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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Yahoo says Natalie Portman is a "Palestine-American" actress

If you do a search Natalie Portman on Yahoo, you see that she is considered a "Palestine-American actress."



It links to her Wikipedia page, which says no such thing.

Google's default results for searching for Portman says she is an Israeli-American actress. Bing says she is "an Israeli-born actress and director." 

This is very weird. I couldn't find any other famous Israelis or Jews born in Jerusalem who were called "Palestinian." Also, the choice to say Portman is a "Palestine-American" actress and not a "Palestinian-American" actress indicates that someone who doesn't know English very well deliberately chose to edit her entry.

(h/t Stu via Adam)