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I'm not impressed. Christians have been persecuted as well. Right now hundreds of thousands are being slaughtered and enslaved in Sudan. Christians are persecuted in Pakistan, in India. None of this is unusual among peoples of different religions. Why do you imagine Jews are exceptional? Bloody Mary persecuted Protestants; Elizabeth forced Catholics to convert and hounded and executed priests; Lutheran princes slaughtered 130,000 Catholic peasants; rationalists of the French Revolution slaughtered 300,000 Catholics in one region of France alone; Catholics and Protestants have been at each other's throats for centuries in Ireland; Sunnis hate Shiites and vice versa. So what makes you think the Jews were in any way exceptional? Why must Jews make everything--even a film celebrating Christian redemption--be about themselves? And why do Jews like Krauthammer dare to slander Christianity by linking normal historic frictions between peoples of differening faiths to Hitler's demonic psychopathic genocide? That is the true libel, not Gibson's innocent film.

No one says that only Jews have suffered from genocide. Because Jews are frightened by this film because every earlier portrayal just like has wrought slaugher of Jews, and now in America can, thank God, express themselves and try to counter possible evil arising from the film, should not lead people to denounce Jews as a group. Jews are not denouncing Christians. They are warning about a film! That Armenians and Cambodians have been systematically murdered has nothing to do with this movie and what it might incite - the hated of this film would be against Jews, not Cambodians and not Armenians. I'm not aware of Jewish mass murder of Christians. Are you aware that the movie has a line that says that Jews will forever have the blood of Jesus on them and that it has a character call for the eternal punishment of the Jews and that Gibson agreed not to have the line translated in its showings in the U.S.?