{"id":42426,"date":"2016-06-11T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=42426"},"modified":"2016-06-06T08:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T06:34:40","slug":"06-00-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=42426","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Semitism is on the rise, Spielberg warns in Harvard speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/times.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"45%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/anti-semitism-is-on-the-rise-spielberg-warns-in-harvard-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-Semitism is on the rise, Spielberg warns in Harvard speech<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>by JTA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>In commencement address, award-winning director says he was wrong as a kid to think anti-Jewish sentiment \u2018was fading\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TYtoDunfu00\" width=\"680\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A claimed director Steven Spielberg admitted he was \u201cwrong\u201d to think as a child that anti-Semitism \u201cwas fading,\u201d telling Harvard\u2019s graduating class that President Barack Obama was right when he warned that \u201canti-Semitism is on the rise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Spielberg, whose 99-year-old father Arnold sat in one of the first rows at his address before the Ivy League university\u2019s class of 2016, told the graduates Thursday that the world \u201cis full of monsters\u201d espousing \u201cracism, homophobia, ethnic hatred, class hatred\u201d and \u201creligious hatred.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Oscar winner also offered veiled criticism of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, known for his anti-migrant rhetoric. \u201cWe are a nation of immigrants \u2014 at least for now,\u201d Spielberg said, and urged the graduates to vote in the upcoming election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cAs a kid, I was bullied \u2014 for being Jewish,\u201d Spielberg recalled in his speech. \u201cThis was upsetting, but compared to what my parents and grandparents had faced, it felt tame. Because we truly believed that anti-Semitism was fading. And we were wrong. Over the last two years, nearly 20,000 Jews have left Europe to find higher ground. And earlier this year, I was at the Israeli embassy when President Obama stated the sad truth. He said: \u2018We must confront the reality that around the world, anti-Semitism is on the rise. We cannot deny it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The 69-year-old powerhouse behind iconic movies such as \u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d and \u201cSaving Private Ryan,\u201d as well as blockbusters like \u201cClose Encounters of the Third Kind\u201d and the Indiana Jones series, also spoke about his Shoah Foundation. The foundation has taken video testimonies of over 53,000 Holocaust survivors and witnesses in 63 countries since he founded it in 1994, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The foundation is now collecting testimonies from genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia, Armenia and Nanking, he said, adding, \u201cWe must never forget that the inconceivable doesn\u2019t happen \u2014 it happens frequently.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Spielberg provided more details about his childhood brushes with anti-Semitism in a 1993 interview with The New York Times. In that interview, soon after \u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d came out, Spielberg, who grew up in Ohio, Arizona and California, recalled, \u201cI was always aware I stood out because of my Jewishness. In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Facebook COO and Harvard alum Sheryl Sandberg, who is also Jewish, served as chief marshal of the ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Semitism is on the rise, Spielberg warns in Harvard speech by JTA In commencement address, award-winning director says he was wrong as a kid to think anti-Jewish sentiment \u2018was fading\u2019 &nbsp; A claimed director Steven Spielberg admitted he was \u201cwrong\u201d to think as a child that anti-Semitism \u201cwas fading,\u201d telling Harvard\u2019s graduating class that President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42426"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42436,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42426\/revisions\/42436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}