Yay, more quotes from Scarlett Johansson’s Glamour & Vanity Fair cover profiles! Huzzah. I can already tell that I’m going to hate the full write-up in VF. It’s all about how she’s a goddess among women and every ScarJo fart is laced with gold and perfume. According to The Daily Mail, Scarlett did talk to VF about her fiancé and some other stuff. Some highlights:
ScarJo on Romain: “It is [easier to be with someone who isn’t famous], but it’s more than that…We do different things. He’s in the whole art-scene world. So it’s nice, because we can enjoy each other’s worlds, but we don’t have our crazy conflicting schedules and all that other stuff to contend with.”
On the SodaStream controversy: “[I’m being called] the new face of apartheid. There’s a lot of anti-Semitism out there.”
She’s not into emotional men: “Of course, actors in general, they’re obsessed with emotions. Although, he’s French, so he’s probably overly into his emotions.”
Doing voice work on ‘Her’: “I thought it was just voice-over work. My agent sent me the script and said ‘Oh it’s a few hours’. I met with Spike and ended up having this eight-hour meeting or something. By the end of which I was starving and dehydrated. And it was like ‘oh man’, you know?”
Considering I was one of the few people who was kind of on her side about the SodaStream mess, I have to say… yeah, I think part of it was anti-Semitism. She’s making it into a blanket condemnation, like every single person who criticized her decision to sign on to SodaStream and drop her Oxfam work was an anti-Semite, and that’s not the case. But SOME of it was anti-Semitic or at the very least, a knee-jerk anti-Israel reaction.
Does anyone else read her comments on “emotional actors” and think that she’s shading Ryan Reynolds a little bit? Am I overanalyzing? It’s possible. But it feels like she was talking about Romain being someone “not famous” and how different that is, and like there’s a subtle comparison about Ryan being melodramatic or something.
Anyway, there are also some additional quotes from Scarlett’s Glamour interview (you can read the full thing here). This is the article where she said she hates the “ScarJo” nickname. Here’s the full quote: “It’s lazy and flippant. And there’s something kind of violent about it. There’s something insulting about it.” VIOLENT? ScarJo, please.
‘Her’ and divorcing Ryan Reynolds: “When I started to talk with Spike about the film, we shared our relationship experiences. We talked about what it feels like to not have something work and what that does to your sense of self.”
Growing as a person since her divorce: “I think I know myself better. I feel I know now more of what I need in a relationship, what I want in a relationship. And I know I have more tools to communicate, not just with my partner, but with myself. That’s not necessarily any reflection of who I was married to or what was happening in my marriage, but really where I was in my life. When I was first married, I was much younger. And I have had the opportunity now to work more on getting to know myself. I think that makes you a better partner and somebody who is able to work with somebody and stay in a relationship in the not-romantic moments. I have more patience with myself. I have more patience with my partner. I think that just comes with age, probably.”
Planning the wedding: “We’re just going with the flow. I’ve never been one to do a full-on themed wedding. I don’t care about that stuff.”
Living in Paris: “I guess part of the wonderful thing about living in Paris is how people take their time with things. And I like to feel no pressure on the weekends in Paris. Sunday, most things are closed in Paris, and there’s something wonderful about that. So I’m much more comfortable just spending the weekend in my bed.”
Scarlett also talked more about Paris style and how she prefers the more “New York street style” because of functionality and comfortable shoes. ScarJo says: “In Paris you suck it up. You hobble around. Although my girlfriends in Paris and I decided we’re adopting the trend of athletic streetwear ’cause we got sick of it. I was like, ‘I am sick of not feeling my big toe after two hours of dancing!’”
Also – I know many are loathe to see Scarlett’s point of view these days, but I understand what she’s saying about her first marriage. She was too young. She needed to date a bunch of losers post-Ryan to figure out what she wanted from a marriage.
Photos courtesy of Glamour.
So beautiful and… so dumb
MTE
And so so stuck up.
Really. I just can’t with her anymore. Even though I want to love her face.
Spot on!!
@Lolo-ology
Yep, totally agree. IMO she is a incredibly beautiful woman, not bad as an actress.. but I will end up hating her.. first the Oxfam bashing, then she comes out as a Woody supporter, then any time she opens her mouth she says idiotic things…
You’d like to slap her silly and shout STFU!!!
She is a bad actress.
The kicker is that she doesn’t realize she’s dumb.
