More duplicity from ADL's Foxman.

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 Holocaust was pagan, not Christian, in its worldview. He similarly ignored the fact that in 1942, Martin Boorman, second in the Nazi hierarchy only to Hitler, issued a memo denouncing all Christian churches and ordered his subordinates to remember that "National Socialist and Christian concepts are incompatible," and declaring that it was the Nazi's ambition to make it "absolutely impossible for the Church to exercise its old influence."

The Passion is among the highest-grossing films of all time. It has not inspired a single reported act of anti-Semitism; in fact, on several occasions individuals who had committed such acts were inspired by the film to own up to their crimes and seek to make restitution. Nonetheless, insists Foxman, "We now worry what the impact will be on teenagers and younger kids who will be viewing this film on DVD at home without the perspective of a debate and a discussion."