Rob Schneider, self-proclaimed “half Jew,” took out an ad in the entertainment trade Variety announcing that he would never work with Mel Gibson.

A dutiful sacrifice for the tribe, Deuce, though I don’t Mel’s dramas have need for male gigolos — unless “The Passion: Part 2” decides to explore the seedy underworld of Mary Magadalene.

Mel hasn’t repulsed all the Jews in H-Town, however: “Patriot” producer Dean Devlin defends Gibson’s filthy mouth and blames the strong drink. He says, “If Mel is an anti-Semite, then he spends a lot of time with us, which makes no sense.”

Right, because no one’s ever hung out with people they privately detest in order to further their careers…

Non-Jewish actors Patrick Swayze and Jodie Foster have released statements supporting Gibson, swearing up and down that he’s a great guy, not anti-Semitic in the least.

Bitchy as it is to point out, isn’t this the first time you’ve heard from Patrick Swayze since “Ghost”? And thought Jodie Foster is a fine actress, she hasn’t made a movie where she hastn’t been trapped in a penthouse/plane/underground chamber trying to save her sick daughter in a decade.

CNN notes that the Spielbergs and Katzenbergs and the other “big Kahunas” of Jewish Hollywood have had nothing to say about the firestorm that is Mel Gibson’s mouth. But maybe they’re the only ones who don’t anything to gain from all the publicity…