Steven Spielberg Rails Against Anti-Semitism &”History Repeating Itself” At Stirring USC Shoah Foundation Ceremony

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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” said Steven Spielberg today. “I am increasingly alarmed that we may be condemned to repeat history–to once again have to fight for the very right to be Jewish,” the Schindler’s List director added at an event Monday celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Spielberg founded Shoah Foundation. “In the face of brutality and persecution, we have always been a resilient and compassionate people who understand the power of empathy,” Spielberg added to a full USC ballroom, including over 30 Holocaust survivors. “We can rage against the heinous acts committed by the terrorists of October 7th and also decry the killing of innocent women and children in Gaza.” Read Steven Spielberg’s full remarks below. Receiving USC’s University Medallion at the packed lunch Monday, the Oscar winner’s poignant comments come as friction in the Middle East took another turn.

Just hours before the Shoah Foundation event in LA, the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.

As President Joe Biden and others in the administration have increasingly called for Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to take a more circumspect response amidst a humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian region, the US today abstained at the UN, allowing the ceasefire vote to succeed. “A ceasefire could have come about months ago if Hamas had been willing to release hostages,” Ambassador  Linda Thomas-Greenfield said after the vote in New York as Netanyahu pulled a scheduled top level meeting set between American and Israeli officials in response. “Any ceasefire must come with the release of all hostages,” the US UN representative went on say, adding the terrorist