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Thread ID: 9225 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-08-23
2003-08-23 01:37 | User Profile
The following extracted from The Spectator.
The piece actually makes the ADL and its acolytes sound like a bunch of carping whingers, funny that.
[url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-08-23&id=3427]http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?ta...3-08-23&id=3427[/url]
*To counter the charges of anti-Semitism, Gibson initiated a series of private screenings of a rough cut over the past month. The film was shown to religious leaders, journalists and critics ââ¬â some of them Jewish ââ¬â in New York, Washington, DC, Dallas, Houston and Philadelphia. ...
At the end of the film there was exhausted silence in the small screening-room. The Passion had inspired strong reaction. Not all the comments were positive. Gibson listened keenly to what we had to say. One viewer suggested a scriptural postscript to lessen the possibility that the movie might be misunderstood by Jewish audiences.* ** No one at the screening found anything remotely anti-Semitic in the film, however. Jack Valenti, president of the AAMAS, announced, ââ¬ËI donââ¬â¢t see what the problem is all aboutââ¬â¢, and congratulated Gibson for making a great film. **
*But others ââ¬â among them overwrought ecumenists and conspiracy theorists ââ¬â continued, and continue, to see problems. On 8 August The Passion went to Houston. The host of the screening, at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, was a member of a prominent Catholic family. He invited a number of Jewish leaders to attend. One of them was Rabbi Eugene Korn of the Anti-Defamation League in New York City, a man who had already made a number of charges against the film and its producer/director.
A few days later Korn issued a scathing press release. Among his observations was that ââ¬Ëthe film relies on sinister mediaeval stereotypes, portraying Jews as bloodthirsty, sadistic and money-hungry enemies of God who lack compassion and humanityââ¬â¢.
In another press release the ADL national director, Abraham H. Foxman, who had also seen the film, declared, ââ¬ËThe film unambiguously portrays Jewish authorities and the Jewish mob as the ones responsible for the decision to crucify Jesus. We are deeply concerned that the film, if released in its present form, will fuel the hatred, bigotry and anti-Semitism that many responsible Churches have worked hard to repudiate.ââ¬â¢ *
2003-08-23 01:47 | User Profile
Will the Gibson's film take the blame off the Chirst-killers? Perhaps it's going to be "good for the Jews", after they make it "semitically-correct".
2003-08-23 01:53 | User Profile
*Originally posted by madrussian@Aug 22 2003, 19:47 * ** Will the Gibson's film take the blame off the Chirst-killers? Perhaps it's going to be "good for the Jews", after they make it "semitically-correct". **
Yeah I like how it's perfectly ok to make movies with anti-Slavic(usually anti-Russian and/or anti-Serb) themes but its totally taboo to protray a Jew anywhere negatively. Honestly, have you ever seen Russian protrayed in hollywood films as anything but incompetent drunks and whose women are all whore who love to sleeep w/Americans? Or Serbs anything but mass-murderers? Well maybe "Savior" but that's because it directed by a Serb, not hollywood.
Or even that episode of "King of the Hill" where that fat boy makes the joke, "In America you put 'In god we trust' on your money. In Russia, we have no money". Then some stupid Laotian f*ck laughs in his stupid voice "Haha that's very funny. I hate Russia." So much for ethnic tolerance on tv. :thd:
Yolkie Palki! :angry: