Mel Gibson denied that his controversial new movie about the death of Jesus is anti-Semitic. “I’ve shown it to many Jews and they’re like, ‘It’s not anti-Semitic.’ It’s interesting that the people who say it’s anti-Semitic say that before they saw the film, and they said the same thing after they saw the film,” Gibson said Saturday of “The Passion of the Christ.”
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