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Posted By simmons on March 9, 2018

Actress Amber Tamblyn faces backlash after Tweeting that Hasidic Jews in New York City are targeting her.

The former Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants star wrote Sunday that a Hasidic man in a van attempted to hit her in Brooklyn as she pushed her baby in a stroller.

But it was her follow-up post that sparked the controversy.Tamblyn wrote that this is not the first time a man from the Hasidic community in NYC has attempted to harm me or other women I know. Any woman riding a bike through South Williamsburg can attest.

While some people on Twitteragreed with her, others interpreted her complaint as an unnecessary generalized attack on Hasidic Jews.

Neither Tamblyn nor a rep immediately responded to HuffPosts requests for comment.

The actress defended herself in a tweet of support to a man who said that he, too, had been targetedby Hasidic Jews. Tamblyn, whose husband, actor David Cross, was raised Jewish, wrote she will not be bullied or intimidated by anyone who wants to twist my words.

HuffPost wasnt able to immediately get word from the NYPD on whether Tamblyn had filed a complaint about the van driver.

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