‘Blood libel’? Sarah Palin claims she’s being persecuted
Click here to view this media YouTube version Sarah Palin says she’s the victim of ” blood libel ” in the Arizona shootings. As one person put it on twitter , “Really? “Blood Libel”? Someone tries to assassinate a Jewish member of Congress, and you use the phrase “Blood Libel”? Shame on you”. Howard Kurtz, who only a few days ago was defending her actions, now condemns her . “Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding,” Palin said in a video on her Facebook page, “journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.” Blood libel , for those who are not familiar, describes a false accusation that minorities—usually Jews—murder children to use their blood in religious rituals, and has been a historical theme in the persecution of the Jewish people. Had Palin scoured a thesaurus, she could not have come up with a more inflammatory phrase
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‘Blood libel’? Sarah Palin claims she’s being persecuted
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on January 12, 2011. Filed under