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ADL director insists Gibson's 'Passion' fuels anti-Semitism
Washington Times ^ | 3/18/04 | Julia Duin

Posted on 03/17/2004 10:22:44 PM PST by kattracks

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:14:09 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

The national director of the Anti-Defamation League insists Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" fuels violence against Jews, despite recent polls by two Jewish groups suggesting the film is not anti-Semitic.

"This movie has not dissuaded anybody" from anti-Semitism, Abraham Foxman said yesterday. "People still have that point of view."


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adl; juliaduin; thepassion
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To: wardaddy
LOL-LOL-LOL
I was readig your comment
and laughing and nearly
fell off my chair when
I saw that the comments were yours!
You've surprised me.
21 posted on 03/18/2004 3:07:21 AM PST by onyx (Kerry' s a Veteran, but so were Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and Benedict Arnold.)
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To: kattracks
Abe Foxman, how much are you making from the crucifixion of Mel Gibson?
22 posted on 03/18/2004 4:40:08 AM PST by atomicpossum (Fun pics in my profile)
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To: kattracks
Why talk about Foxman --a liberal-- when conservative Jews who enjoy the patronage of conservative Christians (we buy their scribbles) like Himmelfarb, Kraut, Safire-- say the same things?
23 posted on 03/18/2004 5:12:27 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: kattracks
A victim pimp?
24 posted on 03/18/2004 5:21:56 AM PST by jimfree (Neither a browser nor a lurker be.)
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To: thoughtomator
Abe Foxman wants rising anti-semitism and doesn't care if he has to make it himself to get some.

If anti-semitism disapeared one day, what Mr. Foxman would do? What are his job skills?

25 posted on 03/18/2004 5:49:15 AM PST by A. Pole (<SARCASM> The genocide of Albanians was stopped in its tracks before it began.</S>)
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To: kattracks
This nonsense again?! Who elected this clown to anything? And why is his every utterance front page news? And treated with more reverence then religious statement from the Pope?

I never head of him until they started attacking the Passion.
26 posted on 03/18/2004 5:55:52 AM PST by rcocean
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To: thoughtomator
Yep. He's just selling a product by any means necessary.
27 posted on 03/18/2004 5:57:45 AM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: rcocean
He's spewing what the leftist media wants to hear.
28 posted on 03/18/2004 5:58:32 AM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: kattracks
I'm only antisemitic against one person...Abe Foxman.
29 posted on 03/18/2004 6:00:05 AM PST by madison10
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To: ECM
ABE FOXMAN PLEASE SHUT UP!
30 posted on 03/18/2004 6:03:47 AM PST by Alouette (Proudly overpopulating the planet since 1972)
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To: Alouette
Hahahaha...that's a nice way to start the day =)
31 posted on 03/18/2004 6:05:45 AM PST by ECM
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To: kattracks
"This movie has not dissuaded anybody" from anti-Semitism, Abraham Foxman said yesterday. "People still have that point of view."

Notice how the bar has been moved. The lead used to be "this is an anti-Semitic film." Now, it's, "well, the film hasn't changed any minds." Gotta love it.

32 posted on 03/18/2004 6:06:44 AM PST by pettifogger
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To: kattracks
"This movie has not dissuaded anybody" from anti-Semitism, Abraham Foxman said yesterday. "People still have that point of view."

Amazing. Abe just moved the goalposts. Passion now needs to be anti-anti-semetic.

As a result of the ADL's campaign against the movie, Mr. Foxman said his New York office has received "hundreds and hundreds" of anti-Jewish e-mails and letters, and the group's 30 national offices have received reports of Jewish children being called "Christ killers" in school. He declined to say how many actual complaints have been filed with the ADL, only that there are "enough to cause concern. We are still cataloguing them."

Knowing Foxman, if he had actual letters, emails or incidents, they would be heavily publicized. Quite frankly, he's lying.

33 posted on 03/18/2004 6:07:05 AM PST by dirtboy (Howard, we hardly knew ye. Not that we're complaining, mind you...)
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To: per loin
As a Jew, I completely agree, and I'm getting really fed up with him. He has done more to fuel Anti-Semitism than this movie has.

On the ADL's website, there is a place to report Anti-Semitic acts. I propose that FReeper Hebrews should FReep ADL and report Mr. Foxman as an Anti-Semite.

The link is http://www.adl.org/report_antisemitic/asirpt.asp
34 posted on 03/18/2004 6:12:50 AM PST by Guvmint_Cheese (SHEKET B'VAKASHA, ABE!!!! (translated "SHUT THE $#@!#& UP!!!)
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To: kattracks
Abe Foxman has done more to poison relations between the Jewish and Christian communities than anyone I can recall in my lifetime.
35 posted on 03/18/2004 6:14:04 AM PST by katana (John Kerry, Keep Yer Chin Up Big Fella, Makes a Better Target)
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To: Guvmint_Cheese
I propose that FReeper Hebrews should FReep ADL and report Mr. Foxman as an Anti-Semite.

Foxman will list such reports as an increase in hate crimes.

36 posted on 03/18/2004 6:22:36 AM PST by per loin (Ultra Secret News: ADL pays $12M for defaming Colorado couple.)
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To: per loin
Hmmm... You might have a point there. Grrrr....
37 posted on 03/18/2004 6:30:24 AM PST by Guvmint_Cheese (SHEKET B'VAKASHA, ABE!!!! - translated "SHUT THE $#@!#& UP!!!)
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To: onyx
Amen dear.

I think a handful of Xanax bars a day would do wonders for poor Abe.

He might sleep a bit more and drool but think of the reduction in anxiety.
38 posted on 03/18/2004 7:43:50 AM PST by wardaddy (A man better believe in something or he'll fall for anything.)
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