Posted on 02/11/2008 10:17:44 PM PST by Winged Hussar
No Place For Slander In Jewish Discourse by Ira N. Forman of the National Jewish Democratic Council warns against sinat chinam, or baseless hatred. History abounds with examples, such as anti-Semites attempting to blame problems like bad harvests and plagues on Jews, Nero blaming Christians for the fire that destroyed Rome, Inquisitors and witch-hunters inventing heretics and witches to justify their existences along with the worst atrocities in history, and so on. Orwells 1984 includes a fictional example of a subversive named Goldstein, who may or may not even exist.
Sinat chinam, or baseless hatred, also has an opposite: the sanitization, whitewashing, or denial of genuine dangers and evils
and this seems to be what NJDC is trying to do with Barack Obama and his anti-Semitic and anti-Israel connections.
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