Ironic Endorsement Tuesday Arafat says Gibson's 'Passion' not anti-Semitic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has watched Mel Gibsons's controversial Passion of the Christ at a private screening and said it was not anti-Semitic. "The president did not feel the film was anti-Semitic," Hanan Ashrawi said, a prominent Palestinian Christian who watched it with him on a DVD copy. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1070358.htm Sometimes the comedy writes itself. Curiously, no word on what Sheikh Ahmed Yassin thought of the film.