Mel Gibson called Winona Ryder, who is Jewish, an "oven dodger".
This was the moment after he asked her 'Oh wait, am I gonna get AIDS?' because the friend she was with was gay.
"If you get raped by a pack of n******, it will be your fault,"
- Mel Gibson to his partner
Mel Gibson once said he opposed women as priests because "men and women are just different. They're not equal."
When asked about his Catholicism, Mel Gibson stated that it would mean a place in heaven for him; admitting he thought his wife who is "a saint" and "better than I am" would go to hell because she's refused Catholicism and that's what he believes as a Catholic.
Mel Gibson was caught in a recording saying he would get his partner deported by "reporting her to the fucking people that take fucking money from the wetbacks"
Later admitting he broke her teeth with his fist, twice, while she held their child, because "you deserved it".
"I'll put you in a fucking rose garden you cunt,"
"You need a fucking bat in the side of the head,"
"You're a fucking whore. Now, I own you."
- Mel Gibson to his partner in recording
I believe people can redeem themselves. They can genuinely approach the people they harmed and repair the harm. Mel Gibson never did that. Today he calls the people asking him about this "annoying".
I remember that moment when Mel Gibson (and Vince Vaughn) were visibly shook with anger at Meryl Streep's speech calling out Trump's misogyny and bullying.
We remember when Mel Gibson starred in a film by an alt right director playing cops who brutalize Latinos for laughs (cracking a neck with boot) then blaming being held accountable on a cancel culture witch hunt.
We remember Mel Gibson refusing to include any Jewish scholars for Passion of the Christ, ignoring Catholic guides for depicting it, then making one of the most antisemitic films in history. Jews as grotesque and eternally cursed with bloodlust for money.
In his film, Apocalypto, Mel Gibson championed Christianity by reviving myths that were used to justify genocide of 75M Native Americans, including 200K Maya in Guatemala—helping to introduce white supremacist propaganda to a whole new generation.
Mel Gibson, when asked about his views on gay people, told a Spanish newspaper, pointing to his ass, "this is only for taking a shit". When asked for apology by GLAAD, Gibson replied "when hell freezes over. They can fuck off."
Mel Gibson's religious sect isn't exactly Catholic like 63M Americans, it's part of a cult group consisting of 50-100K who reject the Second Vatican reforms, which included the lifting of the antisemitic belief that Jews were guilty of deicide (killing of God).
And even among them, Mel Gibson belongs to an even smaller fringe group, independent of them, with maybe hundreds of members.
When asked who inspired him for Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson named Anne Catherine Emmerich, a German nun who believed Jews strangled Christian children for their blood, to ceremonially use it to conjure evil powers aka blood libel.
In addition, Mel Gibson's spiritual muse, Anne Catherine Emmerich, also believed that Noah's son Ham started all of the "the black, idolatrous, stupid nations" on Earth, referring to Africa. This notion was also used to justify slavery of Africans as God's will.
Neo nazis have posted this thread to their pages, directing people to defend Mel Gibson. Here is one with 22K followers quoting Gibson, who used the same phrase to claim a journalist was hiding that he was Jewish. Here, Keith Woods "exposes" me as a Jew.
Here is when Mel Gibson claimed a journalist's question to him about his misogyny, racism, antisemitism and homophobia was invalid because he suspected he had "a dog in this fight" aka that the reporter should disclose if he was Jewish or gay.
Mel Gibson's chosen star for his life's work, Jim Caviezel, just delivered Mel Gibson's Braveheart speech (calling people to fight and die, with Christ as their swords) at a Q anon convention—an epicenter of far right antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Hey @corneliusuliano is casting a Mel Gibson what you dreamed of when you wrote Boys of Summer?
Since Maccabi Tel Aviv is trending, come and get to know its soccer/football fans who ignited anti-Arab hate and violence in Amsterdam, leading to reprisals from Arabs who were attacked (and who are universally being smeared as antisemites engaging in pogroms).
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Here is a report from an Israeli agency, who sent observers to every match to find 190 incidents of racist chants, calling 2022-2023 "the most racist and violent" soccer season in Israel's history. Including routinely chanting "monkey" at Black players.
This predominant fan culture in Israeli soccer isn't only home calling foreign team bigoted things, but also veers into going after each other. The study found 20 matches where fans would call for "Shoah" of the opposing Israeli team.
As we go into new campus actions for Gaza across the world, you're going to see a lot of our legacy Jewish orgs using polls to tell you how antisemitic our universities are.
The problem with these polls?
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Nearly all of these polls assume that when a student is asked about antisemitism, they have a good analysis of what it means.
One way to examine the polls that are coming, is to look up their methodology, which is rarely reported in articles that mention the polls.
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So @BrandeisU's new poll will be used in media, talks & emails to politicians, agencies, parents etc saying students are swimming in antisemitism.
Who/how they "fixed" the poll won't be reported.
Here's fine print admitting they only polled kids who went on trips to Israel.
We’ve been told as Jews that the slightest micro aggressions by individuals births antisemitism so dangerous we must have zero tolerance.
Today we’re told that open genocide, apartheid & ethnic cleansing in co-opting our name, faith, history & even synagogues doesn’t fuel antisemitism & we should tolerate it for our survival. 🧵
If some among us can’t navigate through hasbara engineered to rob us of our humanity for Palestinians and Arabs, and instead favor an often outsized moral panic over our daily safety, one would think maybe at least you can attempt to see our own self interest in ending this. This which will fuel antisemitism for decades to come, putting our lives in danger.
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A common reply to this idea has been a smear. That this frames Jews for our own antisemitism. Yet, if you stay beyond the sound bites you’ll learn that many of us who look deeply into antisemitism history know that it’s invented by right wing Europeans and utilized by white supremacy as a middle man, a steam valve, to offer the poor a target.
From a booklet distributed by @DemMaj4Israel at the DNC today, touting 22 years of Kamala Harris' support for Israel, including this bit of her backing the criminal prosecution of Muslim students who interrupted an Israeli government speaker at their school.
@DemMaj4Israel The students prosecuted are referred to as the Irvine 11, who were moved by Israel's 2008-2009 massacres inside Gaza which killed 1500 Palestinians and left 100,000 homeless.
@DemMaj4Israel Here's the amicus brief from lawyers at @theCCR and @jvplive on discriminatory enforcement on the Muslim students, such that had not been seen for other protestors first amendment rights and those who had interrupted even longer.
Kamala's entry to the race affords Democrats not a reset in swing state voter excitement but an opportunity to reset.
An opportunity she can throw away, in whole, by selecting PA Governor Josh Shapiro as her VP.
Here's why. 🧵
White nationalist aligned Republicans use Gaza protests to do what they've dreamt of doing for generations: delegitimize secular higher learning in favor of far right religious dogma.
Democrats have an opportunity to position themselves in contrast by choosing freedom of speech.
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Josh Shapiro did the opposite, and collaborated with GOP strategies to vilify and criminalize free speech by students, even repeating far right talking points against those students, and against the freedom of speech we'll need to fight for democracy.
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