Stone apologizes for controversial remarks

LOS ANGELES, July 27 (UPI) -- Hollywood film director Oliver Stone has apologized for making remarks this week interpreted by many as anti-Semitic.

The "Wall Street 2," "W.," "Alexander," "Platoon" and "JFK" filmmaker referred to the "Jewish domination of the media" in an interview with the Sunday Times of London and stated that Israel "f--ked up United States foreign policy for years."

E! News said he publicly apologized Tuesday for the comments after critics, among them several Jewish groups, condemned them.

"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," Stone said in a statement.

"Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. 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," he said.