“Doing voice work on ‘Her’: “I thought it was just voice-over work. My agent sent me the script and said ‘Oh it’s a few hours’. I met with Spike and ended up having this eight-hour meeting or something. By the end of which I was starving and dehydrated. And it was like ‘oh man’, you know?”
Can someone please get me an interpreter; one who speaks Scarjo.
“I spent a lot of time with a really cool person and all I could think of was how no one brought me a perrier and a salad. How sad for me.”
LOL, thanks.
I think she went in thinking it’s light work similar to doing voice work for cartoons but Spike Jones went all deep and stuff for hours. I think she is kinda shading him as pretentious. Guess she really didn’t understand what Spike Jones is about. Yes Scarlett he is deeper than your shallow ass.
Thanks, I give you guys props for speaking Scarjo. And it does seems as if she was shading him a bit now that you explained it.
Oh dear. Someone needs to tell her you can’t become dehydrated by simply sitting in a meeting.
Oh no! After sitting on her butt in a long meeting she was starving and dehydrated! This is the new face of suffering, America. Look for a commercial soon, featuring Sarah McLachlan, to see how you can help.
“Just $2 can help Scarlett Johannson get a cold drink, just $2 can help her arse numbness go away. Please give what you can to help Scarlett Johannson stop the pain of 8 hour days.
Thank you for listening”
Scarjo had to work for 8 hours?!? Eight hour days?!? Who does that?? Oh, just f@cking EVERYBODY.
I’mma just sit here, chilling in the shade you just threw out. Hahahaha.
Criticism of Israel is not ipso facto anti-semitism. That’s a bit of a self serving knee jerk reaction. If you understand at all what is happening on the west bank, there is a reason for Oxfam’s position. Soda stream does not belong there. Scarjo’s flippant dismissal of criticism is incredibly ignorant and lazy.
Thank you for that comment
*bends down on one knee and proposes to M. Jupitero*
And you, eScargot, cannot be the flower girl.
Lmao @eScargot and BOOYA Miss Jupitero! That was perfection.
Eve, that wins as the best nickname ever for ScarJo, I mean, eScargot…certainly not lazy, nor tacky (b*tch is now french and all). I would love if that would become her official nickname, so I hope you don’t mind if I start using it every now and then 😀
@ Minime:
I started callling her that way when I saw the “ScarJo” nickname — it sounded a lot like “escargot” (at least to me) and I’m childish like that so…eScargot it is.
Oh, and I don’t mind if you start using it, too.
I so agree. I support Israel, but it isn’t perfect any more than other countries are perfect, and I think you stated it perfectly. Self-serving knee jerk reaction to any criticism. It’s emotional blackmail, and it diminishes the impact of pointing out the very real cases of anti-semitism.
+1. Nice choice of words.
There are unfortunately a lot of anti-Semites in the world, but obviously they haven’t cornered the market on ignorance.
It probably hasn’t occured to Scarlett in her little pea-sized brain that a rise in anti-semitism is not some inexplicable mystery. It is directly related to Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank. The best way to stamp out anti-Semitism is for Israel to change its settlement policy and make an agreement with the Palestinians. Until that happens, Israel will continue to lose supporters every day, and it will create more people who can’t differentiate between a Jewish state and a Jewish people.
Actually not true.
Israel could be perfect and it would have no bearing on the rise and fall of anti-Semitism.
Anti-semitism has existed for centuries, and will not go away simply because Israel changes its policy in the West Bank. There are governments and people who will hate Israel and hate Jews no matter what they do. But disagreeing with Israel’s policy does not always mean someone is anti-Semitic. The two often overlap, but not always.
Anti-Semitism existed long before the present state of Israel was founded. That’s one of the main reasons why so many left the region for Europe and other parts of the world to begin with. What fuels anti-Semitism is the same thing that fuels every form of discrimination: an entrenched belief system that supports discrimination against the “other.”
No – anti-Semitism is growing in places where people don’t give a rat’s ass about the West Bank. Jews have always been scapegoats for hate-mongers – right now, anti-Semitism is being promoted by US white supremacy groups online, particularly targeting young people. They’ve kind of left Muslims and homosexuals in the dust to promote this “traditional” hate.
Slag her off all you want, but Johannson has a point. I’m always amused by British institutions being sanctimonious about Israel and its actions, when they were the ones who largely created the situation in Palestine before Israel’s independence in the 1940s. But of course they’ve forgotten all about that.
