Reply #17: AUG 12, 2003: Jewish Group Says Gibson's 'Passion' Will Fuel Hate

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Anti-Defamation League said on Monday an upcoming religious film from actor and director Mel Gibson would lead to hatred of Jews if it is released in its current form.

The film, called "The Passion," is Gibson's depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and events leading up to it. The film has been screened for several groups ahead of its release, and has touched off a firestorm of controversy among organizations and people concerned about anti-Semitism.

Jewish leaders have raised concerns it might portray Jews as collectively guilty for Christ's crucifixion, while Catholics have expressed worries that Gibson might use the film to challenge church teachings.

"The film unambiguously portrays Jewish authorities and the Jewish mob as the ones responsible for the decision to crucify Jesus," Abraham Foxman, the league's national director, said in a statement.

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I definitely can see why Foxman would come to this conclusion, even without having viewed the film, which I do not believe he has yet, nor have any of the Jewish groups. I have a old friend who is Jewish. Years ago we had a conversation. He has a goony sense of humor and he was joking around about how he was ridiculed for being Jewish in his Bronx neighborhood and that for the most part he got along very well with the Italians in the neighbor. I don't remember the conversation, but it led to me asking him why it seemed so many people didn't like Jewish people. He laughed and said it was because they though the Jews killed Jesus. I asked him if he was kidding. He wasn't. It struck me as ridiculous then, it is no less ridulous now. I wish though that before drawing any conclusions on what I have to say about everything PEOPLE WOULD READ MY POSTS and assess them en total because I have become tired by the reverse discrimination and I do not like the implication that criticism of Israeli policy equals anti-Semitism. I do not know if this is your implication, but people are PRETTY TOUCHIE and I am sick of it. IGNORANCE is an equal opportunity employer FOLKS and throwing around indictments based on one post is BULLSHIT.

The fucking film is a joke to me based on this one bit of OBVIOUS inauthencity in GIBSON'S film JESUS once again looks like a SAXON...

That these fucking people think the Jews killed Jesus and they even care about jesus at all is because they believe him to be a SAXON.

JESUS IS NOT A SAXON... I have already contributed a number of posts here regarding this as well as in thread in LBN... I thought I made myself clear on this. It is a fucking movie... it is not the first time the implication was made in a theatrical depiction that the Jewish populace made the call. IT IS IGNORANCE... Roman Authority put Jesus to death...Even if Mel makes this clear in this movie... People will miss the nuance because in a rabid antiSemites mind NOT ONLY did the JEWS KILL JESUS don't yu know THE JEWS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD TOO. I did not make the world the way it is.

I made my position on this clear already now in two threads. People we are in trouble here. This is going to blow up in our faces. With or without this FUCKING MOVIE it promises to blow up in our faces. People are throwing around false accusations left and right. Why? because quite simply put for the most part PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DISAGREE, or their frame a reference needs to be widened, and it is not only here in DU either. anti-this, anti-that, conspiracy this, tinfoil that. It makes me sick. It makes all people intolerable to me. I keep my distance from all people now even those who think they agree with me, or I think I agree with. I'll take an animal over a person any day now. I'll stick to puppies.

Because I guess in the world we are going to have this BIG FIGHT NOW once and for all to figure out IF THE JEWS KILLED THAT WHITE ANGLO SAXON PROTESTANT LOOKING JESUS. And in the meantime, I think it is absurd, most of this bickering is absurd, sorry, although I wish I could, there is nothing I can do about it.