Steven Spielberg expressed concern about the rise of anti-Semitism in the US. The director appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to talk about his Oscar-nominated film “The Fabelmans.”

In the semi-autobiographical film based on Steven Spielberg’s childhood, one of the characters suffers abuse at the hands of a group of students at school who bully Jewish classmates.

Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert asked the American director, screenwriter and producer if he was surprised by the current rise in anti-Semitism.

“It’s surprising to me,” said Steven Spielberg. “Anti-Semitism has always been there, whether it was just around the corner and a little bit invisible, but it was always lurking,” he added.

The director of the 1993 film Schindler’s List, about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of a thousand Polish Jews in the Holocaust, said: “In a way, the marginalization of people who don’t belong to some kind of majority race is something that challenges us. chills for years and years and years…”.

“Hate has become a kind of membership in a club that has more members than I ever thought possible in America. And hate and anti-Semitism go hand in hand – you can’t separate one from the other,” he noted.

Steven Spielberg he said that despite what he has observed, he is optimistic about the future.

“I’m quoting Anne Frank, I think she’s right when she said that ‘most people are good,'” the American director emphasized. “And I think essentially at our core, there’s kindness and there’s empathy,” he said.