The Passion and Anti-Semitism, Again

The big news about Mel Gibson's drunken anti-Semitic rant has brought out, again, those who thought The Passion of the Christ anti-Semitic, giving them much pleasure. Well, I still deny that the film itself is anti-Semitic in any meaningful way, no matter what resentments are knocking around in Gibson's psyche. I went back and read what I wrote about it at the time. I stand by it. You can read it here.