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ADL'S ABE FOXMAN ALREADY WHINING ABOUT MEL GIBSON'S PLANS FOR MACCABEE MOVIE
Examiner.com
Sept 9 2011
During his 24 well-compensated years as head of the so-called
Anti-Defamation League (in 2009, more than $560,000 ... by far the
highest salary of anyone at the head of a Jewish charity organization),
Abraham Foxman has not made it a priority to convince any of his many
rich and left-wing Hollywood allies to produce a movie about the
story of the Maccabees. Nevertheless, that has not stopped Foxman
from defaming Mel Gibson's plans to make a movie about the life of
Judah Maccabee, a Jewish hero of the revolt against the Syrian-Greeks
which led to the holiday of Hanukkah.
Earlier today, Foxman whined to The Hollywood Reporter: "Judah Maccabee
deserves better. He is a hero of the Jewish people and a universal
hero in the struggle for religious liberty. It would be a travesty
to have his story told by one who has no respect and sensitivity for
other people's religious views."
Advertisement Foxman of course does not limit his monitoring to who
does and does not get to make Jewish-themed movies. He was ongoingly
ostentatiously outraged in 2004 when Gibson, who is Catholic,
produced The Passion of the Christ. Given Foxman's obsessive emphasis
on fundraising and the ADL's financial base of leftist, secular,
anti-Christian Jews, his motives were transparent. According to The
Hollywood Reporter: "In the lead-up to Passion's release, Foxman
could be found on numerous talk and news programs slamming the drama."
The Book of Maccabees is part of the official Catholic liturgy,
but it is not actually part of official Jewish liturgy.
Defaming Christians without basis (and exploiting such
defamation via oh-so-urgent fundraising drives) is nothing new
for not-observantly-Jewish Foxman. Last year, Foxman had to send a
letter of apology to Glenn Beck after the so-called Anti-Defamation
League sent out a fundraising-pitch letter around the country which,
as Foxman wrote in his apology, "misidentified [Beck] on a list of
celebrities who had made anti-Semitic statements over the past year,"
Gibson's screenwriter for the project is Joe Eszterhas, who wrote
the Jewish-themed movies Betrayed and Music Box.
Some Jewish New Yorkers have reacted negatively to Foxman's latest
defamatory attempt to create and exploit a controversy.
Daniel Friedman of the Upper East Side sent out an e-mail with a quote
from a much-maligned recent Foxman op-ed which said: "The threat of the
infiltration of Sharia, or Islamic law, into the American court system
is one of the more pernicious conspiracy theories to gain traction in
our country in recent years." With the Foxman quote, Friedman added the
message: "This is not a politically motivated email. I sent it for the
benefit of anyone who's still confused about the meaning of 'shmuck.'"
Manhattan attorney Kevin Helteberg said: "It's a sad state of affairs
indeed that, when it comes to standing up for the Jewish people,
I have more faith in Mel Gibson than in Abraham Foxman."
Helteberg added: "Mel Gibson may have made an anti-Semitic rant or
two, but at least, unlike Foxman, he isn't doing everything he can -
make no mistake about it - to support an anti-Semitic President who
is facilitating the nuclear annihilation of Israel. so he has that
going for him, which is nice."
In the past, Gibson and Foxman have found themselves on different
sides of the issue of the 1915 Turkish Muslim genocide of Armenian
Christians. In 2009, Gibson was forced, after extensive pressure from
Turkish groups, to abandon his plans to develop a movie version of The
Forty Days of Musa Dagh; Musa Dagh is an epic novel by Austrian-Jewish
Franz Werfel about Armenian Christian resistance to the attempt
by Turkish Muslims to exterminate them. In 2005, led by Foxman,
the ADL gave Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan something
called the "Courage To Care Award." In 2007, the ADL fired its New
England regional director after he had the audacity to suggest that the
extermination of up to 1.5 million Armenian Christians in the Ottoman
Empire during World War I should be acknowledged as a "genocide."