I KNEW it was only a matter of time before Johansson played the anti-semite card. Note that Johansson doesn’t go into detail about just how she ‘knows’ that criticism of a factory built on stolen land in violation of international law is ‘anti-semitism’. Nor, of course, does the interviewer push her on this. Shame, really. I’ve always thought Johansson to be massively overrated, both for her acting ‘skills’ and for her looks, but have had no reason to dislike her as a person. Until now. She’s made it obvious that she’s an arrogant, obtuse idiot who is so shielded from reality that she thinks her uninformed witherings are pearls of wisdom.
Very well said and I also really lost a lot of respect for her when she vilified Oxfam as well.
That kind of statement is tipically what Israel says of everyone who deems not to agree with its bullying politics. “Oh, you don’t agree with me harassing my neighbor, you must be antisemitic” How simplistic and dumb of ScarJo to repeat like a recorder such nonesense. And even worse, people actually believe that crap!
Actually Miss Jupitero, criticism of Israel often IS ipso facto anti-Semitism. It’s not always but the vast majority is, so her comments are more right than wrong.
It looks ‘better’ to cloak anti-Semetic comments as comments against the country and not its people. It’s a very common tactic these days — we often hide our prejudice in more ‘people pleasing’ packaging. But that prejudice is still there none-the-less.
I strongly disagree. I was married to an Israeli, both he and I were strongly anti-Israel, antisemitism played no part in that. Israel makes so many effed up entitled, often inhumane decisions, it’s very easy to virtually hate Israel all on its own without even a dash of anti-Jewish sentiment. My ex-husband was in the IDF, and although he had disarmed many attempted suicide bombers acting on behalf of Palestine, it was being ordered to shell a supposedly abandoned elementary school when he could clearly see children still inside that lead him to feel like Israel was the true terrorist organization. ScarJo [I shall henceforth use that nickname to death, in light of the news that she hates it so much] garners even more ire for using the same malapropism all hardline anti-Palestinian goons use whenever Israel’s tactics are called into question. No one is falling for it anymore, I’m at the point where I don’t even care if I’m accused of antisemitism because they have misappropriated the term to the point that it’s meaningless.
@LadySlippers is right.
you can agree with what happens in the west bank or not (there are a lot of sides to the conflict) but it doesn’t change the fact that a lot of the critism against israel is for the reason of antisemic- espacialy in europe.
Her comment was a blanket statement directed at critics of the settlements. She was implying that they’re all anti-Semitic. There was no nuance, or words to be parsed. She is wrong, imo.
Vvvoid,
But you cannot use outliers to explain a statistical phenomenon.
You and your (ex?) husband would be considered outliers and cannot and should not be used to explain the main problem. You can, however, use it strictly to show that as an outlier, not everyone conforms but nothing more than that.
Mercy,
All she said was, “There’s a lot of anti-Semitism out there.” That IS a true statement and she is not saying that ALL complaints against Soda Stream are solely anti-Semetic. I saw no blanket statement there whatsoever.
You have to take the criticisms for what they are individually. You can’t say that most criticism against Israeili policies are antisemetic, that’s just digging your head in the sand.
@LadySlippers,
I’m looking at her comment in the context in which it was made. It wasn’t a random observation on her part. It was directed at critics of her promoting and profiting off of a business that operates in occupied territory. There are a lot of good, well informed people among those critics who don’t deserve to be labelled as anti-semitic. She’s also lobbed similar false accusations against Oxfam.
You’re mixing things a bit here. I can’t deny that anti-Semitism exists. There are people who hate Jews for whatever crazy reason racists create in their head to hate others. But we’re talking about people calling out Israel for their handling of the Palestinian people. It’s hard to say “vast Majority” without stating what you consider to be just anti-Semitism and not people concerned about the conflict.
Obviously discrimination does exist in this world. Many, many millions of people have died of as a result of discrimination throughout history. The problem is, the existence of anti-semites seems to continuously be used to justify every single decision which is ethically questionable. The voices criticizing the actions of the Israeli govt are loud and from so many directions, even the US. Does Israel really believe these voices all belong to anti-Semites. This kind of myopia is interesting… One wonders how Israel will come to think of its actions given the benefit of time. Will it look back on this moment in history with shame? I suspect they will…. On ScarJo: She’s impressively dense, but it is not not her fault, she was more than likely just hungry and dehydrated again (the actress diet).
