Stone apologises for controversial remarks

Oliver Stone has reportedly apologised for making controversial comments about Jews.

In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, the director complained about the "Jewish domination of the media".

He also said that Hitler did more damage to the country of Russia than he did to the Jews.

"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 released on Monday.

The American Jewish Committee compared Stone to Mel Gibson.

AJC executive director David Harris said: "By invoking this grotesque, toxic stereotype, Oliver Stone has outed himself as an anti-Semite.

"For all of Stone’s progressive pretensions, his remark is no different from one of the drunken, Jew-hating rants of his fellow Hollywood celebrity Mel Gibson."

Stone, who is half-Jewish, also commented that "Israel has f**ked up United States foreign policy for years".