Actor Jamie Foxx has issued an apology to “the Jewish community and everyone who was offended” by a social media post that appeared to suggest Jews were responsible for killing Jesus and are therefore inherently untrustworthy.
In a now-deleted Instagram post published on Saturday, the Django Unchained actor, 55, wrote: "They killed this dude name Jesus…What do you think they’ll do to you? [sic]” The message was accompanied by the cryptic hashtags #fakefriends and #fakelove.
While the post did not specifically mention Jews, the “they” alluded to was widely interpreted by social media users to be referring to the Jewish people, and to be endorsing the false, antisemitic claim that Jews are collectively responsible for the death of Jesus – a Jew killed by the ruling Roman authorities of the time.
The false accusation of Jewish deicide has been levelled against the Jewish people for millennia and has persisted despite declarations from Christian leaders there is no evidence to support this claim.
