The idea of this prize is to award millions of dollars to famous millionaires who happen to be Jewish or identify as such. What a stupid waste of money that could better go to directly helping real people who are in real need or to people really contributing something to the world.

Portman is an intermarried airhead who will follow whatever her puppeteers on the Left tell her to do. In other words, she is typical of Hollywood and sadly no different from the average "Jewish" American.

She has now highlighted herself as a boycott target by responsible Israel loving Jews and Christians.May be she should contemplate making films for Gaza and HAMAS audience.How about propaganda films for the Republican Guards.I am sure that they will pay handsomely(in billions of Iranian currency).

They are in need and Portman doesn't deserve it

At least she is consistent. She married a non-Jew signalling her disdain for anything religious and now she claims to take the high road. I suppose if she were living in one of the villages bordering on Gaza she would feel differently about the response Israel has had to the new terrorism weapon Hamas is trying out. From Hollywood one cannot quite see the rocks, Molotov cocktails, fire kites, and small weapons carried by the Gazans to the bordere protests. I think she would do more for humanity if she encouraged the Gazans to protest peacefully and to stay a safe distance form the border. The fact that she has not gone that route speaks to her hidden motives. Left wing liberals, like all extremists, often fail to discern the trees from the forest.

Jewish producers, directors should boycott her, like they are boycotting that dago couple Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz.

Maybe Hamas can use her as their spokeswoman.

she married out, so what Jewish values does she possess

It is a pity-and an error.Mis Portman is ,of course,entitled to her opinions , which are not mine but an Israeli Prize should be respected by an Israeli ,even one long living abroad
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.Ask David Grossman ,who is left wing, defends his ideas on every opportunity AND lives in Israel,lost his son in war and was honored to accept the Prize Israel for litterature .

Why is it showing thumbs down? Same for my response to Steve of Minneapolis.

are indicative of a level of class and dignity that Minister of Culture and Sport Regev lacks.

Portman has respectfully declined coming to Israel to receive the prize.
Portman has declared her intention to donate the prize money to equal rights for women in education, the economy, health and politics.

Minister Regev has in her inimitable bellicose and insouciant manner carried out yet another argumentum ad hominem against someone simply because they do not agree with her political world view. How incredibly predictable and insecure of the minister!

and to the TBer doggies hitched up to the minister's sled...what a rude group of small people all of you are!

Here is a little quote from "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky:

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him,
or around him and so loses all respect for himself and others. And having no respect he ceases to love."

or as Minister Regev herself has said: "Cut ze bull$hit!"

A certain famous celebrity in show business, non Jewish, made many trips from Hollywood to NY during 1948 with a brief case stuffed with $'s. The money came from Hollywood's Jews to be handed over to our people in NY to pay for the planes and arms from Czechoslovakia for the War of Independence.
Natalie Portman has a brief case stuffed with hatred. Please Natalie, stay in Hollywood with your Leftie friends and do not honor us with your dubious presence in your country of birth. We will get along fine without you, I personally disown you, you no longer belong to our people.

First, the Prize is a stupid thing- giving a million dollars to rich Jews. Simply pathetic. But for Portman to become the 'court Jew' of the left is simply disgusting.

I hope she knows that if she were living in Sderot and 20,000 Gazans walked into her front yard, they wouldn't be there for tea and shwarma, they would be there for her blood.

Does she think "Why can't we all just get along?" will work with Hamas?

I thought Portman was intelligent. I wonder if she knows (or cares) how she hurts every Israeli by her comments? I wonder if she knows (or cares) how she helps Hamas by her comments?

No more Portman films for me. See you around Natalie- call me when you come to your senses.

Does this mean that she now supports terrorism? Has she spoken out about terror attacks against Israelis and Americans. At the cost of almost sounding like Michelle Obama in another context, I had always been proud of her until now.I hope that this will effect in a negative way on her Hollywood career unless she somehow fixes this debacle.

Israel does not do enough to voice opposition to the russophobic incitement unleashed for "geopolitical games" by anglosaxonian politicians.
The instruments are assembled. Controlled social media, consolidated press, distorted history. Holocaust museum forced to hide the US role in the genocide. Google IBM and Holocaust. Read NAZINEXUS.
Don't think we can hide, we are over it.

I expect a clear statement from Israel that geopolotical struggle is no excuse for demknising any nation, incitement.
Israel is fighting the terror, if needed Arab aggressor nations, but it is not inciting and producing fake gas attacks.
I may remind here the Jews living in the US informational bubble, that without the Red Army, the would no Israel, and no Jews any more.

or she's afraid to stand up for Israel.

She left Israel at the age of 3 so they din not have time to to brainwash her.

Natalie is not an idiot. The "recent events" must be the spate of knife attacks in Jerusalem or the recent attacks on the Gaza border by Hamas. I can understand why she would be afraid to attend a public event: she would be a target.

Her grandpa is flipping in his grave as A Holocaust survivor probably cannot believe that he and his family to such a dirty traitor!

The speaker of the Knesset is the Chairman of the Prize Committee.
http://www.genesisprize.org/about/leadership.html
He should have blocked that, no? A possible alternative would be to resign from the Committee.

TWO MILLION $$$

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