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Natalie Portman: Jews Should Shift Focus Away from Holocaust
Israel National News ^ | 8/22/15

Posted on 08/22/2015 4:52:40 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

American-Israeli actress implies Holocaust not any more horrific than other genocides around the world.

It's time for the Jewish community to shift focus away from the Holocaust, American-Israeli actress Natalie Portman opined Friday, stating that such focus has detracted from atrocities committed around the world.

“I think a really big question the Jewish community needs to ask itself, is how much at the forefront we put Holocaust education," Portman stated in an interview with the British Independent. "Which is, of course, an important question to remember and to respect, but not over other things."

Portman revealed that her views stemmed from her learning about the Rwandan Genocide.

"I was shocked that that [genocide] was going on while I was in school," she said. "We were learning only about the Holocaust and it was never mentioned and it was happening while I was in school."

"That is exactly the type of problem with the way it’s taught," she continued. "I think it needs to be taught, and I can’t speak for everyone because this was my personal education."

“We need to be reminded that hatred exists at all times and reminds us to be empathetic to other people that have experienced hatred also," Portman urged. "Not used as a paranoid way of thinking that we are victims."

"Sometimes it can be subverted to fear-mongering and like ‘Another Holocaust is going to happen’," she added.

Portman was born in Jerusalem; her family emigrated to the US when she was three years-old, where she would later attend American Jewish schools.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemetism; dumbcelebrities; genocide; holocaust; iran; israel; jewishpinglist; lebanon; natalieportman; rwanda; rwandangenocide; theholocaust; waronterror
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Would she have the chutzpah to tell Black people to "shift focus away" from slavery and Jim Crow? Or tell the Vietnamese boat people and their children to "shift focus away" from Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot and the killing fiends? It's time for all of us to shift focus away from Portman and the rest of the narcissistic, substance abusing, morally bankrupt overpaid mannequins in show biz.
1 posted on 08/22/2015 4:52:40 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Dumb kid.

Cute, but dumb as a box of rocks.


2 posted on 08/22/2015 4:53:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Impala64ssa

As my late father would say, “She doesn’t know, good Sh!t from Apple Butter”.


3 posted on 08/22/2015 4:55:45 PM PDT by Capt_Hank (btu's...kcal's...to kJ's, but my activation energy is still high.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah... I can’t wait for her to run for President.


4 posted on 08/22/2015 4:55:56 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Impala64ssa

So there’s a guy right now killing tens of millions of people? Where is this at?


5 posted on 08/22/2015 4:56:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Impala64ssa

We gone from “Never again” all the way to “Get over it”.


6 posted on 08/22/2015 4:56:05 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Cruz is still my #1, but Trump is impressing the hell out of me.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Natalie Herschlag. Not her actual last name. Like anyone thinks shes important enugh to go after shehas to use a different last name.


7 posted on 08/22/2015 4:57:47 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Impala64ssa
another stooopid cow enthralled with the sound of it's own voice...
8 posted on 08/22/2015 4:57:57 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Impala64ssa

The only puzzling part to me is how people totally obsessed with the Holocaust in Germany seem to beckon the new one about to break.

It’s like focus on the one somehow blinds to the next.

“Nascar Dads and Grizzly Moms are latter-day Gestapo, so WATCH OUT..!”

Yet they ignore people promising to push them into the sea.

I can’t square that circle.


9 posted on 08/22/2015 4:58:59 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: BenLurkin

Never take the advice of an elite living in a bubble especially if she claims that she can speak 5 languages but can only knows phrases restricted to vacation / travel.


10 posted on 08/22/2015 5:00:41 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Impala64ssa

Da biatch is lucky that she wasn’t around during WWII. She’d be singing a different tune. She needs to shift her @$$ towards a real , non-celebrity job.


11 posted on 08/22/2015 5:01:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Cecil the Lion says, Stop the Slaughter of the Baby Humans!!!)
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To: Impala64ssa

She’s correct. Jewish children have gotten more education on the Holocaust than on the Old Testament in the post-war era. Letting Hitler define the Jewish identity is a mistake.

Believe it or not, even Jews are sick of hearing about the Holocaust. Nobody is saying it should be forgotten, but the disproportionate emphasis on it has crowded out more important things, like the actual doctrine and practice of Judaism.


12 posted on 08/22/2015 5:01:38 PM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: Impala64ssa
Oooo, an actress has an opinion.

Let's listen!

13 posted on 08/22/2015 5:02:14 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Impala64ssa
Sheesh, regardless of how misguided she is, there's still RULES!



14 posted on 08/22/2015 5:03:13 PM PDT by PROCON (FReeping on CRUZ Control)
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To: Impala64ssa

Putz! A meshuga.


15 posted on 08/22/2015 5:03:37 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Impala64ssa
"Not used as a paranoid way of thinking that we are victims."

That's just it. It isn't. It's not used as a crutch for antisocial behavior.

Unlike slavery is used by blacks.

16 posted on 08/22/2015 5:03:56 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Impala64ssa

Stupid.

Liberal.

Bitch.

(Drops mic and walks away.)


17 posted on 08/22/2015 5:04:07 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Impala64ssa

Movie stars. Is there anything they don’t know?


18 posted on 08/22/2015 5:05:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (To defeat the democRATs, we must first defeat the Republicans.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Yeah, get the focus back on a woman's access to partial birth abortion, transgender idealogy, gun confiscation, imposition of shariah law...

19 posted on 08/22/2015 5:06:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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Portman revealed that her views stemmed from her learning about the Rwandan Genocide.
But I'll make a wild guess that her learning about that didn't have any impact on her support for Bill Clinton.
20 posted on 08/22/2015 5:07:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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