By ''Anti-Semitism Is Dead'' We Meant ''Anti-Semitism Is Not Dead''
For the last couple of weeks, I have been inclined to agree with some of the less sensitive members of the blogosphere on the potential for Passion sparking an anti-Semitic upsurge. Now, however, without even getting into the (much more probable) argument that the movie will have a negative impact in Europe and the Middle East, I’m beginning to change my mind. There are undeniably troubling signs emerging that the US may also provide very fertile ground for an anti-Semitic outbreak in response to the film (one out of four - that's seriously horrifying!!).
UPDATE: Ha'aretz is somewhat alarmist about the opening of Passion:
It is the darkest accusation the Jewish People has ever faced. And it is coming to a theater near you.
This article has all some of our favorite characters:
Hutton Gibson on the Holocaust:
Hitler "had this deal where he was supposed to make it rough on them so they would all get out and migrate to Israel because they needed people there to fight the Arabs," Hutton Gibson told the Times.
Yasser Arafat on, well, whatever:
"Jesus was a Palestinian," Arafat declared to assembled thousands of Palestinians and Christian pilgrims around the world. He also once wrote the sentence in a message to the Pope.
ANOTHER UPDATE:I keep forgetting to add this quote. This is the Western educated, moderate Basher Assad trying to suck up to the Pope on the Pope's visit to Syria:
They [Israelis and Jews] try to kill all the principles of divine faiths with the same mentality of betraying Jesus Christ and torturing Him, and in the same way that they tried to commit treachery against Prophet Mohammad
Those who figure that Passion must be OK because otherwise the Vatican would have spoken out against it would do well to remember that the Vatican was silent even in response to this explicit accusation of deicide, uttered in the Pope's presence.
UPDATE: Ha'aretz is somewhat alarmist about the opening of Passion:
It is the darkest accusation the Jewish People has ever faced. And it is coming to a theater near you.
This article has all some of our favorite characters:
Hutton Gibson on the Holocaust:
Hitler "had this deal where he was supposed to make it rough on them so they would all get out and migrate to Israel because they needed people there to fight the Arabs," Hutton Gibson told the Times.
Yasser Arafat on, well, whatever:
"Jesus was a Palestinian," Arafat declared to assembled thousands of Palestinians and Christian pilgrims around the world. He also once wrote the sentence in a message to the Pope.
ANOTHER UPDATE:I keep forgetting to add this quote. This is the Western educated, moderate Basher Assad trying to suck up to the Pope on the Pope's visit to Syria:
They [Israelis and Jews] try to kill all the principles of divine faiths with the same mentality of betraying Jesus Christ and torturing Him, and in the same way that they tried to commit treachery against Prophet Mohammad
Those who figure that Passion must be OK because otherwise the Vatican would have spoken out against it would do well to remember that the Vatican was silent even in response to this explicit accusation of deicide, uttered in the Pope's presence.
