Last month, actress Susan Sarandon became a deserving casualty of the Hamas-Israel Ethics Train Wreck after she spoke at at a pro-Palestinian rally and said that American Jews feeling threatened by the pro-Hamas protesters, demonstrators and rioters (like the Cornell students who had to hide in their dorms)were “getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence.” This epically stupid comment got her dropped by United Talent Agency, whose management is Jewish. As I noted here, “the agency concluded, probably accurately, that Sarandon’s comments diminished her value to them, and perhaps having a pro-terrorism client might deter more rational artists from seeking their aid.”

Apparently Sarandon, who has progressed through her romantic lead stage into and out of her mother role stage and now is getting grandmother parts isn’t quite ready to hang up her acting spurs, and decided that she had made a potential career-ending mistake that needed fixing. So she has now issued this apology:

Your first Ethics Alarms Ethics Quiz of December is…

Is her apology sincere, trustworthy, and sufficient?

You might want to use the Apology Scale for this one.

My view is that the apology is a desperate attempt to avoid being cancelled for an ugly sentiment that she expressed clearly and beyond misinterpretation. I view her post as a clear #10 on the scale: “An insincere and dishonest apology designed to allow the wrongdoer to escape accountability cheaply, and to deceive his or her victims into forgiveness and trust, so they are vulnerable to future wrongdoing.”

Among the clues:

1. It wasn’t a “diverse group of activists”—she was gratuitously virtue-signaling, because “diversity” is in great favor within Wokeland, where Sarandon dwells and works. All of the people at the rally would deny Israel the right of existence, and have chosen to rationalize the terrorism carried out on behalf of the hopelessly self-destructive and hateful Palestinians.

2. The fact that Sarandon’s comments were not planned means that they are a more reliable measure of her actual beliefs than if they had been scripted.

3. Her last a paragraph, after defaulting to “Imagine”-speak, translates into “Don’t stop liking my acting just because I support terrorists who kill Jews.” That rally wasn’t about “the struggle against bigotry.” It was about denying Israel’s right to defend itself.

And I don’t believe the apology was sincere, not for a second.