True, the Jewish authorities and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ;(13) still, what happened in His passion cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today. Although the Church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures. All should see to it, then, that in catechetical work or in the preaching of the word of God they do not teach anything that does not conform to the truth of the Gospel and the spirit of Christ.
Foxman disclaims that he is calling Gibson anti-Semitic, but he is saying that the mere presentation of the Gospel story, in which certain individual Jews of the time of Jesus lobbied to condemn him to death, incites anti-Semitism and that it is contrary to Catholic teaching of Nostra Aetate. That is simply false. It is important that people do not hold Jews collectively responsible for Jesus' death, except in the general sense that Jesus died for the sins of all of sinful humanity. However, that is a separate issue from the Gospel story. If you are arguing that the Jewish establishment did not lobby to put Jesus to death, I submit that all historical evidence is to the contrary. Foxman shoots way wide of the mark by trying to say that mere presentation of historical fact and the Gospel story itself incites anti-Semitism.