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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/23/movies/23PASS.html?hp
Two Jewish Leaders Upset After Viewing Mel Gibson's "Passion"
(New York Times) Randy Kennedy - Two prominent Jewish leaders said Thursday that they had watched recent versions of Mel Gibson's unreleased movie "The Passion of the Christ" and found it anti-Semitic and incendiary in the way it depicted the role of the Jews in Jesus's death. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, and Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League in New York, said they were angered and saddened that Gibson, despite his insistence that the movie is not anti-Semitic, had included many scenes that place the blame for the Crucifixion squarely on the Jews, not the Romans.