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[source]  There
is no excuse for bringing
religion into a discussion about
greed and the film industry.
Greed is a human frailty.
-- Abraham Foxman, National
Director, Anti-Defamation League.
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on Foxman and Greed.]
Press
Release
October 17, 2003 ADL
Says New Republic Editor's
Apology for Anti-Semitic Column
'Insufficient'
To: National Desk Contact:
Myrna Shinbaum,
212-885-7747, Todd
Gutnick, 212-885-7755, both
of the Anti-Defamation
League  NEW
YORK, Oct. 17 [U.S.
Newswire] --
The
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said
that today's mea culpa by New
Republic Senior Editor
Gregg Easterbrook for his
anti-Semitic writings
on the Hollywood film industry
was "insufficient," and called on
Easterbrook and the magazine to
make a clear statement of
apology.
The League responded after
Easterbrook published "An
Apology" on the New
Republic's Web site, where he
characterized his original
remarks as a "poor wording." Abraham H. Foxman, ADL
National Director, issued the
following statement: We expect more from The New
Republic. Gregg Easterbrook's
mea culpa is insufficient. It's a
rationalization. There is no
excuse for bringing religion into
a discussion about greed and the
film industry. Greed is a human
frailty. Money is not only
colorless, it is faithless. By injecting religion into his
criticism about the film industry
-- in his identifying Harvey
Weinstein of Miramax
(right) and Michael
Eisner of Disney
(left) as Jewish -- Mr.
Easterbrook  summons
up classic stereotypes that Jews
are greedy, money-grubbing and
morally deficient. His
column feeds into the classic
canard of "Jewish control" of
Hollywood, a charge that has
led to blaming Jews for
contributing to the general
decline of society through
their "control" of popular
culture. Sadly, instead of making a
clear apology and a rejection of
anti-Semitic stereotypes, Mr.
Easterbrook says he "wrote
poorly" and was misunderstood.
Mr. Easterbrook's remarks reflect
either absolute ignorance or
total bigotry. We find it hard to fathom that
a senior editor at the New
Republic could have
absolutely no knowledge of the
hateful canards about greed and
Jewish moneylenders that have
contributed to two-thousand years
of persecution against the Jewish
people.  The
Anti-Defamation League, founded
in 1913, is the world's leading
organization fighting
anti-Semitism through programs
and services that counteract
hatred, prejudice and
bigotry. © 2003 U.S. Newswire
202-347-2770/  | Website
note:
Abraham
Foxman, wealthy and
controversial chief of
the Anti Defamation
League, likes to refer
to himself as a
"Holocaust survivor." As
a biography
on this website shows,
he was not even born
when Hitler invaded his
native Poland, and he
was looked after by
Polish Catholics
throughout the war; his
parents also
"survived".
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