Exactly. Criticism towards Israel is NOT the same of being anti-Jewish. If you say so, those Jewish who are against the Israeli government are also anti-Semitic, right?
This is actually true but many do not differentiate them both. It is a misconception and it may never end.
Agree! Saying that apartheid (which is definitely happening, people) is wrong is not anti-semitism.
And Miss Jupitero is on point once again.
Her opinion doesn’t really matter. She is an actress. No one expects anything of substance to come out of the mouths of people who work to perfect their red carpet poses.
The biggest critics of Israel are in fact Israelis.
Ehud Barak, former prime minister of Israel, has said before Israel is beginning to resemble an apartheid state…
Same thing with former Shin Bet directors (shin bet is the national security service in Israel).
Many people will learn a lot more if they watched gatekeepers or actually knew what was happening in the West Bank. One of the biggest critics of Israel I know are Jewish Israelis.
I’m not going to say there isn’t any anti-semetism out there but disagreeing with Isreal’s policies or even comparing the occupation to Apartheid isn’t anti-semetic. In Isreal you will find Jews in the mainstream that have the same thoughts on it. Here in the US there is some false concept that if you aren’t super right wing on Isreal you are an Anti-Semite. That’s a cop out because there are real human rights violations being perpatrated by the Isreali government.
Very refreshing to see such a well informed opinion of the violations going on. Escapism CAN be smart
+1
I am part Jewish. In some parts of my family it is impossible to rationally discuss Israel. Seriously, I have relatives who will say with a straight face that nobody was living there when Israel was created. Israel is a sacred cow, above all criticism, even the suggestion of a two state solution, anything less than allegiance is automatically antisemitism. All thought is shot down. This is exactly what ScarJo is doing here, and I have a big problem with this.
Criticism of Israel is not antisemitism folks. If we are not allowed to criticize a governments policies, we are in big trouble.
Thank you, Luca26 and Miss Jupitero. This knee-jerk defense of Israeli policies, calling those who speak against them anti-Semetic, is brainwashing, plain and simple. I am not Jewish, but I do have trouble speaking to some of my Jewish friends about this topic. However, as you said, not all Jews and Israelis feel the same. Just recently, some young Israeli activists were risking jail time rather than serving their mandatory term in the Israeli army. They do not want to participate in the oppression of Palestinians:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/03/israeli-teen-activists-say-no-army-draft-20143991053668628.html
Thank you. Blah blah blah the post WWII history and commitment we have toward Israel in the US, the truth of the matter is that both sides have done awful things to each other in this conflict. Acknowledging reality isn’t bigoted; it’s the opposite of bigoted. If it’s profitable for ScarJo to get all tribal and take a side in the flame war, that’s great, but she needs to get real and stop lashing out at people who don’t agree with her extremely self-serving stance.
She really is an idiot! It’s so frustrating when valid criticism against Israel, particularly its continued illegal occupation of land that is not part of Israel, is called racist. Being against Israeli policies that have economically devastated Palestinians is a really “racist” position… not! I feel comfortable criticizing Israel because I’m part of the Jewish diaspora so I wont be called an anti-Semite, but it sucks that this term gets thrown out so inappropriately. And who does ScarJo think she is with this labeling, a Real Housewife???
It’s Israel not Isreal. And Israel forcefully occupied the West Bank and continues to push the Palestinians into what amounts to walled in, heavily guarded, poorly maintained and funded prison camps. And ScarJo should not be commenting on such a hot button topic unless she educates herself a bit more and maybe even visits some of the Palestinian camps. But I’m sure she’d find something to whine about – “It smelled really bad…don’t these people bathe?” “It was really hard walking around in all that rubble, I nearly twisted my ankle twice!”
c the problem is that many people are very critical of israel put on much less of other countries, I am French of Moroccan origin and around me I cotois Arab and I hear a lot about israel but never on the Morocco or Algeria pluparts the Arab countries or freedoms are non-existent; although I am in agreement with most of you on ScarJo
That is very troubling, but I will say if a state is going to call itself a democracy and support the separation of church and state, more will be expected of them than states run by monarchies and religious fanatics.
We need to stop relying on petrol. I really believe it would help solve a lot of problems around the world.
Mercy,
I think stop relying on oil would do the world wonders.
But did you guys know that oil companies routinely but up many of the patents that would lessen our ties to oil? I know we’ve had the technology since the 1960’s to build non-oil dependant engines and the oil companies are a HUGE reason that it’s still not mainstream. Sad, ain’t it????
