‘Now They Are the Oppressors’

Australian film critic Megan Spencer is getting blasted by Jewish leaders down under after reviewing X-Men: The Last Stand for…

By June 11, 2006

Magneto_1Australian film critic Megan Spencer is getting blasted by Jewish leaders down under after reviewing X-Men: The Last Stand for Triple J, ABC radio’s youth station. The Australian Jewish News explains why:

In her live-to-air review of X-Men: The Last Stand last week, Triple J’s resident film critic Megan Spencer said Jews – represented in the film by the mutant character Magneto, a Holocaust survivor – “used to be oppressed and now they are the oppressors”.

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