Religion & Beliefs
Mel Gibson Is Tired of Apologizing for Being a Big Ol’ Antisemite
By Jewcy Staff / January 26, 2010
Former Sexiest Man Alive Mel Gibson has gone through somewhat of a life crisis over the last few years. He divorced his longtime wife (and the mother of seven of his children) to knock up an aspiring singer from Russia. He also, perhaps more infamously, got pulled over for drunk driving in 2006 and launched into a tirade that involved antisemitic comments like "the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world" and calling a female police offer "sugartits." Now, with the release of his new movie, Edge of Darkness (his first starring role in almost eight years), he’s back on the press circuit. In an interview in Hello! magazine, Mel says of his anti-Jew comments:
It’s said that I went into a rant, but I think it went on for about five words. I was drunk. It just turned into a big thing. I apologized profusely — not once but three times. So what’s the problem? It’s four years ago. Do I need to apologize again?
Aww, poor Mel. It’s so unfair how those meanie Jews who control the media keep asking if you regret your boneheaded behavior. Life is so hard for you. This is like when the six-year-old older brother gets in trouble for hitting the four-year-old younger brother, and when Mom orders him to apologize he sticks his tongue out and says, "I’m sorry." In that case, the six-year-old at least makes it clear that he doesn’t mean his "apology" and is just doing it because someone made him. You, on the other hand? Not only will you fake-apologize to make other people happy, you will bitch about the audacity of someone expecting you to fake-apologize. But you’ll still ask them to buy tickets to your movies! You know what, Mel? You should just go on with your big old antisemitic self. Own that. Wear it on a T-shirt. And then see if anyone keeps giving you interviews, watching your movies, or giving a shit what you have to say about anything. Go ahead. Start now. We’ll be right here.
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Actually in most Christian churches it doesn’t matter what you wear. Christians are the least judgmental of all. It is just blamed on us all the time. They may have been in the past but it seems now that the tide is changing and it is the Christians who are persecuted and that’s ok, it is the way the Bible says it will be. casino en ligne
I think in 95% of the cases where Jews smear some guy/goy for being an evil, anti Semite – they are being unfair.Â
 And I go with the view that the modern working definition of an "anti Semite" is someone the Jews hate, instead of someone who hates Jews.
But in this case, I think it is clear that Mel Gibson holds strong, classic anti Semite views about THE JEWS.
He gets it from his father – an old believer working class Catholic with the tradition of seeing Jews as the source of anti Catholic, anti Christian programs:
 Marxism
Atheism
Liberalism
Speculative Finance Capitalism – "THOSE G.D. JEWISH BANKERS!"
Then there is the tradition of the Spanish Inquisition, Catholic support for Franco, Hitler, etc.
Old man Gibson is also in to Holocaust Revisionism big time and it is clear that Mel GIbson tries to honor his father in many ways.
So Mel Gibson is anti Semitic. So be it. Jews have had to deal with whole nations inflamed with this stuff – Mel Gibson and his father are just two people.
American Jews should be working with the 99% of Americans who don’t go in to this stuff… and American Jews might also consider "talking" to the big shots at Goldman Sachs – you know the #*$(#@ Jew bankers who speculated on $ trillions of sub prime mortgages in Nevada, off the Coast California then managed to use their insider connections with the Obama administration, Lib Dem Congress to put the whole bill on us tax payers in the financial bail out – "Too Big to Fail".
:-)
 On the plus side, Mel Gibson clearly HATES the English worse than THE JEWS.
Look at Braveheart and The Patriot. Wow, does Mel Gibson hate English people.Â
Jeez…What use is there bringing this up again?..I thought the staff here was intellectually mature and going forward with open eyes?…Now, I’m beginning to wonder…Stop whinning about realities; instead do something about it….Yeah, that may mean to look within as well.
If you were pulled over by a police officer, would you begin a Tirade against the Irish? No. Why? Cause that isn’t in the front part of your brain, being held silent by effort of will. You might call the Police a ‘cossack’ of your people came from Russia, or might call them ‘Nazis’ if that’s how heavy handed you felt they were, but you wouldn’t see them as Irish and attack them as Irish. Because anti-Irish is not part of you.
Anti-Jew is part of Gibson. He’s no doubt one of the rare ‘You killed Chrust’ Catholics. He’s someone who thinks about Jews a lot; with a lot of hatred.
It wasn’t a one off, it wasn’t/isn’t that Jews are thin skinned nor is it in vino veritas..It is that this is the truth for him, has always will always be the truth for him, and one can not apologise for what they really are.
(1) Regarding the blog post itself: Trying to score points against Mel Gibson by citing things that he said when drunk four years ago and for which he has apologized sounds pretty desperate to me. If you want to make a credible case that he is a "big ol’ anti-Semite," present some serious evidence. I don’t disagree with the assertion, but this piece sheds no light on the matter at all.
(2) Regarding this ignorant comment by Kris.Kringle.Jr:
The more "Orthodox" the community is, the moew likely anyone non-jewish will be called "GOYIM", and treated as less than human.
"Goy" is the Hebrew word for "people" or "nation," and by derivation the word for a member of the non-Jewish peoples (the "goyim"), i.e., a gentile (from Latin gens = people or nation). In a much cited phrase in Exodus (19:6), God says to the Israelites that they shall be to him a goy kadosh — a holy people. I don’t think God was calling the Israelites by a bad name.
