Listen, I understand that you found The Passion of the Christ stirring and meaningful. But there’s really no way around this one. The guy got drunk and began abusing a Malibu cop — a job category that vies with Shiite sheikh for perhaps the least likely to be held by a Jew — for potential Membership in the Tribe, then starts ranting about how Jews are the source of all the world’s problems. You just have to give in and accept this one. He’s an anti-Semite, and with that knowledge, you may have to revisit the controversy over his treatment of Jewish authorities in The Passion and, no matter how moved you were by its depiction of Christ’s agony, understand that the criticisms weren’t pulled out of thin air. The guy has a serious problem with Jews. And to answer Jonah’s questioner from below, the world will do just fine without a Mel Gibson Holocaust miniseries, thank you very much.

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John Podhoretz is the editor of Commentary.
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