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Abe Foxman's ADL lost all credit last year with his screeching about the the American pogroms that would ensue if "The Last Temptation of the Christ" were shown in theaters. He threw away the credibility of the ADL, and anything the ADL says now is unfortunately perceived as quite dubious.

Foxman pissed too hard on the evangelical Christians and destroyed his organization's once very strong influence.

I saw Foxman on C-span this morning (missed part of it) and he brought up "The Passion of the Christ"---he said he held no hard feelings for Mel Gibson, but still feels that the movie added to the anti-semitism...

I am not Jewish, so I can't know, but just from what I have seen and read, I thought it was more the other way---that Christians came out of the movie with more of an idea of what happened and why---

I could be wrong, and anyone here on FR, feel free to let me know how I have misread it...ok?

I grew up in NYC in the 50s and early 60s in an Italian and Jewish neighborhood. I abhor anti-Jewish behavior. I have never understood it. But the ADL is full of crap. Perhaps the folks 50 years ago and longer who were Antisemitic were white guys with names like Wentworth Wadsworth III. But today the real antisemitism comes not from rich white people but people of color, many of whom are from the Black nationalist , Black Panther and Nation of Islam. I remember going to NYU in the late 60s. The University let the Panthers on campus. The "poetry" they wrote in their newsletter was frightening. Nobody said anything about it back them for the same reason the ADL is too cowardly to discuss it now. The fastest growing antisemitism in the nation and indeed the world comes from Socialist countries in Western Europe like France, Black Muslims, Black nationalists movements and the UN which is run by all of those afore mentioned groups. The Reason why the Democratic National Committee these last few election years avoids mentioning Israel is they are afraid of insulting their base. Ask yourself how in just one generation the state of Israel went from being the good guy underdog (like David himself) to the Racist, Nazis and war mongers? Look how tolerant we have become when someone who is black (like that race bating hypocrite,Farrakhan)calls the Jewish Religion a gutter religion? You can not even hope to defeat the enemy of Antisemitism unless you are willing to identify the culprit.