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Actress and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik said she was approached in a Los Angeles parking lot by a man wearing a \u201cZionism is racism\u201d shirt while she was with her children, describing the encounter as one of several frightening episodes she has faced since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA big dude coming up to me as I\u2019m getting into my car \u2014 what is happening?\u201d Ms. Bialik said in a recent episode of \u201cSecond Thought,\u201d a Free Press podcast co-hosted by Suzy Weiss and comedian Dan Ahdoot. \u201cThat\u2019s terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said her immediate instinct was to protect her sons. \u201cI said, get in the car. Get in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Bialik, best known for her roles in \u201cBlossom\u201d and \u201cThe Big Bang Theory,\u201d said the incident crystallized a fear she had been living with since the Hamas attacks \u2014 that her children, one of whom she called her \u201cdoppelganger,\u201d could be targeted simply because of their last name and appearance.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy older one is a doppelganger,\u201d she said. \u201cThat was terrifying to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actress, who identifies as a liberal Zionist, said every part of her hesitated before speaking out publicly after Oct. 7. She said the backlash she had faced online for years \u2014 including death threats, curses and accusations of being a \u201cZionist\u201d used as a slur \u2014 intensified sharply after the attacks. She eventually turned off comments on her social media accounts, telling the host she grew tired of seeing the phrase \u201cbaby killer\u201d on her Facebook page when she was \u201cjust trying to tell people about the benefits of breastfeeding or about the loveliness of Shabbat.\u201d<\/p>\n

She credited actor Sacha Baron Cohen with presciently warning the Jewish community about what was coming.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was actually Sacha Baron Cohen who said, \u2019We\u2019re about to see the largest campaign of antisemitism we\u2019ve ever seen in history,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I was like, what\u2019s he talking about? That\u2019s what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Bialik said she was grateful to others in the entertainment industry who spoke up, singling out actor Ben Stiller for a piece he wrote in Time magazine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was brave,\u201d she said, describing his argument that secular Jews should not be hunted down and held responsible for the policies of the Israeli government. She also cited actress Debra Messing as among the first in Hollywood to publicly take a stand.<\/p>\n

Ms. Bialik pushed back on efforts to redefine \u201cZionist\u201d as a slur.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know any other minority group who would allow people who dislike them to determine the moniker that they use for their self-identity,\u201d she said. \u201cWould you tell a Black person, \u2019No, no, no, that\u2019s not racist?\u2019 Would you tell a gay person that wasn\u2019t homophobic?\u201d<\/p>\n

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She said she remains a self-described bleeding-heart liberal who does not believe in the death penalty and supports a range of left-wing causes, but said she no longer feels fully at home in the Democratic Party she was raised to support.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t feel part, in many ways, of the Democratic Party that I knew,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t want that to be true.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Bialik also suggested she may have been dropped from a major feminist organization\u2019s campaign because of her views on Israel, stopping short of naming the group directly.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I blow this up? Do I take one of the largest, most prominent feminist organizations that everyone donates to and say I was eliminated from a campaign because of investor needs?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

On her departure from \u201cJeopardy!\u201d \u2014 she left after refusing to cross a writers\u2019 strike picket line and was subsequently told her services were not needed \u2014 she suggested her outspokenness on Israel may have been a factor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t shut up about injustice,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t especially cower about anything relating to the Jewish people or the state of Israel. And I would not be surprised if that theoretically might not have been a good fit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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