Scarlett has made reference to Ryan in almost all her interviews since the divorce.
(post Sean Penn, Nate Naylor, her bodyguard e.t.c.)
She talks about him more than when they were together!
Be they wistful remarks – Vogue, GQ, Elle or
Passive Aggressive digs – Esquire, Marie Claire.
Odd
Why is she even thinking of her former marriage when carrying another man’s baby?
Don’t like her.
That’s all I got.
She’s dumb, if only she could shut up.
So I guess that since I feel that Woody Allen should have his child molesting ass boiled in oil makes me anti-Semitic……….by the way, Sodastream sucks.
Hahahahaha XD
lolz
Ah yes. The knee-jerk anti-Semitism claim. I can see why she wants to use it, it’s highly effective. But disliking Israeli policy is not anti-Semitism, no matter how much Israel wants this conflation to be fact.
But this is the problem with having celebs on political issues during interviews such as this: they can drop a glib line and just move on.
“Ah yes. The knee-jerk anti-Semitism claim. I can see why she wants to use it, it’s highly effective.”
I KNEW she would do that. I just knew it.
I also recently found out she’s best friends with Natalie Portman and that explained a lot to me.
I thought Natalie hated her?
Agree with everyone who says hiding behind charges of anti-Semitism is lame. Anybody know any tea on this Romain dude? He looks shady.
I’ve heard he’s a trustfunder who hangs with the art crowd, but no one seems to know much about him. Hopefully she knows enough about him. Pulling up stakes and moving to another country, engaged, and pregnant in under a year, all while she’s been working a lot…
Her damn mouth is always open
That’s because she just hates it when people tell her how sexy she is.
LMAO
Nothing to do with anti-semitism and everything to do with the fact that the company is operating on stolen and occupied land. The issue, like Scarlett herself, is very very simple.
Thank you Jess .
I’m so glad I’m not the only one here that finds that statement extremely insulting.
@Geekychick you haven’t been in israel
you are talking without knowing the facts- you only see what the cnn feeds you.
i am not a pro setellment but the confilct is very comlicated and for now the palasatinains are the one who selebrating any killing of jews – not the otherwise.
a lot of them are “barbaric” like the Hamas and i dont think that we should fell sorry for them
It is indeed complicated, and I think the vast majority of commenters on this board are admitting that.
Personally, I’m heartened to see that most people here are seeing both sides of the issue. Israel is not without blame, that’s all. You don’t have to be on one “team” or the other to acknowledge the atrocities on BOTH sides.
So many times when a woman says she’s “more than just a pretty face” it’s true. With SCARJO it’s not…it’s just not. Please stop talking unless you’re reading a script. Please.
She is more than a pretty face…boobs.
What pretty face?
CAN SOMEONE THINK ABOUT HER GOOGLE ALERTS?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My thoughts and prayers with ScarJo at this difficult time.
I don’t think she was shading R. Reynolds in her comments re: emotional actors – TBH I think she says whatever comes up in her mind.
That being said, the nickname “ScarJo” as something violent?! Then what about her comments re: Dylan Farrow? Or better yet, Allen’s (alleged) act to Farrow?
Not the first time she’s made blanket statements about “actors” or “the French” or other groups. It makes her choice of words when whinging about her nickname (“flippant, lazy”) even more hilarious. I think sometimes she must be projecting herself onto other people.
I didn’t see the “violent” comment before regarding her unwanted nickname. How can someone be so sensitive when it comes to themselves, but so insensitive towards others?
It’s called being an egomaniac. ScarJo’s a pro at it.
I’m sorry, but Soda-stream controversy has nothing to do with being anti-semitic. It has EVERYTHING to do with civil rights and being informed and educated on foreign policy and international affairs. What is happening in the Gaza belt is illegal and despicable.
Look at it from another perspective: say the Gaza belt is populated by Aboriginal people and Australia comes up with a law that literally takes their land and leaves them jobless. homeless and unable live normal life just because they are not Australians, claiming it’s their land because they were there 1940 years ago. Would you say that an outcry against such policy is anti-Australian?
Oh ScarJo…your total poseur intelligence is showing. I suppose by her rationale that if we criticize African nations for their human rights abuses that we’re all just big old racists too? And China? Totes bc we’re David Duke’s disciples. I seriously hate it when celebs attempt to pretend like they’re all deep and intellectual. That ScarJo here hangs with the insufferable Natalie Portman makes total sense. They can drink tea and talk about how hard it is to be them, knowing all and being the most special beautiful women in the world, defending the rights of famous pedophiles everywhere, comparing meat eating to rape as well as toasting their smug rightness.
