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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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To: Tax-chick

True. I meant in the West.


41 posted on 08/22/2015 5:55:45 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: PROCON
You have your rules, I have mine.


42 posted on 08/22/2015 5:56:24 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Impala64ssa
Some Nazi war criminals are still alive.

-PJ

43 posted on 08/22/2015 5:57:16 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: dfwgator
Much better tatas than her current squeeze.....


44 posted on 08/22/2015 6:01:03 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Kozy

I may as well repost for others my response to an mail I got. It follows:

I am Jewish. I grew up saturated in Holocaust Holocaust Holocaust. Years and years of Hebrew school, they talked more about the Holocaust than about anything else. More than learning Hebrew, more than the Old Testament, more even than God himself.

Years of going to synagogue, hearing more Holocaust Holocaust Holocaust, Sabbath after Sabbath.

We get it already. How many more times must we be compelled to listen to yet another retelling of information we all know so well that any of us could write a book on it?

Judaism is about a whole lot more than the Holocaust. The only Jews who aren’t completely sick and tired of hearing it already are ones flogging it for dollars as a career.


45 posted on 08/22/2015 6:01:09 PM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: Nep Nep

When I was in Warsaw recently I visited the Museum of The History of Polish Jews.

What was refreshing about it, it that it is NOT about the Holocaust, but the life Jews had in Poland before.

Of course there are plenty of museums and commemorations in Poland for the Shoah, but it’s great to see the Poland, and Europe can finally see that there was a rich culture there, and what a tragedy it truly was that it was wiped out forever.


46 posted on 08/22/2015 6:03:48 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Impala64ssa

Once you start taking an eraser to history, there’s no telling where you’ll stop. 1984


47 posted on 08/22/2015 6:08:15 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: null and void

Ever notice that Hillary sometimes looks to be drugged?


48 posted on 08/22/2015 6:14:20 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Impala64ssa

If the resolve to prevent further Holocausts leads us to fight people who are fighting against those who would do a Holocaust on us, then forget it. I am talking about warring on the Serbs and Kosovo as they tried to rid themselves of Islam.


49 posted on 08/22/2015 6:16:24 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Natalie Portman is Jewish and was born in Israel.

Don’t “Uncle Tom” her.


50 posted on 08/22/2015 6:16:45 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
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To: Nep Nep

Thank you for sharing your perspective. It helps.


51 posted on 08/22/2015 6:25:28 PM PDT by onona (something pithy this way comes)
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To: Impala64ssa
Natalie didn't learn about Rwandan holocaust at school? Whatsamatter, the newspapers were too expensive for her to buy? I started reading newspapers cover to cover when I was about twelve. I wasn't taught about the Biafran famine at school - I learned it from the Daily News. Idiot!
52 posted on 08/22/2015 6:30:29 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Impala64ssa

This is what the Ivy league schools do to a persons thinking.Damn shame.


53 posted on 08/22/2015 6:36:15 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: Nep Nep

Speak for yourself. There is a huge amount of historical work still to be done. Using my grandmother’s Polish passport, I was able to uncover an unknown conspiracy of foreign consuls in Toulouse that enabled my family members and hundreds of others to escape to Portugal. My mother’s father’s family came originally from Rzeszow, the same town Natalie Portman’s Herschlag family came from. Very few survived from Rzeszow.


54 posted on 08/22/2015 6:37:56 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: Impala64ssa
The "Holocaust" (a really inappropriate name considering it's from the Septuagint Greek for `olah, "whole burnt offering") has been THE Jewish issue for secular and liberal Jews for seventy years. To them it's literally what makes the Jewish People Jewish (what made them Jewish before that they never manage to say).

If Ms. Portman were advocating putting HaShem, the Torah, and Sinai in the center of Jewish life rather than Holocause memorialization, I would say more power to her. However, I sincerely doubt this is the case. This may be the foreshadowing of a coming Leftist reversal on the Holocaust just as they reversed on Israel long ago (not as long in the United States).

55 posted on 08/22/2015 6:39:20 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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To: dfwgator
Dear Lord, I just fell out of love with dear Natalie.

Thanks a lot gator!

56 posted on 08/22/2015 6:45:55 PM PDT by PROCON (FReeping on CRUZ Control)
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To: yarddog
Ever notice that Hillary sometimes looks to be drugged?

No. I've noticed she always looks drugged (or drunk).

57 posted on 08/22/2015 6:51:20 PM PDT by null and void (Send them all back!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Slavery is not unusual in Haiti, either ... of blacks by blacks.

My point, such as it is, is that Moslems are generally (Haiti being an exception) behind contemporary instances of violent Jew-hatred and of slavery.


58 posted on 08/22/2015 6:52:29 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: PROCON

Someday, you will be thankful for this service I have done.


59 posted on 08/22/2015 6:53:17 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

There’s a Jewish museum in Amsterdam that is devoted largely to pre-war Jewish life and culture as well.


60 posted on 08/22/2015 6:53:20 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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