Foxman was also criticized for his initial response to Gibson's apology for his behavior during his 2006 DUI arrest and for giving second billing to the Seattle Jewish Federation shooting that occurred on the same day.

In response, Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, wrote about the JPFO, " Anti-Semitism has a long and painful history, and the linkage to gun control is a tactic by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership to manipulate the fear of anti-Semitism toward their own end ...

Foxman has been awarded several honors from non-profit groups, religious figures and statesmen.

Foxman has received criticism from Jewish and non-Jewish quarters for his antagonist approach to the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ and its director Mel Gibson.

Foxman has continued to condemn Gibson for The Passion of the Christ, saying in 2008, " What he was doing was giving credibility, on film, in our lifetime, to deicide.

However, Foxman objects to Christians praying for Jewish conversion, and the ADL has protested such activities of the Catholic Church.

Abe Foxman, reacted similarly, saying he was " not distressed or disturbed ", and noted that disseminating hasbara has always been the responsibility of every Foreign Ministry staff officer, especially those working abroad ; if eliminating one department means everyone will assume greater responsibility for his or her own efforts in distributing hasbara, then he is all in favor.

Gibson was criticized by Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League ( whose stated purpose is to fight anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry in the U. S .), for holding private screenings for prominent, politically and socially conservative Christian and Jewish religious leaders yet not inviting those who had already criticized the film.

The NSF also launched a campaign to defend Mel Gibson over the criticism he received from Abraham Foxman for making the film The Passion of the Christ.

In September 2003, during the pre-release controversy, Foxman called Gibson " the portrait of an anti-Semite.

In November 2003, Foxman said of Gibson, " I think he's infected, seriously infected, with some very, very serious anti-Semitic views.

" When Diane Sawyer asked him in February 2004 if Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite and whether The Passion of the Christ is an anti-Semitic movie, Foxman said no to both questions.

In August 2007, Foxman publicly affirmed the position of the Anti-Defamation League, " that the consequences of Ottoman government's actions were indeed tantamount to genocide ," but that a United States Congressional recognition of this history was unnecessary and not helpful.

The resolution takes a position ; it comes to a judgment ," said Foxman in a statement issued to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Rabbi Daniel Lapin, the head of the Toward Tradition organisation, criticized this statement, and said of Foxman, the head of the ADL, " what he is saying is that the only way to escape the wrath of Foxman is to repudiate your faith.

Anti-Defamation League President Abraham Foxman issued a press release upon her death saying that " She will be fondly remembered for her unwavering and valiant support of the State of Israel and her unequivocal opposition to anti-Semitism, especially during her tenure at the United Nations.

In October 2006, representing the ADL, Foxman protested former President Jimmy Carter's book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, saying that in the book Carter is " engaging in anti-Semitism.

The original hosts of Breakfast Television were Michael Eckford and Fiona Forbes, then they were replaced by Shane Foxman and Beverley Mahood, and since 2005, Simi Sara and Dave Gerry hosted the morning show, but as of August 13, 2008, they were let go.

On a May 22, 2008 ceremony, Foxman was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Yeshiva University by Richard Joel, the presiding president of Yeshiva University.

Additionally, President George W. Bush appointed Foxman to serve on the Honorary Delegation to accompany him to Jerusalem for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel in May 2008.

Reaction from the State of Israel and much of the worldwide Jewish community was strongly negative, and Abraham Foxman, president of the Anti-Defamation League, wrote to Cardinal Walter Kasper in order to express his opposition to any ecclesiastic re-integration of Bishop Williamson.

Born on April 16, 1908, to Nathan and Ada ( Foxman ) Freedman in Zhytomyr, Russian Empire ( now Ukraine ), Freedman moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada when he was three years old.

Dean formed Illustrated Man ( 1984 ) with Hugo Burnham ( ex-Gang of Four ), Roger Mason ( Numan and others ) and Australian singer / bassist Philip Foxman but their commercial success was limited.

Foxman, an only son, was born in Baranovichi, just months after the USSR took the town from Poland in the Nazi-Soviet Pact and incorporated it into the BSSR.

Foxman was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church as Henryk Stanislaw Kurpi, and raised as a Catholic in Vilnius between 1940 and 1944 when ( after several legal custody battles ) he was returned to his parents.

On October 16, 2006, Foxman was awarded as Knight of the Legion of Honor by Jacques Chirac, the President of France at the time.

Foxman said he was not offended that Sarah Palin's church hosted a leader of Jews for Jesus, an Evangelical Christian organization that seek to combine Jewish practice with a belief in the divinity of Jesus.

The article was widely condemned by Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Matt Drudge, and Abe Foxman, among others, including now-disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner who suggested that New Yorkers take copies of that issue out of their news boxes and destroy them.

Falwell's staunch pro-Israel stand, sometimes referred to as " Christian Zionism ", drew the strong support of the Anti-Defamation League and its leader Abraham Foxman.

After having some time to study Summorum Pontificum and its implications for the Jewish point-of-view, Abraham Foxman, the National Director of the ADL, reiterated its previously-stated position.

Foxman wrote, " The wider use of the Latin Mass will make it more difficult to implement the doctrines of Vatican II and Pope John Paul II, and could even set in motion retrograde forces within the church on the subject of the Jews, none of which are in the interest of either the church or the Jewish people.

At the same time, Foxman emphasized that " the Vatican is not an enemy of the Jewish people, nor is Pope Benedict XVI.

Adolf Hitler indicated, according to Abe Foxman, approval of these anti-Semitic elements in the Oberammergau Passion Play.

Nonetheless, Foxman said, " If it's about a Crucifixion in which the Jews kill Christ, you can never clean it up enough.

John Nihmey and Stuart Foxman published the fictional Time of Their Lives — The Dionne Tragedy in 1986.

* Foxman, Abraham.

He is also helping to take down the " Downfall Parodies " internet meme off of YouTube alongside Abraham Foxman and Martin Moskowicz through the use of DMCAs.

In the United States, the chairman of the Anti-Defamation League Abraham Foxman compared the decree to the earlier practices of Nazi Germany.

" It's fine to have him speak at a conference or colloquium ," said the league's national director Abraham Foxman.

Sports teams of Elgin Academy are nicknamed the Hilltoppers — Elgin Academy is built on a hill — and the mascot is Foxman, after the nearby Fox River.

ADL National Director Abraham Foxman wrote: " We expect more from democratic states than we do from totalitarian ones.

* Foxman, Abraham H. Never Again?

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement: " Pat Oliphant's outlandish and offensive use of the Star of David in combination with Nazi-like imagery is hideously anti-Semitic.

Columnist Lysiane Gagnon in the Toronto Globe and Mail and the editors of the Canadian Jewish News took issue with some CUPE leaders comparisons between Israel's policies and South Africa's apartheid system. Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League labelled CUPE's action as " deplorable and offensive.