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.
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. Â 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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I do not care what religion you belong to... YOU DO NOT OWN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
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To say this is an overreaction, is an understatement.
The J Street Jews are at it again!!!
Good catch.
Maybe he has no right to censor the English language period.
LLS
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.
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.
“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.)
I see what you did there :0)
bttt
:-)
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.
Death Panels.
Blood Libel.
Sarah Palin (my hero) certainly
has a way with words.
You go girl!
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.
When they came for the Consrvatives, we did nothing, because we weren’t Conservatives. —Liberal Jews, January 12, 2010
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.
I add a new twist to Sarah's tweet:
"the more someone complains about the____________ the more we should look under their bed."
Palin is exactly right here. And her overall statement is very good indeed.
You can tell what is truthful and effective by how much the left demands it be stopped.
Excellent. I'd like to use it and give you credit for it. :)
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