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Disturbing and Unfair
The first part of the film shows the anti-semitic attitudes of the leaders of the Catholic Church and European Catholics. The second part explores the anti-Judaism in the Middle East. One premise of the film is that Christianity must take responsibility for the Holocaust. To make their point, the film makers use Catholicism to represent all Christians (which is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 or 6), and interview a racist Catholic priest and some European Catholics to show how Jews are thought of by all Christians as the killers of Jesus. As a member of a Christian church whose doctrine is that members of the House of Israel (obviously including Jews) are God's chosen people, I found this disturbing and unfair. Anyone that blames any person or group of people for the death of Jesus does not understand His divine nature as the Son of God, nor His purpose as the Savior of the world. The entire purpose of His mortal mission was to be crucified for the sins of the world, and to be resurrected so that all of us will be resurrected. Had He not allowed Himself to be crucified, He simply would not have been crucified. The Nazis may have used the "Christ-killers" idea in the beginning in order gain approval for their actions, but they did not exterminate six million Jews because of some religious zeal. Hitler was an atheist, and his anti-Jew attitude had nothing to do with religion. Using Jesus' death as a basis for anti-Judaism is a perversion of true Cristianity, just as terrorism is a perversion of Islam. The film goes on to show the anti-Jew and anti-Israel attitudes in the Arab world. I am not Muslim, nor have I ever been to the Middle East, so I cannot offer any credible commentary on that portion of the film, but some of the things that were said by anti-Jew Arabs seemed to me to be utterly ridiculous. All-in-all, it is an educational, if somewhat dated (the interviews appeared to be from the 70s and 80s), film about a very serious current issue.
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- Dec 18, 2006
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By what name was The Longest Hatred: The History of Anti-Semitism (1991) officially released in India in English?
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