{"id":137925,"date":"2015-03-16T22:17:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T22:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2015\/03\/16\/michael-pens-powerful-op-ed-piece-about-anti-semitic-attack-on-his-son\/"},"modified":"2015-03-16T22:17:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T22:17:32","slug":"michael-pens-powerful-op-ed-piece-about-anti-semitic-attack-on-his-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2015\/03\/16\/michael-pens-powerful-op-ed-piece-about-anti-semitic-attack-on-his-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael pens powerful Op-Ed piece about anti-semitic attack on his son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div>Driven by the recent anti-Semitic attacks in Europe, Michael Douglas wrote a powerful op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, calling for action from religious and political leaders.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The actor, 70, decide to express himself because of the anti-Semitism his young son, Dylan, experienced in Southern Europe on a family vacation. Now just 14, Dylan was driven to tears by a man who was \u201churling insults\u201d at him \u2013 all because was wearing a Star of David. Douglas had to tell his son that he had just had his \u201cfirst taste of anti-Semitism.\u201d&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Michael\u2019s mother, Diane, is not Jewish, though his father, veteran leading man Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch), is; \u201cWhile some Jews believe that not having a Jewish mother makes me not Jewish, I have learned the hard way that those who hate do not make such fine distinctions,\u201d said Michael.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Michael Douglas wrote in his op-ed piece that there are \u201cthree reasons anti-Semitism is appearing now with renewed vigilance,\u201d because \u201canti-Semitism, I\u2019ve seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.\u201d The actor cited a flagging economy, \u201can irrational and misplaced hatred of Israel\u201d and \u201csimple demographics\u201d for the recent surge in European anti-Semitism. \u201cEurope is now home to 25 million to 30 million Muslims, twice the world\u2019s entire Jewish population,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWithin any religious community that large, there will always be an extremist fringe, people who are radicalized and driven with hatred, while rejecting what all religions need to preach \u2013 respect, tolerance and love. We\u2019re now seeing the amplified effects of that small, radicalized element.\u201d &nbsp;As a solution, Douglas calls for our political and religious leaders to speak up, and for regular citizens to take responsibility, as they did in Oslo, Norway, when more than 1,000 people formed a \u201cring of peace\u201d around a synagogue so that Jews could practice their religion in safety.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\u201cThis is our challenge in 2015,\u201d Douglas wrote, \u201cand all of us must take it up. Because if we confront anti-Semitism whenever we see it, if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness. Michael Douglas\u2019s Most Memorable Movie Moments.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driven by the recent anti-Semitic attacks in Europe, Michael Douglas wrote a powerful op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, calling for action from religious and political leaders.&nbsp; The actor, 70, decide to express himself because of the anti-Semitism his young son, Dylan, experienced in Southern Europe on a family vacation. Now just 14, Dylan was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}