{"id":7559,"date":"2004-04-04T23:05:31","date_gmt":"2004-04-04T23:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/looking_for_anti-semitism_in_all_the_wrong_places.html"},"modified":"2004-04-04T23:05:31","modified_gmt":"2004-04-04T23:05:31","slug":"looking_for_anti-semitism_in_all_the_wrong_places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/looking_for_anti-semitism_in_all_the_wrong_places.html","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Anti-Semitism in All the Wrong Places"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to this OpinionJournal piece, TPOTC is not the place<\/a><\/p>\n

Anti-Semitism is a real problem in the world today, but it mostly arises from the Muslim world and the political left. It’s easy to attack American Christians, schooled on love and forbearance, who will never requite these attacks with any sort of comparable intensity. It takes real bravery to confront the anti-Semitism of militant Islamists and left-wingers who have been inclined to physical violence.<\/p>\n

The Muslim world may well use this Christian film to depict Jews as evil and further their anti-Jewish propaganda. They do so steadily with the fictitious and European-based Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and every week some state-sponsored Egyptian newspaper carries editorial cartoons depicting Jews as apes, devils, Nazis. Last week Reuters reported that ” ‘The Passion of the Christ’ is all the rage among Palestinians, curious about complaints by Jews that it is anti-Semitic.” Likewise in much of Europe, predisposed as it is to Jew-hatred, the movie may stir continued demonization of Jews. <\/p>\n

In contrast, American Christian leaders will continue to use this as an opportunity to show friendship to the Jewish community, ignoring the taunts of Abe Foxman and the vulgarities of Frank Rich. To be sure, even in America there will be occasional incidents of anti-Semitism, as there were before the film, but in a nation of almost 300 million, they will be statistically insignificant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to this OpinionJournal piece, TPOTC is not the place Anti-Semitism is a real problem in the world today, but it mostly arises from the Muslim world and the political left. It’s easy to attack American Christians, schooled on love and forbearance, who will never requite these attacks with any sort of comparable intensity. 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