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Orchestrated outrage: it is the fabricated furor over Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ, not the film itself, that threatens to undermine relations between American Christians and Jews.(Culture War)
"For almost 2,000 years in Western civilization, four words legitimized, rationalized, and fueled anti-Semitism: 'The Jews killed Christ,'" claimed Abraham Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), in a February 6 speech in Palm Beach concerning the new film The Passion of the Christ. The unmistakable thrust of Foxman's address was that because Christianity is innately anti-Semitic, Mel Gibson's film could activate the latent anti-Semitism the ADL insists can be found everywhere--including the United States.
"For hundreds of years those four words--acted out, spoken out, sermonized out--inspired and legitimized pogroms, inquisitions and expulsions," ...
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