Oliver Stone Apologizes for Anti-Semitic Remarks

By PopEater Staff Posted Jul 27th 2010 08:17AM

After making odd references to Hitler and the "Jewish domination of the media," Oliver Stone quickly churned out an apology. "In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret," Stone said in a statement.

The director has always been a magnet for controversy, ranging from skewering George W. Bush on the silver screen while the president stood in office, to being accused of violence fetishization for films like 'Natural Born Killers.'

The latest polarizing remarks came in a Sunday Times of London interview. Promoting documentary 'South of the Border,' Stone said, "Hitler was a Frankenstein, but there was also a Dr. Frankenstein. German Industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support ... Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people." Stone also said "Israel f---ed up United States foreign policy for years."

Before Stone could get to his apology, the American Jewish Committee put out a statement vilifying the 63-year-old director's remarks: "By invoking this grotesque, toxic stereotype, Oliver Stone has outed himself as an anti-Semite," executive director David Harris wrote. "For all of Stone's progressive pretensions, his remark is no different from one of the drunken, Jew-hating rants of his fellow Hollywood celebrity, Mel Gibson."

After Stone's apology, the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants accepted Stone's apology, with warily. "Whether he acted out of sincerity or as a desperate response to the moral outcry at his comments is an open question. He must be judged by his future words and deeds," the statement read.

Oliver Stone spoke with PopEater last month.

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Tuesday 27 July

By Rochelle

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What Mr. Stone has said is nothing but a simple statement, it is very true that MORE German citizens died than those who were Jewish, as did the Russians, etc. The Jewish people have caused our nation as well as every other Country they have ever entered throughout HISTORY to suffer... does this mean I don't care about Jewish people? Of course not, however it is obvious that they themselves follow rules that they seem to think only allow their voice to be heared... They are unforgiving of EVERYONE, unbalanced, egotistical, self-serving, they act as if re-writing truth could change what was actually written within all our hearts. May peace be with us all, but do not forget that DEATH should not be force on us by those who promote it behind the scenes.... If you were truly evil, where would you dwell? All religion lack real FAITH in the true heavenly Father, these people are no exception!

By Harpo

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Ouch !!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday 24 June

By sally

I wish you muslims would stfu and get off of our boards!!!! your not fooling anyone!!! mohardmed!!

By Hank Z

Rochelle - You are truly a moron. Get a life

By macrest1

I agree with 100%

By Lou

That is the strangest thing I have ever read. And not in a good way at all. :-(

By Derek

Another racist pr**k who is no difference than the low life Mel Gibson. Now, surely I will never see a Oliver Stone flick again.

By hawk

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So anyone that may have a critisim of Israeli foreign policy is an anti-semite? So am I now an anti-semite, for asking? Are you now anti-semitic for reading this?

By Nobarry

Stone is allowed to have an opinion and to voice it without the rest of us and the media censoring him.

By bob

Even Racist are entitled to their opinion

By Bryan

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You guys are right. Stone has a right to his own opinion and the reporting of it should not be censored. It helps show the world what a twisted, racist flake this liberal jerk really is. There
are many like him on the the left in this country.

Rochelle, you said it best. Everybody needs to know about it.

By B.P. Dumas

is this really a shock, excuse me but look at the close relationship between ollies good buddy there "hugo chavez", with Iran and Syria and other virulent anti israel nations, stone is so stone cold brain dead, he doesn't know which end is up.
His apology is meaningless, look he is 63 and obviously addled in his thought process,
he is not to be taken seriously anymore.

By Ed

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Are you really surprised? I stopped listening to this guy years ago.

By stan

MR.STONE WHAT A PLONKER. YOU AND OBAMA ARE OBAMANATION AND MARXIST IDIOTS

By eddiemylove

Oliver Stone should shut the "F" up.

By the_fool

Did he drag his statement and apology on about 3 to 4 hours like he does his movies? I agree let these guys talk. The more they say the more they show who they really are.

Saturday 07 August

By CHRIS CURLEY

THE TRUTH HURTS OBVIOUSLY.YOU ARE EITHER A CLUELESS ZIONIST,OR HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF WORLD HISTORY.tHE MORE YOU TALK THE MORE YOU SHOW AN ABSENCE OF AN ALTERNATIVE ARGUMENT,BECAUSE YOU HAVE NONE

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