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During a July 15 on-line chat hosted by Israel's Haaretz newspaper, Abraham Foxman, chief of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, defended his organization's defamatory campaign against Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ--a campaign that treated Christianity as innately anti-Semitic.
"The showing of The Passion [play] throughout the ages was a precursor for pogroms and persecution and this film would in several months project the passion in its Middle Ages milieu to more people than would have seen or witnessed the passion play for almost 2,000 years," stated Foxman. "We're haunted with the memory and knowledge that Christians slaughtered Jews in Auschwitz from Monday to Friday and would go to church on Sunday and there was no disconnect for they were only killing Christ-killers."
Foxman, as is his habit, pointedly ignored the fact that the National Socialist regime that perpetrated the ...