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(liberal Democratic) Jewish groups respond to Palin’s use of ‘blood libel’
Yahoo ^ | 1/12/11 | Zachary Roth

Posted on 01/12/2011 10:51:31 AM PST by markomalley

Several Jewish groups are criticizing Sarah Palin's use of the controversial term "blood libel" in her video statement on the Arizona shootings. The phrase has traditionally been used to refer to anti-Semitic and false myths about Jews using the blood of Christians, often children, in their rituals.

Abraham Foxman, who heads the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement:

It is unfortunate that the tragedy in Tucson continues to stimulate a political blame game.  Rather than step back and reflect on the lessons to be learned from this tragedy, both parties have reverted to political partisanship and finger-pointing at a time when the American people are looking for leadership, not more vitriol.  In response to this tragedy we need to rise above partisanship, incivility, heated rhetoric, and the business-as-usual approaches that are corroding our political system and tainting the atmosphere in Washington and across the country.

It was inappropriate at the outset to blame Sarah Palin and others for causing this tragedy or for being an accessory to murder.  Palin has every right to defend herself against these kinds of attacks, and we agree with her that the best tradition in America is one of finding common ground despite our differences.

Still, we wish that Palin had not invoked the phrase "blood-libel" in reference to the actions of journalists and pundits in placing blame for the shooting in Tucson on others. While the term "blood-libel" has become part of the English parlance to refer to someone being falsely accused, we wish that Palin had used another phrase, instead of one so fraught with pain in Jewish history.

The National Jewish Democratic Council, a group of Jewish Democrats, said:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: abrahamfoxman; adf; bloodlibel; freepressforpalin; giffords; leftchosis; palin; waronsarah
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To: markomalley

I do not care what religion you belong to... YOU DO NOT OWN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

LLS


41 posted on 01/12/2011 11:07:43 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

To say this is an overreaction, is an understatement.


42 posted on 01/12/2011 11:09:17 AM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: markomalley

The J Street Jews are at it again!!!


43 posted on 01/12/2011 11:09:39 AM PST by Carley (THE MEDIA UNDERSTANDS CREDENTIALS BUT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND PRINCIPLES)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Good catch.


44 posted on 01/12/2011 11:10:49 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: bert

Maybe he has no right to censor the English language period.

LLS


45 posted on 01/12/2011 11:11:42 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: markomalley

Not surprising that the unAmerican ADL and loser Foxman - the biggest supporters of Hate Speech Legislation in America - speak out against Palin here. Palin was right, btw.

Next thing you know, they’ll take my thoughts away.


46 posted on 01/12/2011 11:13:34 AM PST by Longdriver
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To: markomalley

When I read Sarah Palin had used the phrase “blood libel” it gave me pause, because that phrase is so strongly associated with anti-semetic agitation.

However, when I thought about it more, “blood libel” is exactly what this is. Within a few hours of the Arizona tragedy, major media figures and politicians declared that Palin, Limbaugh and the others were at least indirectly responsible for the shootings. They did this with no evidence, and they’ve persisted in the acusations even when the evidence shows something directly to the contrary. They’ve done so in the hope that if they put the lie out there, that people will remember the lie rather than actual facts. This is precisely what a “blood libel” is.


47 posted on 01/12/2011 11:13:47 AM PST by CaptainMorgantown
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To: markomalley

“If you’re not catching flak, you’re not over the target.” - Anonymous

(This apparently originated from WWII bomber pilots. They could tell when they were over the target when they could see, hear and feel the flak.)

http://tobefree.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/freedomquotes-if-youre-not-catching-flak-youre-not-over-the-target/


48 posted on 01/12/2011 11:17:22 AM PST by RasterMaster (The only way to open a LIEberal mind is with a brick!)
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To: bert

I see what you did there :0)


49 posted on 01/12/2011 11:17:59 AM PST by agere_contra (Jan 2011: the Left gleefully manufactured a blood-libel against the American people.)
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To: Keith in Iowa

bttt


50 posted on 01/12/2011 11:22:10 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: bert
Troublemaker.

:-)

51 posted on 01/12/2011 11:24:13 AM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: onyx; Virginia Ridgerunner
I was talking with a co-worker today about Sarah's speech and the talking point about it and made the following comment:

Ya know, her nickname should be 'Roseanna Anna Danna' because its "Always something!".

I wonder how my super duper liberal friend on facebook is going to spin this one. He will most likely watch Olberman (he is a big fan, which tells you something about him) first and then make his statement.

52 posted on 01/12/2011 11:28:09 AM PST by misharu (I am an Independent Conservative who caucuses with the Republicans (for now).)
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To: markomalley

Death Panels.

Blood Libel.

Sarah Palin (my hero) certainly
has a way with words.

You go girl!


53 posted on 01/12/2011 11:30:21 AM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: markomalley

Palin is hysterically accused of murdering those folks in Tuscon by proxy and of willing their deaths by her conservative viewpoints. By her very nature and beliefs she deliberately causes the deaths of innocents and revels in them as do all conservatives. We conservatives are guilty of all the violent deaths in the world because of who we are.That is a pretty good approximation of the classic Blood Libel.


54 posted on 01/12/2011 11:35:08 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: markomalley

When they came for the Consrvatives, we did nothing, because we weren’t Conservatives. —Liberal Jews, January 12, 2010


55 posted on 01/12/2011 11:35:13 AM PST by TankerKC (Part of the Soros funded Blog Police.)
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To: markomalley

It’s bloody ironic that liberal Jewish groups should think they have any ownership to the term, when it’s they who help, through their self-and Israel-loathing, to inspire such libels against them by those who would institute another Holocaust, which happens to be another word or phrase to which liberal Jewish groups like to think they have exclusive ownership. The sad irony of the Holocaust is that too many European Jews docilely went along with the initial steps of the final solution, whether because it was an act of appeasement or because they were liberal is not clear to me.


56 posted on 01/12/2011 11:42:49 AM PST by DPMD (~)
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To: markomalley
We don't call the Left red diaper doper babies for nothing. This feigned insult is designed to qwell our rhetoric so that it is as timid and a toothless tiger.

I add a new twist to Sarah's tweet:

"the more someone complains about the____________ the more we should look under their bed."

57 posted on 01/12/2011 11:46:50 AM PST by jonrick46 (We're being water boarded with the sewage of Fabian Socialism.)
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To: markomalley
These people are idiots. Have they never heard of a metaphor?

Palin is exactly right here. And her overall statement is very good indeed.

58 posted on 01/12/2011 11:51:40 AM PST by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: Jo Nuvark

You can tell what is truthful and effective by how much the left demands it be stopped.


59 posted on 01/12/2011 11:53:11 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: TankerKC
When they came for the Consrvatives, we did nothing, because we weren’t Conservatives. —Liberal Jews, January 12, 2010

Excellent. I'd like to use it and give you credit for it. :)

60 posted on 01/12/2011 11:53:36 AM PST by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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