The only criticism you can make of it is that maybe Donohue shouldn't have concentrated only on secular Jews. As Buckley says, there are other secularists as well who regularly attack Catholicism and Christianity generally.
But when it came to attacking the passion, there's no question that the ADL and secular Jews were in the forefront, and that influential secular Jews in Hollywood chipped in. Donohue was accurate.
After all, the particular crime they charged Mel Gibson with was antisemitism. They even made a point of going after his aged father for questioning the Holocaust. I would guess that Mel's father is probably senile, and in any case is entitled to his private opinions which never would have been made public if not for the treachery of the interviwer, and which have zero, zip, nada to do with "The Passion."
Since you bring him up, he is at best a Holocaust Revisionist. He may be tending toward senility now but was not when he was in his prime articulating his evil viewpoints. His opinions were not private. He published them.
Great comment...the truth hurts...even criticism about one's personal truth is painful (whether such faith is Christian or Jewish).
Mel's Passion hit a nerve for Christians too. Buckets of tear have been shed by believers who found they were not as faithful as they now find they could have been.
And regarding Mel's father...we all have 'em...they seldom behave the way we want...we love them...but struggle with what they might say...
But when it came to attacking the passion, there's no question that the ADL and secular Jews were in the forefront, and that influential secular Jews in Hollywood chipped in. Donohue was accurate.
Good eye. Their offensive game may have been secular, but their defense was definitely Jewish, and I'm saying that as an unabashed zionist.
That's exactly my beef with this guy.