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Examiner.com
Sept 9 2011
During his 24 well-compensated years as head of the so-called
Anti-Defamation League (in 2009, more than $560,000 ... by far the
highest salary of anyone at the head of a Jewish charity organization),
Abraham Foxman has not made it a priority to convince any of his many
rich and left-wing Hollywood allies to produce a movie about the
story of the Maccabees. Nevertheless, that has not stopped Foxman
from defaming Mel Gibson's plans to make a movie about the life of
Judah Maccabee, a Jewish hero of the revolt against the Syrian-Greeks
which led to the holiday of Hanukkah.
Earlier today, Foxman whined to The Hollywood Reporter: "Judah Maccabee
deserves better. He is a hero of the Jewish people and a universal
hero in the struggle for religious liberty. It would be a travesty
to have his story told by one who has no respect and sensitivity for
other people's religious views."
Advertisement Foxman of course does not limit his monitoring to who
does and does not get to make Jewish-themed movies. He was ongoingly
ostentatiously outraged in 2004 when Gibson, who is Catholic,
produced The Passion of the Christ. Given Foxman's obsessive emphasis
on fundraising and the ADL's financial base of leftist, secular,
anti-Christian Jews, his motives were transparent. According to The
Hollywood Reporter: "In the lead-up to Passion's release, Foxman
could be found on numerous talk and news programs slamming the drama."
The Book of Maccabees is part of the official Catholic liturgy,
but it is not actually part of official Jewish liturgy.
Defaming Christians without basis (and exploiting such
defamation via oh-so-urgent fundraising drives) is nothing new
for not-observantly-Jewish Foxman. Last year, Foxman had to send a
letter of apology to Glenn Beck after the so-called Anti-Defamation
League sent out a fundraising-pitch letter around the country which,
as Foxman wrote in his apology, "misidentified [Beck] on a list of
celebrities who had made anti-Semitic statements over the past year,"
Gibson's screenwriter for the project is Joe Eszterhas, who wrote
the Jewish-themed movies Betrayed and Music Box.
Some Jewish New Yorkers have reacted negatively to Foxman's latest
defamatory attempt to create and exploit a controversy.
Daniel Friedman of the Upper East Side sent out an e-mail with a quote
from a much-maligned recent Foxman op-ed which said: "The threat of the
infiltration of Sharia, or Islamic law, into the American court system
is one of the more pernicious conspiracy theories to gain traction in
our country in recent years." With the Foxman quote, Friedman added the
message: "This is not a politically motivated email. I sent it for the
benefit of anyone who's still confused about the meaning of 'shmuck.'"
Manhattan attorney Kevin Helteberg said: "It's a sad state of affairs
indeed that, when it comes to standing up for the Jewish people,
I have more faith in Mel Gibson than in Abraham Foxman."
Helteberg added: "Mel Gibson may have made an anti-Semitic rant or
two, but at least, unlike Foxman, he isn't doing everything he can -
make no mistake about it - to support an anti-Semitic President who
is facilitating the nuclear annihilation of Israel. so he has that
going for him, which is nice."
In the past, Gibson and Foxman have found themselves on different
sides of the issue of the 1915 Turkish Muslim genocide of Armenian
Christians. In 2009, Gibson was forced, after extensive pressure from
Turkish groups, to abandon his plans to develop a movie version of The
Forty Days of Musa Dagh; Musa Dagh is an epic novel by Austrian-Jewish
Franz Werfel about Armenian Christian resistance to the attempt
by Turkish Muslims to exterminate them. In 2005, led by Foxman,
the ADL gave Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan something
called the "Courage To Care Award." In 2007, the ADL fired its New
England regional director after he had the audacity to suggest that the
extermination of up to 1.5 million Armenian Christians in the Ottoman
Empire during World War I should be acknowledged as a "genocide."
http://www.examiner.com/ny-in-new-york/adl-s-abe-foxman-already-whining-about-mel-gibson-s-plans-for-maccabee-movie