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I have a question to ask since I hear the word Anti-Semite thrown around especially since The Passion has been in the making..
So what is an Anti-Semite? You don't like the Jewish people because they deny Jesus Christ? (But them some Jews do so then what?)

You don't like Jews because you think there religion is wrong? (Well then you cannot be a Christian because your faith derived from Judiasm)

You don't like the Jews because you beleived they killed the Messiah? (Well even though they did not, if they did not want his death and Jesus lived, Christianity would of never evolved?)

So then who gets branded with this term: Anti-Semite in year 2004?

Are you hating a people because of there faith? because of there success? because of there what?????

Or in today's world does every ethnicity have a brand?
I hear people say The Irish are Drunks, The Italians are Organized criminals, The Blacks well we all know what everyone has said about them from day one, The Indians are dumb the list goes on and on....

It seems to convienent now a days to play this race card that has seemed to snowball since the OJ Trial...

People in general are good but all races and all faiths have there share of bonified jerks...

One day we will all live in a world where there will be no race, no religion, a world where we are all as one, some people proably hate that thought because then they would have nothing to gripe and complain about...

See if "Liz" gives you a good answer about what constitutes anti Semitism. My bet is she doesn't care and won't bother.

Labeling a person an anti-Semite is not a charge one should make loosely.

The man who famously heads the Anti-Defamation League which defends Jews against anti-Semites----Abe Foxman---- was fined $10.5 million dollars for falsely accusing a Colorado couple of being anti-Semites.

Just as an interesting aside, the falsely accused couple had worked in Hollywood before moving to Colorado.

Although Mr Foxman is in the forefront of groups upset by Gibson's film, to Foxman's credit, I do not believe he has accused anyone connected with the film of being an anti-Semite.

In a TV interview I saw, Foxman said he did not think the film itself was anti-Semitic, either.

antisemitism--

Used to be a Grievance Franchise of the left--any observation that had the word "Jew" in it was open for offense. Gentiles were not supposed to notice that Jews were highly successful, for their small numbers, in a free society. Even praising the Jew was suspect. Evangelicals are particularly suspect because they are more literate than the average American in ancient Judaic history--even enjoy and celebrate some Jewish rituals. That used to be antisemitism, too--"cultural genocide."

These days, it is with a kind of bitter irony that I see the leftwing seculars turn against the Jews that were their political allies for most of the last century. The Baptist/Catholic goy is now the only rational supporter of the Jew and Israel, which causes the liberal Jew no end of angst--to see those he held in resentful contempt and as political adversary actually the last of his allies.

Europe will lead the way in pogroms in our lifetime--only they have few Jews left to murder this time around. The liberal allies of Euro-thinking in the US will likely have increasingly vociferous accusations to make against Israel, in the name of those poor Palestinians. But the activist Jews in the traditional orgs like ADL will see Mel Gibson as the greater threat--for his temerity in applying his faith to a movie that contains Jewish characters.

The Conservative Christian will continue to try to support Israel and Judaism--but will still be derided by the liberal Jew as an antisemite.

It is all very confusing, unless you read the Bible.

Gee, just Imagine. "...no religion, too...and the World will be as one."

John Lennon was ripping off Karl Marx and Yoko Ono when he wrote that trash.

History has shown quite effectively how much blood ends up in the ground when those ideas come to fruition.