Blood Libel as Analogy

["Joan Opyr" <joanopyr@hotmail.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 charge 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 survivors from a village, city, or 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.

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, like repeating the blood libel?

Melynda Huskey




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