Since the only people who consider the movie
to be anti-Semitic are a bunch of intransigent hotheads

The Wall Street Journal reviewer did take time out from his
description of the torture to point out that the Romans were falsely
depicted as benign, procedure-oriented, dispassionate rulers who were
more or less forced into the crucifixion by rabid, Jesus-hating Jews.
I envision the American army in Iraq, trying to mediate between Sunni
and Shi'a. The WSJ reviewer (okay, okay, his name ends in "stern")
thought that this was an a-historical view of Pilate and the Romans
generally.

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