Michael Douglas: We Have to Confront Anti-Semitism
Michael Douglas: We have to confront anti-Semitism – Michael Douglas’ son Dylan had a run-in with anti-Semitism — and the actor wants to do something about it.
In an opinion column for the Los Angeles Times, the producer and “Wall Street” Oscar winner described an incident last summer in which 14-year-old Dylan, the elder of his two children with actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, came to his father in tears.
“A man at the pool had started hurling insults at him,” Douglas writes. It wasn’t because of anything Dylan did, he continued: “Suddenly I had an awful realization of what might have caused the man’s outrage: Dylan was wearing a Star of David.”
Douglas, who is also a United Nations messenger of peace, observes that anti-Semitism has been on the rise due to a number of factors, including income inequality, religious extremism and hatred of Israel.