I know. They’re so far up their own a**es, it’s ridiculous. How dare she say it’s antisemetic to criticize oppression and injustice? There are plenty of Jewish people who are against what they even call apartheid, so that’s just a lazy way for her to dismiss the criticism without even defending her position bc there’s just no way to defend it. The Palestinians are also Semetic, so you could say she’s antisemetic as well, if you wanna go that route.
I agree @Kimberly and @Tentacle Kitten – I think these actors live in a very small isolated bubble where everyone who speaks to them is a huge *sskisser and everyone is a people pleaser so these actors never get challenged intellectually and before long they start believing their own crap. I remember an interview a few years ago in one of the magazines it might have been Ell but can’t remember and am in my iPhone so can’t look it up, anyway they were going on about how intelligent ScarJo is and they interviewed Stella MCCarntey and she mentioned how impressed she was with ScarJo’s intelligence because at a cocktail party ScarJo came up to her and asked her “nature or nurture”. I just rolled my eyes. That kind of line sounds like something you would pull out of a book on how to sound smart at a cocktail party. Ever since reading that comment by Stella I knew ScarJo was a fraud, but I also knew that it isn’t hard to impress people who are in the same bubble as you. Now ScarJo thinks she is all smart for dating a Frenchman. Jewelry designers and art world people = trust fund babies.
I used to be totally neutral on ScarJo. Didn’t like her or dislike her. Understood the economic value of huge knockers in Hollywood. But now I just can’t stand her. Every time she opens her mouth she shows the world what idiocy is. Make it stop, please.
Me too! Previously I had no opinion on SJ either way, but now when I see photos of her all I can think is:
“Dumb. As. A. Post.”
And it’s so infuriating because she thinks that what she’s saying is so clever! That people will buy this sh-t she’s spewing and finally realise what a genuine intellectual she actually is!
I’m against SodaStream because I am anti-settlement. Lots of my Jewish friends feel exactly the same. It is not anti-semitism.
Thank you, ITA, and Scarjo protests too much because she IS just a pretty face attached to an ugly mind.
Without delving into the politics of Israel and its neighbors, an extremely complicated ethnic, religious, and historic conflict…. I just want to add my personal 2 cents from my personal experience of having lived in France, dated French men, and continue to have many French friends. While I adore much of the French culture, there is a certain flippant attitude toward “other’s” and their cultural claims. The attitude is prevalent and pervasive while still remaining below the surface. People don’t come out and join the KKK, as they do in the American South, to express their racism. They are more nuanced about it.
For example: I attended a large ball/costume party in Paris, and there were MANY other guests wearing black face as part of their costume, I was appalled, but my French boyfriend at the time (a highly educated phd student) couldn’t understand my perspective, and accused me of being grumpy and without humor.
And on this particular issue, more than once, I participated in political discussions where the French consensus opinion about Israel and Palestine was very shaded with antisemitism. Often the antisemitism would be clouded in a joke, or a carefully worded side comment, but its there. Lest we forget Vichy France. Personally, I think Scarlett is probably more attuned to antisemitism as an American trying to adjust to the French cultural dialogues. Even among educated elites, they have a markedly different way of speaking and thinking about religion, race, and ethnic politics.
I concur with your observations since that has been my experience as well, but I don’t think it’s fair to lump Oxfam or everyone who takes issue with settlements or occupation in with the anti-Semites.
you are right; I am French of Moroccan origin and racism in France is much more subtle (but no less painful) that the united states, israel and (I do not support) some people are vociferous above but when I talk to them other Arab countries that are worst on minorities women they entents more, although I am in agreement with most of you on ScarJo
I am Jewish and even in the US (and elsewhere) critiquing Israel IS often just disguised and repackaged anti-Semitism. I would stay it’s almost 80-90% of the time. It’s just *that* prevalent.
Israel and Palestine have both committed atrocious and horrific acts on each other. But we cannot denounce one without the other — as both have blood on their hands.
That’s rubbish. You would say that 80-90% of the time critique of Israel is just disguised anti-semitism? I’m sorry but that’s just a ridiculous statement. There ARE people intelligent and educated enough to differentiate between a race of people and a government.
