[joesnuffy]

ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN is the Jesse Jackson of Jews

IMO

[Mo1]

Does this guy realize that Jesus was a Jew??

To hate all Jews .. we would also have to hate Jesus

All Gibson did was retell the story of Jesus' last days and his death

[goldstategop]

I just read Michael Medved's autobiography Right Turns from start to finish. What an amazing guy. He used to be on the Left, then moved to the Right. First time he voted Republican was for Ronald Reagan. He met him along with David Horowitz of Frontpage.com fame in 1986. He points out that Hollywood which is filled with secular liberals both propagates negative stereotypes of Christianity while looking in dread at films with a positive depiction of Christian life like in Mel Gibson's The Passion. I think if Mel knew what it was really about, he would never have put himself through the grief. It was never about anti-semitism; the movie was a really a full-press body slam against non-judgmentalism and moral relativism. And since those are things liberals hold dear, its no surprise they ultimately reacted as they did.

[rcocean]

Sorry,

Jews+Passion of the Christ = Boring.

Who cares what CERTAIN jews (ie. a small and extreme minority of the jewish community) think of POC? It's earned $1 billion dollars.

The whole reaction of CERTAIN jews (ie. a small and extreme minority of the jewish community) to this movie was frankly insane. After a while, talking about mental illness is frankly a little tiresome.

[dennisw]

How special. Just in time for the Christmas holidays.You signed up today just to post this. To vent all about "Passion" and Jews for the umpteenth time. Did you get your rocks off?

[Dataman]

Also, Rabbi Boteach needs to stop being such a hypocrite.

He really gets angry, doesn't he? Even the fakers on professional wrestling don't get that mad. If he were a few decades younger, his school would almost certainly prescribe Ritalin.

[veronica]

Please don't censor this message - i would like to have an honest discussion on this...

Sure you would.

The honest truth is that many people thought that The Passion was a flawed movie, to say the least. Among those people were Christopher Hitchens, the movie critic at The Christian Science Monitor, and other critics.

But in the end the movie was enjoyed by many, disliked by some but had no grand effect on anything in the culture. It didn't raise the level of anti-semitism, though it was a subject anti-semites used to try and incite others.

Mel Gibson made a lot of money from the movie and the marketing, and that's what Hollywood is all about.

People have a right to like or dislike any movie. That's about it.

[XJarhead]

I suppose Foxman would have been better pleased if the residents of that part of the world had looked more icelandic so as not to play into stereotypes.

I've heard Gibson explain this a million times. The people who did some of the nasty deeds in the movie were not nasty because they were jewish. They were nasty people who happened to be jewish because that's the part of the world into which Jesus was born. If he'd been born in Africa, Scandinavia, or Korea, he'd have been treated exactly the same.

I've never understood the anti-Semites who blame "jews" for the death of Jesus. Jesus' persecutors must be representative of all mankind for his forgiveness to have any relevance to the rest of us. When he asked God to forgive "them", I don't think he was just speaking for the particular jews and Romans who played a role in his death. He was speaking for all of us.

[veronica]

Some Jews need to learn to respect the Christian faith.

Some anti-semites need to get a life and stop whining about Jews.

[shrinkermd]

The nonobservant Jew has only antisemitism to act as a rallying point. Without antisemitism the nonobservant Jew has no core value to delineate him from the rest of society.

[karenbarinka]

I've given up expecting decency or even sanity from members of a religion that sanctions the extermination of innocent, unborn children.

As they continue to cry wolf over imagined threats and grievances, they are contracepting and aborting themselves out of existence.