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Mel Gibson the Maccabee?
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The story of how an irony-filled film project ultimately fell apart.
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For Mel Gibson and Joe Eszterhas – who had planned to collaborate on a recently shelved film on the life of Judah the Maccabee, one of the Chanukah story’s heroes – it was an unlikely shidduch from the start.
The Eszterhas family has a history of antisemitism.
Eszterhas’ father was a Nazi propagandist in Second World War Hungary who escaped detection until the late s. When his father’s past was revealed, Eszterhas cut off all contact. “I turned my back on my father and his beliefs: my loyalty is to the six million dead,” he wrote for the Daily Beast.
Gibson’s father, Hutton, is a known Holocaust denier and a member of the Latin Church, a Catholic sect that rejects the Vatican II declaration that “decries hatred, persecutions, displays of antisemitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.&rdq