"There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark.
I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a DUI (driving under the influence) charge.
I am a public person, and when I say something, either articulated and thought out, or blurted out in a moment of insanity, my words carry weight in the public arena.
As a result, I must assume personal responsibility for my words and apologize directly to those who have been hurt and offended by those words.
I know there will be many in that community who will want nothing to do with me, and that would be understandable
The tenets of what I profess to believe necessitate that I exercise charity and tolerance as a way of life.Every human being is God's child, and if I wish to honor my God I have to honor his children. But please know from my heart that I am not an anti-Semite. I am not a bigot. Hatred of any kind goes against my faith.
I'm not just asking for forgiveness.
I would like to take it one step further, and meet with leaders in the Jewish community, with whom I can have a one-on-one discussion to discern the appropriate path for healing.
I have begun an ongoing program of recovery and what I am now realizing is that I cannot do it alone.
This is not about a film - this is about real life and recognizing the consequences hurtful words can have
I am in the process of understanding where those vicious words came from during that drunken display, and I am asking the Jewish community, whom I have personally offended, to help me on my journey through recovery.
Again, I am reaching out to the Jewish community for its help. I know there will be many in that community who will want nothing to do with me, and that would be understandable.
But I pray that that door is not forever closed.
This is not about a film. Nor is it about artistic license. This is about real life and recognizing the consequences hurtful words can have.
It's about existing in harmony in a world that seems to have gone mad."
mel gibson’s apology
fotomann said,
Gee, as though no Jews ever villified Gentiles … check out the Talmud for verificatioin of this one … no apologies required … just catching up
tsella said,
…probably some moron 12 year old who bought into some white supremacy propaganda crap downloaded via p2p.
magnusdopus said,
I can’t believe he was working on a holocaust movie. He’s a real schizo.
itai said,
I for one believe him (or the Jewish lawyer that drafted that statement for him). These prejuidices of him were probably embeded in him from early childhood by his anti-semitic father and the chain goes on from one generation to the next. It’s hard for a person to completely deny his parents opinions and views especially if he loves his father and can’t seperate the man from his ideas.
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