In an interview with the newspaper, Stone said Jewish control of the media is preventing an open discussion of the Holocaust, adding that the U.S. Jewish lobby has been controlling Washington's foreign policy for years.
 

Stone said public opinion in America was focused on the Holocaust as a result of the "Jewish domination of the media," adding that an upcoming film of him aims to put Nazi dictator Hitler and Soviet dictator Stalin "in context." 
 

“Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30 million," Stone told the newspaper. “Hitler was a Frankenstein but there was also a Dr Frankenstein. German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support.”
 

He then alleged Jews were dictating U.S. foreign policy. "There's a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington." He claimed Israel had “fucked up United States foreign policy for years," adding that US policy toward Iran was "horrible", although “Iran isn’t necessarily the good guy.”
 

Information and Diaspora Minister Yuli Edelstein (Likud ) condemned Stone's remarks. "They are horrific," he said. "They are anti-Semitic and racist. Beyond the ignorance he reveals, there is demonization for its own sake, and a continuation of the endless recycling of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion.' When a person of his state expresses himself in this way, it could lead to waves of anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli [sentiment] and could even sometimes lead to real harm to Jewish communities and individuals."
 

The Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants all slammed Stones’ comments.
 

Abraham Foxman, ADL national director, said: "Oliver Stone has once again shown his conspiratorial colours with his comments about 'Jewish domination of the media' and control over US foreign policy. His words conjure up some of the most stereotypical and conspiratorial notions of undue Jewish power and influence."
 

A statement issued by Stone Monday, said,”In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry," he continued. "The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity – and it was an atrocity."