Jennifer Aniston and Jamie Foxx. Shutterstock (2)
Jennifer Aniston clarified her social media exercise after being accused of “liking” Jamie Foxx’s seemingly antisemitic message.
“This actually makes me sick. I didn’t ‘like’ this submit on objective or accidentally,” Aniston, 54, wrote through her Instagram Story on Saturday, August 5. “And extra importantly, I need to be clear to my mates and anybody harm by this exhibiting up of their feeds — I do NOT assist antisemitism. And I actually don’t tolerate HATE of any variety. Interval.”
A number of hours earlier, Foxx, 55, posted a troubling message through his Instagram. “They killed this dude title Jesus … They’ll do to you???!” he wrote on each his Instagram and Instagram Story, alongside “Faux Pals” and “Faux Love” hashtags.
Foxx — who’s at the moment recovering from an undisclosed medical complication — was instantly met with backlash and was subsequently accused of spreading antisemitic rhetoric to his social media followers. The Oscar winner has since deleted the submit. In a screenshot captured by A Wider Body — which goals to share “present occasions within the Jewish world” — Aniston appeared to drop a “like” on the submit. The Pals alum additionally shared A Wider Body’s add in her Saturday message.
Foxx has but to additional handle the controversy. Us Weekly has reached out for remark.
Foxx’s social media scandal — and Aniston’s rebuttal — comes practically one yr after many stars got here collectively to denounce comparable antisemitic feedback made by Kanye West.
West, 45, initially shared troubling messages through Twitter and Instagram about his want to go “loss of life con 3 [sic]” on people of Jewish religion in October 2022. After the platforms locked him out of his accounts and West misplaced many billion-dollar model offers, the rapper — who carried out with Foxx on many songs together with their “Gold Digger” duet in 2005 — apologized for his remarks.
Amid the scandal, many A-listers denounced antisemitism and the latest rise of hate speech and assaults on Jewish individuals.
“Antisemitism in any kind is deplorable. In particular person. On-line. Doesn’t matter the place. It’s hate and it’s unacceptable,” Reese Witherspoon, who costars with Aniston in The Morning Present, tweeted on the time. “Fully perceive why my Jewish mates/ colleagues are frightened for his or her households. This can be a very scary time.”
Florence Pugh, for her half, wrote through Instagram: “Any type of hate speech solely encourages, it grows and spreads like a illness. Any whisper of anti-semitism is harmful and must be addressed and brought down.”
Join Us Weekly’s free, every day publication and by no means miss breaking information or unique tales about your favourite celebrities, TV reveals and extra!
Foxx, for his half, declined to “converse sick” of his buddy and collaborator all through the ordeal. “All these guys that you just’re lacking, each time I discuss to them, I maintain them up [and] I maintain them down, I say, ‘Bear in mind after we used to have enjoyable and smile and be goofy?’” Foxx instructed TMZ in November 2022 when requested about West’s scandal. “Let’s get again to that and the world will care for [itself]. However, if we enable ourselves to cease having enjoyable, particularly on our aspect, then who’s gonna go for it. … We solely obtained one life to reside, there’s a lot craziness.”
