Posted on 03/18/2017 4:35:03 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Mel Gibson is doing a mitzvah.
The Hacksaw Ridge director, who made headlines back in 2006 for going on a drunken anti-semitic rant, has been quietly working with a charity that helps Holocaust survivors.
Zane Buzby, the founder of the Survivor Mitzvah Project, recently told Extra that her charity helps “bring emergency aid to Holocaust survivors in Eastern Europe who are in desperate need of food, medicine, heat and shelter and we always bring them friendship and hope...
Gibson quickly responded to the mission of the Survivor Mitzvah Project after the charity approached him to see if he’d like to get involved.
“He has been an avid supporter of this organization for a few years now and doesn’t just write a check...
“He has been to the office and personally learned about the mission and the people helped on an ongoing basis. He’s also helped raise additional funds by getting others involved. Mel feels great compassion for what this organization does. And he doesn’t publicly promote most of his philanthropy but quietly helps out.”
As for the director’s contribution, Buzby said, “Mel Gibson is helping Holocaust survivors in eight countries, it’s remarkable. I have a great respect for people who turn their lives around
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
>I don’t think Nazi evil needs to be heightened.
The left disagrees with you. The monstrosity of the Nazi’s had to be amplified in order to protect the communists who were committing much greater crimes through starvation and overwork. We don’t see any national museums dedicated to the 100 million or so people the Comunists murdered, now do we?
Next time you're in DC you might check out the Victims of Communism Memorial and Foundation. Signed into law by Clinton and dedicated by GWB. You'll also find museums and memorials in eastern Europe. But none of that counts, does it.
“Nobody under the age of 40 gives two sh*ts about anything that happened in WWII. “
They do. You don’t, but wiser people know that to forget history means being doomed to repeat it.
Can’t be too many of them left now. Last chance to help.
BTTT!
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