Natalie Portman: Jews Should Shift Focus Away from Holocaust

Israel National News ^ | 8/22/15

[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.

[Pollster1]

Natalie Portman sees discussion of the Holocaust as a distraction from other issues. Obama sees those lessons as an impediment to finishing the task that he so enthusiastically supports. Me? I’m for learning from history to the limited extent that we can. Antisemitism is rising rapidly, with democrats booing both God and Jews at their most recent national convention, and we need to understand the Holocaust now more than ever.

[minnesota_bound]

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[Twinkie]

Chill out, Nep.
A lot of us Christians know the names of Auschwitz & Dachau & that there were MANY other concentration camps with obscure names; but, we also know the names Rachael & Leah & Moses & Aaron & Miriam as well as we know the names Yeshua & Mary & Joseph.
Of course, we know the approximate number killed in the “H” word & we know the Ten Commandments, also that there are SO many laws & regulations that no human being can keep them perfectly, not you, not I.
No. I do not know how to construct gas chambers; my people were too busy DESTROYING the gas chambers to wish to build them.
I know what a sukkah is and it sounds lovely & restful; a privilege I haven’t had in life.
My experience with the War is painful; as I told you.
My father was shell shocked all to hell in that war & suffered hard combat trying to get to your people in Germany to liberate them.
It is up to YOU to study & free YOURSELF from this intense focus on the “H” word. If you go to a synagogue that majors on it more than you like - then GET OUT & find some other synagogue or temple less focused on the “H” word, where you get the worship that you feel you need & can talk about things more germaine to your needs.

[48th SPS Crusader]

Just another Hollyweird useful idiot..........

[ontap]

I wish actors and actresses would act and shut up!!!

[Trentamj]

I thought that all of the oven-jumping/self-loathing Jews were dispatched back during World War II. Ms. Portman's statement just proves my belief to be unfounded, I'm afraid.

[SJackson]

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I have an idea, she can shift her focus to the folk killing Jews and Christians today.

[DoughtyOne]

She used to be cute to me. Even prior to Bkack Swan she lost her luster, IMO.

Don’t know if it was her politics or not, but she’s just bat s—t crazy homely to me now.

[dennisw]

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****####******What is any Jew with an IQ doing voting for crypto-muzzzie Barack Obama? Idiots!

[MarvinStinson]

Another Great Mind of the Century from Hollywood.

[left that other site]

A Jerk of the first magnitude.

[BlackElk]

I wasn’t disagreeing with you about her looks but making the point that a man’s sane search for marriage and for a mother for their children requires a view toward more permanent and more important qualities. I appreciate the looks of a physically beautiful like character. I dated a few back in the Stone Age. I am not as strong or healthy as I was then. In terms of superficial beauty, they have likely declined a it as well. Many years down the road as I am now, what I appreciate most in my wife is her character and her intellect both of which get better year by year.

[Caipirabob]

Next Portman will be giving public services messages such as “just inhale, relax and let the gas do its work...”

[Eleutheria5]

OK. How about DAESH/ISIS in the Middle East and Boko Haram in Africa? How about Random Violence in France? How about the murder of a US ambassador and four good men in Libya, while marines were forced to sit on their hands and let it all happen? Will she focus on that?

[Sir Gawain]

Jews should shift focus from supporting leftist pagans, but they don’t.