Palin's 'blood libel' claim draws criticism

Palin's use of 'blood libel' invokes ancient myth about Jews
When Sarah Palin said that efforts to connect statements by her or others to last weekend's Arizona shootings amount to a "blood Libel," the Controversial political figure set off yet another firestorm, invoking a powerful term with deep and terrifying reverberations in Jewish history. There are many variations on blood Libel, but the myth almost always involves accusing Jews of murdering non-Jews and then drinking their blood for ritual purposes, according to Boston University ...

Sarah Palin and Blood Libel
What does Sarah Palin mean when she uses the religious phrase, blood Libel, in her commentary on the shooting of Rep. Giffords? After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event. [...] Vigorous and spirited public debates during Elections are among our most cherished traditions… But, especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, Journalists a...

Video: Sarah Palin Claims She's a Victim of Blood Libel
Today, Fox News commentator Sarah Palin finally emerged from her bomb shelter to make a statement on the Giffords shooting. Her highly-scripted Speech was read from a Teleprompter (gasp!), and was very carefully written to evoke the maximum appeal to victimhood, while not backing down at all or taking any responsibility for the Hate Speech and violent Rhetoric that’s Palin’s stock in trade. But the almost unbelievably disgusting talking point she provides to the crazy base is that sh...

Sarah Palin's 'blood libel' blunder | Peter Beaumont
The sense of victimhood of the Tea Party and its fellow travellers should now be well known. It was Glenn Beck, after all - the man who accused America's first African American president of being "Racist" - who last year told a rally of his followers in Washington that they had taken on the mantle of the Civil Rights movement. Now Sarah Palin, former vice Presidential Candidate, has repeated this same repellent inversion, accusing those who criticised her for her violent political rh...

'Blood Libel' and Sarah Palin: Christian Conservatives Love Judaism, but is That Good for the Jews?
When Sarah Palin invoked the "blood Libel" charge in lashing out against critics, she was destined to spark Controversy given the long, fraught history of that myth, which for centuries has been used by Christians to justify Anti-Semitism and the brutal persecution of Jews. But the phrase also recalls the double-edged affinity that American Conservatives, especially Evangelical Christians, have for Judaism and modern Jews. It is an embrace the Jewish community often appreciates, especially when...

Palin lashes out at blood libel critics over Arizona shooting
TUCSON,Arizona — Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Wednesday lashed out at critics for Manufacturing “blood Libel” with claims she bore some responsibility for the attempted Assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. In a lengthy video posted on her Facebook page, Ms. Palin rejected charges she has stoked political anger to dangerous levels and urged Americans to reject calls from those “seeking to muzzle dissent with shrill cries of imagined insults....

Poll: Conservatives not to blame for Ariz. shooting
WASHINGTON — Most Americans reject the idea that inflammatory political language by Conservatives should be part of the debate about the forces behind the Arizona shooting that left six people dead and a congresswoman in critical condition, a USA Today/Gallup Poll finds. A 53% majority of those surveyed call that analysis mostly an attempt to use the tragedy to make Conservatives look bad. About a third, 35%, say it is a legitimate point about how dangerous language can be. And there is lit...

Palin Angers Jews with Blood Libel Comment
Sarah Palin’s use of the term “blood Libel” to decry blaming Conservatives for the Arizona shooting has raised the ire of the Jewish community. In a video statement released Wednesday, Palin said that “Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them. Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport t

Pat Buchanan: Sarah Palin's Use Of Blood Libel Was 'Excellent' (VIDEO)
Pat Buchanan said Wednesday that Sarah Palin has been a Victim of the media in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), and she was right to use the phrase "blood Libel" in defending herself from charges that her language had anything to do with the Mass Shooting. "Frankly I thought it was an excellent statement with regard to the phrase 'blood libel'," Buchanan said. "That of course refers to the libel that was used in the Middle Ages, charges against Jews that were utterly...

Sarah Palin speaks of 'blood libel.' Really?
Sarah Palin, former GOP vice-presidential Candidate, charged Journalists and pundits with 'blood Libel' for linking political Rhetoric with the shooting of US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others....

Palin Accuses Critics of 'Blood Libel' (updated)
Far from backing down, Sarah Palin defended herself today against critics who linked her Rhetoric to the Arizona shootings, accusing them of the long-condemned anti-Semitic slur "blood Libel." Palin opponents noted soon after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) that left six people dead that Palin had posted a map on her website last fall with gun sights on 20 districts, including Giffords'. She announced it with a tweet: "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!&quo...;

Palin: Criticism of conservatives will result in violence
As Barb pointed out earlier, Sarah Palin's web video on the Arizona shootings contained a clear warning: criticism of conservative Rhetoric will result in violence. But, especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood Libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn . Given that Palin read her commentary from a Teleprompter, her words were no simple slip of the tongue. Moreover, she issued a similar thr...

Andrea Mitchell: Sarah Palin Is Ignorant For Using The Term Blood Libel
Today Sarah Palin responded to critics suggesting she had something to do with the Tucson shootings over the weekend, and she accused those critics of “blood Libel.” This was also a term used by Glenn Reynolds in a Wall Street Journal editorial about the shootings (listen to Scott Hennen and myself interview Reynolds here). Now Andrea Mitchell, among others, is claiming that Palin’s use of the term was inappropriate and (at least in Mithcell’s case) that she may be “...

