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Question: Is the "The Passion of the Christ" directed by Mel Gibson an Antisamitic movie!?
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Some political and religous Jewish leader wanted to ban it, cause it is antisamite!.
One of these is the controversial leader of the Anti-Defamation League Abraham Foxman!. He said that the Passio is: "One of the most troublesome texts, relative to anti-Semitic potential, that any of us had seen in twenty-five years!. It must be emphasized that the main storyline presented Jesus as having been relentlessly pursued by an evil cabal of Jews, headed by the high priest Caiaphas, who finally blackmailed a weak-kneed Pilate into putting Jesus to death!. This is precisely the storyline that fueled centuries of anti-Semitism within Christian societies!. This is also a storyline rejected by the Roman Catholic Church at Vatican II in its document Nostra Aetate, and by nearly all mainline Protestant churches in parallel documents !. !. !. !. Unless this basic storyline has been altered by Mr!. Gibson, a fringe Catholic who is building his own church in the Los Angeles area and who apparently accepts neither the teachings of Vatican II nor modern biblical scholarship, The Passion of the Christ retains a real potential for undermining the repudiation of classical Christian anti-Semitism by the churches in the last forty years!."

In the New Republic, Leon Wieseltier said: "In its representation of its Jewish characters, The Passion of the Christ is without any doubt an anti-Semitic movie, and anybody who says otherwise knows nothing, or chooses to know nothing, about the visual history of anti-Semitism, in art and in film!. What is so shocking about Gibson's Jews is how unreconstructed they are in their stereotypical appearances and actions!. These are not merely anti-Semitic images; these are classically anti-Semitic images!."


The controversial leader of the Anti-Defamation League Abraham Foxman said about Gibson: "In his heyday, he was No!. 1 in Hollywood, the most sought-after star, the people’s choice, the icon!. Then he revealed himself as an anti-Semite, and look where he is today!. That’s the beauty of America!."[13] Foxman has continued to condemn Gibson for The Passion of the Christ, saying in 2008, "What he was doing was giving credibility, on film, in our lifetime, to deicide!. Where is Mel Gibson today!? He did his movie, and one day he revealed himself to the American people!. He's no icon anymore!."Www@QuestionHome@Com

Wow, you are a person who likes living dangerously!. What a question, you will have every Jew up and dancing like Topol all over Mel Gibson's movie graveyard!.

To begin with, the Jews control the media and just about everything that has any say anywhere and all of the propaganda will be negative Gibson mainly because the Jews now have the power and will not tolerate any talk against their ways!.

Most of those in power have taken typically English or Irish names [like Murdock] to cover their background and who can blame them for that!.

Gibson's Passion tells the story of Christ as all Christians have been taught it since the day it happened!. This goes for every Christian Church everywhere, even the Catholics who prefer not to anger those who can cause them financial distress!. I cannot see why a jewish cop made such a big thing out of all this unless he was being paid extra to ruin the career of a man who obviously erred, not in what he said, but in trusting a Jewish cop to keep a private conversation to himself!.

Since the death of Christ all Christians have been anti-Semite, so too are the dispossessed Palestinians and the ghosts of all the tribes that the Semites destroyed when taking the lands around Sinai for themselves!. Only the Palestinians survived, probably by weight of numbers!.

What we have now, is a group of zealots who cannot turn the other cheek when they are talked about!. It is sad that they seek to change beliefs that are inate within all Christian circles!.

Like most humans, there are hypocrites within the Jewish community and they are beginning to do and say things exactly like the Nazi's did in the early 1930's!. Some people say that Gibson made the Jews in his Passion look stereotypical!. The problem for Gibson was simple, the zealots among them are exactly as they were 2000 years ago!.

In regard to Gibson himself, he has assured himself of everlasting fame, for as long as Jews and Christians exist, he will be there with his Passion, long after his critics are dead and gone, his memory and his passion will endure and will go on being significant of Christian beliefs!.I see that Foxman has been mentioned in another of your answers, that man is making statements without putting his brain into gear and well we all know it!. He knows that Gibson will endure as long as the Passion does!. What is he going to do, have a big bonfire night and "burn the books"!? By the way, I am an agnostic and feel nothing about either group but I will say that those who are making comment are obviously not believers in the freedom of speech!.
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I put off seeing the movie because I had heard a lot of criticism from both the Jewish community and Christians!. When I did finally watch it, I thought it was a very good movie!. I am no Bible scholar, but the movie seemed to fit the stories I remember from childhood Sunday School!. Like most controversial movies or books, there is always some one or some group that is offended!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

well i believe the Movie showed how the Jewish clergy were afraid of Christ and wanted him dead if that is anti Semitic Fine the truth often hurts but the truth never hurts the Teller of the truth

Mel Gibson Is a Multi Millionair are you who give him a thumbs down

At Least he had the Guts to make the movie nearly as good as Braveheart

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no its not cause arabs are semitic people too, i think people forget that or arent taught that in schools, to be anti semitic, one must be anti anything thats semitic such as arabs and jews!. and its based on truth so no its not, what are the jews a protected species, we arent allowed to make moves about them Www@QuestionHome@Com

Clarify that question please!. HOw do you get anti Semitic movie out of a story about a Jewish guy(Jesus) anyway, isn't this really old news!?Www@QuestionHome@Com