Doesn't Matter if Jew Are the Son of Michael Douglas, You JEW

Yes, anti-semitism is alive and unwell, and a bit of a reminder of it has come from Michael Douglas via an editorial in the L.A. Times.

Did someone call him the Son of a Jew? Actually, not. I don't think all that many people even know that the powerfully-built and handsome "Spartacus" of the movies, his father Kirk Douglas, is Jewish. I don't think many know that Michael Douglas is half-Jewish.

Can you racially profile these profiles and say they got Jewish noses? Who nose.

Besides, if they did, they might say, "Oh, he's one of the good ones." Or something. Even anti-Semites aren't going to turn away from "Gunfight at the OK Corral," or "Streets of San Francisco," or 3 Stooges movies, or stop jerking off to some scene in a Natalie Portman movie.

No, what happened was that Michael's son Dylan was wearing a Star of David, and hell, if you're going to openly identify yourself as a target, you masochistic kike, you WILL be singled out for abuse.

Quoting from the editorial:

Last summer our family went to Southern Europe on holiday. During our stay at a hotel, our son Dylan went to the swimming pool. A short time later he came running back to the room, upset. A man at the pool had started hurling insults at him.

My first instinct was to ask, “Were you misbehaving?” “No,” Dylan told me through his tears.

I stared at him. And suddenly I had an awful realization of what might have caused the man's outrage: Dylan was wearing a Star of David.

After calming him down, I went to the pool and asked the attendants to point out the man who had yelled at him. We talked. It was not a pleasant discussion. Afterward, I sat down with my son and said: “Dylan, you just had your first taste of anti-Semitism.”

...Dylan's experience reminded me of my first encounter with anti-Semitism, in high school. A friend saw someone Jewish walk by, and with no provocation he confidently told me: “Michael, all Jews cheat in business.”

“What are you talking about?” I said...I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger...

In a time when income disparity is growing, when hundreds of millions of people live in abject poverty, some find Jews to be a convenient scapegoat rather than looking at the real source of their problems.

A second root cause of anti-Semitism derives from an irrational and misplaced hatred of Israel. Far too many people see Israel as an apartheid state and blame the people of an entire religion for what, in truth, are internal national-policy decisions. Does anyone really believe that the innocent victims in that kosher shop in Paris and at that bar mitzvah in Denmark had anything to do with Israeli-Palestinian policies or the building of settlements 2,000 miles away?

The third reason is simple demographics. Europe is now home to 25 million to 30 million Muslims, twice the world's entire Jewish population....

Speaking up is the responsibility of our religious leaders, and Pope Francis has used his powerful voice to make his position and that of the Catholic Church clear, saying: “It's a contradiction that a Christian is anti-Semitic. His roots are Jewish. Let anti-Semitism be banished from the heart and life of every man and every woman.”

...My son is strong. He is fortunate to live in a country where anti-Semitism is rare. But now he too has learned of the dangers that he as a Jew must face. It's a lesson that I wish I didn't have to teach him, a lesson I hope he will never have to teach his children."