Decloo,
I understand your outrage on my stats but I’ve seen several legit and reputable studies that had higher numbers than what I used. The crappy part is people DO hide under the anti-Israel banner in order to dress up their anti-Semitism. That doesn’t mean all do but a lot do do it. And it’s often hard to tell if someone has a legit complaint OR is just a anti-Semite in sheep’s clothing.
Can some people make an intelligent discussion about the Israeli and Palestinian conflict and not delve into discriminatory insults? Yes absolutely. But most people use horrid stereotypes to prop up their arguments and take it from a legit discussion into a smear campaign.
I am Jewish and am not always happy with how Israel acts. However, I am equally horrified by the Palestinians using children’s programming in order to instill hatred of Jews and Israel too (and it’s not limited to this).
Both sides are guilty of dehumanising the other in order to gain the upper hand. And right now they both are at fault for escalating the violence. Both. Both also need to do a huge about face in order to bring peace to that area.
The hardest part about this conflict is there are no easy answers.
@LadySlippers: I would argue children living all their life in awful inhumane conditions is what drives them to hate who they see as responsable for their state, not some brain whashing antisemitic movement.
I’m part Jewish, Sephardic, and am hesitant to even dignify this argument with a reply.
The long history of the people of the middle easy and North Africa is one of hospitality and peace. When the Jews of spangled during the inquisition, they headed straight for ottoman territories where they were treated as guests. This is not an antis emetic culture.
Hostility to the state of Israel is due entirely to how Israel has chosen to treat its neighbors and it’s inability to respect basic human rights. If they took a different approach, and ceased their occupation of territories that are not even legally theirs, they might get better results. There is plenty of historic precedent. It was not always like this.
@Diana,
I would argue that it’s both. There is definitely brainwashing going on among the religious and political leadership. A lot of their schools are run by religious zealots. But has Israel played a huge role in leaving these kids vulnerable to the zealots? Sadly, yes. Are the fanatics taking full advantage of the settlements and other legit grievances to push their agenda? Absolutely.
I disagree with you about that the critique of Israel is ligated to being anti-semitism. But you are absolutely right regarding that they are both to blame in many ways, and it is not a black or white matter. I will like to elaborate as it is a topic I feel very interested about but I’m on the phone.
@Decloo – You know, if a black person expressed that they felt 80-90% of commentary on, let’s say, the George Zimmerman trial was thinly veiled racism, you would NEVER invalidate their feelings by telling them that it was “rubbish.” But when a Jew expresses that they feel aggression from others, you completely demean their feelings and their experience?
I’m Jewish too. I would like you to repeat after me: “AS A GENTILE, I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT A JEW FEELS AND WHAT IT FEELS TO BE JEWISH AMIDST A HEATED DISCUSSION ABOUT ISRAEL.”
You don’t get what it’s like to read through all of these comments insulting Israel as a Jewish person. You. Don’t. Get. It. Do not dismiss my feelings, do not dismiss my experience.
You all can bash Israel as much as you’d like, this is a free country. But don’t presume to understand how a Jew will react to it. You haven’t lived the Jewish experience, and you don’t get it. Reading through comments on a post like this can be VERY upsetting. At least have the decency to not dismiss and diminish my reaction and my experience.
Looks like rubber numbers to shame people out of criticizing Israel.
Well I am Jewish too and I will happily say I despise Israeli policy regarding Palestine and Palestinians. Several generations of my family and I used to travel to Israel every 3 years for a holiday but we stopped going about 5 years ago because we couldn’t stomach the blatant and disgusting racism of Israeli Jews towards Palestinians any longer. Would anyone like to call me anti-Semitic?
Blackface doesn’t have the same connotation in Europe as it has in America.
I am Southern and I just want you to know that the KKK is headquartered in rural Pennsylvania. I found your remark extremely offensive. A very small insane minority of idiots belong to the KKK , and they are not exclusive to the south, nor do they represent southerners as a rule.
Did ScarJo ever stop to realize her SodaStream controversy has less to do with anti-semiticism, and everything to do with her being an ignorant ***hole?
She sounds ignorant. For Romain, it’s probably not a plus to have a starlet for GF. She’s oblivious too if she thinks the French are overly emotional; the French communicate better than most about feelings, there’s never a need for drama. And the general impulse is stay calm. Ask someone with real intelligence, like Wes Anderson who has long lived in Paris. Scarjo is just such a disappointment.
