February 22, 2004
SEWING HATRED:
P.R. GURU QUITS OVER 'PASSION' (NY Post, February 12, 2004)
SUSAN Blond - the public relations powerhouse who is also an Orthodox Jew - has quit representing Heeb magazine because she was so offended by a 10-page photo feature mocking Mel Gibson's controversial movie "The Passion of the Christ." Some Jewish leaders have attacked the film, fearing it could foster anti-Semitism for showing the role Jews played in the Crucifixion. Heeb, the hip quarterly dubbed "The New Jew Review," had used Blond to promote its launch in 2002. The magazine's new cover announces "Back Off Braveheart" to tout a photo feature inside called "Crimes of Passion." Editor-in-chief Josh Neuman wasn't very forthcoming in describing the offensive photos: "It's our interpretation of Jesus' final hours. It's what you'd expect from Heeb magazine." But Blond said one photo showed a Jewish prayer shawl being used as Jesus' loincloth and another depicted the Virgin Mary with nipple rings.
Strange we don't see a slew of stories about how Abraham Foxman and the ADL are stirring up anti-Christian hatred, eh? Posted by Orrin Judd at February 22, 2004 8:18 AM
Sad but true fact #1: Christ died at the hands of Roman soldiers.
Sad but true fact #2: Jewish people in Jerusalem insisted upon his crucifixion.
True fact #3: The truth can sometimes come back to bite you in the butt.
Posted by: Bartman at February 22, 2004 9:24 AMI agree that it's utterly, disgustingly and sickenly tasteless.
But nothing a pogrom or two couldn't solve.
Posted by: Barry Meislin at February 22, 2004 9:27 AMSaw an item in the Detroit Free Press today (Mitch Albom's column, I think, but I'm too lazy to retrieve the paper from the recycling bin to find out.)
Mr. Gibson's father is a Holocaust denier of the most virulent kind.
I wonder what Paul Vitz' take on that would be?
Posted by: Jeff Guinn at February 22, 2004 9:59 AMJeff:
that's a surprisingly common response: attributing the sins of the father to the son.
Posted by: oj at February 22, 2004 10:03 AMWe don't believe in guilt by inheritance anymore (well, except where slavery is concerned), so what is the big deal? The people who killed Jesus are long dead and their judgements adjudicated.
Posted by: Robert Duquette at February 22, 2004 11:32 AMBartman:
Sad fact but true: The Gospels record that Jesus, a Jew, was killed at the urgings of a crowd of his own people, mainly over Jewish theological issues.
Sad fact but true: Millions of Christians forgot his origins and came to believe in an historical distortion that saw Him as as outside of that community.
Sad fact but true: A lot of innocent Jewish blood has been spilled over this.
True fact: We are supposed to repent our sins and learn from our mistakes.
OJ:
Perhaps you could re-read what I wrote, and find out just where it is my beliefs intrude, or where I attributed the sins of the father to the son.
Gibson pere's statements are a matter of fact. Mel Gibson has made a film some might construe as being anti-Semitic, and has said nothing about his father's holocaust denial. That is a matter of fact.
Mitch Albom reported, you decide.
He said his father's wrong--what do you want him to do? Disavow the Father, as you have?
Posted by: oj at February 22, 2004 4:29 PMThe truth is that the Jews hold gentiles to a similar blood libel (for the sack of Jerusalem) that they claim we hold for them. This has
persisted within the community for nearly
2000 years.
Do you think there were not a substantial number
of Christians in the holy land in 1948?
Hint, it wasn't the muslims that pushed them out.
Posted by: J.H. at February 23, 2004 9:20 AMThe only guy who is laughing is Mel. All these hysterical Jews have oiled his PR machine and he is poised to rake in a boat load of money. A boat load. See ya sucker!
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at February 23, 2004 11:01 AMPeter B.
Yes, you make a good point. Much blood has been unjustly spilled over the whole issue. However, my point is that fact is fact and that cannot be denied or fluffed over. Remember how "important" it was to see Schindler's List so that we would never forget? Same with The Passion.
Posted by: Bartman at February 23, 2004 2:02 PM