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friedrich braun [OP]

2003-08-01 19:52 | User Profile

Copyright © 2002 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com Frank Rich: The gospel according to Gibson
Frank Rich NYT Friday, August 1, 2003

NEW YORK "The Jews didn’t kill Christ," my stepfather was fond of saying. "They just worried him to death." Nonetheless, there was palpable relief in my Jewish household when the Vatican officially absolved us of the crime in 1965. At the very least, that meant we could go back to fighting among ourselves.

These days American Jews don’t have to fret too much about the charge of deicide — or didn’t, until Mel Gibson started directing a privately financed movie called "The Passion," about Jesus’ final 12 hours. Why worry now? The star himself has invited us to. Asked by Bill O’Reilly in January if his movie might upset ‘‘any Jewish people,’’ Gibson responded: "It may. It’s not meant to. I think it’s meant to just tell the truth."

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...that Jews were presented as ‘‘bloodthirsty, vengeful and money-hungry,’’ [i.e., accurately] reported The Jewish Week, which broke the story of the scholars’ report in June.

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Lewis Wetzel

2003-08-01 20:54 | User Profile

The latest issue of American Conservative has a good article about the brouhaha. And apparently the Jew - sorry, I mean the New Republic has a hatchet job that provoked the AC article. It seems that Gibson's movie is guilty of following the Gospels too closely. Much modern "theology" has, in the spirit of ecumenicism, decided the New Testament is propaganda designed to placate Rome and blame Jews. Gibson followed the Bible rather than this deconstruction of it, so of course his movie is "anti-Semitic."