Those films stood as indictments against our society and everything wrong with it...at least as far as liberals were concerned. To them, when religion is thrown into the mix, it becomes a different issue. Socialists/Communists cannot let religion get in the way of "progress". Hence we end up with nonsense like no prayer in school, no God in the Pledge, no Jesus in the movies.
Mao Tse Tung and his buddies had to have a Culture Revolution in China before their control was complete. To liberals, secularism is only the beginning...and as we all know, the liberal credo is, "The end justifies the means". In this case they find fault with Gibson's movie because it's "anti-Semitic" or "too violent". They use these excuses because saying it's too "Jesus" would be exceedingly blatant. But we know what they mean.
To the Jews complaining, what they'd really like to say is, "We didn't believe he was the Messiah then and we don't believe he's the Messiah now." But that would be politically incorrect. So they play the tried and true "anti-Semitic" card. But it's just a mask to hide what they really think.
You need to add "And don't you believe it either..."