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Lovely Natalie Portman is gearing up for the May 12 premiere of "Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones," in which she plays Senator Padme Amidala, but this week the 20-year-old Harvard junior is focusing on earthbound conflicts. 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." Above is an excerpt from an article from the Washington Post, if you care to read the entire article it can be found at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13965-2002Apr19.html I was just wondering if anyone can please explain to me why in the world we give extra weight to celebrities when they speak out on issues? I will concede they are good at acting, but whern has that automatically meant skill in politics or world issues? (and this is just an example, a far better one would be Alec Baldwin, but I did not have an articel citing him offhand. I think Miss Portman was glorified by the press, while Baldwin chooses to make a spectacle of himself.)
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