She could have asked for some water. Not hard. She could have said “hey can we take a 5 minute break?”. Are you telling me no one in that meeting used the restroom for 8 hours?
Let me get this straight. She feels ‘insulted’ by the tacky, lazy, flippant nickname ScarJo but sees no problem labeling those who criticize her involvement in SodaStream ANTI-SEMITIC? Oxfam’s issue with her involvement was based on racism? Desmund Tutu is racist? Talk about tacky, lazy, flippant and insulting.
I genuinely DESPISE her.
count me on the “despise her” list too!
I think the “ScarJo” nickname suits her perfectly.
She’s pretty terrible.
I feel like actresses get skewered around here for saying FAR less offensive things than ScarJo has said and continues to say.
She really needs to stop talking.
She may say some stupid things, but usually with less frequency. Other actresses are motor mouths. I think Scarjo is attempting to catch up now because movie such and such, France, Woody Allen, Google and whatnot. Something else and bubbly water.
Don’t forget how terribly unfair and insensitive it was of Dylan to mention Scarjo’s name is connection to her open letter about about Woody Allen. You would have thought the trauma was all about Scarjo, not Dylan.
Well she a least was smart enough to make sure she always has a solid and permanent place in media and hollywood. Why so much hissing?
Stuck up much, good one Scarjo.
I’m really sick of her. I don’t think she’s a real beauty, or a talented actress & I really cannot stand her voice. Why is she so conceited?
I suspect excessive fawning and craptastic fanfare writing.
From the VF article:
“….You know what I discovered happens when you’re around a movie goddess made up to suggest movie goddesses past in the throes of a cover shoot, i.e., a movie goddess at the ne plus ultra of her movie-goddess-dom? You become a man, even if you’re not one. You gawk. You gape. You leer. But then, you’re only doing what you’re supposed to do, what she intends you to do. She’s seducing the camera and thus, by extension, you, since you, again by extension, are on the other end of that camera. It’s sex between intimates and it’s sex between strangers. It’s sex in public and it’s sex in the mind. You can’t resist her and she knows it without ever acknowledging that she knows it. She treats the whole exchange, in fact, with a brisk nonchalance, neither shrinking from the attention she’s provoked nor making a big deal of it when it drops at her feet, just accepting it as it’s her due, her birthright, which is how she proves that it’s both.”
Hurl.
Because the only reason anyone could possibly find any problems with how Israel behaves or how they’ve treated Palestinians is that they’re an anti-Semite? Dream on. That’s like saying anyone who criticizes the U.S. for anything is “anti-American”, or anyone who thinks ScarJo is vapid and cruel is sexist, or who criticizes a gay man is homophobic, or who criticizes a black person is racist, and etc.
She is not just a dumb Hollywood type like Cameron Diaz or Drew Barrymore. She’s a dumb, entitled, vicious Hollywood type. I went from thinking she was basically okay to thinking she was rather entitled and brainless to thinking she was absolutely terrible in an incredibly short time, all due to her own words.
Johansson is a very talented actress (in my opinion and has worked with many auteurs , which is not something you can say about actresses in her age group) and most of the things she says do not bother me although I think she is very inarticulate (for example I did agree with her about the Allen-Farrow comments but the way she said it was very insensitive and came across as crass. Also the thing she said about her google alerts). But this comments are borderline offensive and very superficial.
I think her acting is wooden. She’s overrated in every way.
Well I disagree. She was excellent in Her and a revelation in Under the Skin.
Hello, I’m away for a few weeks and there’s a new Violet!
Anyway, we’ll have to agree to disagree because I think ScarJo is beyond overrated. If she weren’t blonde and stacked, she wouldn’t have a career to speak of.
Moreover, I happen to side with Dylan Farrow and Oxfam. In short, ScarJo annoys me pretty much every time she opens her mouth.
Arabs are Semitic . Of course she wouldn’t know that because she’s a dummy.
A point hardly anybody ever brings up.
Indeed.
Exactly.
Her husband to be is very dodgy, rumours about smuggling , I wouldn’t be surprised to see him in jail in a few years Scarlet better make sure she isn’t implicated in his shady deals.
It all makes me think of Anne Hathaways first husband.
Thought I’d read some comments, just got a history lesson on Israel. Thank you all! I do have a soda stream, am I big fan, but thought it was created/made in Switzerland. Can we please go back to her strange husband so I can get on board with mindless commentary?