Natalie Portman
Israeli-American actor and director; Academy Award winner for Black Swan (2011).
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One can be critical of Israel's leadership without boycotting the country
Like many Israelis and Jews around the world, I can be critical of the leadership in Israel without wanting to boycott the entire nation,
ynetnews.comSaid 21 Apr 2018This on korrents
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The sexualised response to her expression as a girl actor served to control her behaviour, an environment she calls sexual terrorism
The response to my expression, from small comments about my body to more threatening deliberate statements, served to control my behavior through an environment of sexual terrorism.
edition.cnn.comSaid 20 Jan 2018This on korrents
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One can be critical of Israel's leadership without boycotting the country
Like many Israelis and Jews around the world, I can be critical of the leadership in Israel without wanting to boycott the entire nation,
Natalie Portman: I'm skipping Israeli ceremony due to Netanyahu speech (Ynetnews, 21 April 2018, printing her Instagram statement on the Genesis Prize) Said 21 Apr 2018
Caring about Israel means standing up against violence, corruption, inequality and abuse of power there
But the mistreatment of those suffering from today's atrocities is simply not in line with my Jewish values. Because I care about Israel, I must stand up against violence, corruption, inequality, and abuse of power.
Natalie Portman: I'm skipping Israeli ceremony due to Netanyahu speech (Ynetnews, 21 April 2018, printing her Instagram statement on the Genesis Prize) Said 21 Apr 2018
The sexualised response to her expression as a girl actor served to control her behaviour, an environment she calls sexual terrorism
The response to my expression, from small comments about my body to more threatening deliberate statements, served to control my behavior through an environment of sexual terrorism.
Natalie Portman says she experienced 'sexual terrorism' at 13 (CNN, 20 January 2018, quoting her Women's March speech in Los Angeles) Said 20 Jan 2018
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Achievement is wonderful when you know why you pursue it, and a trap when you do not
Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it. And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap,
Portman: I, too, battled self-doubt (Harvard Gazette, 27 May 2015, quoting her Harvard College Class Day address) Said 27 May 2015
Inexperience can be harnessed to carve out a path of your own, free of how things are supposed to be
But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.
Portman: I, too, battled self-doubt (Harvard Gazette, 27 May 2015, quoting her Harvard College Class Day address) Said 27 May 2015
Seriousness for its own sake is a dubious kind of trophy
I realized that seriousness for seriousness’ sake was its own kind of trophy, and a dubious one, a pose I sought to counter some half-imagined argument about who I was.
Portman: I, too, battled self-doubt (Harvard Gazette, 27 May 2015, quoting her Harvard College Class Day address) Said 27 May 2015
Factory farming of animals will be looked back on as a relic of a less-evolved age
Factory farming of animals will be one of the things we look back on as a relic of a less-evolved age.
Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals (HuffPost contributor essay, 27 October 2009) Said 27 Oct 2009
The documented torture of farmed animals is unacceptable, whether or not one thinks animals have personalities
Perhaps others disagree with me that animals have personalities, but the highly documented torture of animals is unacceptable, and the human cost Foer describes in his book, of which I was previously unaware, is universally compelling.
Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals (HuffPost contributor essay, 27 October 2009) Said 27 Oct 2009
The human cost of factory farming, to slaughterhouse workers and above all to the environment, is staggering
The human cost of factory farming -- both the compromised welfare of slaughterhouse workers and, even more, the environmental effects of the mass production of animals -- is staggering.
Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals (HuffPost contributor essay, 27 October 2009) Said 27 Oct 2009
Israelis and Arabs are one family, so a loss for either side is a loss for all humankind
Israelis and Arabs are historically cousins. Until we accept the fact that we are constituents of the same family, we will blunder in believing that a loss for one “side”—or, as Chaudhry names it, a “color”—is not a loss for all human kind.
Israeli Diversity Shown Even Among Leaders (letter to the editor, The Harvard Crimson, 17 April 2002) Said 17 Apr 2002
Every act of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should shame us and every child killed be mourned as our own
We must be ashamed of every act of violence and mourn every child as if they were our own.
Israeli Diversity Shown Even Among Leaders (letter to the editor, The Harvard Crimson, 17 April 2002) Said 17 Apr 2002
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