like, how have our friends not reached out?”

Update: In a a statement to Deadline, Julianna Margulies apologized for remarks she made during the podcast interview about Black and LGBTQ communities in America.