During an interview with a European radio station yesterday, Madonna spoke out against rising anti-Semitism in France and throughout Europe.
“It’s like we’re living in a crazy time,” she expressed. “It feels like, you know, Nazi Germany. All of these people … the intolerance, the level of intolerance that’s going on is really scary.”
“France was once a country that accepted people of color,” she explained. “It was once a place that artists escaped to, whether it was Josephine Baker or Charlie Parker or writers, painters, whatever. It was a country that embraced everyone and that encouraged freedom in every way, shape, or form — freedom of expression, artistic freedom, for example.”
“Now, it’s completely gone.”
“It’s not just happening in France, it’s all over Europe, but it’s specifically in France,” she continued. “Anti-Semitism, I think, is at an all-time high, people are becoming, behaving, and reacting in extremely fearful ways, so it’s scary.”
Watch the full interview below.