The Hollywood Reporter website -- in an exclusive article -- reports today (September 9, 2011) that prominent Jewish leaders are furious at Mel Gibson and Warner Bros. over their planned movie based on the life of religious icon Judah Maccabee.
Rabbi Marvin Heir -- founder and dean of Los Angeles's Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance -- said, "Casting him as director or as the star of 'Judah Maccabee' is like casting Madoff to be head of the Securities and Exchange Commission."
Abraham Foxman -- national director of the Anti-Defamation League -- issued a statement to "The Hollywood Reporter" in response to Gibson's movie role: "Judah Maccabee deserves better. He is a hero of the Jewish people and a universal hero in the struggle for religious liberty. It would be a travesty to have his story told by one who has no respect and sensitivity for other people's religious views."
Gibson lost the respect of a plethora of Jews -- and rightfully so -- as a result of vulgar and hateful comments he made about Jews when a police officer arrested him for driving under the influence of alcohol in California several years ago.
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