Mayim Bialik Attacked For Zionist Views Amid Sexual Harassment Comments

“Big Bang Theory” star Mayim Bialik was attacked on Twitter for her Zionist views after she wrote a controversial op-ed for the New York Times Sunday. The former “Blossom” actress addressed the allegations against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, where she suggested a woman's appearance and how she dressed were factors that led to her be a victim of sexual harassment. In turn, some Twitter users pointed toward Bialik’s Zionist beliefs, arguing that people should not be surprised that Bialik’s op-ed came off as anti-feminist — though she claims to be a supporter of feminism.

Some of their tweets have been shared below:

While it might not seem that feminism and Zionism were ill-assorted, activist Linda Sarsour made that exact argument during an interview with Haaretz in March. A person could not identify as a Zionist and feminist because the rights of Palestinian women are disregarded.

“It just doesn’t make any sense for someone to say, ‘Is there room for people who support the state of Israel and do not criticize it in the movement?’ There can’t be in feminism. You either stand up for the rights of all women, including Palestinians, or none. There’s just no way around it,” Sarsour said.

Palestinian-American women are targeted by “right-wing Zionists,” she argued.

“The fact of the matter is that there are hundreds of Palestinian women organizing, but not all of them are visible. And I’ll tell you why,” Sarsour said. “You’ve probably seen that any visible Palestinian-American woman who is at the forefront of any social-justice movement is an immediate target of the right wing and right-wing Zionists. They will go to any extreme to criminalize us and to engage in alternative facts, to sew together a narrative that does not exist.”

In the Sunday piece titled “Being a Feminist in Harvey Weinstein's World,” Bialik said she knew she “was out of step with the expected norm for girls and women in Hollywood.”

“As a proud feminist with little desire to diet, get plastic surgery or hire a personal trainer, I have almost no personal experience with men asking me to meetings in their hotel rooms,” the actress said. “Those of us in Hollywood who don't represent an impossible standard of beauty have the ‘luxury’ of being overlooked and, in many cases, ignored by men in power unless we can make them money.”

Bialik denied that her op-ed blamed women for being assaulted. “Anyone who knows me and my feminism knows that’s absurd and not at all what this piece was about,” she said. “It’s so sad how vicious people are being when I basically live to make things better for women.”

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