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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: muawiyah

Foxy defended kapo soRos. ‘nuff said. I am Chabad, BTW. And I use the term quite often against the ADL. Blood against blood. Context is everything.


61 posted on 01/12/2011 11:53:48 AM PST by MestaMachine (islam - Hostis hvmani generis - Enemy of the human race)
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To: markomalley

How many times do I have to post this:

During the first and second centuries, some Roman commentators misunderstood the ritual of the Eucharist and related teachings. While celebrating the Eucharist, Christians drink red wine in response to the words “This is the blood of Christ”. Propaganda arguing that the Christians literally drank blood was written and used to persecute Christians. Romans were highly suspicious of Christian adoptions of abandoned Roman babies and this was suggested as a possible source of the blood. In the Mandaean scripture, the Ginza Rba, a purportedly Christian group called the “Minunei” are accused of it against the Jews: “They kill a Jewish child, they take his blood, they cook it in bread and they proffer it to them as food.” (Ginza Rba 9.1).


62 posted on 01/12/2011 11:54:42 AM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: bcsco
...the one problem I see of her use of “blood libel” is that it takes the debate away from what she said to the term itself.

For the moment.

The same could have been said about her using the term "death panels." Everyone got focused on the term, but over time it encapsulated the idea in a term everyone understood.

For the moment, using term "blood libel" will focus on the use of the term. But it does such a good job of encapsulating what the left does that it will be a solid term in our retorical arsenal.

For far too long, the left has been able to (without any consequences) accuse the right of every vile act. From racism to wanting people to die. This term, blood libel, sums up their strategy perfectly.

63 posted on 01/12/2011 12:01:19 PM PST by Brookhaven (Moderates = non-thinkers)
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To: markomalley
Thrashers the same groupsmrhat were “Deafeningly Silent “ during the Holocaust.
64 posted on 01/12/2011 12:01:30 PM PST by hecht (TAKE BACK OUR NATION AND OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Find a way to send those pictures and your comment to Abe. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and I think Abe is language challenged.


65 posted on 01/12/2011 12:01:44 PM PST by WVNan
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To: markomalley

It was an analogy. She could reasonably use it as an analogy. We know that liberals hate Palin, so why should we take these views as objective?


66 posted on 01/12/2011 12:02:15 PM PST by popdonnelly (Democrats are silly people - but silly people can be dangerous)
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To: MestaMachine

I am Chabad

Yehsar koach


67 posted on 01/12/2011 12:03:27 PM PST by hecht (TAKE BACK OUR NATION AND OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM)
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To: agere_contra; bert
GETO was snatched away from the Jews of Medieval Venice and inserted into the American civil rights battles of the 1960s as GHETTO.

Happens all the time ~ interesting that modern Jewish writers don't complain about it.

68 posted on 01/12/2011 12:03:34 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: DPMD
Despite all the evidence to the contrary, the leadership elite inside most Jewish communities were of the belief that if they kissed enough butt they'd be left alone ~ and, as it turned out, they were but the common Jewish people were murdered.

Hitler had a different outcome in mind.

69 posted on 01/12/2011 12:06:30 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Marty62

Very good ~ I’d thought maybe it went all the way back to Passover’s origins. Maybe not quite, but there it is.


70 posted on 01/12/2011 12:08:30 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: matt1234

Wow! Your comment just gave me an epiphany. Sarah is the scapegoat. She has been the scapegoat since she appeared on the national scene. She so shines with Christian goodness it drives the sinners crazy. so, they try to dump all of their sins on her and send her out into the wilderness in order to be forgiven for at least a short while. That explains why she is attacked about everything she does. When almost half the nation individually are projecting their individual sins onto her, there is no way she can ever be innocent in their eyes. She stirs the same reactions in people that Jesus stirred in them. Finally, it makes sense to me why she is so feared, and it scares the c..p out of me.


71 posted on 01/12/2011 12:08:53 PM PST by WVNan
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To: Keith in Iowa

“Has hell frozen? Pigs flying? Dershowitz coming to Palin’s defense?? Holy crap!!”

Even though I don’t care for him, it’s not surprising. He is definitely not your typical liberal Jew.


72 posted on 01/12/2011 12:09:49 PM PST by A Strict Constructionist (Oligarchy...never vote for the Ivy League candidate.)
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To: MrB

Yup!

Me thinks they dost protest too much.

...or...

The dog that got hit, yelps the loudest.


73 posted on 01/12/2011 12:11:49 PM 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: muawiyah

“The origin of the blood libel can be traced back to the Graeco-Egyptian author Apion, who claimed that Jews sacrificed Greek victims in their temple. Apion repeated anti-Jewish slurs and “absurd calumnies” first made by Posidonius and Apollonius Molon in the 1st century BCE.”

This is the earliest I can find. Probably started with the cavemen.


74 posted on 01/12/2011 12:18:06 PM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Was that picture taken when she supposedly wasn’t pregnant with Trig?


75 posted on 01/12/2011 12:23:05 PM PST by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Egads. Type in “palin trig” at google....


76 posted on 01/12/2011 12:25:44 PM PST by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: EveningStar
Excellent. I'd like to use it and give you credit for it. :)

As long as I can correct the typos!

When they came for the Conservatives, we did nothing, because we weren’t Conservatives. —Liberal Jews, January 12, 2011

77 posted on 01/12/2011 12:37:15 PM PST by TankerKC (Part of the Soros funded Blog Police.)
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To: Marty62
I went back on the net looking up that one, and found that Jonah Goldberg had already done a bit of research and had it imbedded. He's been going from blog to blog with his info teaching them the truth.

They will only hate him more.

Interestingly enough the WarshPost did a piece on it with various opinions and they cited and quoted Jonah, but they didn't quote the piece he wants them to read.

I think we are a new cadre of Christian and Jewish missionaries of a type not originally envisioned by the organized religion crowd.

That thought sends a chill down my spine ~ 'cause I know what the cannibal kings do to the missionaries.

78 posted on 01/12/2011 12:40:33 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: agere_contra

These communists on the left are going to spark a CW.


79 posted on 01/12/2011 12:40:52 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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To: Brookhaven

Your point may become true, but there is a discrete difference between “blood libel” and “death panels”. Death panels was/is coined to define a portion of the new healthcare law. Blood libel, OTOH, has a very precise, historical definition. One that has been deluded over time, but nonetheless precise.

The problem with the term is that it doesn’t encapsulate what the left does in its original definition. Therein lies the potential problem. Am I upset with Sarah for what she said? Absolutely not. Am I concerned about the use of that particular term overshadowing the proper debate? Yes. If it doesn’t that remains to be seen.

I think the term “libel” in-and-of-itself may well have been used in context to great effect.


80 posted on 01/12/2011 12:46:19 PM PST by bcsco
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