'Blood Libel' and Sarah Palin: Christian Conservatives' Infatuation with Judaism

January 12, 2011

"It’s not just inappropriate, it’s profoundly ironic,’ Rabbi Brad Hirschfield...tells USA Today. ‘By making this comparison and playing Jew in the picture, the person endangered by a blood libel, she admits that the words people use can have deadly impact’. ‘I’m not giving her a free pass. It was a poor and hurtful analogy,’ Hirschfield said. ‘But clearly, she’s affirming exactly what her critics charge.’..."

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By David Gibson from Politics Daily