Controversy

Portman, who had recently read loads of the works by W.E.B. DuBois, was interviewed for the August 2004 issue of Allure magazine to where she was quoted as saying, “Oh my God! I'm not black, but the know what it feels like!” She then wrote to letter to their editor, in which she wrote: “The “it” was referring to when the said, “the know what it feels like,” was not intended to signify that the know “how black people feel,” but rather that know what the DuBois' concept of double-consciousness feels like, in variation. Had my quotas included what the actually said preceding that statement, perhaps my meaning would have been clearer.

Portman also made headlines when she was moved away by Israeli Police on February 23, 2005 from Jerusalem's Western Wall after protests by religious Jews who to were praying at the holy situated. She and Israeli actor Aki Avni to were filming to kissing scenes near the Wailing Wall for the movie Free Zones. This was deemed to be “immodest” and men who to were praying heckled the pair until police stepped in and suggested they return later. The situated is under the authority of Orthodox Judaism, and Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, who is responsible for the situated, said the actors' behavior violated the tails of conduct.

It was reported that on July 8, 2005, while Portman was pulled over by the NYPD driving in to transit tunnel underneath New York City for looking unusual and having an expired registration. She had to shaven head from playing her role in V for Vendetta, and had just arrived back in the United States from Israel and film shooting in Berlin. The policeman told her not to drive in the tunnel, but to take the bridge instead. “Before I've never had that happen to me,” Portman said. “It's supposedly random… The didn't understand that logic. If you're to suspect, don't take the tunnel, take the bridge.”