OUR Steven Spielberg expressed concern about the growth of anti-Semitism in the United States.

The popular director was a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to talk about his recent Oscar-nominated film Fabelmans.

In the semi-autobiographical film based on Spielberg’s childhood, one of the characters is abused by a group of students at a school who bully Jewish classmates.

Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert asked the American director, screenwriter and producer if he was surprised by the current rise in anti-Semitism.

“It surprises me. Anti-Semitism has always been there, whether it was somewhere around the corner and a little invisible, but it was always hiding,” the director said.
Spielberg, who directed the 1993 film Schindler’s List about the German businessman who saved the lives of thousands of Polish Jews during the Holocaust, Oskar Schindler, stressed: then the majority race is what for years and years and years gave us goosebumps … “.

“Hate has become a kind of membership in a club that has more members than I ever thought possible in America. And hatred and anti-Semitism go hand in hand — you can’t separate one from the other,” he said.

Spielberg said that despite what he has observed, he is optimistic about the future.

“I am quoting a quote from Anne Frank, I think she is right when she says that “most people are good,” the American director emphasized. “And I think that, in essence, there is kindness and empathy at our core,” he said.