A man with a pro-Palestine stance approached me and my daughter wearing a Star of David and said, "Free Palestine" and then ran into a store. He didn't threaten us directly, but he was sufficiently emboldened that he felt it necessary to signal his viewpoints. People have to read the signals.
00:00:04.380I've been fortunate enough, knock on wood, to have almost all beautiful and positive interactions with people on the street.
00:00:13.320Only once in the past have I had a threatening interaction.
00:00:17.400Well, earlier today, I was walking in a historically very, very heavy Jewish area.
00:00:24.440I was walking with one of our children and my wife.
00:00:27.500And we're walking on the street, obviously a family thing.
00:00:31.100A guy approaches us, looks at me, then looks at my daughter who is wearing two conspicuous Star of David.
00:00:42.460And as he passes by us to enter a store, he goes, free Palestine.
00:00:47.240And you could see sort of the facial cues that he is exhibiting.
00:00:54.940And then he quickly runs into the place.
00:00:57.500He didn't threaten us directly, but the point that I want to make is, I see every day thousands and thousands of people who are, for example, Muslim.
00:01:12.220They're wearing the hijab, they're wearing this, they're wearing that.
00:01:15.840And I've often critiqued many tenets of Islam.
00:01:20.780Yet I've never had the reflex to approach someone and hound them individually.