What's the Problem With Sarah Palin Using the Term Blood Libel?
Man some people are just looking for something to pick at. As reported earlier today, Sarah Palin released a heartfelt video this morning expressing her grief over the tragedy, relaying her prayers for the wounded and families of all the Victims, and throwing The Progressive nonsense suggesting that Palin, the Tea Party, and/or right leaning media had anything to do with inciting the violence. Her Speech spoke just the right tone and was delivered with dignity as opposed to bravado. But as the...

Obama to Arizona as shot lawmaker fights for life
President Barack Obama was to lead Americans in national mourning Wednesday after an Arizona shooting tragedy unleashed a polarizing debate about the violent Rhetoric rocking US politics. Obama was headed to the southwestern state to lead a memorial service for the six people who were killed and the 14 wounded in the Assassination attempt on congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who is fighting for her life in a Hospital in Tucson. His trip comes after the family of the 22-year-old alleged gunman ...

Officers Stopped Suspect on Day of Ariz. Shooting
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP)-- The suspect in a deadly Arizona shooting ran a red light and was stopped by a wildlife officer less than three hours before the attack that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The Arizona Game and Fish Department says an officer stopped Jared Loughner at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, ...

Jewish Groups Denounce Sarah Palin's Usage Of The Term "Blood Libel"
Think Progress reports that Jewish groups are denouncing Sarah Palin's usage of the term "blood Libel." As most of you doubtlessly know, "blood libel" refers to the anti-Semitic claim that Jews use the blood of Christian babies to make matzoh. Such claims have been used to Murder hundreds of Jews. From the Jewish lobbying group, J Street: 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

Palin Hits Media for Manufacture of Blood Libel; Calls Their Attacks Mindless Finger-pointing Facebook Video 1/12/11
Sarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. Here is video of Gov. Sarah Palin - released on Facebook - in which she responds to the Tucson Mass Shooting that took place this past Saturday. Palin said it is “incomprehensible” that a “single bitter man” took the lives of six people, and wounded so many others - including Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Palin said she has listened with “sadness” to...

Shameless Palin Claims Victimhood, Refuses to Apologize
Wow, Sarah Palin sure has got no shame. You’d think after the horrible shooting in Tucson, and after literally putting Gabrielle Giffords in the cross-hairs, that Palin might have had the dignity either to say nothing or to show at least an ounce of remorse or pledge to lower her own Rhetoric by a decibel or two. But not Palin. No, now she’s made herself the Victim. She said: “Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood Libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violen

Palins choice of words raises new questions
It didn’t take long for Sarah Palin to go from an uncompromising response to critics of her campaign Rhetoric to new questions about her choice of words. Not the gun-toting choice of words that had already landed the former Alaska Governor in hot water with political opponents who tried to blame her Rhetoric for last weekend’s melee in Tucson, where a gunman tried to assassinate congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords while killing six and wounding 13 others. This time the qu...

Sarah Palin's 'blood libel' error sets the stage for unifying Barack Obama speech in Tucson
There is much to agree with in Sarah Palin’s statement on the Tucson tragedy. She’s right to say that “our exceptional nation, so vibrant with ideas and the passionate exchange and debate of ideas, is a light to the rest of the world”. She’s right to laud “the tenacity of those clinging to life, the compassion of those who kept the Victims alive, and the heroism of those who overpowered a deranged gunman”. The notion that criminal acts “begin and...

Alan Dershowitz Defends Sarah Palins Use of Blood Libel Term
In an exclusive to BigGovernment.com, famed attorney and Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz defended Sarah Palin’s use of the term ‘blood Libel’. As the MediaMatters/MSM/Democrat narrative on the Tucson tragedy unravels, they are getting a lot more desperate in their attacks on Palin. Fortunately, there are still plenty of honest liberals around. The term “blood Libel” has taken on a broad metaphorical meaning in public discourse. Although its historical origin...

Palin Once Again Claims Center Stage, Creates Controversy
Sarah Palin released a videostatement on her Facebook page on the Arizona shootings. In it she used the words "blood Libel" and quoted Ronald Reagan (out of context.) Her blood libel reference: Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them"... "Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That ...

Palin and the Blood Libel
Sarah Palin speaking about the Giffords shooting. “Journalists and pundits,” Sarah Palin says in her video this morning, “should not manufacture a blood Libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.” The “blood libel” has generally described the specific, centuries-old myth that Jews kill Gentile babies and use the blood to make Passover matzah; it has been an historic (if false) justification for...

Palin: Journalists incite hatred after Arizona shooting
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Sarah Palin posted a nearly eight-minute video on her Facebook page early Wednesday, accusing Journalists and pundits of inciting hatred and violence in the wake of a deadly Arizona shooting that gravely wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Last spring, Palin targeted Giffords' district as one of 20 that should be taken back. Palin has been criticized for marking each district with the cross hairs of a gun sight....