HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Oliver Stone is being slammed for comments he made about Jews during an interview with the London Sunday Times.
"Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30 million (killed)," the controversial director, who is half-Jewish, told the paper.
When asked why there was "such a focus on the Holocaust," Stone replied: "The Jewish domination of the media. There’s a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f—ed up United States foreign policy for years."
On Monday, the American Jewish Committee condemned Stone for his comments.
"By invoking this grotesque, toxic stereotype, Oliver Stone has outed himself as an anti-Semite," said AJC Executive Director David Harris. "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."
Stone also caused a stir back in January when he remarked that "Hitler was an easy scapegoat." The comment came during a Television Critic Association panel on his Showtime documentary "A Secret History of America."
