Gibson film attacked as 'anti-Semitic'

Actor and director Mel Gibson’s biblical film The Passion of the Christ is “damagingly anti-Semitic”, Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the UK-based Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee, claimed today.

The film, which depicts the last 12 hours of Christ’s life, has been angrily received by America’s Jewish communities, and opens in the UK on March 26.