Zev Chafets, in the NY Daily News writes a column on The Passion of The Christ that contains lots of common sense:

'Passion' is really pro-Israel

"But I'm a Jew, not a Christian. And despite what many Jewish critics seem to believe, "The Passion" wasn't made for us. Or about us.

Judging from the reactions I see on TV, a lot of Christians - Protestant and Catholic alike - come out of the theater deeply moved by Gibson's movie. This reaction infuriates some Jewish scholars and activists. Gibson's distorting history, they charge. He lets the Romans off too easily. He puts the blame on the Jews. By which, of course, they mean: on us.

These Jews need to relax.

Gibson is telling a 2,000-year-old story. Most Christians are smart enough and reasonable enough to understand the distinction between Caiaphas and Jerry Seinfeld. It is insulting to suggest otherwise."

I wonder if his Daily News colleague Jami Bernard read this column. She said the Passion movie "is the most virulently anti-Semitic movie made since the German propaganda films of World War II."