Posted on 12/14/2018 12:27:04 PM PST by Impala64ssa
JTA — Natalie Portman isn’t a fan of Israel’s controversial nation-state law, which defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people but does not specify equal rights for all Israeli citizens.
The Jerusalem-born actress slammed the law, which was criticized as it was debated and adopted over the summer, in an interview with BBC’s Arabic language channel broadcast Sunday.
“It’s racist and there’s nothing else to say about that,” Portman said. “It’s wrong and I disagree with that.”
Israel passed the law, which was sponsored by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, in July. It drew ire from Jews in Israel and abroad for appearing to relegate Arabic to non-official language status, promoting the status of the Jewish religion in legal matters, and not specifying equal rights for all Israeli citizens.
Others have defended it as codification of longstanding agreed-upon facts about Israel’s identity, and noted that existing legislation provides for equal rights.
This isn’t Portman’s first time speaking out about her views on Israel. Earlier this year, Portman said she would not travel to Israel to receive the Genesis Prize, an award which calls itself the “Jewish Nobel.”
“I chose not to attend because I did not want to appear as endorsing Benjamin Netanyahu, who was to be giving a speech at the ceremony,” Portman wrote in an Instagram post explaining her decision, adding that she does not endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Jewish state.
The Jewish actress, now doing press for her latest film “Vox Lux,” has been supportive of Israel in the past. In 2015, she directed and starred in “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” a Hebrew-language film adaptation of an Amos Oz book of the same name that chronicles the author’s life around the time of Israel’s founding.
I'm thinking, "And what are you willing to say you think of South Africa?"
If you're not a nation-state, you're an E.U. (gag) administrative state that has no b***s. Meanwhile, ALL the Third-World countries the Left gushes over are not even nation-states, but tribal states. Totally race-obsessed. If they weren't, they'd get rich, and would no longer be Third. Nothing against tribes, but if tribe trumps everything, there is no real law, and no safety in business transactions. Criminal justice can get dicey, too.
What does she think of Saudi Arabia being a nation/state and being Muslim?
If I recall correctly, Saudi law incorporates Islamic law and the Koran, and proclaims that Saudi Arabia considers itself as a guardian of sacred holy sites of Islam.
Is Natalie willing to criticize Saudi Arabia for their transgressions??? If so I applaud her intellectual honesty. If not, she’s a blankety blank, full of selective outrage, etc.
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Nice post
I guess her career is more important than her soul.
Another self-hating Jew who conveniently tossed her faithful Jew card to get ahead in Sodom & Gomorrah West.
Natalie Portman
Like most Hollywood elite actresses. Not the sharpest tack in the drawer but easy on the eyes.
“self-hating Jew”
I suspect that she loves herself. It’s those other Jews that she hates.
Harvard educated; that explains a lot, too.
Wow. But I don’t get it. Is she a slobbering moron, or a gibbering idiot?
BobinIL wrote:
Natalie Portman
Like most Hollywood elite actresses. Not the sharpest tack in the drawer but easy on the eyes.
The poor dear, she is not at all pretty - she should never speak, but she craves media attention.
Just show us her boobs once before she completely fades away - that will get her tons of attention!
Yeah, another self-loathing, privileged, urban, brainwashed, DemTard “Jew”.
I have come to the conclusion that liberal American Jews, which is something of a redundancy, have no sense of survival instinct.
Apparently just liberal lemmings.
I don’t honestly think she’s very bright.
She fully believes. Scarey...
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I'm sure this will change public opinion in Israel.
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