Since some have asked....
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ysobelleFrom "Forward" (http://forward.com/main/article.php?ref=200402261252 -- though you'd have to register to see it)
... Gibson's controversial father, Hutton Gibson, was sounding a less conciliatory note. On the eve of film's release, he reportedly stated that the Holocaust was a "fiction" and that Jews are conspiring to take over the world. The elder Gibson told one radio interviewer that the Jews are "after one world religion and one world government," and said that someone should "hang" Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. The remarks were condemned by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
So I went there, too.
http://www.wiesenthal.com/social/press/pr_item.cfm?ItemID=8950
February 19, 2004
WIESENTHAL CENTER CONDEMNS HUTTON GIBSON'S STATEMENTS DENYING THE HOLOCAUST
The Simon Wiesenthal Center strongly condemned the remarks given to New York radio talk show host, Steve Feuerstein, by Hutton Gibson in which he said, referring to the Nazi Holocaust, "It's all -- maybe not all fiction -- but most of it is," he said, adding that the gas chambers and crematoria at camps like Auschwitz would not have been capable of exterminating so many people. He continued, “Do you know what it takes to get rid of a dead body? To cremate it? It takes a litre of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million of them? They [the Germans] did not have the gas to do it. That's why they lost the war."
In his interview on WSNR radio's Speak Your Piece, to be broadcast on Monday, February 23, 2004, Hutton Gibson also argued that many European Jews counted as death camp victims of the Nazi regime had in fact fled to countries like Australia and the United States.
During his lengthy radio interview, Hutton Gibson, 85, also said Jews were out to create "one world religion and one world government" and outlined a conspiracy theory involving Jewish bankers, the United States Federal Reserve, and the Vatican among others.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said, “The issue here is clearly not the rantings of an 85-year old man, but the fact that this Holocaust denier and bigot continues to cause pain and suffering to Holocaust survivors in the last years of their lives. Coming just days before the release of his son’s already controversial film, ‘The Passion of the Christ’ these remarks should be resoundingly condemned by Christian leaders everywhere,” he concluded.
In June 2003, Wiesenthal Center researchers noted that Hutton Gibson was a featured speaker at the Barnes Review Conference sponsored by America's leading racist of the last half century and Holocaust denier Willis Carto. Among the other attendees were Australian Holocaust denier Frederick Tobin from the Adelaide Institute, and Ingrid Rimland, wife of Canadian/German holocaust denier Ernst Zundel.
For more information, contact the Center's Public Relations Department, 310-553-9036.
... Gibson's controversial father, Hutton Gibson, was sounding a less conciliatory note. On the eve of film's release, he reportedly stated that the Holocaust was a "fiction" and that Jews are conspiring to take over the world. The elder Gibson told one radio interviewer that the Jews are "after one world religion and one world government," and said that someone should "hang" Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. The remarks were condemned by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
So I went there, too.
http://www.wiesenthal.com/social/press/pr_item.cfm?ItemID=8950
February 19, 2004
WIESENTHAL CENTER CONDEMNS HUTTON GIBSON'S STATEMENTS DENYING THE HOLOCAUST
The Simon Wiesenthal Center strongly condemned the remarks given to New York radio talk show host, Steve Feuerstein, by Hutton Gibson in which he said, referring to the Nazi Holocaust, "It's all -- maybe not all fiction -- but most of it is," he said, adding that the gas chambers and crematoria at camps like Auschwitz would not have been capable of exterminating so many people. He continued, “Do you know what it takes to get rid of a dead body? To cremate it? It takes a litre of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million of them? They [the Germans] did not have the gas to do it. That's why they lost the war."
In his interview on WSNR radio's Speak Your Piece, to be broadcast on Monday, February 23, 2004, Hutton Gibson also argued that many European Jews counted as death camp victims of the Nazi regime had in fact fled to countries like Australia and the United States.
During his lengthy radio interview, Hutton Gibson, 85, also said Jews were out to create "one world religion and one world government" and outlined a conspiracy theory involving Jewish bankers, the United States Federal Reserve, and the Vatican among others.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said, “The issue here is clearly not the rantings of an 85-year old man, but the fact that this Holocaust denier and bigot continues to cause pain and suffering to Holocaust survivors in the last years of their lives. Coming just days before the release of his son’s already controversial film, ‘The Passion of the Christ’ these remarks should be resoundingly condemned by Christian leaders everywhere,” he concluded.
In June 2003, Wiesenthal Center researchers noted that Hutton Gibson was a featured speaker at the Barnes Review Conference sponsored by America's leading racist of the last half century and Holocaust denier Willis Carto. Among the other attendees were Australian Holocaust denier Frederick Tobin from the Adelaide Institute, and Ingrid Rimland, wife of Canadian/German holocaust denier Ernst Zundel.
For more information, contact the Center's Public Relations Department, 310-553-9036.
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Date: 2004-03-01 10:40 pm (UTC)My husband and I went to Shabbos services on Friday night and the rabbi was asked a question about his feelings about "The Passion of the Christ." He has not seen it. He said he'd rather give the $10 it would cost for a ticket to tzedakah. He then condemned the film. It does not seem right to criticize that which he has not seen himself.
I remember a few years ago when "The Last Temptation of Christ" was released and all of these Catholic groups were protesting the film as pornographic before it was even released. It seemed insane to me that all of these people were spouting off about a film they had not even seen yet.
It was wrong then and it is wrong now. See the movie, then you have a right to an opinion.
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Date: 2004-03-01 11:06 pm (UTC)Now, I want to go and watch KIDS again.. I only saw it once.... But, according to them, AIDS is a lie.
Different topic, same moronic concept.
Sorry, will go to sleep and stop commenting on people's journals at 2am.
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Date: 2004-03-02 02:21 am (UTC)Those who forget history...
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Date: 2004-03-02 10:54 am (UTC)If Mel weren't famous, nobody would have to hear a word his dad utters other than his long-suffering family.
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Date: 2004-03-02 06:59 pm (UTC)Gibson on the Holocaust
"Why are they calling her a Nazi? …Because modern secular Judaism wants to blame the Holocaust on the Catholic Church. And it's a lie. And it's revisionism. And they've been working on that one for a while."
On criticism of Anne Catherine Emmerich,
a nineteenth-century nun whose writings influenced his
portrayal of Jesus' death. The New Yorker, September 15, 2003
"That's bullshit...I don't want to be dissing my father. He never denied the Holocaust; he just said there were fewer than six million. I don't want them having me dissing my father. I mean, he's my father."
On allegations that his father is a Holocaust denier. The New Yorker, September 15, 2003
Q: You're going to have to go on record. The Holocaust happened, right?
Gibson: I have friends and parents of friends who have numbers on their arms. The guy who taught me Spanish was a Holocaust survivor. He worked in a concentration camp in France. Yes, of course. Atrocities happened. War is horrible. The Second World War killed tens of millions of people. Some of them were Jews in concentration camps. Many people lost their lives. In the Ukraine, several million starved to death between 1932 and 1933. During the last century, 20 million people died in the Soviet Union.
New York Post, January 30, 2004
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To someone who isn't a Jew, yeah. I'm sure this sounds perfectly reasonable. But Jews weren't just another casualty of WWII: we were targets. Yes, millions died. But the Nazi campaign was, in the main, specifically meant to eradicate "the Jewish problem." We weren't opposing soldiers, we weren't even "collateral damage." We were targets. For Gibson to say that oh, yes, millions died, and some of them were Jews is like saying the Defense of Marriage act isn't about gays. It's revisionist, it's callous, it's ignorant, and it's insulting.
The very fact that someone even has to ASK him to go on record about it is just sad.