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John Cusack Blames ‘Bot’ for Retweeting Anti-Semitic Meme

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June 17, 2019
Photo from Wikimedia Commons.

Actor John Cusack admitted on June 17 that he shouldn’t have retweeted an anti-Semitic meme, claiming that “a bot got me.”

Cusack retweeted a post featuring a hand crushing down a group of people with a Star of David on the sleeve of the arm. The image also features a quote wrongly attributed to Voltaire and is typically attributed to neo-Nazi Kevin Strom. Cusack wrote in his since-deleted tweet, “Follow the money.”

Cusack later acknowledged that he shouldn’t have retweeted the tweet but claimed that the “context was a retweet about Palestinians hospitals being bombed.”

https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1140760112023388160

The American Jewish Committee tweeted, “If only John had some sort of Hot Tub Time Machine to go back in time and stop himself from retweeting this.”

Others weighed in:

https://twitter.com/arielsobelle/status/1140786187671461888

Cusack has starred in “Being John Malkovich,” “Say Anything” and “The Sure Thing.”

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