Mel has caved to what his contemporaries think, looks like it.
Still, hollywood is antisemitic...and that is still not illegal..or news.
Yeah, I had always thought of him as a conservative leaning person (surface impression)...hard to tell really, unless you sit down and have a couple of beers (ha!!) with him. He might just be spouting the Hollywood polical BS to generate buzz for "Apocalypto".