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Posted on 04/19/2002 10:32:38 AM PDT by SlickWillard
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
On Wednesday, the Jerusalem-born actress objected tartly in the Harvard Crimson to law student Faisal Chaudhry's April 11 essay on U.S. policy concerning Israel and the Palestinians. Chaudhry framed the Arab-Israeli violence as "Israel's racist colonial occupation" in which "white Israeli soldiers destroy refugee camps of the brown people they have dispossessed for decades."
(Excerpt) Read more at thecrimson.com ...
Natalie Portman Strikes Back (Kickin' Harvard Crimson Butt)
If you delete this new version of the thread, would you kindly tell me why? Thank you very much.
Huh?
Without the Bowdlerization for the Queen.
If we all take a stand and expound it instead of avoiding it with humour; and or mealy mouthed acceptance of whatever comes down the pipe, it might swing momentum back to the right and clarity of purpose.
Rightminded people in Hollywood. There needs to be a lot more of them.
We must be ashamed of every act of violence and mourn every child as if they were our own. I pray for the safety of all those in the region and hope that we may someday use our unique human assets of language and empathy rather than military technology or propaganda to resolve this conflict."
Natalie [Portman] 03
Well said.
Dude, I posted links to both her letter and her author profile at The Crimson. You are free to follow those links to your heart's content.
I wonder whether this was leaked to Lloyd Grove by Natalie's press agent [in which case she would have had time to prepare for the revelation of her family name], or if Lloyd Grove did this on his own.
At any rate, Miss "Portman" is an adult, or at least not a minor, and she has joined the public fray.
Don't you see? I'm white on my left and he is white on his right!
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