As I discuss on this week’s Israellycool Podcast, Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman crawls so far up Steven Spielberg’s tuchus, that he needs a miner’s lamp (kind of like the canary in the coal mine, in fact)
In response to claims that the film may not be historically accurate, Foxman states:
“This is not a documentary and nobody’s pretending it is.”
But the same could be said about The Passion of the Christ, the Mel Gibson movie that he attacked like Ariel Sharon attacking a shwarma (yes, I know I already used that simile here, but I feel it deserves some reuse).
The issue is what is the message of the movie, since movies can really affect people’s perceptions. If the message is one of moral relativism, then is no just bad for Israel, but a bad message for everyone. And Spielberg deserves to be criticized, just like Mel Gibson was.
Update: Real, former Mossad agents have their say about the inaccuracies of the film.