Do some Jews utter the word "goy" with a derisive tone? Unquestionably — just as some non-Jews utter the word "Jew" with a derisive tone and some non-blacks utter the word "black" with a derisive tone. No more in one instance than in another is the word itself pejorative. Calling a goy a goy is like calling a Jew a Jew: it is ignorance to think the word itself offensive.
Finally, if you are going to throw the word "anti-semitic" around, at least learn how to spell it. It’s "Semitic" (rhymes with "critic"), not "Semetic" (rhymes with "emetic"): from "Semite."
When you’re a marginally talented actor like he is, you’d better at least be hot, and for some reason religious fanatacism and hotness just don’t gel very well. He looks like a crazy hillbilly.
Quote from Kris Kringle: "If someone wears a crucifix into ANY jewish event (omitting jews for Jesus), they care considered anti-semetic and offensive."
I go to a Conservative synagogue, and I see crosses on the necks of spouses and guests all the time, and nobody complains. I’ve never even thought to complain. Since another Jew agreed with you on this point, I guess this is a problem in some quarters. But my own experiences indicate it’s not wide-spread.
The only time I’ve ever seen someone asked to remove a cross was during an interfaith field trip when my class visited a mosque with other Jews from my synagogue and a Reform temple and Christians from a Catholic church. We were told by a Muslim lady we had to remove our stars of David and crucifixes before entering the mosque. It was stupid, but it didn’t make me go to Islamic sites and make nasty generalizations of Muslims.
Your analysis of Jewish people is as bad as your spelling, and your notions are as ugly as the new Mel Gibson.
Unfortunately, as long as Mr. Gibson’s films make money–and there are plenty of anti-semites in the world who will happily see his movies–Hollywood will take full advantage of him. They’ll skewer him behind his back and then hand him a contract to sign.Â
I happen to think you’re right regarding your point #2 (I wrote about that issue, and others, on this site: http://www.jewcy.com/userblog/intolerance_christmas_jerusalem_icebergs_tip#))
However, I really don’t think that you’re on point for the rest of your argument, or disgruntled diatribe, or whatever it is you’re up to. I’m sorry that you did not find a spiritual home in the Judaism you encountered, but that does not grant you the right to speak about Judaism in vague generalities and non-sequiturs. First, you claim the Orthodox are more tolerant, then you claim that they hate Christians. This is silliness, and for you to make the issue larger than Mel Gibson’s comments is to continue the very line of commentary that you’re speaking out against.
 I should have just let sleeping trolls lay. Oh well.Â
I think if you are faced with as much hatred as Mel Gibson was for his comment, that would actually cure your antisemitism. Â Most worldviews are based around satisfying our emotions, so if he has a serious trauma like publicly being degraded, and this trauma is associated, in his mind, with his antisemitic worldview, I don’t doubt that he would try to distance himself from that style of thinking. Nobody is so married to their perception of things that they will endure that kind of punishment.
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Also, I think that his drunkenness probably did play a huge part in him saying that stuff. I know for a fact that he doesn’t actually believe Jews caused all wars, because he directed and acted in the movie "Braveheart", which details a war that is clearly not caused by Jews.
(1) if you wore a tallis in a church, and I am wondering why you would since it is my understanding that it is considered inappropriate to wear it outside of temple serive, you might be asked about it but would be fully welcome.
(2) a small personal crucifix is NOT a "Big Fat Cross"… it is a total lack of respect and total hatred by jews against others to condemm anyone whom wears one.
(3) The person whom needs to move on this the writer of the article. Mel Gibson has apologised multiple times, and has not repeated the comments, yet the issue is never left behind. That was the issue.
(4) I had been looking into conversion, since I had married a jewish wife. and I took the matter seriously. I understand the truth of the jewish faith, and have had many interesting discussions with rabbis. What I have learned was that the amount of Racism and Hatred rampant from jewish circles is virtually un-overcommable. Oddly, the most "accepting" were the "True Orthodox" and the most hate filled happened appears to be tha Chabad movement. In fact the hatred from the jewish circles is what eventually destroyed the marriage.
 If anyone needs to move on, from what I see here, it happens to be the people whom cannot let go of the past. Spreading hatred does not serve Ha’Shem.
Are you Santa Claus? I’m guessing Mr. Santa here is not Jewish. I’m not sure if someone wearing a tallit would be welcome at a Catholic church…A cross is a religious symbol and if the Jewish events you are mentioning are religious Jewish events, I think it would be a lack of respect to walk in with a big fat cross. And anyhow, how does this excuse Mel Gibson’s racist comments? I think YOU need to move on. If you feel like you need to wear a cross, I don’t understand why you want to attend Jewish events in the first place.
I will give you some examples from the other side of the fence:
 If someone wears a jewish star into any christian event no-one has any complaints. If someone wears a crucifix into ANY jewish event (omitting jews for Jesus), they care considered anti-semetic and offensive. Further they are told to "either remove it or leave", regardless to how unbiassed they are.
 The more "Orthodox" the community is, the moew likely anyone non-jewish will be called "GOYIM", and treated as less than human.
Say anything against the Israli position about Palestine, and you are automaticly labelled Anti-semetic.
It’s time for all of this negativity to END! Why can’t the writers here move on. Isn’t there enough hate without digging for more.
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