He cheered on the Tea Party and Sarah Palin, and booed liberal Jews for jumping on the former governor's case for invoking the
blood libel last winter, after (Jewish) Rep.
The notions of the Wandering Jew,
Blood Libel, Host Desecration, and the Jew as money-lender and devil have direct Christian linkage.
A former Jordanian member of parliament recently used the centuries old "matzah
blood libel," which claims that Jews use the blood of non-Jews to make matzah for Passover.
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Blood Libel for the 21st Century?
--Marina di Masia, Italy: Annual
blood libel poetry contest.
Nearly 350 years after his wrongful execution, a French Jew who had been convicted of a
blood libel was exonerated and declared a martyr.
"I have been amazedalmost paralyzedby the degree to which I hear anti-Semitic statements like
blood libel in Spain, or
blood libel morphinginstead of Jews killing Christian children to use their blood for baking matzoh, Jews kidnapping children to steal their organsin Ukraine, or Sweden," she said.
The Muslim world has imported the discredited myths that post-Holocaust Europe rejected, from the Protocols to the
blood libel, from conspiracy theories to the picture of the all powerful and all-controlling Jews.
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* Her intentions aside, Anthony Grafton condemns Sarah Palin's invocation of the term "
blood libel" for the damage it does to history and to the memories of countless Jews who suffered because of it.
Another myth is the
blood libel, which evokes fear among non-Jews of being killed.
The Obama administration has no comment on Sarah Palin's invocation of the phrase "
blood libel" to describe those who would link strident right-wing rhetoric to the tragic Tucson shooting.