Anne Frank Center wants Tim Allen apology on Germany remark
‘Home Improvement’ star draws fire for comparing being a conservative in Hollywood to Nazi Germany
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LOS ANGELES — The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect called on Tim Allen to apologize for comparing the experience of being a conservative in Hollywood to living in Germany in the 1930s.
Allen made the comments on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” last week while discussing his attendance at US President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Of Hollywood, Allen said “you’ve got to be real careful around here or you’ll get beat up.” He added, “If you don’t believe what everybody believes, this is like thirties Germany.”
In a statement, Anne Frank Center executive director Steven Goldstein called on Allen to “apologize to the Jewish people.” He told Allen that “no one in Hollywood today is subjecting you or anyone else to what the Nazis imposed on Jews in the 1930s — the world’s most evil program of dehumanization, imprisonment and mass brutality, implemented by an entire national government, as the prelude for the genocide of nearly an entire people.”
On its Facebook page, the Anne Frank Center said that it received a number of anti-Semitic emails from Allen fans after calling on the actor to apologize, which it called the “consequence of [Allen’s] comparing Hollywood with Nazi Germany.”
Allen’s representative didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
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