antisemites

Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger has urged antisemites and other racist and discriminatory hate groups to stop spreading hate and to choose a brighter path. According to Variety, the action star, who made headlines last year for visiting the Auschwitz concentration camp and reckoning with his father`s own Nazi past, posted a 12-minute direct-to-camera address on YouTube in which he called out anyone who has "heard some conspiracies about Jewish people or any race or gender and thought, `That makes sense to me.`"…

Arnold Schwarzenegger would like to terminate antisemitism and hate. In a 12-minute video posted by ATTN on Facebook, the star and former Governor of California talked about the emotional toll of having visited the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland and the horrors and atrocities that had occurred there. Rather than “preach to the choir here,” he said, “Today, I want to talk to the people out there who might have already stumbled into the wrong direction, into the wrong path.” “I want to talk to you if you’ve heard…

Arnold Schwarzenegger has confronted the rise of antisemitism in the US in a new YouTube video.The Austrian-born actor, who began as a bodybuilder and served as governor of California between 2003 and 2011, told viewers “there has never been a successful movement based on hate”.Schwarzenegger’s rhetoric was couched in terms of a motivational pep-talk for those with prejudice: “Nazis? Losers. The Confederacy? Losers. The apartheid movement? Losers. I don’t want you to be a loser. I don’t want you to be weak … despite all…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeArnold Schwarzenegger tackled the rise in hate crimes in America in a 12-minute YouTube address shared Monday (6 February).The Terminator star specifically targeted antisemitism and told those who embrace hate that they would “die miserably”.According to the US Anti-Defamation League, the US has recently seen a rise in antisemitic incidents, with 2,717 incidents last year – the highest…

To the editor: While seeming to be aghast at the recent dinner former President Trump had with two virulent antisemites, the Associated Press article published in The Times played into his hands. It said, “Former President Trump has again turned a blind eye to bigotry by dining with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and Kanye West just days into a third campaign for the White House.”No, Trump knew exactly what he was doing, as he has for the last six years. He has given multiple winks, nods and dog whistles to white…