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    Michael Douglas » says his 14-year-old son, Dylan was the
victim of an anti-Semitic attack while his family was on
vacation in Europe last year.



The 70-year-old actor revealed the shocking news in an Op-
Ed piece in the Los Angeles Times » (published March 15),
explaining how he told his child: "Dylan, you just had your
first taste of anti-Semitism."
Douglas wrote that his son was left in tears after been
harassed at a hotel pool by a strange man who saw him
wearing a Star of David necklace ( a Jewish symbolic
medal).
He wrote: "I had an awful realization of what might have
caused the man's outrage... 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.'"
Although the Oscar winner wasn't raised a Jew (his dad, Kirk
Douglas was a Jew but his mom, Diana wasn't), Michael
says his son picked interest in Judaism » so he was forced
to raise him so.
He told of the first time he had to defend his faith, when a
high school friend casually commented: "all Jews cheat in
business... Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that
goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger".
However, he isn't content to just accept such circumstances,
commenting that he hopes his son will never have to teach
his children about it the way he just had to.
He issued a call to action for people to fight back against
such feelings of hate, saying: "So that is our challenge in
2015, and 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.