Steven Spielberg, who has made a lot of movies, said that he has never seen antisemitism in US so “out in the open” as it is now in the United States.
NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 05: People participate in a Jewish solidarity march on January 5, 2020 in New York City. The march was held in response to a recent rise in anti-Semitic crimes in the greater New York metropolitan area. (Photo by Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)
Spielberg said that hatred has been “standing proud with its hands on its hips, like Hitler and Mussolini.”
The Jewish filmmaker said that the hatred was just as open as it was in Nazi Germany.
“I find it very, very strange,” Spielberg told Stephen Colbert, who hosts a late-night show. “antisemitism in US has always been there,” he said. “It’s either been right around the corner, just out of sight, but always there, or it’s been much more out in the open, like in Germany in the 1930s.”
“But since Germany in the 1930s, I haven’t seen antisemitism in US standing proudly with its hands on its hips, like Hitler and Mussolini, daring us to stand up to it. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my whole life, and especially not in this country,” he said on “The Late Show.”
Spielberg said that the “marginalization” of people who aren’t White, which was a big issue from 2014 to 2016, was to blame.
Spielberg started by saying, “Somehow, the marginalization of people who aren’t part of a majority race has been creeping up on us for years and years and years.”
“Hatred became a kind of membership in a club in 2014, 2015, and 2016 that has more members than I ever thought was possible in America. Antisemitism in US and hatred go together; you can’t have one without the other “He fought.
In the last year, there have been antisemitism in US on college campuses and in liberal cities like New York City and Los Angeles.
Last year, the New York Police Department provides data showing that anti-Jewish hate crimes in the city had increased by 300% in just one month.
Steven Spielberg, who makes movies, said that he has never seen antisemitism as “out in the open” as it is now. (Source: CBS/YouTube)
Group for human rights The Simon Wiesenthal Center made a list of their top ten worst cases of antisemitism in US for 2022. They said that physical attacks on Orthodox Jews in New York City were “the highest they’ve been in decades.”
“Ultra-Orthodox Jews, especially in Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn, have been beaten, spat on, had their hats ripped off, and cursed at in a series of attacks over the past year,” the report said.
The center also gave examples of anti-Semitic behavior on liberal campuses and from famous people like Kanye West.
Antisemitism in US through comments have also been said to have been made by celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg and Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.
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