Natalie Portman says 're-emergence' of antisemitism 'makes my heart drop' in new Instagram message - Yahoo Entertainment

Natalie Portman is speaking retired astir the "re-emergence" of antisemitism successful America.

The Oscar-winning actress, 41, took to her Instagram leafage connected Sunday to stock a station condemning the summation successful hatred code directed toward Jewish people.

"Seeing the re-emergence of antisemitism makes my bosom drop," Portman shared successful a text-only Instagram post. "This hatred indispensable beryllium combatted with boundless emotion for each other. Today, I nonstop emotion to each my chap Jews. And I nonstop emotion to each those lasting with america against these convulsive words and actions. It’s been achy and frightening to perceive to, and I’m highly grateful to those who proceed to talk up against antisemitism with us, and against each forms of racism."

Portman's station received enactment from fans, friends and chap celebrities. Julianne Moore and Isla Fisher replied with bosom emojis, with Kat Dennings simply penning "Love you."

In her Instagram Stories, Portman shared further comments, posting a screenshot and nexus to a Friday New York Times nonfiction titled "Hate Speech’s Rise connected Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find," which explained that antisemitic posts referring to Jews oregon Judaism had accrued by much than 61% successful the 2 weeks aft Elon Musk acquired the fashionable societal media site. Over the screenshot, she wrote, "These numbers are horrifying. This is not freedom."

Musk has denied that hatred code has accrued since taking implicit Twitter, but "did not supply underlying numbers oregon details of however helium was measuring hatred speech," according to the Times.

Portman added a tweet from President Joe Biden from Friday, which called Hitler a "demonic figure" and stated that governmental figures should condemn antisemitism. She besides shared one from Vice President Kamala Harris, which work that "praising Hitler and denying the Holocaust is vile, appalling, and indispensable beryllium condemned."

Both statements came aft rapper Kanye West, besides known arsenic Ye, made antisemitic remarks during an InfoWars interview past week. West was suspended indefinitely from Twitter past week for tweeting an representation of a swastika wrong the Star of David. The station was deemed to beryllium an "incitement to violence," Musk wrote connected Twitter.

Like Portman, antisemitic sentiment besides prompted Amy Schumer to talk retired connected Instagram. In a station shared connected Friday, the comedian noted that her assemblage was "scared."

"I was bullied for being Jewish successful the municipality I grew up successful and was made to consciousness embarrassed for my Judaism," Schumer wrote. "Now I americium arrogant to beryllium descended from survivors of Auschwitz. There are little than 17 cardinal Jews successful the full world. We don’t recruit. We don’t effort and alteration laws to enforce our beliefs connected different radical [sic] bodies. Hug a Jew today. Antisemitism is harmful to Black people. Let’s look astatine who we are empowering."