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At 12:34 PM 9/4/04, Tim Young wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I was really interested to know
where the anti-Semitic claims originated from. </blockquote><br>
I don't know if these notes indicate true "origin", but these
are earliest items I could find:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/special/passionofthechrist.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/special/passionofthechrist.html</a><br>
This page seems to have a lot if info, including links to:<br><br>
June 2003 weblog:<br>
<a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/125/21.0.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/125/21.0.html</a><br>
> "Based on initial media reports, we have serious concerns
about<br>
> the film you are currently making about the last hours of the
life<br>
> of Jesus, The Passion, and would like to be assured that it
will<br>
> not give rise to the old canard of charging Jews with deicide
and<br>
> to anti-Semitism," ADL National Director Abraham H.
Foxman<br>
> said in an
<a href="http://www.adl.org/media%5Fwatch/letter%5Fmel%5Fgibson.asp">open
letter</a> to Gibson in response to a bootlegged<br>
> early copy of the script.<br><br>
Link to "open letter":<br>
<a href="http://www.adl.org/media_watch/letter_mel_gibson.asp" eudora="autourl">http://www.adl.org/media%5Fwatch/letter%5Fmel%5Fgibson.asp</a><br><br>
Nov 2003 Editorial:<br>
<a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/011/21.43.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/011/21.43.html</a><br>
> ADL president Abraham Foxman recently told The Jewish Week,<br>
> "Recent statements by Mel Gibson paint the portrait of an
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