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The Anti-Defamation League criticized filmmaker Oliver Stone for comments he made to The Sunday Times of London that the group considers anti-Semitic.

"Oliver Stone has once again shown his conspiratorial colors with his comments about 'Jewish domination of the media' and control over U.S. foreign policy. His words conjure up some of the most stereotypical and conspiratorial notions of undue Jewish power and influence," Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL national director, said in a statement. "This is the most absurd kind of analysis and shows the extent to which Oliver Stone is willing to propound his anti-Semitic and conspiratorial views."

The 63-year-old Oscar-winning director of Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July issued an apology Monday.

"In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity."

During an interview for his new documentary, South of the Border, the British newspaper asked why there was such a focus on the Holocaust in Hollywood. Stone pointed to "the Jewish domination of the media. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f----- up United States foreign policy for years."

The American Jewish Committee also issued a statement regarding Stone's comment, calling him an anti-Semite and comparing him to Mel Gibson.

"By invoking this grotesque, toxic stereotype, Oliver Stone has outed himself as an anti-Semite," David Harris, the group's executive director, said in a statement. "For all of Stone's progressive pretensions, his remark is no different from one of the drunken, Jew-hating rants of his fellow Hollywood celebrity, Mel Gibson."

Earlier this year, Stone caused controversy for calling Adolf Hitler an "easy scapegoat" at a television critics conference.

Whats funny is by their actions,the Jews that run Hollywood showed that what Oliver Stone said was correct,that Jews do run Hollywood.


KING

Do Oliver and Mel Gibson get drunk tgether?

Funny.... I watched The Doors on Sunday night, for about the 15th time. I'll always view Stone as the guy who completely screwed up the chance to make a great movie about The Doors. It's entertaining, but in many ways full of BS stuff that never happened.
JFK is kinda fun to watch too but our little Oliver takes great liberties with the truth.

Quit bashing Mel, Phil. The dude's a saint!

So you're saying that what he's doing is, ultimately, OK?

Also, I think you mean "glass houses."

Not for nothin but does it seem as though we are getting too easliy riled at comments taken out of context or poorly worded?

And when someone apologizes for thier error or misunderstanding,, are we too quick to just say,,,,, "Yeah, Sure your sorry"

What the hell is wrong with us?

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No I do not condom his comments

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I just don't wanna know.

The real fact is that if his name was Billy Joe, had a mullet and lived in a trailer, not one damn soul outside of him, his girlfriend, neighbors and police would know about it or give a rats behind about it.

Meanwhile, the country is going to the crapper, but I'm glad I know about Mel Gibson's rage issues, and Lindsey Lohan's cocaine addiction, and Sandra Bullocks divorce(well I am kinda glad to know about that one, although it does me no good since I'm married ).

"And today in the news, oil washes onshore in the Gulf. Now to our main story, Miley Cyrus seen eating ice cream suggestively at Dairy Queen."

Which Dairy Queen?????

Dangit...quit holding out on us!!!!!!!

Ouch! LOL

Spike Lee said something very similar many times a few years ago but he largely got a pass. He used to say "it isn't anti Semitic to say the Jews run Hollywood, they do!" And he's right. But it isn't like they really "work together" in any real conspiratorial sense for he most part. In fact I know some Jews that are HIGHLY competitive with one another and would more likely help out a stranger than their rival who happens to go to the same synagogue. And ther's half of Hollywood that isn't Jewish. It's really true of any other group that congeals in a single industry. Yes, if your from that back ground, can speak the same sort of language metaphorically and are hungry you're going to find friends of friends or cousin's wife's uncles more likely to hold a door open for you. Look, I'm married into a big Jewish family and I work in Film and TV. I'm a 6'1" blond blue eyed Scotsman but I do drop the card when appropriate. It doesn't overtly help me but it I find that some phone calls are easier to make, some people are bemused by my appearance and that I can speak a bit of Hebrew and some treat me as "one their own". But for the most part it's totally a non issue.

What does bug me, and I say this as someone who is politically left of center and socially very left of center, is that few things tick me off more than politically correct over-reactive retribution. We're all adults here and it's a free country. I understand protecting you interests and fighting the fight but come on. My wife has an Aunt like this. You can't say even the slightest thing critical about Israel EVER without her coming down on your head like a ton of bricks. It's just so out of proportion and nothing constructive comes out of it. I made the "mistake" of saying the Israeli conservative Kadima and Likud parties were misguided if they thought continuing with settlements in the west bank and east Jerusalem were going to net anything other than international condemnation and future bloodshed... pretty benign statement. She practically launched herself at me. For 30 minutes she railed on me abut how I wasn't qualified to even address the subject. I should tell you that I've read more on the subject than most in her own family. Whatever, she's hardly spoken to me in the last year.

My guess is that Oliver Stone's statements probably have a lot to do with his feelings on the Israel-Palestine conflict. The media is fiercely on the side of Israel in this conflict and so is our government.

He made a documentary on the situation that was done very well. Essentially what he showed was that the Palestinians are in a very rough situation; their Arab neighbors really don't care about them (and only use them as a chess piece in their own plights with Israel) and they're facing fierce discrimination under Israeli rule. Now you can say they lost their land fair and square in 1948 when they went to war with Israel (had they won, they probably would have forced the Jews to leave, the same way the Jews forced out the Palestinians)

But yeah, I do believe he is right in that our foreign policy is dominated by the Jews (we give Israel more aid then any country, may be Iraq or Afghanistan might be more but we are fighting a war in those regions) and our media is heavily biased toward the plight of the Jewish state.