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Steven Spielberg says antisemitism in US is 'standing proud with hands on hips like Hitler'
Steven Spielberg has expressed his concerns over the rise of antisemitism in the United States.
The filmmaker appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday night (2 March) to discuss his Oscar-nominated movie The Fabelmans, which was released in January.
In the semi-autobiographical film based on Spielberg’s childhood, one of the characters suffers antisemitic abuse at the hands of a group of school bullies.
Colbert asked Spielberg if found the current rise in antisemitism surprising.
“I find it very, very surprising,” he said. “Antisemitism has always been there, it’s either been just around the corner and slightly out of sight but always lurking, or it has been much more overt like in Germany in the Thirties.
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