ADL and Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" (Anti-Defamation League)

ADL and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is the Anti-Defamation League's own published record of its concern before and after the film's release, naming the nine-scholar Jewish-Catholic committee that reviewed an early screenplay and found it likely to reinforce antisemitic readings of the Passion narrative. Its strength is that it is a named institutional source stating its own position and its own factual record of that committee's review. Its limit is that it is one advocacy organization's own account, one step below independent peer-reviewed scholarship on the film's reception.