Natalie Portman - amerykańska aktora żydowskiego pochodzenia - w wywiadzie udzielonym arabskiej gazecie wychodzącej w Londynie, ostro skrytykowała uchwalone w lipcu bieżącego roku prawo o nazwie: "Izrael żydowskim państwem narodowym" - określając je jako "błędne" i "rasistowskie". Portman już nie raz w przeszłości wypowiadała się bardzo krytycznie o polityce Izraela względem Palestyńczyków.
O akuratności słów Portman zaświadcza najlepiej uchwała rady miejskiej izraelskiego miasta Afula ( w pobliżu Tel Awiwu) - która powołując się na rasistowskie prawo jak wyżej przyjęła uchwalę o "zachowaniu żydowskiego charakteru miasta" w połączeniu z zapowiedzią wyeliminowania możliwości odwiedzin miejskiego parku przez osoby nie będące mieszkańcami Afuli. Decyzja jak wyżej władz miasta jest dokładnym skopiowaniem rasistowskich praktyk stosowanych onegdaj w apartheidowskiej Republice Południowej Afryki oraz na południu USA. Jest też bezpośrednim nawiązaniem do rasistowskich i ksenofobicznych tradycji Starego Testamentu oraz Talmudu.
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"Natalie Portman has criticised Israel’s nation state law, calling it “racist” and “a mistake”.
In an interview with London-based Arabic newspaper Al Quds Al Arabi, the Israeli-American actress said she wanted people to work together to make a difference in the current situation.
The nation state law, brought into legislation in July and named ‘Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People’, effectively gives state sanction to the creation of residential areas for Jews only that would be off limits to Arabs, according to legal scholars and Arab rights activists."

"Israel's Interior Ministry has said it will not intervene after newly elected council members of the city of Afula pledged earlier this week to "preserve the Jewish character" of the city, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports.
The councillors of the city northeast of Tel Aviv made their unprecedented vow on Monday during a swearing-in ceremony after they were elected during nationwide polls last month.
By law, city council members swear allegiance to the State of Israel and its laws. But the addition of the Jewish character pledge in Afula was interpreted as implementing the controversial nation-state law, which declares Israel as the "national home" for the Jewish people and cements the second-class status of non-Jewish citizens.
"We swore like members of paliament swear - that Afula will be a Jewish city, in the spirit of the nation-state law," said Afula city council member Itai Cohen, who has reportedly opposed the sale of homes to Palestinian Israeli citizens in the past.
At the ceremony, Avi Elkabetz, the newly elected mayor of the city of around 41,000 residents, said that admission to the town's park will now be restricted to residents, also regarded as a move to exclude Palestinian citizens of Israel.
But on Thursday, the Israeli Interior Ministry said the council members were sworn in according to the law and the office had found no reason to intercede, Haaretz reported.
Afula is the first city to pledge to preserve its Jewish character since the controversial nation-state law was passed in the Knesset in July."