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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: Impala64ssa

Back to the diaspora I guess.


21 posted on 08/22/2015 5:10:41 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Impala64ssa

If she truly cares about learning from all past holocausts and preventing future ones, she should become the biggest 2nd Amendment supporter in the country,


22 posted on 08/22/2015 5:12:29 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Capt_Hank

Sounds like what my father used to tell me; “NEVER ARGUE WITH A LIBERAL IDIOT, THEY WILL JUST DRAG YOU DOWN TO THEIR LEVEL THEN BEAT YOU WITH EXPERIENCE”.


23 posted on 08/22/2015 5:14:07 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Impala64ssa

Right on, Impala !!


24 posted on 08/22/2015 5:18:29 PM PDT by Twinkie
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To: Impala64ssa

The first time I ever heard of her was in Star Wars. I thought she was very attractive but something about her mannerisms just made me guess she was a lefty.

I saw her a few years later in some movie where she showed her rear and yes, she was pretty.

The last time I saw her was in some interview and she can’t be that old but she is not aging well at all.


25 posted on 08/22/2015 5:18:41 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Impala64ssa

And I’m sure that Natalie Portman is just fine with the Obamunist ‘Let’s Make A Deal’ with Iran which will provide them with a nuclear weapons capability.

Get back to us Nat, when Tel Aviv is a smoking radioactive pile of rubble.

Ya stupid twat.


26 posted on 08/22/2015 5:25:25 PM PDT by mkjessup (Iran has an ayatollah for it's 'supreme leader', America has an ASSAHOLLAH !!!)
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To: Impala64ssa
This is what passes for intelligence in Hollywood.

Hollywood IS the Cuckoo's Nest.

I'm voting for Trump!!!


27 posted on 08/22/2015 5:26:50 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: PROCON

Must say. She is aging well.

(If 34 years old can be called “aging”)


28 posted on 08/22/2015 5:28:41 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: SkyDancer

Capo might fit too?


29 posted on 08/22/2015 5:30:53 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Impala64ssa

Slap her. Hard. Slap her again.


30 posted on 08/22/2015 5:31:06 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: BenLurkin

lamb to the slaughter, liberal progressive cancer


31 posted on 08/22/2015 5:37:01 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

LOL.


32 posted on 08/22/2015 5:37:52 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Shut up and act.


33 posted on 08/22/2015 5:38:36 PM PDT by willk (everyone)
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To: Capt_Hank

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

Six million honey...six million Jews killed in horrific wayz. Stupid damn liberals.


34 posted on 08/22/2015 5:42:46 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Impala64ssa

The Holocaust still has active advocates...like Obama’s allies in Iran. No one is promoting blacks go back to being slaves.


35 posted on 08/22/2015 5:43:18 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
No one is promoting blacks go back to being slaves.

Except for Moslems in places like Sudan, Mauritania, Nigeria, Morocco, Iraq ...

36 posted on 08/22/2015 5:47:18 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Nep Nep
When Obama’s muslim buddies drop a few nukes on them, the talk will shift to the annihilated tribes of Jerusalem.

Funny in a strange way, they will also eliminate the Palestinians.

37 posted on 08/22/2015 5:48:34 PM PDT by Kozy
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To: Impala64ssa

38 posted on 08/22/2015 5:52:06 PM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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To: Impala64ssa

For extra points, is the look on the Hildabeast's face due to where Natalie's hand is?

39 posted on 08/22/2015 5:54:03 PM PDT by null and void (Send them all back!)
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To: PLMerite

Oh geeze. What a perfect picture.


40 posted on 08/22/2015 5:54:39 PM PDT by Fhios (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion. -- Bobby Jindal)
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