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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bingo. Got it in one. The woman has the cultural
sensitivity one expects from those completely shut off from the real world,
which she cannot claim. And she is <U>Willfully Stupid</U>, a bad case of "I can
say whatever I want, and someone will defend me because I've said so many things
really ignorant people believe". I don't think she is really stupid, but
behaving as if she is has gotten her "over" and has gotten her a lot of billable
mileage. I think she is cynically exploitive of the ignorant, desperate, and
fearful.....But, hey! It gets her HER STUFF. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Debi R-S</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu
href="mailto:reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu">Reggie Holmquist</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lfalen@turbonet.com
href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 13, 2011 1:51
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] America's Jews
Respond to Palin's Use of the Phrase "Blood Libel"</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>No one is calling her anti-semitic, just culturally insensitive
and stupid.<BR><BR>-Reggie<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:57 AM, lfalen <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</A>></SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">You
people just can't help but find something sinister in anything that Palin
says. Sometimes she may not use the best choice of words, neither do you.
She is not anti-semitic and you should be ashamed of trying to make
that connection. Please stop playing the race card. Let get back to a civil
debate. Take people at face value and quit reading things into what
they say, when it is not there.<BR>Roger<BR>
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<DIV class=h5>-----Original message-----<BR>From: <A
href="mailto:nickgier@roadrunner.com">nickgier@roadrunner.com</A><BR>Date:
Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:22:41 -0800<BR>To: <A
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>Subject:
[Vision2020] America's Jews Respond to Palin's Use of the Phrase "Blood
Libel"<BR><BR>> Blood Libel: Sarah Palin's Claim Recalls Anti-Semitic
Legacy<BR>> The Huffington Post Jordan Zakarin First Posted:
01/12/11 02:52 PM Updated: 01/12/11 06:17 PM<BR>><BR>> In trying to
bat away criticism for violent rhetoric, Sarah Palin accused critics of
"blood libel," and with it, referenced a legacy of hate -- a reference used
by Adolf Hitler.<BR>><BR>> Palin released a statement and gave
extended remarks about the weekend shooting in Arizona, first sending her
condolences to the families of the victims and then fiercely responding to
those blaming her campaign map -- which contained a bullseye over Rep.
Gabrielle Giffords' congressional district -- for inspiring Jared Lee
Loughner's shooting.<BR>><BR>> Palin shot back at "journalists and
pundits" for "manufacturing a blood libel that serves only to incite the
very hatred and violence they purport to condemn," remarks that immediately
raised eyebrows in the Jewish community.<BR>><BR>> Blood libel refers
to a rumor that has fueled anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews for
nearly 900 years. According to ReligiousTolerance.org, blood libel began as
"an unfounded rumor began in eastern England, that Jews had kidnapped a
Christian child, tied him to a cross, stabbed his head to simulate Jesus'
crown of thorns, killed him, drained his body completely of blood, and mixed
the blood into matzos (unleavened bread) at time of
Passover."<BR>><BR>> HuffPost blogger Rabbi Hirschfield put it more
succinctly, writing, "First, let's be clear about what a blood libel is. In
the briefest terms, it is the charge that Jews use the blood of non-Jews,
typically that of children, for ritual purposes, especially the making of
Passover matzah."<BR>><BR>> Jewish leaders were quick to criticize
Palin's choice of words, with a flurry of statements.<BR>><BR>> Leader
of Jewish advocacy group J Street Jeremy Ben-Ami said:<BR>><BR>> J
Street is saddened by Governor Palin's use of the term "blood libel." The
country's attention is rightfully focused on the memorial service for the
victims of Saturday's shooting. Our prayers continue to be with those who
are still fighting to recover and the families of the victims. The last
thing the country needs now is for the rhetoric in the wake of this tragedy
to return to where it was before.<BR>><BR>> We hope that Governor
Palin will recognize, when it is brought to her attention, that the term
"blood libel" brings back painful echoes of a very dark time in our communal
history when Jews were falsely accused of committing heinous deeds. When
Governor Palin learns that many Jews are pained by and take offense at the
use of the term, we are sure that she will choose to retract her comment,
apologize and make a less inflammatory choice of words.<BR>><BR>>
National Jewish Democratic Council President David A. Harris
said:<BR>><BR>> Following this weekend's tragedy, we -- and many
others -- simply did two things: we prayed for our friend Gabby while
keeping all of the murdered and wounded in our thoughts and prayers, and we
talked in broad terms about our increasingly charged level of political
debate -- asserting that now is as good a time as any to look inward and
assess how all of us need to dial back the level of vitriol and anger in our
public square. Nobody can disagree with the need for both. Instead of
dialing down the rhetoric at this difficult moment, Sarah Palin chose to
accuse others trying to sort out the meaning of this tragedy of somehow
engaging in a "blood libel" against her and others. This is of course a
particularly heinous term for American Jews, given that the repeated fiction
of blood libels are directly responsible for the murder of so many Jews
across centuries -- and given that blood libels are so directly intertwined
with deeply ingrained anti-Semitism around the globe,
even!<BR> today.<BR>Perhaps Sarah Palin honestly does not know what a
blood libel is, or does not know of their horrific history; that is perhaps
the most charitable explanation we can arrive at in explaining her rhetoric
today. All we had asked following this weekend's tragedy was for prayers for
the dead and wounded, and for all of us to take a step back and look inward
to see how we can improve the tenor of our coarsening public debate. Sarah
Palin's invocation of a "blood libel" charge against her perceived enemies
is hardly a step in the right direction.<BR>><BR>> At the National
Review, conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg took issue with the use of the
term, which had been going around in conservative circles:<BR>><BR>> I
should have said this a few days ago, when my friend Glenn Reynolds
introduced the term to this debate. But I think that the use of this
particular term in this context isn't ideal. Historically, the term is
almost invariably used to describe anti-Semitic myths about how Jews use
blood -- usually from children -- in their rituals. I agree entirely with
Glenn's, and now Palin's, larger point. But I'm not sure either of them
intended to redefine the phrase, or that they should have.<BR>><BR>>
Glenn Reynolds wrote the term in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, the
introduction Goldberg references.<BR>><BR>> The Hill reports that they
reached out to the office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who is
Jewish, but received only a vague comment that did not reference Palin's
blood libel remark.<BR>><BR>> False accusations of blood libel have
long been used as justification for Jewish persecution, with startling cases
continuing throughout the last 200 years. According to
JewishVirtualLibrary.org and substantiated by 'The Blood libel legend: a
casebook in anti-Semitic folklore,' a 1991 book by Alan Dundes, an
influential Roman Catholic magazine titled 'Civilta Cattolica' in 1881
revived the blood libel accusation, going on to write a series of articles
forwarding the fraudulent allegation.<BR>><BR>> Those articles
included an 1883 statement that asserted "the reality of the use of
Christian blood in many rituals of the modern synagogue."<BR>><BR>>
Blood libel was a favorite of Nazi Germany-era and Hitler-approved newspaper
Der Stürmer, according to
HolocaustResearchProject.org.<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>
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