Blood Libel as Analogy

[DonaldH675@aol.com]

Doug Jones writes:

>And do you also believe that Jews chop up Arab children for the passover 
>meal? Same level of interpretive subtlety.

Help me understand what you're getting at with this remark.

The blood libel, the anti-Semitic slur that Jews use the blood of Christian, 
and latterly Muslim, children to make Passover matzoh and Purim pastries, has 
been around since the early Middle Ages.  Its purpose is to provoke pogroms 
(mass slaughter of Jews), the seizure of their property, and the expulsion of 
the survivors from a village, a city, or a nation.  Since Jews are forbidden 
by the laws of kashrut to consume any blood of any kind whatsoever under any 
circumstance, as the Talmud states very clearly, it is a complete and utter 
fabrication, and a very evil one.

It has been exploited by Christians for centuries to justify torture, murder, 
robbery, kidnapping, and rape.  In the late 19th century, it was given new 
life by a Russian forgery, *The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,* which 
claimed to be a secret document written by Jewish elders.  Its most current 
form is in Arab/Muslim newspapers, where it is used to stir up religious 
hatred against Israeli Jews.

Regarding your analogy--how exactly is quoting from a public document 
actually written by the person to whom authorship is attributed, and 
containing views he has publicly acknowledged with pride, anything like 
repeating the blood libel?

Melynda Huskey