Natalie Portman’s recent decision not to attend the Israeli Genesis Prize ceremony has made loud noise across the world.
Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev said that she “was very sorry to hear that Portman fell like a ripe fruit into the hands of BDS supporters” and Minister of Strategic Affairs and Hasbara, Gilad Erdan invoked the Star Wars analogy in response to her move: “Anakin Skywalker, a character you know well from Star Wars, went through a similar process. He began to believe that the Jedi knights were evil, and that the forces of the Dark Side were the defenders of democracy. I call on you not to let the Dark Side win”, he wrote.
For her part Portman tried to distance herself to some degree from the actual BDS movement in a subsequent statement:
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