While over a quarter of a million liked the post, others criticized it, saying that migrants who try to enter the US illegally should not be compared to those persecuted during the Holocaust.One commentator who was critical, collingregorymaddox, was representative of those who disagreed with Portman, saying, “I have just as much sympathy for Anne Frank as you do but this would not be happening now in the United States if they would come in legally. What is so hard to understand about that?”Portman’s post comes on the heels of a tweet by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshman Democratic New York congresswoman, that said, “This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying.”At least five American Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, and many public figures let Ocasio-Cortez known they thought she was wrong to compare migrant detention centers on the southern border to concentration camps.Deborah Lipstadt, the Emory University professor and scholar whose fight against a prominent Holocaust survivor was the basis for the movie, Denial, tweeted following Ocasio-Cortez’s statement: “Talk about the horrific conditions & not historical analogies. Don’t give those who are behind this policy a chance to piously claim they are being wrongly accused. Use of Holocaust analogies to condemn US immigration policy is a distraction.”
Natalie Portman invokes Anne Frank to condemn US migrant policy
While over a quarter of a million liked the post, others criticized it, saying that migrants who try to enter the US illegally should not be compared to those persecuted during the Holocaust.
